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US sees biggest EVER spike in homelessness as country sees a record 11% increase in a year to nearly 600,000 rough sleepers: San Francisco and Oakland are 'hotbeds' with 'drug tourists' flocking to the cities
2023-08-15
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I think it's best to be homeless in the summer.
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  According to a recent poll San Francisco is the most laid back city in the U.S. Chicago is the worst.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-08-15 18:09  

#9  Considering US Steel after 100+ years is entertaining offers to be bought; the Glory Days will definitely not be back.
Posted by: airandee   2023-08-15 12:21  

#8  ^ The city of my birth, but not ever my hometown. I was saying back in the 70s that Pittsburgh would be the last part of the rust belt to accept that the "glory days" were not coming back. The efforts to re-make it as the San Francisco of the east are proceeding apace, just not the way the city boosters intended.

And the voters keep voting for it, getting it good and hard and voting for some more.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-15 11:25  

#7  /\ The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh

Worthy of a read.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-08-15 10:24  

#6  
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-15 10:16  

#5  https://www.creators.com/read/salena-zito

The Fall of a Great American City: The Societal and Political Decay That Has Upended Pittsburgh

Posted by: airandee   2023-08-15 10:15  

#4  Drug tourism:

Back at the office water cooler, Bob asks Frank, “So what did you do in Oakland on your vacation?”
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-08-15 08:44  

#3  Build it and they will come.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-08-15 07:40  

#2  BISHOP BOB JACKSON: Black people in Oakland are living in a lawless nightmare of streets turned into shooting galleries - thanks to radical 'Defund the Police' anarchists. We can’t let them condemn us to this hell
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-15 04:15  

#1  San Diego, California bakery Phatties Bake Shop forced to lock its doors during business hours as desperate homeless residents STEAL their vegan treats - one was armed with a CROWBAR
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-15 04:11  

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