Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#1

Post by fapi1974 » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

I'm curious what the community thinks are best ways to fix the cities problems. For the sake of the exercise let's assume no new revenue.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#2

Post by catlover76 » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:05 PM UTC

None of us on here are well-versed in city government, the myriad laws that would apply at the state and federal levels, etc.

You might as well be asking a bunch of accountants how they would fix Toyota's competitiveness in the EV market or something.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

Step one: Reach a consensus on what the city's problems are.

Step two: Reach a consensus on what causes them.

The rest will follow from there.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#4

Post by sgt » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:26 PM UTC

There's really only one way. Get Arnold back somehow. I am not sure how, but put him in control of S.F and watch the city prosper again.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#5

Post by allears » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:35 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #4

There's really only one way. Get Arnold back somehow. I am not sure how, but put him in control of S.F and watch the city prosper again.

Arnold was never mayor of SF. He was governor of California.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#6

Post by starbase » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

Crowdsource crimefighting. $10k bounty per thief or drug dealer brought to police. $100k per violent criminal, dead or alive. Bounty is doubled for repeat offenders.

Advertise the bounty program in rural America. Trucks full of armed rednecks will arrive within a week and the criminal underclass will scurry like rats.

Funding comes from the city's billion-dollar-plus homeless benefits programs.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#7

Post by starbase » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:53 PM UTC

allears wrote: post #5

sgt wrote: post #4

There's really only one way. Get Arnold back somehow. I am not sure how, but put him in control of S.F and watch the city prosper again.

Arnold was never mayor of SF. He was governor of California.

Question doesn't stipulate that you're the mayor.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#8

Post by sgt » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 7:58 PM UTC

allears wrote: post #5

sgt wrote: post #4

There's really only one way. Get Arnold back somehow. I am not sure how, but put him in control of S.F and watch the city prosper again.

Arnold was never mayor of SF. He was governor of California.

Yes but he can't run twice for governor. He can still become mayor in SF.

Re: Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

#9

Post by hindsightbias » Thu, Oct 26, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

As the policy appears to be die-them-out with 3/day OD rate downtown it should reolve itself in a few years.

And if enough techies leave the dystopian hellscape for better opportunities in Nashville that should free up enough SROs for the survivors.