San Francisco's notorious taxpayer-funded open-air drugs market will close at the end of the year - after the facility that's said to have cost $19m in taxpayer cash treated just one in every 1,000 users and failed to cut fatal overdose numbers.The Linkage Center in the Tenderloin, at the heart of San Francisco's civic center, opened in January and was intended to help the city's large population of homeless people and drug addicts to find help.But critics say the site, rented at a cost of $75,000 a month, has failed to curtail the problem in the crime-ridden city, which recently recalled its woke DA Chesa Boudin amid a spike in crimes blamed for a sharp decline in locals' quality of life.
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