{"id":1524300,"date":"2022-06-20T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524300"},"modified":"2022-06-20T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:34:28","slug":"tens-of-thousands-flee-san-francisco-as-liberal-leaders-struggle-with-crime-and-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tens-of-thousands-flee-san-francisco-as-liberal-leaders-struggle-with-crime-and-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of Thousands Flee San Francisco As Liberal Leaders Struggle With Crime and Homelessness\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftens-of-thousands-flee-san-francisco-as-liberal-leaders-struggle-with-crime-and-homelessness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524300&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>More than 50,000 residents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/S-F-population-fell-6-3-most-in-nation-to-17199403.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left<\/a> San Francisco last year, the highest population decrease of any major U.S. city.<\/p>\n<p>Between July 2020 and July 2021, 54,813 people exited the Bay Area\u2014a 6.3 percent decline resulting in San Francisco&#8217;s smallest population in a decade. High housing costs, rising crime, and rampant public vagrancy likely fueled the exodus, as residents have soured on the Golden City&#8217;s liberal leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in a June recall election ousted radical prosecutor Chesa Boudin for his soft-on-crime approach. Two-thirds of Asian Americans opposed Boudin, spurred on by his failure to quell attacks against seniors in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Driven by worries over public safety, a majority of Bay Area voters disapprove of Democratic mayor London Breed, according to a June <em>San Francisco Examiner<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/breeds-approval-ratings-reflect-voter-anger\/article_423b0890-e368-11ec-a797-43b8f2805f69.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>. Breed slashed the city&#8217;s police budget by $120 million in 2020 in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death but reversed course 18 months later, making an emergency request to beef up law enforcement funding as crime soared.<\/p>\n<p>The homicide rate in San Francisco has shot up 37 percent in the past two years. A retail theft wave <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/walgreens-closes-5-more-san-francisco-stores-over-organized-retail-crime-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">garnered<\/a> national attention last year, following California\u2019s move to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto-legal-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lessen<\/a> penalties for shoplifting. Seventy percent of San Franciscans think their quality of life has declined, and 88 percent believe homelessness has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/05\/chesa-boudin-recall-san-francisco-crime\/629907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worsened<\/a> in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Rising housing costs are another major factor being cited for the decline. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.firsttuesday.us\/zoning-restrictions-cost-bay-area-homeowners-400000-on-a-home\/78964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blame<\/a> the zoning policies of the liberal city for inflating the cost of living, exacerbating <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.firsttuesday.us\/housed-or-homeless-zoning-affects-all\/78812\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homelessness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other liberal-run, large cities grappling with crime and homelessness have seen substantial declines in population as well. The 15 fastest-growing U.S. cities sit in states run by Republican governors. And some San Francisco-based companies are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/tech\/article\/tech-relocation-sf-to-austin-moving-remote-work-16054123.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fleeing<\/a> California for red states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50,000 residents left San Francisco last year, the highest population decrease of any major U.S. city. 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