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During the first part of the pandemic, San Francisco County lost more than one in 20 residentsSan Francisco now has the fewest children per capita of any large American city, and a $117,400 salary counts as low-income for a family of four.I’d gotten used to the crime, rarely violent but often brazen; to leaving the car empty and the doors unlocked so thieves would at least quit breaking my windows.The budget to tackle homelessness and provide supportive housing has been growing exponentially for years.In 2021, the city announced that it would pour more than $1 billion into the issue over the next two years. But almost 8,000 people remain on the streets.Every tent costs taxpayers roughly $60,000 a year.The San Francisco Bay Area is 52 percent white, 6.7 percent Black, and 23.3 percent Asian.SF isn’t turning red on any electoral maps.The widest income disparities in the Bay Area are in San Francisco County, where the top 5% of households makes an average of $808,105 annually, compared with $16,184 for the lowes