Ask HN: What would you do to turn around San Francisco?

[fapi1974]

I'm curious what the community thinks are best ways to fix the cities problems. For the sake of the exercise let's assume no new revenue.

[starbase]

Crowdsource crimefighting. $10k bounty per thief or drug dealer brought to police. $100k per violent criminal, dead or alive. Bounty is doubled for repeat offenders.

Advertise the bounty program in rural America. Trucks full of armed rednecks will arrive within a week and the criminal underclass will scurry like rats.

Funding comes from the city's billion-dollar-plus homeless benefits programs.

[catlover76]

None of us on here are well-versed in city government, the myriad laws that would apply at the state and federal levels, etc.

You might as well be asking a bunch of accountants how they would fix Toyota's competitiveness in the EV market or something.

[sgt]

There's really only one way. Get Arnold back somehow. I am not sure how, but put him in control of S.F and watch the city prosper again.

[allears]

Arnold was never mayor of SF. He was governor of California.

[hindsightbias]

As the policy appears to be die-them-out with 3/day OD rate downtown it should reolve itself in a few years.

And if enough techies leave the dystopian hellscape for better opportunities in Nashville that should free up enough SROs for the survivors.

[AnimalMuppet]

Step one: Reach a consensus on what the city's problems are.

Step two: Reach a consensus on what causes them.

The rest will follow from there.