Fixing Our City
By San Francisco Chronicle
Like any big city, San Francisco has big problems. Rampant homelessness, an opioid epidemic, widening income equality and deep political divisions. What’s stopping the city from fixing itself? Where are the creative solutions? And what happens when one person’s solution is another’s root of the problem? Host Laura Wenus and producer Cintia Lopez are on a quest to find out, one San Francisco story at a time.
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SFNext: Fixing Our City is part of the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext project.
Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod.
Twitter: @sfnext
Got a tip, question, comment? Email us at [email protected]
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