San Franciscans won't forget 2022 anytime soon. These seven stories helped define the year that was in The City.
The City voted in three elections during the third year of a global pandemic, contending with inflation in a region in which the cost of living was already among the highest in the country. While residents endlessly debated San Francisco’s street conditions, some of its most vulnerable citizens felt the impact of a different epidemic harder than anywhere else, and others continued to shoulder heavy environmental burdens.But 2022 also offered tastes of pre-pandemic normalcy.
Asian-American voters emerged as a powerful bloc supporting both recalls, and Republican billionaire William Oberndorf provided the financial muscle. Moderate groups are already mobilizing for 2024, indicating that even as 2022 enters the rearview mirror, The City's emerging political divisions that defined the year are not.Cocaine buffets and meth poop: Meet Twitter’s rising anti-San Francisco influencers Going negative on S.F.
The City contended with multiple other public health crises in 2022. After the early-year omicron wave receded, San Francisco lifted its masking and coronavirus vaccination requirements for public spaces. Rather than bring back requirements at the end of this year amid a surge in COVID-19, flu and RSV infections, officials instead strongly recommended indoor masking and bivalent booster adoption.
Thousands of dead fish washed ashore across the Bay Area thanks to a harmful algal bloom, as drought continued to grip the region and wildfires burned across the state. Some of The City's poorest residents experienced especially harmful impacts. If San Francisco is not compliant, a"builder's remedy" will allow developers to entirely bypass local zoning and approval processes. Even if it is, new state laws passed this year are expected to greatly increase housing density, marking 2022 as a potential turning point in The City's ongoing housing shortage.
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