Twitter's Neighbor, the Tenderloin, Resists an Upgrade - KQED Newsroom

[@tondalayakapoofnick2681]

They never should have closed the mental health facilities.

[@Lizby109]

A working class neighborhood? it's a slum

[@myphonyaccount]

The bay is ringed with BART and Caltrain stations with nothing above them, just big flat parking lots at ground level. instead of dense, car-free high rises above each station for subsidized and market rate housing. That's how you absorb, contain and distribute demand/cost/price/traffic. And that unloads price and traffic pressures on homes further away for people who actually need backyards and 4 bedrooms.

[@briankelly85]

the tenderloin is the last stop for people before they die and go to hell...

[@rachaelday4709]

Only God can judge

[@tonejack1]

The tenderloin is hell.

[@boogiechillen123]

Theres also a lot of decent people in this area. The problem goes beyond San Francisco, to gov Jerry Brown allowing inmates to go home early due to prison over crowding. That directly impacts areas like the tenderloin. San Francisco is becoming like NYC, where there are no native people who's family has lived there for generations. They kicked the native families out of Hell's Kitchen, Lower East Side, and many parts of Brooklyn, all to make way for the privileged few, who are lucky enough to have wealthy parents who can give them a boost in life.

[@GABRIELADAWSON]

Sergio Aguirre GREAT Message there More People Need to Apply That To their Lives...One of the Main Reasons Why Most Poor People Fail To Plan And Plan To fail is Because they Really Believe That some God/Jesus/Devil or whatever other Deity they pray to is gonna solve everything when it won’t do shit..Never has,Never Will Most of them are just Delusional Retards.

[@michaelboccino5251]

I'm So Happy I Left ' My First Stop Was Turk St For My Drugs ' Onward to the Methadone Clinic ' & I Lived up on Polk ' It's A Sacuatuy City " I'm Back Home to Jersey City N.J ' All Clean '👍

[@davids2688]

i bet Jersey is thrilled to have you

[@GABRIELADAWSON]

michael boccino Yeah Jersey City is WAY better..Newark also looks like the Tenderloin.

[@ravigopinathan2835]

There is an element of segregation to the tenderloin, but not to the extent the republican media might want to believe. The author, Gary Kamiya was right, the non profits are part of the solution, and part of the problem. But what is an even bigger part of the problem is what the zoning policies of the entire west side of San Francisco, is doing to the housing supply. I admire the nonprofit owner, Shaw, because he is part of the solution of the housing crisis for which the zoning policies of the entire bay area are partly to blame. However the idea that the police are turning a blind eye to crime here, just serves to place the blame on someone. The video showed the policeman, who said that San Francisco doesn't criminalize homelessness. He said that if you're not used to seeing people who smell, who talk to themselves, or are poor, then you may not realize that homelessness isn't a crime here. But the police aren't turning a blind eye to crime. They have street patrols, for goodness sake. And they agree that the police and communities need to build better relationships, which is a fact that police departments too often ignore. If you don't think the police are doing enough here, then you don't know San Francisco police. They are some of the most hard working, least biased police you've ever met. I urge you to meet an SF cop, or just say hi. You will learn a lot.

[@kevenalvarado9192]

Full time job give u $1,600 and rent is $2,200 plus bills plus car plus inw plus cell plus gasoline plus food RENT IS TOOO HIGH

[@agentorange20]

Keven alvarado a full time job doing what pays 1,600? If that is your Kerr value you lack any skills in the first place.

[@dankadybong7948]

Keven alvarado . DA RENT BE 2 DAMN HI! NUGH!

[@sammyscotch9945]

@mmaaxx1198 You apparently dont live in the bay are. A 1-2 million dollar house there is a mere shelter.

[@sammyscotch9945]

@mmaaxx1198 so do I. Whats your point?

[@sammyscotch9945]

@mmaaxx1198 says the 24 year old who lives w mom and dad in San Mateo

[@binkyboo1964]

Its sad soooo many people in need asking for money in the streets. I give when i can an don't care what they do with the money.God bless us all

[@Kaerikillington]

People like you are a huge part of the problem. I love that you are a living Christian who cares about the betterment of their fellow man, but giving these people money instead of things like clothing and food is what keeps them on the street begging. You are funding their sleazy drug and alcohol soaked existence. Give an your prayers and good advice instead of money and non judgement. I know we shouldn't judge people but we shouldn't enable them to live in sin either.

[@binkyboo1964]

Hope u never need help with a few $$$$$

[@Darrylizer1]

The Tenderloin is disgusting. Needles on the street, saw a man beaten with a large pipe, and filled with the walking dead.

[@ladoblepp250]

I live here, and I see that things can change but we need people who really want to help us to get together and make it better for those who want it better for them self's.

[@HunterShows]

Thank god they can't tear it down for "upscale apartments." That crap is vile.

[@franciscocevallos5084]

The U.S.Government should give St.Anthony soup kitchen a regular monthly budget

[@peteradaniel]

The poor need to live somewhere. I'm sick off everything becoming so sanitised and corporate. Long live the Tenderloin, the final bastion of the Urban poor.

[@nat.serrano]

Alex Daniel Are you fucking kidding me? Tenderloin is freaking disgusting. you want long live to human feces, urine, drug addicts and needles?

[@nat.serrano]

Nplos Le not a bad idea

[@nat.serrano]

Cheap housing in Detroi

[@dirkadirkajihad9400]

Nat Serrano No, he just wants to sound edgy and virtuous while spouting nonsense. Didn't you know violent drug addicts are what gives a city character? Why are you so ungrateful towards those wonderful individuals making SF so hip and gritty? If you don't like smelling urine, seeing feces, and being "asked" for money by people carrying baseball bats, you're probably a greedy, soulless corporate type -- didn't you know?

[@SteveAyanami]

Yeah, until you step in human shit. 😉

[@russg1801]

Visited SF in 1979; the Tenderloin was earthy, even a bit seedy, but it didn't look HALF as bad as it does in this vid!

[@ynsgulley4544]

high class slum I'm from SF 23 yrs

[@diegofianza3525]

The city government’s “legalized” drug trade is at the heart of the Tenderloin’s chronic problem. Without weening drug addicts, Tenderloin/San Francisco represents modern day British Hong Kong when the Brits forced the Chinese into opium addiction.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Armpit? I think it's a bit lower on the body politic.

[@Rikkcas]

Anus is closer, bruh.

[@jimdandy1949]

If not in the tenderloin.than where

[@1234Molotov]

Poor and working class people need a place to live to be near the jobs. The yuppies can't have the whole city.

[@animeshdas9842]

1234Molotov money always wins. Always has, always will. People who can pay will always get whatever they want.

[@dankadybong7948]

Animesh Das . in some cities the situation is already such that the workers cant live close enough to the jobs, so the jobs go unfilled, then the neighbourhood degrages but magically as the area becomes a dangerous slum the rent prices only increase. lol

[@animeshdas9842]

Dankady Bong in that case the employers offer more money till someone accepts the offer. Now due to increased wages, cost of living goes up for the residents of the area. This continues till the residents make enough money that they can afford the area. Look at San Francisco, the blue collar worker cannot live within at least 1 hour of their place of work. But they still commute because the pay is high. This has caused an samdwich to cost $10 and coffee costs $5. But that costs is still ok for residents on the area because they make enough money.

[@dankadybong7948]

Animesh Das . imma sell muffugen sammiches in muffugen SF nugh in other comments it said 'pay for full time job $1600, rent $2200.'

[@dirkadirkajihad9400]

Liberal response to not being able to afford to live in a city: create massive government bureaucracies to interfere with the free market, confiscate people's money, transfer that money to other people, all the while keeping an area next to some of the most expensive, most desirable real estate in the world, dangerous and disgusting. Conservative response to not being able to afford to live in a city: move!

[@mickymantle3233]

When I was there in 2003 some guy went crazy at Turk & Market an shot four people dead near the Dalt Hotel. Nice holiday.

[@sammyscotch9945]

If it was a vacation wth were u doing in the tenderloin

[@jimdandy1949]

This is insane.some landlords want $8000 per month.for a two bedroom apartment.nothing fancy just an average looking apt.

[@shaduck007]

why are there street parties at 3AM

[@vincent7520]

Cat'n Jason Churness could teach a lot to his fellow cops in the country : "We don't criminalize homeless in San Francisco" Bravo !… Down with gentrification !!!… Keep the Tenderloin free from the Silicon Valley cockroaches i

[@nat.serrano]

vincent7520 for people like you the Tenderloin remAins the shit hole it is now

[@animeshdas9842]

Ha ha that's how losers talk.

[@acajudi100]

Build studio apartments for the homeless House the mentally ill. People should never live on the streets! The feces and urine are going up to everyone' nose.

[@plateshutoverlock]

"Museum of Depravity" Ooh, "museum", sounds classy!

[@gt9188]

Twitter should hire the homeless! Im sure that they are tech savvy!

[@jimbronaugh]

Poverty and despair are profit centers in most cities. Just as with drugs, which is a profit center for law enforcement and for the organizations that make money from the drugs because of their illegality, homelessness is a source of public and private financing and will become more so in the future.

[@vincent7520]

Basically wha teary CammYa says is : get the poor and those who support them out ("somewhere else") so that the the tenderloin could benefit from the Silicon Valley young and rich residents who embellish the houses and makes rents skyrocket with no consideration to the working poor in this town !!!…… I'sorry but I'm a French Tourist who has been travelling and staying in SF every other year or so since 1970, and let me tell you last time I was there I decided it would be final : SF has become a city of wealthy urbanites who imported a petty bourgeois selfish suburbanite culture in th e city making it a tourist attraction only and a city of geeks and bobos who have nothing to give but their business plans and marketing dream of making the world free through the iPhone … No interest in that. The Tenderloin should remain as it is.

[@Dan16673]

"public safety doesnt belong to the police"

[@teeniebeenie8774]

been here for 30 yrs seen no change weird.... why the cops no git em out right on geary/taylor???? tourists promise never to come bak sad

[@brijmsn]

There needs to be somewhere for the techies to go when their jobs become obsolete or if they burn down their house with all their electronics

[@petroldevo9934]

Wow. The tenderloin just went to shit... I got to visit there in the middle 80's and it sure didn't look like that.

[@franciscocevallos5084]

Please help Tenderloin residents St.Anthony of Padua,Mother Queen Mary,Lord Jesus Christ,Almighty God,amen

[@lisajensen9395]

"undesirable population" disgusting statment

[@agentorange20]

Lisa Jensen then go on down to the tenderloin and live there Lisa.

[@lisajensen9395]

Dankady Bong i live in the TL. have for 15 years.

[@lisajensen9395]

Dankady Bong why would you think i didn't

[@lisajensen9395]

I've llived in SF 40 years.

[@dankadybong7948]

Lisa Jensen . srsly doe... u dont think the homeless, junkies, gangstas, hookers, pimps and pushers are 'undesirable people'? are they desirable to u?

[@marqueemark5917]

What a wonderful Liberal City. You can really see that the Democrat leaders love their people in Calif

[@richardtknees]

As opposed to trailer park Southern cities packed with meth heads and junkies?

[@popinfresh]

We are still better off than the hillbillies in other states

[@rajuncajun1637]

Thank you Richard B!

[@marionwilson8141]

The tenderloin will change just like East Palo Alto

[@duanescot]

Is EPA still ghetto as fuck? I remember back in the early to mid 90's taking a wrong turn and ending up on the worst dead end street in EPA, forget the name, but it was sketchy AF, I'm assuming its all gentrified now?

[@fasteddie9055]

I m sad to see the present state of the Bay Area. It was a wonderful place , but I could always foresee an elitist mentality taking control. Let s get a Kennedy in office. Caroline and John are on line.

[@sammyscotch9945]

The tenderloin is not the whole sf bay area for gods sake

[@MultiSkyman1]

Ever see a street person who did not have a cigarette hanging out of their mouths??

[@christopherbedenbaugh797]

San Francisco is gross you couldn't pay me to live there

[@jimdandy1949]

Yes peoples should make a profit on there investment.but I can't believe want they want for rent.the word start with the letter G.

[@whitelightning7847]

Nicest hood I've seen doesn't look that bad come to the D and then talk even the cops are relaxed

[@gojmoik7685]

Simple Man yeah I truely the Ritz of all us hoods least raceist place.

[@roccogant4057]

The Lord is punishing la-la land for all it's deviant behavior.... the end is near....very near for la-la land ....

[@TheM2heavy]

$1,200.00 dollars a month gets you a new house in Orlando Florida you guy's in California really have it rough.

[@1986SSMONTECARLO]

In 10 Years the Tenderloin will be Nob Hill

[@TMan-xw1kn]

Been to sf. Cops. Don't care and don't do anything

[@Rikkcas]

Not of their own choice, my friend. City hall is weak. The powers that be are even worse. Cops do care.

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

Because your liberal laws put them back on the street before there done writing the report!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So tell me: Why the fuck should they care?

[@SteveAyanami]

You better not jaywalk though!

[@michaelboccino5251]

I Blame Nancy Pelosi Nephew Gavin Newsom "

[@sammyscotch9945]

Fu

[@phillipkalaveras1725]

THANK GOD FOR DONALD TRUMP OR THIS WOULD BE OUR COUNTRY

[@chiquies1000]

send them to alcatraz.

[@jd5179]

Ahhh Democrat paradise!