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Re:A Safer San Francisco by Uhhrrr on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:24PM (#29560796)
I lived in SOMA in the summer of '94, and it was pretty clean. The Tenderloin was bad, and the Lower Haight wasn't great, but neither of those places had tent cities and human poop.
Re:A Safer San Francisco by rectang on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @08:41PM (#29560973)
I worked in central SOMA from 1995-2002. In the 90s, the most prominent neighborhood fixture was the homeless shelter at 6th and Bryant, and there most certainly were homeless around there and human poop in the alleys along 6th, it was notoriously stanky. The northeast end of SOMA wasn't as ripe, though.

Things changed after the first DotCom boom and the advent of Pac Bell Park.