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good evening. welcome to "the whole story. conclusion i'm anderson cooper. tonight brings us to one of the most beautiful and progressive cities in america. a city known for its social activism as well as it wealth, particularly in the tech world. it's home to the highest number of billionaires per captain in the country. but it's san francisco, in steep decline because of homelessness and drug use. more people died from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic than from the virus itself. cnn's sara sidner heads to the bay area, a place she once called her home to show u...

♪ ♪ good evening. welcome to "the whole story." i'm anderson cooper. tonight brings us to one of the most beautiful and progressive cities in america. it's a city known as much for its social activism as it is for its wealth and innovation, particularly in the tech world. it's home to the highest number of billionaires per capita in the country. but it's also one of the least affordable places to live. it's san francisco. a city some say is in steep decline because of crime, homelessness and drug use. more people died from drug overdoses in this city during the covid pandemic t...

Association support cracking down on homeless people, and that if you make it uncomfortable for them they will simply disappear. >> reporter: jennifer friedenbach is the executive director of the coalition on homelessness. her group has repeatedly sued the city for things like homeless sweeps, destruction of unhoused people's property, and a lack of affordable housing. >> do you think that the perpetuating of the homeless issue and the drug issue is partly from the very people that say they're helping? >> and they would argue with me and they would treat me as if i was a part of the trump move...

>> from the 1990s until this day, mayor after mayor, the same tensions have played out for decades. like many cities, san francisco hasn't made much progress unreducing the numbers of destitutes. >> police clearing homeless people from one block, only to end up on another days, sometimes just hours later. >> salvation army. >> unhoused people refusing shelter or medical treatment and the city's inability to force anyone to accept help. >> there's people who truly don't believe that homelessness is solvable. and those people tend to really believe that people are choosing to be homeless, and th...

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