You know what they say, "if you got it, flaunt it," and San Francisco has lots of urban decay.
From drugs to prostitution to mass theft to murder in broad daylight, San Francisco has become famous for its moral and physical decline, so why not capitalize on that fame?
Now, for just $30, you can sign up for a walking tour of San Francisco's Doom Loop.
Your tour guide will be a San Francisco native billed as a political junkie & opinionated loudmouth, but he's also apparently a sitting city commissioner who has decided to pull back the curtain.
Here are the details from the tour (it's well worth the read):
You've read the headlines, you've seen the Tweets, now get close and personal to the Doom and Squalor of downtown San Francisco!
How can a city with a $14.6 billion annual budget be a model of urban decay? How can it spend $776.8 million per year on police and have no rule of law to show for it? How can it spend $690 million on homeless services and receive an official United Nations condemnation for its treatment of the homeless ("cruel and inhuman"; "violation of multiple human rights")?
The tour will start at City Hall, and continue through Mid-Market, the Tenderloin, and Union Square. We will view the open-air drug markets, the abandoned tech offices, the outposts of the non-profit industrial complex, and the deserted department stores.
Discover the policy choices that made America's wealthiest city the nation's innovative leader of housing crisis, addiction crisis, mental-health crisis, & unrepentant crime crisis.
You will find no better expert. Your guide is an urban policy professional, card-carrying City Commissioner overseeing a municipal department with an annual budget over $500m, and cofounder of San Francisco's largest neighborhood association. He has spent hundreds of hours on both sides of the government dais, shouting into the opposite abyss. (This event is the result of his own mental-health crisis.)
Total walking distance 1.5 miles. Sneakers advised.
Proceeds will be donated to a non-profit that does not actively degrade its community.
Of course there's some push back from other city leaders.
Randy Shaw, executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, said,
"Why would anyone pay $30 to walk around areas they can see for free?" Shaw told The Standard in an email. "If people want to see the highlights of the Tenderloin's history and tour the national Uptown Tenderloin Historic District, they can join a weekly tour put on by the Tenderloin Museum."
(Maybe because that tour won't be with a city commissioner with a detailed knowledge of how the Tenderloin District became a homeless pharmacy for hard drugs?)
I mean the only thing that could make this tour better is if it were a riding tour in one of these babies:
Imagine all the dangerous sites you could take in cruising through lefty cities on tour in one of those: BLM mostly peaceful protests, Antifa rallies, Pride parades, Democrat party fundraisers — the list is never ending.
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