'Time and time again, San Francisco reinvents itself. Every single time we have emerged a better city.'
San Francisco has been an outlier among American cities in its inability to rebound from pandemic lockdowns. Nearly a third of offices downtown are vacant, the highest share of any major city in the country. Stores are closing every week as employees, especially in the technology sector, continue to work from home. On Monday, the mall owner Westfield said it was abandoning the city’s largest downtown shopping mall, Westfield San Francisco Centre.
Q: The official symbol of San Francisco, etched on the city’s flag, is a phoenix rising from the ashes. How do you revive this city? A: That’s a hard one. If we get out of our own way and get rid of bureaucracy and we are able in the next eight years to build 82,000 units, maybe. We can’t just continue being a city of those who are making a lot of money and those who are hardly making anything — and the people in between getting squeezed out.
S.F. Opera’s first Spanish-language show spotlights Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera S.F. Opera’s first Spanish-language production will vividly portray Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera Q: Do you feel in some ways that you are trying to challenge some of the tenets of liberal ideology — repealing laws that were meant to protect people, calling for drug users to be arrested?
A: My perspective growing up in San Francisco is a lot different than the perspective of the people who have problems with my approach. I have relationships with a lot of the people who are experiencing challenges every day and suffering with addiction. Addiction is a complicated thing. It requires tough love. It requires force to a certain extent, not tolerance.
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