Incidentally, we see a lot of bad/terrible news about SF on TV at times. I walked around over three miles with my wife and stepson yesterday down near the baseball stadium where he lives. The area is booming, many new buildings going up, new parks and an area with food trucks and games, it looks very nice. The sidewalks are clean and new, I saw one homeless tent over near the bay and a couple homeless folks on the walk. We ate dinner outside at a dumpling place (it was pretty good), weather was great.
Now, I now uptown in the Tenderloin district it's entirely a different story, but if the cameras only film there (which they do), one can get a very misguided notion about the entire city.