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For years, San Francisco has experienced twin realities, with the immense wealth of Silicon Valley competing with the incredible despair of the city’s homeless population, now estimated to be around 7,700 people, many of whom are experiencing serious mental illness and drug addiction.

Many also live in public encampments, which court orders have made difficult to permanently remove, to city leaders’ endless frustration. A ready supply of cheap and powerful fentanyl has turned some downtown neighborhoods, especially the Tenderloin, into sites of almost unimaginable human suffering, with victims of addiction sprawled across sidewalks, shuddering in doorways — and sometimes dying from overdoses in open sight. And the shattered glass of broken-into cars has become a common sight, with critics alleging that lenient criminal justice policies have contributed to an epidemic of property crime.

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