San Francisco was a booming city for businesses, and then the Covid-19 pandemic happened, switching many employees from the office to working from home. Now, the city is dealing with large vacancy rates. NBC News’ Jacob Ward has more.
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#SanFrancisco #BayArea #office
All the nimbys must be thrilled with the degentrification 😂😂😂 love it ❤
Hey, stay out of the mayor’s business. Don’t stop stealing.
Surprised……..no
Democrats ➕ LGTB ➕ Left wing liberal trash = San Francisco 🤮
Let’s not forget the rampant property crime that is making it tough to run a business in San Francisco. That has an impact on everything
The fact that the muni metro and bart does not connect to the salesforce transit center is baffling. Aside from that its so clear to EVERYONE that its a combo of greed from the landlords and the city leaders inability to grow a backbone to stop crime and tend to the homeless
Laughable. “Artists” left a long time ago and it had nothing to do with downtown. Landlords stiffing tenants. City screwing you with constant fines. All my friends from SF, acted like nothing was ever wrong. The smuggest people on the planet and they get what they deserve.
Detroit 2.0
Are we supposed to feel bad for the wealthy? I hope they all go bankrupt and have to live in the streets eating out of garbage cans.
I have one word for You
DEMOCRATS
They can fix this issue in matter of one month.
1. Criminalize theft and robbery, drug possession
2. FORCEFULLY remove tent cities.
3. Lower corporate tax and put cap on rent.
Bruh it’s the homelessness and crime lol
Look at who their policymakers have been for the last ten years. One of them just signed a power of attorney because she can’t handle matters related to her estate, yet she insists on handling matters of the State. I wonder why it isn’t working. But the congress members have two x-chromosomes, so everything is actually perfect. All the homeless people are comforted by that fact every night.
Cities are for capital.
Have you noticed how the leaders see something that is destructive in nature and applaud it celebrate it esteem it back it up and want people to follow in line with poverty destruction, Mayham chaos crime. We are living in times where they want to be so innovative they are calling good evil and evil good They are confused living under a delusion the sane people are pulling out their hair with these backward thinking so called leaders!
the tech boom, the selling out the downtown to corporations, the bad housing developments, all, destroyed communities that had taken fifty years to build. SF could be the best city in the US once more if it gets poor for twenty years and young people can live there and build their lives there. all so eventually whatever the poor build the rich can then ruin.
the ccp wants california pretty bad apparently.
Give it away…build it back. Like making HELLS Kitchen Trendy😮😂
реально залип в видос
Ha ha ha get what you voted for
In my opinion
This has all been forced upon us.
WE THE PEOPLE
Didn’t vote for this.
This isn’t what we hired anyone for
All should be fired.
UGE
PERIOD
Bideonomics impacting us all!
Hey fix the crime first seriously and homeless san francisco wake up mayor of that city and government newturd pretty boy didn’t do anything sick!. No one will rent there and plus lower the tax and accommodation for business seriously!.
I called this the great filtering of SF
“The cost of living is so high while homelessness is becoming an issue”. Gee, wonder if people who can’t afford housing, can’t live in housing.
go woke go broke 🙂
Far left leadership (Independent for the record), and letting people go on crime have ruined this city, not Covid (most of the major West Coast cities for that matter.) Until different thinking leadership is installed (good luck w that), pop up restaurants and gimmicks will not solve it. How about a real news piece NBC on the rampant crime and open drug use and how leadership has failed miserably? (not that anyone would be live the news anyway). You could offer me a $2MM salary to move there and I’d turn you down.
What? Its not the utopia they voted for?
No mention of the crime rate due to stupid laws?
Lol I love how they don’t blame the homeless scum and Democrat run city hahahaha
It’s not the real estate market Mrs. Mayor…it the violent nature of the city with no consequences…make the city safer and they will come!
Filthy rich , gays , homeless/ drug attics ……..San Francisco 😂
Sorry but office space is something only rich boomers want to hold onto. The world has moved on from cubicles and ridiculous amounts of commuting.
2:05 puleeeze, just shut up women!! You and your liberal policies are what have ruined the city by not dealing with the homeless and criminal elements!!!
Those types of businesses will not return and why would they? They are not going to go back and pay a large part of their profits for rent when they don’t need to. Just won’t happen.
Appropriately the video starts with a commercial of Sleepy Joe Biden begging for money…. How ironic
‘Sodomfrisco’ is prime for a giant earthquake and citywide fire…
thanks to California governor…
2.2 billion dollar what…
Suuure.., “creative artists” are known for being loaded with money…
Mayor is such a loser
DEMOCRATIC CALIFORNIA, this is what you get
Inflation is so high, can’t even afford meals, high crime/homelessness, and how do you expect people to afford your high rental cost?
Nothing about the horrible crime and policies the city have allowed. Retail and business do not want to be around crime and crap on the sidewalk. Reflection of policy not just covid.
Naaa, they’ll let the businesses close. Then it will be used to house migrants funded by taxpayers.
Accept the doom loop as the norm. It won’t come back.
E V E N T H E S E V E N S A M U R A I C O U L D N ‘ T S A V E T H I S V I L L A G E
No mention of who owns all these companies, what they have in common.
by design!
Must be umcomfortable for the guy in the chair.
Never vote Democrat again
Artist and creatives do historically mark gentrification and growth. But this approach FAILS to recognize the new creative generation. It’s not artists lofts in sketchy neighborhoods in 2023. It’s got to become genuinely sketchy and cheap, and if the stars align it’ll happen. You can’t make a 05’ Brooklyn in this way. And even then, the new generation is introverted and online.
Was in San Francisco in 2019 to see Hamilton – had the worst experience driving into downtown San Francisco from East Bay – so many homeless people with mental illness walking into the streets in front of moving vehicles without a care in the world. Not sure which is worse – San Francisco or a 3rd world country. I have no interest in ever visiting San Francisco again after that experience.
Oh stop with your homeless crisis, or “unhoused” crises claims. Stop using the word unhoused, it’s stupid. They are homeless! The VAST majority of those living on the streets are a part of the “addiction” crises, not “unhoused” crises. Those who are not under the thumb of addiction can make rational decisions to move to where things are more affordable. Those who are addicted flock to areas where they know they can freely use and get free services. Things will not get better until the stupid media, idiotic SF population and politicians throw aside their political correctness and refer to the situation as it really is. I won’t hold my breath, though
I’m pretty sure these people need houses, not homes.
It’s not crime or the homeless,it’s the high cost of living. That’s what is driving crime and homelessness anyway.
stop giving tax breaks to billionares!!!
Liberal city 😊. Next move Texas.
‘Doom Loop”. Phrase of the week. Or should I say weak?
Reporter leaning on wall like he’s napoleon dynamite
Rampant crime, shoplifting, and lawlessness are all happening in San Fran, every day.
And this report couldn’t even bother to consider that maybe, just possibly, that’s why businesses are moving out as well?
Lock up the criminals and junkie homeless bums and the city will rebound.
Landlords have gotten greedy. They mayor has failed San Francsico.
in other words- A how-to guide for regentrification lol
Justice.
Lower Rent everywhere. Problem solved
There are people who will pay high rents, and businesses who will pay high rents… but not when there are crazy drugged up junkies and gangs roaming the streets. I don’t think NBC wants to admit that’s the real problem here.
Let it die
Just checked on zillow for apartments. Wow $1800/month for a studio! So expensive for a studio. Why would someone want to live in sf with high crime and pay so much for rent?
The liberals really, going to blame the pandemic 😂
Just ask the Democrats about it.
Yeah.. You all voted to destroy your cities..
Then you all moved away to Texas and now you are destroying Dallas.
Wow! you don’t say! I wonder why people aren’twilling to pay exorbitantly high rates to live in such a beautiful, safe and totally not ruined by woke policies city. It’s so weird!
Thank you Nancy Pelosi for destroying your city.
Nigel had enough money for his numerous tattoos though.
Thank Commandant Fauci folks. Total stupidity in creating a crisis situation.
The homeless, the drug addicts, and the criminals will continue running people out of San Francisco.
No one cares. They deserve everything they are experiencing and more. If this entire city ceased to exist no one would care it would not be missed.
It’s overpriced and has too many problems, and administration is delusional
Easy fix. Get rid of the democraps. The blind could see this problem. And dump all the homeless into the desert or sea.
Shout out to my dude getting the haircut.
I thought this was just a right-wing conspiracy theory? Bruh. What happened? LOL!
No need to shed a tear these apartment buildings are owned by Billionaires outside of SF living in West Coast and Arizona
These idiots do not see the root of the problem
Funny, not one word about the rampant crime and drug use. THAT is a major factor to what is going on there.
I’m gonna bet that the liberal politicians in San Francisco are smoking so much of that legalized dope they eventually just don’t see any problems.
How can the City try to work with businesses when they allow drug addicts to have free range of the streets? Isn’t the City going to allow the homeless to have rooms in a hotel downtown? Sorry, can’t have your cake an eat it too. The city has failed
Liberal political government slowly overtakes almost all big cities and policies cause a continual long-term decay. Then different liberals are voted in and say “Leave it to us to fix the problems we created and when we do pat us on the back”. Nothing beats middle-of-the-road Democrats/Repubs for governance. I just wish we could figure out a way to get rid of the lunatic fringe on each side of the fence. RIP Detroit, Connecticut, San Francisco, Chicago…..the list goes on but your eventual rebirth will hopefully not be at the hands of the lunatic libs (or radical right).
Gaslighting people … the problem is not price. It’s crime/homelessness. Throughout the world there are cities a lot more expensive that regained tourism after the pandemic. When the biggest mall gives up, retailers give up… it is not as simple as what they are telling you.
It’s not just the pandemic that caused this. It’s these crazy ridiculous liberal laws implemented not just in San Francisco, but in California.
Progressive policies turned San Francisco into a dumpster that no one wants to visit anymore. It’s a crime-ridden getto nobody wants to go visit somewhere you’re goning to get your car broken into possibly assaulted as you wander through human feces and hypodermic needles and jump drug-addicted zombies as you walked down the sidewalk, it’s bizarre with a higher education that these people are too stupid to see that.
San Francisco worse place to live
It was not the same anymore, sadly. You can tell that only tourists go there now, unlike before when there were a lot of locals. Even the piers are not that nice anymore. Too many homeless, it’s not clean and expensive.
It’s interesting watching city bureaucrats and “Business Leaders” putting band-aids on gaping wounds. Their level of denial & self delusion would be comical if this situation wasn’t so tragic
This is what you get when you make law abiding, tax-paying middle class residents leave the city while heavily incentivizing drug addicts and other low lives to move in by providing free drug, free housing, and free healthcare.
San Francisco can literally become the next Detroit if it doesnt stop relying on one type of industry. Tech companies will always see whats best for themselves and if they wanna move thier headquarters then they will.
Leave it to an alphabet network for completely avoiding the real reasons why businesses and residents have fled the city. Thankfully, the real youtube journalists have been hard at work, walking the streets, documenting the horrific conditions, talking with the few remaining business owners, police officers…you know…doing the things that reporters used to do 25 or 30 years ago.