This is a politicized article and doesn't belong on hacker news. As someone who used to live in the bay area but no longer does, I can't help but think a lot of the people there have some major issues where they take every normal thing that other cities do to keep quality of life high and berate any attempts to do the same in the bay area as if every decision made for public health, safety and overall cleanliness of an urban area has to be optimized for the homeless and drug addicts. It's honestly pretty strange and seems sick to me.