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    All is lost in San Francisco? City loyalists take issue with naysayers. Data may back them up

    by Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times Jan 17, 2024 5 minutes
    Traffic streams along Market Street in downtown San Francisco near the Ferry Building and Embarcadero. Steeped in history, culture and financial and natural wealth, San Francisco attracts millions of visitors annually. However, the city by the bay now has a dubious reputation for intractable homelessness, rampant crime and an exodus of business.

    SAN FRANCISCO — Far from the palm trees of Miami or Austin's taco trucks, Catalin Voss has headquartered his literacy start-up between a cannabis club and pawn shop in the heart of the Mission District.

    Voss rents a nondescript office building in one of San Francisco's most vibrant neighborhoods as a home base for Ello, a company he co-founded in 2020 that uses speech recognition technology, powered by artificial intelligence, to help struggling students develop their reading skills. The office is within walking distance of his Noe Valley apartment and only steps away from some of the city's best taquerias and cocktail bars. And those are just a few of the perks he recited in explaining why he is headquartered in San Francisco.

    Doom loop be damned.

    Voss is part of a sizable cohort of San Francisco loyalists — old and new — who say

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