{"id":18534,"date":"2022-07-17T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18534"},"modified":"2022-07-17T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T06:26:51","slug":"the-city-by-the-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=18534","title":{"rendered":"The City by the Bay, faring less well on certain scores &#8211; sadly not as it should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/bayarea\/heatherknight\/article\/What-can-San-Francisco-learn-from-other-17308875.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It can be refreshing to leave San Francisco\u2019s misery behind and see cities that take care of people better than we do. I saw about a dozen homeless people in a week in London, a city that has a \u201cNo Second Night Out\u201d initiative to get people who fall into homelessness inside as quickly as possible. Of course, countries with universal health care and more substantive social safety nets than ours will fare better on that score.<\/p>\n<p>David Chu, a Sunset resident and product manager, visited family in Seoul in May said he saw very little homelessness and no obvious drug dealing or use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, not at all,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m sure you could find it if you looked really, really hard, but it\u2019s nothing like the Tenderloin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that in Seoul, there\u2019s more civic pride and a sense of the common good. In San Francisco, he said, people regularly fight to prevent new housing or services near them and often get their way at City Hall, making our entrenched problems even worse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow is this our level of governance?\u201d he asked. \u201cSan Francisco\u2019s a place that should be <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">100% world-class<\/span>, and oftentimes it\u2019s sadly the exact opposite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle: It can be refreshing to leave San Francisco\u2019s misery behind and see cities that take care of people better than we do. I saw about a dozen homeless people in a week in London, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/?p=18534\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mwehle.de\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}