San Francisco Losing Tourism $ Due to Spiraling Homelessness

[Straight Shooter]

San Francisco’s spiraling homelessness and opioid crisis is starting to drive away business and tourists as a huge $40million medical convention cancels after its attendees complained they were too scared to walk the streets alone.

DailyMail.com's shocking photos of San Francisco, on Tuesday, capture a city in turmoil; with homeless people passed out on the sidewalks, shooting up in the streets and begging for survival.

The issue has become so dire that Chicago-based organizers of a five-day, semi-annual medical convention, which attracts around 15,000 people and pumps $40 million into the local economy, have announced they are moving the event to Los Angeles.

They are blaming the appalling state of San Francisco's streets where open drug use and threatening behavior are now common.

Post-convention surveys also found the city's rocketing levels of homelessness and people suffering from serious mental illness on the streets, meant that some members were afraid to leave their hotel. One board member was assaulted near Moscone Center last year.

And there are fears that this cancellation could be the tip of the iceberg.

If the city doesn't act soon to clear up it's streets, tourism officials warn that it will have a fire impact on tourism - San Francisco's biggest industry, generating $9 billion a year, $725 million in local taxes and providing employment to around 80,000 people. Conventions represent almost 20 per cent of the tourism revenue, bringing in $1.7 billion of the business.

'It's the first time that we have had an out-and-out cancellation over the issue, and this is a group that has been coming here every three or four years since the 1980s,' said Joe D'Alessandro, the president and CEO of S.F. Travel, who declined to name the convention.

'There was a time when the biggest obstacle to having a convention here was that it can be expensive,' he said, 'but now we have this new factor'.

D'Alessandro said other conventions have also expressed concerns.

City officials and hotels have begged Mayor-elect London Breed to increase police foot patrols and mental health services so tourists feel safer.

'I come from a third world country and it is not as bad as this,' one tourist told KPIX.

Another said things are so bad you 'can smell it'.

A report earlier this year by NBC Bay Area journalists found 100 drug needles and more than 300 piles of human feces during a survey of 153 blocks of downtown San Francisco.

If stuck by a used needle, one can be infected with diseases like HIV or Hepatitis. Fecal matter is also not just a smelly nuisance. As it dries, the germs become airborne and if inhaled, can prove deadly - especially for children.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Lee Riley warned the city was dirtier than some slums in India and Brazil.

'The contamination is… much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,' the UC Berkeley professor said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ancisco-citys-problems-homelessness-drug.html

 

[sean miguel]

Yeah, the whole "oh shit, I just stepped on a used needle" or "oh shit, I just stepped in human shit" or the ever popular "oh shit, I'm being strangled by a crazed panhandler" can't be good for tourism.

Seattle has gone to absolute shit in that regard as well.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Talcum X was on twitter saying people complaining about shit in the streets is a white privilege problem. What an asshole. I think it's pretty racist to assume only white people see a problem with this. I'll never visit San Francisco, not because I dislike homeless people, but because I hate the rampant progressivism that has ruined that city. Wait, are they the same asshats who keep sending Pelosi Galore to DC? Fuck that place.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Talcum X was on twitter saying people complaining about shit in the streets is a white privilege problem. What an asshole. I think it's pretty racist to assume only white people see a problem with this. I'll never visit San Francisco, not because I dislike homeless people, but because I hate the rampant progressivism that has ruined that city. Wait, are they the same asshats who keep sending Pelosi Galore to DC? Fuck that place.

Yeah but when we get shit smeared on our skin it's actually visible and creates a measurable change to our odor.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Talcum X was on twitter saying people complaining about shit in the streets is a white privilege problem. What an asshole. I think it's pretty racist to assume only white people see a problem with this. I'll never visit San Francisco, not because I dislike homeless people, but because I hate the rampant progressivism that has ruined that city. Wait, are they the same asshats who keep sending Pelosi Galore to DC? Fuck that place.

Oh please. What sissies. You're gonna see bums. You're gonna see and smell piss and shit. You're gonna see rats. You're gonna have more crime. That's what happens in the big city. If people can't handle that then you ain't cut out for the city. I suggest you pack up and move to bumfuck West Virginia population 500.

 

[georges]

Oh please. What sissies. You're gonna see bums. You're gonna see and smell piss and shit. You're gonna see rats. You're gonna have more crime. That's what happens in the big city. If people can't handle that then you ain't cut out for the city. I suggest you pack up and move to bumfuck West Virginia population 500.

Democrats have already ruined California so even the towns run by them are turning into freaking nightmares.Just look at Chicago or Detroit.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Or NYC, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, etc. etc.

 

[georges]

Or NYC, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, etc. etc.

Indeed, indeed :yesyes:

 

[pool_hustler]

Chicago or Detroit Or NYC, Philadelphia, Las Vegas


Only one of those ranks among the 20 cities with the highest murder rates.

 

[Rey C.]

Oh please. What sissies. You're gonna see bums. You're gonna see and smell piss and shit. You're gonna see rats. You're gonna have more crime. That's what happens in the big city. If people can't handle that then you ain't cut out for the city. I suggest you pack up and move to bumfuck West Virginia population 500.

Yeah, anytime you have a large concentration of people in a population center, certain issues will be magnified. But when these issues become more widespread and common, that's going to cause businesses, people who work within these population centers and tourists to begin avoiding these troubled areas. At some point, property values and investments in those areas will begin to fall, because the demand has fallen. And then that will begin to negatively affect the tax base. Then that will begin to negatively affect the ability of the city to spend on public services and infrastructure. Some cities have dealt with this by raising taxes, while ignoring the underlying issues. All that's done is caused businesses and citizens to abandon the city centers in many cases... not so much to Bumfuck, West Virginia, but to the suburbs, outside the city limits.

In the cities that I've lived/worked in over the years, there was always that "bad side of town" - and for the most part, these areas were avoidable. But if/when you get to the point that the bad side of town is pretty much everywhere, or spreading, that's necessarily going to lead to some very real, long term issues.

Just my 2 bits.

 

[georges]

SF MAYOR SAYS HER CITY IS DROWNING IN POOP: ‘THERE’S MORE FECES … THAN I’VE EVER SEEN’
http://www.dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/san-francisco-poop-problem/

 

[sean miguel]

How bad must it be when the democrat mayor characterizes it as "drowning in poop?"

The state of California is drowning in poop and like a huge one, there's an effort to pinch it off into 3 segments.

I'm hungry. What's for lunch?

 

[georges]

How bad must it be when the democrat mayor characterizes it as "drowning in poop?"

The state of California is drowning in poop and like a huge one, there's an effort to pinch it off into 3 segments.

I'm hungry. What's for lunch?

State of Commiefornia. For lunch, there is just garbage food like mc donalds and kfc

 

[pool_hustler]

State of Commiefornia. For lunch, there is just garbage food like mc donalds and kfc

Well no, actually...

California grows over 200 different crops, some grown nowhere else in the nation. Crops include grapes, almonds, strawberries, oranges and walnuts.

California produces almost all of the country's almonds, apricots, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, nectarines, olives, pistachios, prunes, and walnuts. It leads in the production of avocados, grapes, lemons, melons, peaches, plums, and strawberries. Only Florida produces more oranges.

The most important vegetable crops grown in the state are lettuce and tomatoes. Again, California leads the way. Broccoli and carrots rank second followed by asparagus, cauliflower, celery, garlic, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.

Rice, corn, sugar beets, and wheat are also grown in large quantities.

Livestock and livestock products include milk, beef cattle, eggs, sheep, turkeys and hogs. Dairy products are California's most valuable products followed by cattle and calves and chicken eggs. California is the second ranked producer of livestock products behind Texas.

Fishing
With 840 miles of coastline, it's probably not surprising that California's commercial fishing operations rank the top spot among the states.

 

[georges]

State of Commiefornia. For lunch, there is just garbage food like mc donalds and kfc

Well no, actually...

California grows over 200 different crops, some grown nowhere else in the nation. Crops include grapes, almonds, strawberries, oranges and walnuts.

California produces almost all of the country's almonds, apricots, dates, figs, kiwi fruit, nectarines, olives, pistachios, prunes, and walnuts. It leads in the production of avocados, grapes, lemons, melons, peaches, plums, and strawberries. Only Florida produces more oranges.

The most important vegetable crops grown in the state are lettuce and tomatoes. Again, California leads the way. Broccoli and carrots rank second followed by asparagus, cauliflower, celery, garlic, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.

Rice, corn, sugar beets, and wheat are also grown in large quantities.

Livestock and livestock products include milk, beef cattle, eggs, sheep, turkeys and hogs. Dairy products are California's most valuable products followed by cattle and calves and chicken eggs. California is the second ranked producer of livestock products behind Texas.

Fishing
With 840 miles of coastline, it's probably not surprising that California's commercial fishing operations rank the top spot among the states.

Then explain me this https://board.freeones.com/showthre...merica-s-Poverty-Capital&highlight=california ? I am just a curious and logic individual wanting to understand that if California is so great why is it indebted to the neck and why it is no productive or contributive anymore.

 

[pool_hustler]

I'm not an economist, Georges. But I do seem to recall that every state in the union is in debt.

California is the sixth largest economy in the world. All by itself. Think of that. A single state in the U.S., and its economy ranks only one notch lower than France's entire economy, which ranks number 5.

On top of that, Cali pays more in federal income tax than it receives in support, which means Californian's taxes help prop up a whole lot of loser red states.

 

[georges]

I'm not an economist, Georges. But I do seem to recall that every state in the union is in debt.

California is the sixth largest economy in the world. All by itself. Think of that. A single state in the U.S., and its economy ranks only one notch lower than France's entire economy, which ranks number 5.

On top of that, Cali pays more in federal income tax than it receives in support, which means Californian's taxes help prop up a whole lot of loser red states.

Thanks I appreciate this clear answer :hatsoff::clap:

 

[Straight Shooter]

I'm not an economist, Georges. But I do seem to recall that every state in the union is in debt.

California is the sixth largest economy in the world. All by itself. Think of that. A single state in the U.S., and its economy ranks only one notch lower than France's entire economy, which ranks number 5.

On top of that, Cali pays more in federal income tax than it receives in support, which means Californian's taxes help prop up a whole lot of loser red states.

California has a $8.8 billion surplus thanks to Governor Jerry Brown
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article210940359.html

 

[Jack Davenport]

California has a $8.8 billion surplus thanks to Governor Jerry Brown
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article210940359.html

All thanks to Silicon Valley. They should have the money not the state of California. The fuck outta here with that shit.

 

[georges]

San Francisco’s so liberal, they can’t afford waiters
https://www.westernjournal.com/san-...&ff_campaign=manualpost&ff_content=2018-07-25