The problem is not missed assessments or revenue, it's spending. San Francisco is not business or resident friendly. They are driving away the people that make the city possible. San Francisco have too many regulations, too many employees. What is unsustainable will not be sustained.
The city of Phoenix, AZ has twice as many people and a annual budget that is 7 times smaller than San Fransisco....Phoenix tax payers pay about $1,271/person in taxes while San Fran citizens pay $18,000/person each year....Just an enormous waste of money....But that is how California rolls
The missed assessments due to lack of technical knowledge. The city didn’t hire candidates with credentials. They hired their own friends and family members and who they can control not necessarily educated people. The city needs to hire ppl with brains.
The mayor of San Francisco London Breed makes $100,000 dollars more than the Mayor of NYC, why do we need eleven board of supervisors at $170,000 each we should reduce to seven or nine
As someone who lived in SF for almost a decade, it’s absolutely mind boggling how fast the City went downhill within the last 10 or so years. It’s going to take decades to repair the damage, if it’s even possible at this point.
As someone who lived in SF for 66 years until 2022, the decline began in earnest under Willie Brown almost 30 years ago and then really accelerated under Newsom. I'm not neccessarily blaming them. A mayor doesn't control everything and SF in particular has many extremely loud special interests. Coalition on Homelessness is a good example but far from the only one.
The precipitous fall really began in 2007! Although it was declining at a much slower rate the previous two decades! The pandemic or should I say the cities response really destroyed it
@@armoredghost6180 because there's not enough homes there. The real question is why are people moving out of there like they are moving out of California?? Is that normal for a great city??
the only reason why San Francisco come back is because of the housing shortage in CA. It also near San Jose which is silicon valley. If cut off immigration then you start to see people can move to cities they want to be and not have to be. Then San Francisco would die. Reduce to a port city. Maybe it become a port dominated by industry maybe it be better run. Artisy people are bad at running thing and crime abounds in cities run by artisy people.
Is this freaking guy high on something? He is in a dream world! He probably owns some businesses and some rental properties thats why he is trying so hard to sell SF as a great place.
The city needs to control their expenses by streamlining the jobs/process, lay off administrative positions with ppl with over 15 years of service. Give home owners a break by stop increasing property taxes. Defund IHSS. Someone getting IHSS bought two homes from IHSS money under other children names. IHSS should look at income and expenses and proof of expenses before just give out $67K a year to a family getting IHSS and not paying income taxes. SF needs a new leader.
He is wrong about SB coming back. In the past the city was able to come back because everyone always viewed it as a prosperous place. Even in the worst economic conditions people in the city were better off than those who were not. But not anymore. The city demographics are terminal, no one wants to raise kids in the city. Now it is viewed as the pinnacle of everything that is wrong in California.
The city needs to control their expenses by streamlining the jobs/process, lay off administrative positions with ppl with over 15 years of service. Give home owners a break by stop increasing property taxes. Defund IHSS. Someone getting IHSS bought two homes from IHSS money under other children names. IHSS should look at income and expenses and proof of expenses before just give out $67K a year to a family getting IHSS and not paying income taxes. SF needs a new leader. Also, I know this family using housing voucher and living under at taxpayers’ expense where they have cash income and bought a house under a son’s name and rented the house and got a rental income. Check out Silver Street from about 35years ago.
They have been leveraging EVERY dollar they take via debt*. That is, every new dollar in revenue lets them take on, say, 17 times that in debt. Thing is, it works in reverse, too. Every dollar they are unable to continue to take, leaves 17 times or so times that of debt vulnerable to default. *Visible and hidden, like underfunded (looted) pension funds.
