San Francisco continues to face store closures as major retailers are leaving the once bustling city. The loss of businesses is the city’s latest obstacle alongside issues of drugs and homelessness. NBC News’ Jacob Ward reports.
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Again, liberal media mentioning post pandemic this…pandemic that. Its not that you big dummies, its liberal policies, defund the police, releasing/non prosecution of criminals and drug users. That’s why your burning down your own city😅
Fantastic news! High rent and criminals? Shop from online and pay no city, county, and state tax. No permit fee either, lol.
No more jobs 😢
This is no mayor’s no DA no Police Chief fault is is a result of deeper secret society control moves and because the average American idiots don’t understand that we continue to be subjected to their whims.
Blaming it on the pandemic lol. It’s democratic policies.
Shocking, who could have predicted this?
It’ll be like Detroit downtown till residents elect Republicans to clean up the mess and restore SF.
Diversity & Equality will NEVER be anyone’s strength
And letting whitey do whatever they want, wont work either. Its kinda the reason why this is happening cause you hicks wanna oppress and keep anyone who isnt white down. Now you’re paying for it.
FAFO
Still blaming the pandemic. Delusional.
Keep voting Democrat they really seem to care about minorities.
Perhaps more minorities would like to move to conservative white neighborhoods.
A store can’t make any money in a city overwhelmingly occupied by democrats who want everything to be given to them for free.
Open gun store in those empty shops, I don’t think ppl dare to rob it.
Democrat Utopia… thank you Mayor, Supervisors, DA, and most important Voters!
Fentanyl cleaning the country up keeping the border open was a great idea thankyou biden remember if you are voting blue plz smoke them blues in support 💙
San Francisco is an intractable and hopeless quagmire. America should pull out.
Only a matter of time, my job in Union Square is gone. I don’t believe we will be around in 2024.
When a city let alone a state doesn’t care about its people or businesses. This is what happens. Now with that being said. You id&ots that are leaving California. Don’t bring you mo#on politics with you or stay in California.
Maybe what the media should do is ask Breed to actually walk these streets, talk to the homeless and drug dealers without any bodyguards just so she has a feel of how an ordinary civilian in San Francisco go through everyday. This mayor is on another level of denial.
If you still vote democrat
if you still think diversity a strength its all on you
Diversity still is California’s strength. Silicone valley is still there.
Walking dead just premiered its new show dead city. California get to experience that for real. Great job to all those that made this happen.
Don’t hurt da you know who’s feelings…. Dis be da outcome😂😂😂😂
Hey Newsom and Breed no matter how You word it , reality is San Francisco bay area is crime ridden and the quality of life and public safety had declined remarkably.
Hotel occupancies and conventions are down 👇
Please administration WAKE UP ?
Not just San Francisco the whole state .
California with the 5th largest economy in the world, even greater than Germany.
The state was better until the democrats took over.Chicago and New York run just like California
Chicago and New York are still mighty pillars of commerce compared to many cities in Republican run states.
SO NOBODY SAYS, HEY! MAYBE WE SHOULD VOTE FOR TRUMP?
By November 2024, Trump will be living in exile in either Dubai or Saudi Arabia.
The problem is London breed and Gavin newsom NOT admitting it is a failed state.
Just waiting for Macys to close. Homeless, drug dealers, n criminals can go after each other.
San Francisco is a wake up call. This is what the lefts progressive cities look like
Keep voting in liberals…keep spiraling down…maybe blame Trump if you need to blame someone…
Lol you think it wasnt like this when your master was president.
All this talking but nothing getting done
Why the news been saying stores closing for like nearly a year now but like they still there
Hard to feel sorry for people who voted these Marxist people into office, S.F. is just another blue state failure.
Don’t forget Gavin Newsom was once S.F Mayor. He’s a disgrace in every metric imaginable. Also, Ron didn’t “slam” anyone, he just stated the truth.
Why’s the mayor’s name looks like a name a cornstar should have?
Slowly turning into Gotham
Go woke go broke
Keep voting blue
I am happy businesses are moving away from an inhabitable environment.
A classic example of what happens when the inmates run the asylum.
I’m shocked the mayor would try to make excuses for her failure. The buck stops with her.
Yeah, look at the price of living now. Homelessness and crime are gonna keep increasing in the near future
Have you ever talked to the progressive voters than live in SF? They deseve what they are getting and more
When one site closes, the others become bigger targets. SF is over.
Chinese dont shop downtown? Guess they only sell dontated groceries on UN Plaza?
we all need to move out of a state that has lawless.
Mayor an all board members are completely corrupt, that’s why San Francisco sucks and is a dangerous, trash, drug, prostitution, disease, neighborhood!
Blame the voters, As long as these people continue getting voted in nothing will change. We need crime enforced and forced labor camps for these homeless zombies. Compassion and love is not working.
I’m a California native for 60 years. 100% failure caused by democrats. They have had control for 65 plus years. At this point I’m preparing my children for the worse. Democrat supporters claim they are the party of humanity, and unity, yet the facts tell the truth on the destruction they cause. Every metropolitan city is Democrat ran and they ran them into the ground. Only an ignorant sheepeople believes what they’re told without observation
Apparently GOP trickle down isn’t good enough to win their vote.
San Francisco deserves whatever happens to it. You reap what you sow
God-bless San Francisco for being the magnet that draws street rats and drug addicts from other communities.🙏
Who’s the alien with the broad forehead that shows up at the end of all these NBC stories?
Alot of people are leaving the state demorats have ruined the once Golden State turned it into a dumpster.
California fun facts
The last major water project built in the 60’s by republicans Last major highway project again late 60’s by republicans First time California registered on the world economic scale under Republican guidance
To quote the band “Thursday”, which is a re-quote.
“We saw Paris in (screams) FLAMES!!!!
The problem is SF and CA aren’t woke enough. The problem is also the rich, racism, and the police. The solution is socialism.
Enjoy your corrupt local government.
No, Mayor it’s not social media hyping it up. I stayed at courtyard downtown San Francisco and had to walk through the tenderloin last spring. I thought I was gonna get murdered and was sick the whole time seeing drug use and dead people on the sidewalk! I will never go back in San Francisco was my favorite city of all time. Horrific
San Francisco is the poster child of the results of radically progressive policy
California will become the next Michigan!!!! Or worse! Wheres the caring politicians of California??? It just gets worse daily! Now the national guard is moving in to slow down the public crime!!! How special!!!
Way to go Democrats!
Left wing and Democrats are the problem to US now, Not just in CA. It is happing everywhere in US, especially in city, like in NY too. Worst on is in SF. NY will be the next. We need to use our votes in the election to bring down this Democrats government!!! Resolving cheating in the election will be the first priority to work on!!!
Love how politicians put an unrealistic spin on reality.
Californians should voted for Red.
What do you expect? When you continue to pander to the savage community! A savage is an individual who is unable or unwilling to function normally in a civilized society!
DETROIT 2.0
Don’t worry SF. California will follow. Liberals are incapable of admitting they are wrong.
San Francisco is a disgusting city downtown lol its absurd. People doing every drug known to man, right outside the homeland security offices
D U M P
Sellers still have the the nerve to have their homes priced 27% above the national median home price.😅😅😅
The mayor said “San Fransisco has ‘challenges’ like crime and safety” – we have challenges here because the people who have the responsibility to keep us safe LIE about the crime stats. This mayor Defunded the Police, and now no one comes when called to fill out a police report so crime is now down – She’s clever, no police report means not crime. Tell that to the people assaulted. I know a bunch where the p[police came and NO REPORT was ever filed.
Think anyone is going to take their life savings and open a new store in San Fran ???
Stop supporting evil ways.
Libreal politicians are destroying California
Still not as bad as Mississippi, West Virginia, and other conservative loser states.
You mean London Breed isn’t doing all that she promised to make SF a better place? I’m totally shocked……..This mayor and governor Newsom are completely delusional.
Hahahaha. No pity for any of them. They voted for it.
Yes, move to Texas
You liberals ruined our country
San Francisco is just catching up with how bad conservatives run the rural deep south and the rural rust belt.
Fascist DeSantis fears the cartoon mouse Trumpy
Well, who did you put into power? Look in the mirror.
Florida is awful
Detroit West lol
Good leave because that’s what happens when taxes are high all you need is a revolt already because no one can live sub staying themselves another words they got nowhere to go and the rich can live and the pork and lived in the old days and back in the seventies the rich and poor live live with each other it didn’t matter
And yet they’re celebrating pride 😂😂
I live in California, I think Gavin Newsom should shut his mouth and get to work.
SF cant die fast enough
The fulfillment of the “Progressive” vision of society.
Should follow Singapore’s model of zero tolerance on Crime because Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.
Democrat policies f*#ked this city up!
This is most definitely not the fault of Republicans.
This is what you voted for, Democrats.
This is your fault.
Too much shoplifting…. business can’t keep up.
Fake news ! The actual reason why retailers are fleeing California is because of California government passed a real resent new law that directly retaliate and exercising religious prosecution upon any/all Christians who are new considered a “treat to society” for being not for LGBTQ. Pride Day ???
Go woke, go broke 101
The homeless will keep coming to frisco liberal city
End times are here…
They forgot to mention that it’s trumps fault.
She’s in denial; I wish she were in De Nile!
Bahahahaha
If crime rates go down it’s because they all died from Fentanyl not even joking
Let it crash and burn, the sooner the better
Californians don’t leave CA and infect the rest of the country.
You don’t have a good track record because so far you’ve ruined other states such as OR, NV, WA, CO, AZ, NM, ID, UT, TX, FL, NC, KY, AL, TN.
You hate us and we don’t like you. Stop ruining and infecting the rest of the country!