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San Francisco’s comeback is shadowed by a growing class divide
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San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has enjoyed a very happy honeymoon during his 18 months leading a city that not long ago was a much-mocked national symbol of urban dysfunction.
Lurie, an heir to Levi’s fortune with no previous political experience, has brought a little more order to downtown streets plagued by drug use and homelessness. He’s presided over an economic revival, driven by the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.
On Instagram, where the earnest and sometimes-wonky Lurie, 49, feels right at home, he’s constantly reminding his followers that whatever doom-and-gloom stories they might have heard, the glorious city of San Francisco is back. Elections this week brought more good news: his favored Board of Supervisors candidates cruised to easy victories.
Yet the mayor’s sky-high approval ratings are now being put to the test as a widening class divide, a yawning budget deficit, and an ongoing housing crisis undermine his centrist approach.
His ability to manage the city effectively over the next few years will have big implications for the troubled national Democratic Party, which San Francisco has done so much to shape.
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It will also test something more ineffable: whether San Francisco can retain its unique identity as a refuge for........