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A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
source link: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/10/23/a-cautionary-tale-from-the-streets-of-san-francisco
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The coast of dystopiaA cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
A new book shows how well-meaning urban policies have backfired
San Fransicko. By Michael Shellenberger. Harper; 416 pages: $28.99 and £20
“THERE’S A CRUELTY here that I don’t think I’ve ever seen,” said Leilani Farha, then the UN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, in San Francisco in 2018. Visitors are routinely dismayed by the desperation of those living on the streets of the wealthy west-coast city. From 2005 to 2020 the estimated number of unsheltered homeless people nearly doubled, even as homelessness declined nationwide. How can a place brimming with resources and good intentions fail so flagrantly to meet the basic needs of the population?
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