- A video showing vacant retail stores in San Francisco has sparked debate online about why they have shut down.
- The video shot, taken in Union Square—a busy commercial hub in the city—showed vacant stores on either side of Powell Street with more empty businesses on the intersecting O’Farrel Street.
- In the video seen by Newsweek, the retail stores were either completely empty with no signage or they had “for lease” signs on the windows.
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Los Angeles, CA - September 23: A view of a homeless encampment on Skid Row on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. A federal appeals court on Thursday unanimously overturned a a judge's decision that would have required Los Angeles to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of skid row by October. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
