Editing Skid row (section)

=== San Francisco ===
{{Main article|Tenderloin, San Francisco}}
[[File:Tenderloin_Street_Chess,_SF,_CA,_jjron_26.03.2012.jpg|thumb|People playing chess by Market and Turk Streets.]]
The [[Tenderloin, San Francisco, California|Tenderloin]] neighborhood is a small, dense neighborhood near downtown [[San Francisco]]. In addition to its history and diverse and artistic community, there is significant [[poverty]], homelessness, and [[crime]].<ref name="city-journal">[http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless.html#sidebar The Sidewalks of San Francisco by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Autumn 2010]. City-journal.org (2010-10-14). Retrieved 2012-09-16.</ref>

It is known for its [[immigrant]] populations, [[single-room occupancy]] hotels, ethnic restaurants, bars and clubs, alternative arts scene, large homeless resident population, public transit and close proximity to Union Square, the [[Financial District, San Francisco, California|Financial District]], and [[Civic Center, San Francisco, California|Civic Center]].<ref name="city-journal" /> The 2000 census reported a population of 28,991 persons, with a population density of 44,408/mi<sup>2</sup> (17,146/km<sup>2</sup>), in the Tenderloin's 94102 Zip Code Tabulation Area, which also includes the nearby [[Hayes Valley]] neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |author=American FactFinder, United States Census Bureau |url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-context=gct&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=gct&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_US25&-tree_id=4001&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=85000US941&-format=ZI-1&-_lang=en |title=941 3-Digit ZCTA by 5-digit ZIP Code Tabulation Area – GCT-PH1. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2000 |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |access-date=2009-09-21 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200212034634/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-context=gct&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=gct&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_GCTPH1_US25&-tree_id=4001&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=85000US941&-format=ZI-1&-_lang=en |archive-date=2020-02-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During the 1960s, when development interests and the Redevelopment Agency were using eminent domain to clear out a large area populated by retired men in the South of Market area, that area was termed "Skid Row" in the media. The city's convention center was built after the clearing of long term low-income residents.<ref>Hartman, Chester. 1984. The Transformation of San Francisco. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.</ref><ref>Averbach, Alvin. 1973. "San Francisco's South of Market District, 1858–1958: The Emergence of a Skid Row." California Historical Quarterly 52(3):196223.</ref> The neighborhood continues to be a plight of drug-related use and crime and homelessness of San Francisco, along with nearby [[South of Market]], by Market and 6th and Market and 7th Streets. Tent cities were concentrated along Market Street in San Francisco, towards downtown, but are more scattered around the city as of November 2022.

16th Street and Mission to 24th Street and Mission also have a high visible prevalence of unhoused and open-air drug use and sales.