Great piece on the puzzling paradox of SF's Mid-Market, an extraordinary economic development success in some respects (home to Uber, Twitter, Square, $4k/mo apts) yet filled with utterly sordid, unsafe street conditions, w/ constant overdoses; feces https://projects.sfchronicle.com/2019/mid-market/ …
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lede is on bikestore owner who saw a monday a.m. w/ "medics removing a body," "an incoherent, screaming woman started smashing bottles on the sidewalk out front. A few yards away, EMTs tended to a cyclist who had just been hit by a car" owner: "This is not right, not normal.’”
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Replying to @eliotwb
It's not really a paradox. You have the city's primary retail district exactly adjacent to where most of the city's services for food, SROs/shelters, mental health and substances are located.
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Fair, but those things were all true 10 years ago too, but the # of heroin needles / urine smell / other incidents all seem to be going up (I believe) as the neighborhood becomes more prosperous. Open to other catchy terms to describe this dichotomy
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a newspaper guy who lived in the Mission District wrote an entire book about it in 1879: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty …
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