with no reliable way to get them all back, the city is spending $750,000 to hire people to pick up the needles. some 8,000 every month. >> tucker: it looks like a slum. bombay india doesn't look like that. so you think it would be affordable, but it's the opposite. average rent for an apartment in san francisco right now is about $4,000. the city works only for the extremely rich. the destitute, the billionaires and the vagrants. want to raise a family in the there's no place for them. city? good luck. san francisco now has more day care spaces for animals that it does for babies. it is literally a city without a future. it's people can't afford to reproduce. and san francisco isn't alone. the rest of california's single party cities are following suit. the homeless population in los angeles for example, is now bigger than any city in the entire state of vermont. it's filthy tent encampments are incubating diseases previously associated with war-torn countries. >> over time, squalor builds up