Contradictions and Policy in San Francisco

Many San Franciscans express deeply contradictory views about their city, sometimes in the same conversation.

The notion that San Francisco is a city of extremes and contradictions is something of a cliché by now, but there is a substantial amount of truth to it. The most obvious extremes in the city are extremes of wealth, which are particulalry apparent because San Francisco is such a densely populated city.

In San Francisco people who are comfortably ensconc…