San Franciscos Homeless Crisis

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 11:28 a.m.

Heather Mac Donald\xa0joins\xa0Seth Barron\xa0to discuss homelessness on the streets of San Francisco and the city\u2019s wrongheaded attempts to solve the problem.

"San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior,"\xa0writes\xa0Mac Donald in\xa0City Journal. For nearly three decades, the Bay Area has been a magnet for the homeless. Now the situation is growing dire, as residents and visitors experience near-daily contact with mentally disturbed persons.

Mac Donald's essay, "San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless," appears in\xa0City Journal's\xa0Autumn 2019 issue; an adapted version was published in the\xa0Wall Street Journal.