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How San Francisco Fell
Homeless man Kevin Christopher Highfield, 39, tries to rest in a parking spot on on Larkin Street between McAllister and Fulton Streets in June 2019. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
And how it might rise again.
By Nellie Bowles
06.12.22 — California
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Hi from Nellie — I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend.

Common Sense is my home, but sometimes I moonlight (which hopefully brings in new subscribers!). This past week, I wrote a big story in the Atlantic about a topic we’ve covered here before and that Common Sense readers know well: The state of San Francisco.

It’s a hopeful story, in the end. Beca…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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