As the economy dominated national voter concerns, San Francisco residents had a different priority — ending 'chaos and lawlessness,' as one Gen Z voter put it.
Standing next to a red and gray tent, a piece of foil gripped in her left hand, a woman yelled that she needed a straw. 'There's a park. There's children right there,' Darren Stallcup said as he walked past her on the trash-strewn sidewalk. 'You can't smoke fentanyl next to the park.' 'I can smoke anywhere I want to,' the woman shouted. A San Francisco Police Department SUV sat parked mere feet away.
The total number of homeless people rose 7.3% in San Francisco from 2022 to this year, according to the city, with more than 8,300 people living in shelters or on the streets. 'The economy and the city cannot fully recover unless people feel safe coming here, until businesses feel safe coming back to San Francisco and opening up,' Wolf said. 'Our downtown is still 40% empty since the pandemic. We have the slowest recovery of any city in the United States.
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