{"product_id":"9780063249868","title":"San Fransicko : Why Progressives Ruin Cities","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSan Fransicko\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Michael Shellenberger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProgressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at the problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat he discovered shocked him. The problems had grown worse not despite but because of progressive policies. San Francisco and other West Coast cities — Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland — had gone beyond merely tolerating homelessness, drug dealing, and crime to actively enabling them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSan Fransicko\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that the underlying problem isn’t a lack of housing or money for social programs. The real problem is an ideology that designates some people, by identity or experience, as victims entitled to destructive behaviors. The result is an undermining of the values that make cities, and civilization itself, possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eSan Fransicko\u003c\/em\u003e is outstanding. Michael Shellenberger pries loose the truth about homelessness and housing in America in this myth-shattering book — and proposes tested, humane alternatives that work.”\u003cbr\u003e\"San Fransicko is a lucid lesson in how self-serving ideological fads yank progressivism into a ditch, creating misery in the name of enlightenment. Shellenberger shows us one of the keys to running a city: knowing the difference between virtue signaling and getting results.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Civilized urban life is a precious accomplishment — difficult to achieve and easy to squander. In this humane and reasoned book, Michael Shellenberger diagnoses the mistakes progressives made and maps out a practical, evidence-based path to improvement.” \u003cbr\u003e\"In his compassionate, pragmatic, and truly indispensable book, Michael Shellenberger takes on the devastation of the urban environment. The sprawl of chaotic tent encampments populated by psychotic and addicted people is a daunting problem — one that too many progressive authorities don’t know how to solve. Or, worse, don’t really want to. Shellenberger lays out a humane blueprint to help the suffering, revive the cities, and restore civic order.”\u003cbr\u003e“In this compelling and well-written book, Shellenberger challenges many long-held shibboleths about how we think about cities and social policy. Required reading for us liberals as we try to reimagine what cities should do, look like and whose interests they should serve.”\u003cbr\u003e“What explains the shocking breakdown of public order in many of America’s leading cities? Michael Shellenberger, with the erudition and iconoclasm he is known for, shows how catastrophe can result when good intentions are combined with bad ideas. \u003cem\u003eSan Fransicko \u003c\/em\u003eis devastating.”\u003cbr\u003e“San Fransicko peels back layers of “progressive” rhetoric with peer reviewed science and data to show that the vast majority of California’s unsheltered residents suffer from drug and alcohol addiction, and complex medical conditions, that cannot be solved by a key to a hotel room or higher cash stipends. Fierce bullies who make a living “protecting” the homeless status quo are the villains of this catastrophe, enabled by the feckless electeds and hippie nostalgia of Baby Boomers. Enough.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780063249868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41153820229838,"sku":"9780063249868","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780063249868","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}