Why is New York waiting for all the bad things that have happened to San Francisco?

“The leading medical association plans to hold its annual convention outside the city because its participants no longer feel safe,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. This means a loss of approximately 40 million dollars for the city and a warning for other large localities. For example, for New York. It is New York, according to experts, that San Francisco can become the second at its worst.

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Beautiful, hilly San Francisco is now also known as the city where, a week ago, someone left 20 pounds (9 kilograms) of feces in a bag on the sidewalk—and no one bothered to clean it all up, writes Carol Markovich for New York Post.

Complaints related to human waste in San Francisco increased 400 percent from 2008 to 2018, and more than 2017 messages were received in 21000 alone.

In 2015, the city stopped prosecuting quality-of-life violations, and—unsurprisingly—that very quality has deteriorated sharply. Police continued to issue citations for public drunkenness or sleeping in parks, but when the accused failed to appear in court, the judge simply dismissed the charges.

New York began to follow the example of San Francisco in 2016, when Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced that his office would no longer pursue urination in public places.

New York has taken the path of treating the symptoms rather than the disease. The city now spends half a million dollars a day housing homeless people in hotels. In just one night in 2017, New York City forfeited $648 to provide $000-a-night hotel rooms in Times Square for the homeless. A temporary solution is wildly expensive and does not lead to a reduction in the number of people without a fixed place of residence.

It seems that New York followed the example of San Francisco regarding public use of drugs.

About 22 people inject drugs in San Francisco—that's about 000 per square mile (470 square kilometers). Not many people want to live in a place where you're constantly at risk of stepping on a discarded needle, which is what happened to Mayor Mark Farrell. However, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered police to stop making arrests for smoking marijuana in public starting August 2,5. In addition, the city plans to open four “safe injection sites” where heroin users can inject themselves with the drug under medical supervision. The problem is that such politics are always a slippery thing.

These two cities are also closely linked to the topic of affordable housing: there is almost none there and there, and no construction is planned at all. For years, the city welcomed the zoning, complicated the process of approving construction plans as much as possible, demanding compliance with the laws and regulations of all kinds, which made the process of building new houses difficult, time-consuming and expensive.

Likewise, New York’s commitment to stabilizing and controlling leases means lack of adequate housing.

Both San Francisco and New York are one-party cities. Both have pronounced social inequalities, an ever-shrinking middle class and a worsening homelessness problem. Both cities are spending a lot of money on this issue and hope that something will work out.

But so that people do not have to put up with kilograms of feces on the sidewalks, New York, the author believes, should stop following San Francisco on a slippery road, before the ten million-million convention will start to think whether they will come to this city or not.

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