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The Wealth Gap in San Francisco
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기사입력 : 2022.04.22 17:32
San Francisco is a world-famous tourist attraction and global leading start-up city. Countless people visit the city every year and Innovation is still taking place in Silicon Valley. Therefore, Housing prices record the highest in the United States and many economically affordable people live in this area.
But San Francisco, which appears to be a city of wealth and innovation, there is an ‘Inconvenient Truth’ hidden behind its splendor. It is a serious disparity between the rich and poor. Tents seen throughout City of San Francisco prove this fact. A number of tents are places where homeless people live and sleep. Many of them even exposed to drugs after losing their living space and economic will.
Excluding extreme cases such as tent residence, the population living in facilities below the minimum level is also significant. According to the British Daily Guardian, there are 15,000 households in San Francisco that do not have proper plumbingsystem, and the number of households below the average facility also increased by 12% compared to 2000. In short, the number of people who can use toilets with appropriate plumbing facilities decreased in 2022. This is a shocking reality happened in the world's leading IT city.
In fact, the gap between the rich and poor is not only a problem in San Francisco but also in theUnited States nationwide. Major metropolitan cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are facing similar situations. However, what is important is not competition or complacency between cities, but joint efforts to resolve the problem are being made. There is a personal wish that San Francisco, which leads the world’s IT technology, will also take the lead in efforts to move forward with marginalized people.
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