2/20/2023 0 Comments Unwalkable suburbsSigns reading “Hold it! This wall is not a public restroom. The city now has nine public walls covered with a repellant paint that makes pee spray back on the person’s shoes and pants, a last desperate attempt to get people to quit urinating in alleyways and on walls. The vagrants in San Francisco DO seem to be getting worse and more aggressive. “I thought he was with you,” said the owner. I grabbed the cashier and told her the guy was a beggar, and someone asked him to leave. $10? The baseline for begging In San Fran is now a tenspot?įor a second, I thought it might be a fun story to buy him lunch, snag an interview, but probably not smart when traveling alone. “Just give me $10,” he said, ” and I’ll leave.” “That’s sweet,” I said, ” but really I am busy and will just be here a moment, if you want this table…” Maybe, I thought, maybe people in San Francisco now share tables because of space? Now I knew this was a total BS deal of some sort. He wasn’t badly dressed - it’s hard to tell the millionaires from the homeless in San Francisco. Total stranger.Įxcuse me, I said, wondering for a split second if I knew him. Suddenly, man walked in and seated himself at my table. Sat down, got out my phone and started focusing on emails. I grabbed a quick bite to eat across from the Hilton at the Old Siam Restaurant. And the day I arrived in San Francisco - after a super early morning flight, lost luggage, no food and little sleep - I learned real estate is not the only inflated commodity. I was horrified to see it’s no longer men and pets panhandling but women cradling infants with begging cups. A lot of agents complained about stepping over the homeless and their garbage/pee. Another exhibitor told me he had all his brand new Apple computers stolen out of his car the very first night of the conference, resulting in a scramble to get new computers overnight in order to stock his booth the subsequent days. Clay Stapp and James Bohan-Pitt saw gals shooting up heroin on the street, which is an everyday occurrence. I’m debating whether to sign the petition. Move the ICSF conference out of the Tenderloin.The homeless problem in San Francisco is bad and getting worse Networking with our industry peers should not have to include fending off a half-dozen super aggressive panhandlers, or getting screamed at by mentally unstable homeless people, or dealing with sexual harassment from vagrants. We are now actually afraid and worried about our physical safety. Whether we’re getting more sensitive, or the vagrants and panhandlers around the Hilton are getting worse, things have never been as bad as they were this year. ICSF is a great event held in a horrifyingly bad location. Saturday, I got a petition launched by Rob Hahn (a Texan, Houston, and a pretty smart guy) to change the location of the conference OUT of San Francisco’s Tenderloin to somewhere else: In comparison, 94% of São Paolo residents and 93% of people in Lisbon lived near frequent public transport.I was in San Francisco last week for Inman Real Estate Connect. While 87% of Melbourne’s population had access to any public transport, only 49% had access to stops with weekday services every 20 minutes – less than the average for cities in high-income countries, which was 55%. This compared with 97% of people in São Paulo, 96% in Hong Kong, 92% in Chennai and 87% in Mexico City.Īustralian cities also have poor access to public transport. Only 37% to 44% of the population in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide live in neighbourhoods with above-average walkability, a measure of how accessible amenities in a city are by walking. Older, more compact cities on the other hand had better walkability. The worst cities were in high-income car-centric cities developed last century. It found most Australians live in areas that do not meet density and walkability thresholds in line with World Health Organisation physical activity targets. Along with that, we’re becoming less healthy as we depend on cars and public transport instead of walking.Ī Lancet Global Health series analysed urban design, transport, and health outcomes for 25 cities in 19 countries, including Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. To confirm these suspicions and fears, Australian cities have been ranked among the worst performing on walkability and public transport access.
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