How the office crisis is gripping America’s inner cities

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Many office and retail spaces are empty.

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New York, San Francisco Full cafés, young people sitting at the tables on their laptops or deep in conversation, that was once the hallmark of San Francisco. Exchanging new ideas, meeting investors, networking was possible practically everywhere. But even three years after the lockdown, the tech metropolis has not recovered from the consequences of the pandemic. On the contrary, San Francisco is the “emptiest inner city in America”, attested by the “San Francisco Business Journal”. It is a title with far-reaching consequences.

Because the highly qualified tech workers can work from anywhere, a particularly large number of offices are empty here. There is little incentive to return to a desolate and overpriced San Francisco. As a result, crime has increased massively: the street scene is no longer characterized by programmers with Starbucks coffee, but by drug addicts and the homeless. Looting in supermarkets and drugstores is part of everyday life.

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