I was shocked and horrified by what she seemed to be suggesting. “It sounds like you’re worried that I’m going to write something that would cause violence against people who live on the street,” I said. “No,” she said. “It’s just the initial summary of ‘all the misery on the streets of San Francisco’ is aligned—gets used a lot. ‘And in such a progressive city.’ I don’t think even political consultants are trying to increase violence against those people who are unhoused. I don’t think that that’s anyone’s mission. But it is what happens.”50 But there is no evidence for what Kim claimed. In
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