Office vacancy has been rising for a while nationwide. It’s not a SF specific phenomenon. We all know the reason why - remote work. SF is hit particularly hard because employers here are the most flexible.
How can people be simultaneously pro remote work but at the time slam SF for its office vacancy rate?
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We bash SF because SFers think they are special 
Article itself says SF office vacancy rate is @10 points higher or @33% greater than Silicon Valley i.e. compared to a region within just 40 -50 miles. Forget about comparing it to other places in the nation, where the numbers will show up to be even worse.
Defending the indefensible is an impossible task.
Asking the question reveals you don’t understand the conversation. There’s no point in carrying on with it.
Who cares??? Just buy, Nvidia and OpenAI employees now multi millionaires!!! Buy, buy, and buy some more!!! LOL
Utopia or Dystopia?
Gosh, if only Home Depot offered such concierge service… (sigh)
Delivery is cheap if you’re buying a lot of stuff. They’ll put it on pallets and drop it off. It’s worth the time savings of going there and doing it yourself.
It’s very sad, but self inflicted
But the resident, whom The Standard is not naming because he fears retaliation from pimps, instantly felt he knew what had gone down.
All the police data is sanitized and vastly under reported .
Police incident data analyzed by The Standard is at odds with residents’ claims their cars keep being hit by reckless johns. The analysis showed no hit-and-run incidents logged since 2018 along Shotwell from 16th to 24th streets. Additionally, only eight prostitution incidents were logged from Feb. 1, 2021, to Feb. 1, 2024. A public records request to police showed just one incident listed as a “traffic collision, hit-and-run, property damage” at 23rd and Shotwell streets on April 6, 2023.
I assume it’s the similar level of under reporting to police compared to the last few years. I don’t see any reason to think otherwise.
That means the overall trend in police reports is still credible. Past years’ data also have similar proportions of under reporting. And the current data says property and violent crimes have been trending down in SF.
Crime rate is not zero, so sure we can find lots of anecdotes.
Did they decriminalize prostitution? Seattle decriminalized it for the women but not the men paying. Then they were shocked at how out in the open it became. I honestly don’t get how people can be so ignorant to not see what the outcome of actions will be.
California doesn’t require a police report for insurance to cover car repairs. There’s no reason to report it. Especially if the person shouldn’t be in that area except to hire a hooker.
Maybe this is the value of the metaverse. People won’t get in car accidents trying to pickup hookers. It’ll be so much safer. Lol.
Exactly.
My car was rear ended last year. No police report.
Biggest mistake was craigslist banning free agents. Get the pimps and streetwalking out of it and it’s no problem.
They were forced to ban it due to laws.
Yeah. Laws designed to ensure the state gets its cut - as opposed to laws designed to keep things safe and sane.
Daniel Lurie, a nonprofit executive and Levi Strauss heir who is running against Breed for mayor, said in a statement Tuesday that “businesses and tourists won’t return unless we have clean and safe streets 365 days per year and not just when a conference is in town.”
While Lurie acknowledged that the Union Square Macy’s is just one of 150 stores closing nationwide, he said that other shopping centers in the city, including the Stonestown mall, are still doing well
San Francisco Macy’s to close in devastating blow to downtown
I’m surprised they actually terminated the contract. The fact they were spending money on it tells you everything you need to know.
Why don’t they just market it as drug tourism then?
I have been pounding the table the political wind in SF has been shifting in the last few years. Tuesday’s election is the latest confirmation of the shift. So much so that the press is now saying:
A number of moderate ballot measures passed with flying color, a big black eye for the progressives.
Prop. G is a nonbinding policy statement urging San Francisco public schools to offer Algebra 1 to students by the eighth grade—something the district already plans to start doing in the 2024-2025 school year.
Algebra is back baby!!!
Prop. F requires some welfare recipients who are suspected of being addicted to illegal drugs to undergo screening and obtain some form of treatment as a condition of receiving benefits.
Drug addicts should get treatment instead of free money to buy more drugs.
Prop. E allows police to install security cameras on public property, use drones to monitor certain crimes and chase suspects more often, among other changes.
Voters want public safety.
This is super encouraging! Let’s do it again in November and vote out those extremist supervisors.
