All three cities are dealing with similar problems of vacant offices and homelessness, including enormous budget shortfalls ...

A homeless encampment is seen along Leavenworth Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco, on Nov. 8, 2023. AP. This method “has not made our city any safer.

Two hotels and several residents of San Francisco's troubled Tenderloin district sued the city on Thursday, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use ...

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston claimed the city's homelessness problems were "absolutely the result of capitalism," and it was "counterproductive" to arrest people openly doing drugs ...