City's population decline

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From the SF Chronicle:

San Francisco, and the entire Bay Area, lost population during the second year of the pandemic, and California’s population continued to fall for the third year in a row, according to state estimates released Thursday.

San Francisco saw a drop of about 4,400 people, or 0.5% of its population, between July 2021 and July 2022, a smaller decline than the 3.7% population loss in the prior year.

The city’s population was an estimated 834,046 people as of July 2022, down from a pre-pandemic high of 889,783 people in January 2020. It was the lowest level since July 2012 as outmigration wiped out seven years of sustained growth fueled by a tech boom....