This article is adapted from the forthcoming book “City on the Edge: Technology, Politics and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco.”
In the fall of 2024, San Francisco was slowly emerging from a shocking pandemic-era decline.
Over the course of three decades, the jewel of a city on the edge of the continent, fabled birthplace of the counterculture, had transformed into the tech capital of the world — only to see the Covid pandemic abruptly destroy its vibrant downtown economy and threaten its future. The central city was all but overrun with homelessness and a deadly fentanyl epidemic; ...
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