VIDEO – DON’T BLAME THE HIPPIES –
Aug. 14, 2023 – A tongue-in-cheek ad for the tour claims: “You’ve read the headlines. You’ve seen the Tweets, now get close and personal to the Doom and Squalor of downtown San Francisco.
“How can a city with a $14.6 billion annual budget be a model of urban decay? How can it spend $776.8 million per year on police and have no rule of law to show for it?
“Discover the policy choices that made America’s wealthiest city the nation’s innovative leader of housing crisis, addiction crisis, mental-health crisis and unrepentant crime crisis.”
The unidentified guide claims they are in a great position to give the tour as a “card-carrying City Commissioner” and “opinionated loudmouth” who works in a municipal department.
The guide promises paying customers will get to see the city’s most blighted and crime-ridden areas — all located in its center — including the Tenderloin, Union Square and the Mid-Market.
