The letter complained of dirty streets, threatening street behavior and public defecation and said that if the situation didn't improve, "your city will see that citywide conventions will not rebook San Francisco and will choose other cleaner and safer West Coast destinations."
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Clean-up-San-Francisco-s-streets-tourist-12839281.php
 | www.sfchronicle.com As president of S.F. Travel, the city's visitors bureau, Joe D'Alessandro's job is to promote San Francisco. You'd think he'd be hyping the city's gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums. Instead, he's getting honest. Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D'Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over. People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft. "The streets are filthy. | |
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