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"content": "\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin is drawing a line in the sand on his approach to homelessness versus that of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">his opponents running for mayor of San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin announced his plan, called From Crisis to Care, on Tuesday, taking a chance to criticize Mayor London Breed’s crackdown and promises from his opponents that their administrations will prioritize \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000606/scenes-from-san-franciscos-unhoused-encampment-sweeps\">clearing homeless encampments\u003c/a> after a Supreme Court ruling gave local governments expanded authority to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these sweeps are doing is moving homelessness from one neighborhood to another,” Peskin said. “These are not actual solutions; these are election-year gimmicks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said his plan would expand the shelter system so 2,000 fewer people have to sleep outside every night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest federal survey counted \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 8,000 people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> in San Francisco, but the city has fewer than 4,000 shelter beds to offer, and those are typically around 90% full. There were 198 people on the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s online waitlist for shelter on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin pointed to places like the now-full family homeless shelter at Buena Vista Horace Mann K–8 Community School as examples of the work he wants to uplift as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused man relocates his belongings to a new site in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Department of Public Works near Showplace Square in San Francisco on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a dire situation across the school district,” said Anabel Ibanez, a teacher at Buena Vista Horace Mann who helps oversee the homelessness program. “Currently, there is a waitlist in the stayover program that’s housed here at my school. In other words, a waitlist for basic security and dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s plan would use existing funding sources — a statewide mental health bond and a San Francisco tax to fund homeless services — to open new housing and treatment beds in reactivated state and county-run hospitals and treatment centers. He is also backing Proposition G on the November ballot, which would amend the city’s charter to use general funds to subsidize housing for extremely low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing evictions and keeping tenants in their homes is another pillar of the plan. Peskin said he would expand rent control to about 40% more San Francisco apartments that currently don’t have it, create a fund for emergency loans of up to $2,000 for people facing eviction, and expand other rent-relief programs for families facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not pie in the sky. And I am ready to implement it on day one to make significant progress on day one in the area of homelessness, which is the most important issue that San Francisco faces for both our housed residents and unhoused residents,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor Art Agnos endorsed Peskin’s plan on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_12000285 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/231017-LakeMercedRVs-019-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each mayor comes up with their own program depending on the politics of the times they are in office rather than what’s in the best interest of the homeless,” Agnos said. “This complicated, unpopular social challenge needs smart management with services aimed at strengthening our current system to honestly help people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s plan comes as San Francisco ramps up citations and sweeps of unhoused people who refuse to move from city streets. Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">promised the crackdown\u003c/a> after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that cities can remove tent encampments on sidewalks and other public places and force people to move even if there is no alternative place for them to go, like a temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently directed street crews that clear encampments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\">first offer people bus tickets home\u003c/a>, a resource the city has had since 2005 but recently began promoting again. Peskin said he would broaden that program, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed has also been working for years to open up places for unhoused people to go. Since 2018, when she entered office, San Francisco’s shelter slots have expanded by over 60% and housing for formerly homeless people has increased by more than 50%, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, without enough places for people to go, Peskin and advocates for unhoused residents say the recent crackdown has mostly amounted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000781/sf-encampment-crackdown-gets-tents-but-not-people-off-the-streets-neighbors-say\">moving people around from block to block\u003c/a> rather than helping people exit the streets for longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have received as a supervisor more complaints about homelessness in the last 10 days than I have in the last several years,” Peskin said, adding, “I have never gotten complaints about homelessness on Pacific and Leavenworth. I’m getting them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>With about 90 days until the November general election, KQED reporters are here to answer your questions about local, state and national races to get you ready for Election Day. Next Tuesday, Marisa Lagos will answer questions from readers about Vice President Kamala Harris, who officially became the Democratic presidential nominee this week. Sign up for KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/news-daily\">free News Daily email\u003c/a> so you don’t miss any answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for answers to your questions about the San Francisco mayoral race, or jump straight to:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#homelessness\">What can the San Francisco mayor do to actually help address homelessness?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#billionaires\">Which candidates are the tech billionaires bankrolling this election?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#public-comment\">What happened to remote public comment in Board of Supervisors meetings? Can a mayor bring that back?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"homelessness\">\u003c/a>What can the San Francisco mayor do to actually help address homelessness?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco mayor has the ability to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998045/what-powers-does-the-san-francisco-mayor-have-and-other-questions-about-the-election\">craft budgets, appoint department heads\u003c/a>, introduce or veto legislation, and issue emergency orders to more efficiently direct resources — all important tools for tackling homelessness, one of the most pressing and complex issues facing both the city and state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many factors can lead someone to become unhoused — such as an eviction or illness — and that means tackling the issue requires a wide variety of approaches, from prevention to street outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Mayor London Breed’s tenure, San Francisco’s temporary \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing; thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed has also directed city agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">clear tent encampments\u003c/a> from sidewalks and public spaces. According to the city’s own policies, crews are required to offer unhoused people shelter before forcing them to move, and if no one is present at the location, to “bag and tag” personal items so they can be picked up again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the city does not have enough shelter beds or housing slots for everyone who is experiencing homelessness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s opponents have suggested that the next mayor should do \u003cem>more\u003c/em> to reduce homelessness. Supervisor Ahsha Safaí has proposed changing how the city collects data on the unhoused population and expanding the city’s existing program for providing bus tickets out of the city for people living on the street who want them. (Breed also recently directed street crews to offer people bus tickets first before offering shelter or housing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor, has said he would order police crackdowns on homeless encampments and drug markets across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Lurie, meanwhile, has focused on the city’s need to create more shelter beds and housing to move people off of the street rather than “pushing encampments from one block to another.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin has taken a more prevention-focused approach than the other major candidates in the race, saying the city needs to keep more people housed by fighting evictions and increasing the number of rent-controlled units while also expanding housing and shelter options. Contrary to common narratives about unhoused people in San Francisco, about 71% of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco had been living in the city when they lost their housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">2022 federal homelessness data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"billionaires\">\u003c/a>Which candidates are the tech billionaires bankrolling this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be sure, tech billionaires in San Francisco are funding \u003cem>multiple\u003c/em> candidates and initiatives in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998411/heres-how-much-money-san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-have-raised-this-year\">San Francisco’s mayoral race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='san-francisco-mayor-election']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has received major support from billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, who has donated $200,000 to her reelection campaign, and crypto entrepreneur Chris Larsen, who has donated more than $400,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s courtship of the tech community is not new — for example, she opposed Proposition C in 2018, a ballot measure, approved by voters, that imposed a tax on businesses earning more than $50 million in total annual income, in order to fund homelessness services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s not alone in accepting donations from billionaires. Lurie, a nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir, received a $1 million campaign donation from his mother, Mimi Haas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But billionaires are also heavily influencing this race behind the scenes. For example, tech billionaire Michael Moritz has contributed heavily to TogetherSF Action, a moderate political advocacy group supporting a ballot initiative to overhaul the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992466/san-francisco-sees-competing-proposals-to-reform-byzantine-city-commissions\">commission system\u003c/a>. Farrell has recently come under scrutiny for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998411/heres-how-much-money-san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-have-raised-this-year\">allegedly funneling funds\u003c/a> through that initiative to his mayoral campaign. He has also received donations from billionaire Republican donor William Oberndorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"public-comment\">\u003c/a>What happened to remote public comment in SF Board of Supervisors meetings? Can a mayor bring that back?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, showing up in person to local government meetings was the primary way for residents to speak directly to elected officials on city issues. That shifted in 2020, during the pandemic when San Francisco and governments across the globe transitioned to online and call-in meetings. During that time, public comment in the city was entirely remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As vaccines became available and public meetings began happening in person again, San Francisco voted to keep remote public comment, instituting a hybrid system that allowed people to participate in person or call in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t last, however, after a number of city meetings were derailed by \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2023/09/27/racist-commenters-zoombombing-public-meetings-across-us-even-here-in-sf/\">callers spouting racist, antisemitic comments. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want the Board of Supervisors to be a form of hate speech,” Peskin said. “I don’t think these callers were from San Francisco, and it was abhorrent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors would have to approve bringing back the call-in option. Lurie said he would support doing so. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has received major support from billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, who has donated $200,000 to her reelection campaign, and crypto entrepreneur Chris Larsen, who has donated more than $400,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s courtship of the tech community is not new — for example, she opposed Proposition C in 2018, a ballot measure, approved by voters, that imposed a tax on businesses earning more than $50 million in total annual income, in order to fund homelessness services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s not alone in accepting donations from billionaires. Lurie, a nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir, received a $1 million campaign donation from his mother, Mimi Haas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But billionaires are also heavily influencing this race behind the scenes. For example, tech billionaire Michael Moritz has contributed heavily to TogetherSF Action, a moderate political advocacy group supporting a ballot initiative to overhaul the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992466/san-francisco-sees-competing-proposals-to-reform-byzantine-city-commissions\">commission system\u003c/a>. Farrell has recently come under scrutiny for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998411/heres-how-much-money-san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-have-raised-this-year\">allegedly funneling funds\u003c/a> through that initiative to his mayoral campaign. He has also received donations from billionaire Republican donor William Oberndorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"public-comment\">\u003c/a>What happened to remote public comment in SF Board of Supervisors meetings? Can a mayor bring that back?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, showing up in person to local government meetings was the primary way for residents to speak directly to elected officials on city issues. That shifted in 2020, during the pandemic when San Francisco and governments across the globe transitioned to online and call-in meetings. During that time, public comment in the city was entirely remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As vaccines became available and public meetings began happening in person again, San Francisco voted to keep remote public comment, instituting a hybrid system that allowed people to participate in person or call in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t last, however, after a number of city meetings were derailed by \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2023/09/27/racist-commenters-zoombombing-public-meetings-across-us-even-here-in-sf/\">callers spouting racist, antisemitic comments. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want the Board of Supervisors to be a form of hate speech,” Peskin said. “I don’t think these callers were from San Francisco, and it was abhorrent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors would have to approve bringing back the call-in option. Lurie said he would support doing so. Supervisor and mayoral candidate Ahsha Safaí said he would not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be time to reconsider having remote public comment again,” Peskin said. “We want as many people to participate in the democratic process as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Next Tuesday, Marisa Lagos will answer questions readers have about Vice President Kamala Harris. Subscribe to KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/news-daily\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>News Daily\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> to follow along. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facing a tough reelection this November, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s “tough-love” approach to homelessness in the city has become increasingly vitriolic — an approach some critics say could put actual lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">Breed vowed to begin “aggressively” removing people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> from encampments beginning in August. She told reporters, “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing. She continued, “We will be using law enforcement to cite, and those citations can get progressive and can lead to a misdemeanor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified rhetoric comes as voter polling \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/2022-bay-area-council-poll-voters-demand-get-tough-approach-on-homelessness/\">frequently shows homelessness is a top issue for San Franciscans\u003c/a> and as the incumbent seeks to overcome challengers’ accusations that she hasn’t done enough to clean the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order last month\u003c/a>, directing state agencies to clear encampments from state properties, along with a majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, which gave cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">fine or jail people for camping on sidewalks and in parks\u003c/a> — even if no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. Chan and others also urged the city to rapidly fill the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-tents-vacancy-sros-street-18348739.php\">hundreds of empty permanent supportive housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The irony of people who are denied housing but are offered jail on a daily basis is really concerning,” Chan said. “I think every San Franciscan should really take stock of this moment and push our city to use our resources much more wisely and much more humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facing a tough reelection this November, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s “tough-love” approach to homelessness in the city has become increasingly vitriolic — an approach some critics say could put actual lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">Breed vowed to begin “aggressively” removing people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> from encampments beginning in August. She told reporters, “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing. She continued, “We will be using law enforcement to cite, and those citations can get progressive and can lead to a misdemeanor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified rhetoric comes as voter polling \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/2022-bay-area-council-poll-voters-demand-get-tough-approach-on-homelessness/\">frequently shows homelessness is a top issue for San Franciscans\u003c/a> and as the incumbent seeks to overcome challengers’ accusations that she hasn’t done enough to clean the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order last month\u003c/a>, directing state agencies to clear encampments from state properties, along with a majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, which gave cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">fine or jail people for camping on sidewalks and in parks\u003c/a> — even if no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. 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His leading opponents in the mayoral race — incumbent Mayor London Breed, nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie, and former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell — have positioned themselves as moderates, with Supervisor Ahsha Safaí running slightly to the left of his fellow moderate opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Peskin secured a key endorsement from the city’s largest labor union, Service Employees International Union No. 1021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was his approach to working with our union on issues important to us, including housing and tenants rights,” said Ramsés Teón-Nichols, vice president of politics at SEIU 1021, on why the group endorsed Peskin. “Also, his record supporting social and economic justice values that align with ours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin told KQED he was “humbled” to have the support from the union, which represented nearly 16,000 San Francisco city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SEIU 1021 is a standard bearer for the labor movement, and their thousands of working members have informed a lot of my policies, from workforce housing to improving transit and public safety,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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That plan, announced Tuesday, would require corporate landlords to cap rent increases on existing units at 5% — or risk missing out on federal tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A federal rent cap reflects what we’re seeing across the country: increasingly, cities, counties and states are turning to rent stabilization — recognizing its centrality to addressing the housing crisis and keeping people in their homes,” Tram Hoang, senior housing associate at the Oakland-based national research institute, PolicyLink, said in a statement. “Communities are grappling with record-high rent gouging and urgently need more elected leaders to step up and make it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly half of renters nationwide in 2022 spent more than a third of their income on rent, according to data from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. However, the lack of affordable rental units has simultaneously worsened across the country. The shortage of affordable and available homes for renters with extremely low incomes increased from approximately 6.8 million units needed in 2019 to 7.3 million in 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://housingmatters.urban.org/research-summary/addressing-americas-affordable-housing-crisis\">data from the nonprofit research organization Urban Institute show\u003c/a>. Many households feel the pinch caused by a combination of inflation and the end of much pandemic-era rental relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Oakland renter Merika Goolsby has experienced the destabilizing effects of major rent hikes. When her two-year lease expired, she was given the choice of signing a one-year lease with an increase of $350 per month or paying month-to-month for an increase of $1,200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t work any more hours. I was panicking. I called the office and said there’s no way I can afford an additional $350,” said Goolsby, who is a member of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action, a statewide community organization that supports Peskin’s proposal. “I was told, ‘Maybe this isn’t the place for you; you should downsize.’ They weren’t willing to work with me at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden’s plan is already being met with pushback from groups including the National Housing Conference — a coalition representing a broad range of interest groups including realtors, land trusts and banks — who argue that mandatory rent caps could limit capital needed to build new units, discourage investment in multifamily rental housing, and hinder the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our nation’s housing supply has not kept pace with the needs of our growing population,” said David M. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin introduced an affordable housing program specifically for middle-income earners, as he campaigns in a competitive mayoral race where housing is a key issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affordable housing developers say they welcome any program that makes more funding available to build housing, but the program could make funding more complicated than needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do get frustrated at times because people bend themselves into pretzels instead of saying we need to build apartments,” Sam Moss, executive director of affordable housing developer Mission Housing, told KQED. “Middle-income housing exists — it’s called apartments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson from Peskin’s office said that while that might be true of one-bedroom apartments, family-sized rentals are still out of reach for most middle-income families, and therefore this program “is absolutely needed to deliver family-sized units” that are affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is special about Peskin’s idea?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Workforce Housing & Affordable Middle-Income (WHAMI) Act would use government-issued revenue bonds to build affordable housing specifically for people earning 80%–120% of the area median income (AMI). Think teachers, firefighters, service workers and others who might make too much to qualify for low-income housing but not enough to pay market-rate rent prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other bonds, revenue bonds don’t require voter approval. Instead, each project would have to make its way through city departments and eventually be approved by the Board of Supervisors to receive funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the mayor’s office, some programs already exist with funding for middle-income housing, including an affordable housing construction program for people earning 105% of the median area income. A notable example from the program is the Shirley Chisholm Village, a 135-unit workforce housing development set to open this fall in the Outer Sunset.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How would it be affordable?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s office says his program would cap rents at 15% below market rate and ensure that tenants eligible for the program earn no more than 120% of the median income annually. A spokesperson from his office asserted that the capped rents would “grow slower than market rate” while still covering bond repayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,902, \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?propertyTypes=apartment-condo&bedrooms=2\">according to real estate company Zillow\u003c/a>. 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Peskin’s plan promises to provide a 15% discount from market rates, in this case resulting in the family paying $3,317 per month, which would amount to just over a fifth of their monthly income. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics also point to a similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/schifrin/2021/12/02/california-scheming-municipal-bonds-workforce-housing-crisis-luxury-apartments/\">public-private\u003c/a> program that allowed developers to convert luxury apartments into government-owned middle-income housing. Instead, the developers made windfalls while local governments waived property taxes needed to fund schools and other public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Matt Schwartz, president and CEO of the nonprofit California Housing Partnership, said the program seems to have included all the guardrails the public-private program was missing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This innovative program appears to be a promising new tool to help San Francisco meet its goal of providing more affordable options for moderate income households in a responsible way that should add to the city’s affordable housing stock significantly over time,” Schwartz said in an email to KQED.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a spokesperson from Peskin’s office said they are working with the Controller’s Office of Public Finance to ensure “guardrails will appear in the regulations,” housing advocates worry it could be a repeat of past mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [Peskin] wants to deliver housing, let’s do it,” Moss said. “I just worry that, at the end of the day, this is an effort to say you’re pro-housing without saying you hate market-rate housing and that’s what led San Francisco to not build housing for decades.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunny Angulo, Peskin’s chief of staff, said she had spoken with affordable housing developers who said they lack financing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want developers to build more affordable housing,” she said in a statement to KQED. “We welcome any collaboration with any developer that is ready to be part of the solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include clarifications and a correction. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s first mayoral debate was — well, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990106/sf-mayor-candidates-speak-to-their-bases-and-no-one-else-at-1st-debate\">it certainly happened\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I took in Wednesday night’s political scuffle alongside a pack of journalists sitting in the nosebleed section of the Sydney Goldstein Theater. By the end, I had the distinct impression of not being distinctly impressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed, former Mayor Mark Farrell, Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí all argued their visions for San Francisco’s future. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989776/san-franciscos-first-mayoral-debate-is-here-the-stakes-are-high\">They sang the songs we’d heard before\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some new twists emerged. Here are a few from this reporter’s notebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farrell continues to push Breed’s messaging rightward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farrell is a Democrat who isn’t afraid to push San Francisco in a conservative direction, like bringing armed National Guard troops to patrol the Tenderloin to stem the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990166 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Mark Farrell speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Farrell, a Democrat, isn’t afraid to push San Francisco in a conservative direction and called harm reduction a failure on stage. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell called harm reduction a failure on stage. Harm reduction is an approach offering services to drug users even when they continue their habit. Farrell favors abstinence-only treatment. Harm reduction is considered a health-centric approach and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/the-administrations-strategy/the-biden-harris-administrations-first-year-drug-policy-priorities/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20240327_Political%20Breakdown&mc_key=11576065\">part of President Joe Biden’s drug policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed took the bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not just using harm reduction to help people with treatment,” she said. “We are using abstinence-based treatment, which was never a part of our public health response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peskin took a risk, leaning into progressive messaging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peskin wobbly walked a tightrope, offering solutions for the fentanyl and housing crises that may appeal to centrist Democrats while still keeping his core progressive base happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990162 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin speaks during the first San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Peskin aims to steer San Francisco back toward progressive values many believe it has abandoned. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his scorched-earth message at the end of the night was aimed squarely at the left, lighting up Farrell for benefiting from contributions from hard-right Republican William Oberndorf, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/William-Oberndorf-in-Boudin-recall-17059555.php\">who has donated millions to Republicans nationally\u003c/a> who favor abortion bans. Breed drew support for her ballot measures from “crypto kings and venture capitalists,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying in politics, ‘Follow the money,’” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farrell needs more gay friends\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Co-moderator Manny Yekutiel tossed a softball to the candidates: Name your favorite drag queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí, who answered first, said Honey Mahogany, who drew fame for her appearance on \u003cem>Ru Paul’s Drag Race \u003c/em>and her stint as San Francisco Democratic Party chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaybraham Lincoln (left) and Randy Green stand in the lobby as people stream into the Sydney Goldstein Theater for the San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to give the same answer, Honey Mahogany,” said Farrell, who spoke next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd howled. It certainly sounded like Farrell couldn’t think of another drag queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, at the first mayoral forum, Farrell declined to specifically name his top friends and advisors from the LGBTQ community. Seriously, someone take that man to \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/\">The Stud\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lurie’s performance was OK, but he needed a grand slam\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie, the former CEO of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit, is a relative unknown in city politics. He needed an explosive night to propel his campaign into the more heated months of the mayor’s race. He didn’t get that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990158 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during the San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. The Levi Strauss heir and former CEO of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit, is a relative unknown in city politics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates spent the night dunking on Lurie’s lack of government experience. Lurie also struggled to shed his rich guy persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name his favorite bar, Lurie answered \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-blue-light-san-francisco-2\">The Blue Light\u003c/a>, a Cow Hollow watering hole. No offense to The Blue Light, and no hate to Cow Hollow, where I grew up in a rent-controlled apartment. 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Along with the other candidates, Safaí shared his vision for the city’s future. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed portrays herself as a comeback kid celebrating a rejuvenated San Francisco. Farrell wants to be seen as a pragmatist who will save the city from wayward progressives. Lurie projects as a sensible outsider with CEO know-how. Peskin hopes to be the city’s personal Jiminy Cricket, steering San Francisco back toward progressive values many believe it has abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know Safaí’s elevator pitch. And after his debate performance, I’m not sure he knows it himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, during a heated back and forth between Heather Knight, a debate moderator and San Francisco bureau chief of \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Breed, Knight completely skipped over Safaí’s turn to answer a question — almost as if she forgot he was on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farrell continues to push Breed’s messaging rightward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farrell is a Democrat who isn’t afraid to push San Francisco in a conservative direction, like bringing armed National Guard troops to patrol the Tenderloin to stem the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990166 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-73-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Mark Farrell speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Farrell, a Democrat, isn’t afraid to push San Francisco in a conservative direction and called harm reduction a failure on stage. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell called harm reduction a failure on stage. Harm reduction is an approach offering services to drug users even when they continue their habit. Farrell favors abstinence-only treatment. Harm reduction is considered a health-centric approach and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/the-administrations-strategy/the-biden-harris-administrations-first-year-drug-policy-priorities/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=20240327_Political%20Breakdown&mc_key=11576065\">part of President Joe Biden’s drug policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed took the bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not just using harm reduction to help people with treatment,” she said. “We are using abstinence-based treatment, which was never a part of our public health response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Peskin took a risk, leaning into progressive messaging\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Peskin wobbly walked a tightrope, offering solutions for the fentanyl and housing crises that may appeal to centrist Democrats while still keeping his core progressive base happy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990162 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-77-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin speaks during the first San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Peskin aims to steer San Francisco back toward progressive values many believe it has abandoned. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But his scorched-earth message at the end of the night was aimed squarely at the left, lighting up Farrell for benefiting from contributions from hard-right Republican William Oberndorf, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/William-Oberndorf-in-Boudin-recall-17059555.php\">who has donated millions to Republicans nationally\u003c/a> who favor abortion bans. Breed drew support for her ballot measures from “crypto kings and venture capitalists,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an old saying in politics, ‘Follow the money,’” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Farrell needs more gay friends\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Co-moderator Manny Yekutiel tossed a softball to the candidates: Name your favorite drag queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safaí, who answered first, said Honey Mahogany, who drew fame for her appearance on \u003cem>Ru Paul’s Drag Race \u003c/em>and her stint as San Francisco Democratic Party chair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990157\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaybraham Lincoln (left) and Randy Green stand in the lobby as people stream into the Sydney Goldstein Theater for the San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to give the same answer, Honey Mahogany,” said Farrell, who spoke next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd howled. It certainly sounded like Farrell couldn’t think of another drag queen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, at the first mayoral forum, Farrell declined to specifically name his top friends and advisors from the LGBTQ community. Seriously, someone take that man to \u003ca href=\"https://www.studsf.com/\">The Stud\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lurie’s performance was OK, but he needed a grand slam\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie, the former CEO of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit, is a relative unknown in city politics. He needed an explosive night to propel his campaign into the more heated months of the mayor’s race. He didn’t get that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990158 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-43-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during the San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. The Levi Strauss heir and former CEO of Tipping Point, an anti-poverty nonprofit, is a relative unknown in city politics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates spent the night dunking on Lurie’s lack of government experience. Lurie also struggled to shed his rich guy persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to name his favorite bar, Lurie answered \u003ca href=\"https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-blue-light-san-francisco-2\">The Blue Light\u003c/a>, a Cow Hollow watering hole. No offense to The Blue Light, and no hate to Cow Hollow, where I grew up in a rent-controlled apartment. It’s one of the city’s wealthiest enclaves and doesn’t exactly radiate everyman vibes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Safaí struggled for recognition and to pick a lane\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most successful candidates craft identities you can describe in a sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990165\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11990165 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240612-SFMayoralDebate-82-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahsha Safaí speaks during the San Francisco mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Along with the other candidates, Safaí shared his vision for the city’s future. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed portrays herself as a comeback kid celebrating a rejuvenated San Francisco. Farrell wants to be seen as a pragmatist who will save the city from wayward progressives. Lurie projects as a sensible outsider with CEO know-how. Peskin hopes to be the city’s personal Jiminy Cricket, steering San Francisco back toward progressive values many believe it has abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t know Safaí’s elevator pitch. And after his debate performance, I’m not sure he knows it himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, during a heated back and forth between Heather Knight, a debate moderator and San Francisco bureau chief of \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Breed, Knight completely skipped over Safaí’s turn to answer a question — almost as if she forgot he was on stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Housing and homelessness. Mental health and fentanyl addiction. Public safety, public transit and police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first opportunity for San Franciscans to see mayoral candidates make their case to be the city’s next mayor on a shared stage was Wednesday night. Hosted by City Arts & Lectures at the Sydney Goldstein Theater, the debate sold out the 1,600-seat auditorium. The YouTube audience hovered around 1,200 for most of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between rattling off statistics, trading barbs and talking about their favorite burritos and drag queens, Mayor London Breed, former Mayor Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie and Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí argued their visions for San Francisco’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed painted a rosy picture of the city, claiming that crime is down, homeless encampments are disappearing and businesses will soon see tax relief. Peskin dug down on positions partial to progressive Democrats, like funding affordable housing and hiring more union city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie described the city as a haven of crime, drug use and homelessness. Safai, an underdog candidate who lags in fundraising, struggled to raise his profile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989776/san-franciscos-first-mayoral-debate-is-here-the-stakes-are-high\">stakes couldn’t be higher for San Francisco\u003c/a>, a city with seemingly intractable problems that have made national headlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her opening remarks, Breed said her opponents are tearing down San Francisco to win office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys have one thing in common — they want us to feel bad about San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990134\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990134\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2402\" height=\"1601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3.jpg 2402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2402px) 100vw, 2402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farrell drew first blood, rebutting Lurie’s critique of his record funding the San Francisco Police Department. Lurie, the Levi Strauss heir, said the late Mayor Ed Lee wanted $6 million for the police, money Farrell allegedly refused to allocate when he was on the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel, this is where your inexperience shows,” said Farrell, landing a zinger that caused a crowd eruption. “You have not been part of the budget committee in City Hall or mayor of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safai swiped at Lurie’s lack of government service. Lurie responded by echoing a line he has used on the campaign trail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to talk about experience all night long. They’ve got a combined 70 years of experience on this stage. Look where it’s gotten us,” he said as he spread his arms in exasperation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and Lurie struggled at times to offer solutions that differ from what current elected officials are already implementing. When the candidates were asked what they could do to revive downtown, Farrell said San Francisco should give tax incentives for businesses. Breed and Peskin teamed up to put forward a ballot measure in November that would exempt 2,500 businesses from some city taxes while lowering taxes for hotels and entertainment organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to be incredibly pro-active with our business community and bring them back to the downtown core,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate was moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times. Yekutiel told the audience “not to clap, sneer or jeer.” That didn’t stop the crowd from intermittently booing. The candidates were civil even as they criticized their opponents. The exchanges between the moderators and the candidates were much lighter, providing comic relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you a NIMBY?” Knight asked Peskin, using the acronym for Not in My Backyard, shorthand for homeowners who oppose housing construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said his policies led to more housing construction than any other candidate on stage. He critiqued Farrell, ticking off affordable housing projects Farrell opposed while he was a supervisor. In his retort, Farrell said that Peskin relies too much on voter-backed bonds to build affordable housing instead of the free market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight also drew laughs after forgetting to ask Safai a question she asked the other candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990133\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/SFMAYOR@-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People fill the sidewalk in front of the Sydney Goldstein Theater before a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed seemed taken off guard when Yekutiel asked what she had done to solve \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988252/sf-bribery-scandal-could-see-fishermans-wharf-restaurant-forced-out\">corruption\u003c/a> in her administration. Breed said she had not hired any of the people who were ensnared in the corruption scandal, omitting that former San Francisco Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">Harlan Kelly\u003c/a>, the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, were close allies. Both were found guilty of taking bribes and sentenced to prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As mayor, I’ve had to oversee the biggest corruption cleanup in city history,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Knight, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Live-updates-from-TotalMuni2018-12873525.php\">rode every bus, train, cable car and street car in the city in one day\u003c/a> during her time as a San Francisco Chronicle columnist, pressed the candidates on their solutions to save BART and Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin touted his tax on Uber, Lyft and similar companies to help fund the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and said pedestrian safety should be a priority. Lurie said it was important to make sure Muni is safe, noting that many Asian seniors are afraid to ride after some have been physically assaulted and endured racist slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said Muni needs to focus on its existing operations, not expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe strongly in our city’s transit-first policy,” said Farrell, who wants the cars that were banned in favor of transit and pedestrian safety back on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When was the last time you rode a bike or Muni bus in San Francisco?” Knight asked Farrell. When he said he rode a bus just a few weeks ago, she requested the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The 1-California,” Farrell said, almost triumphantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approaches to homelessness by Lurie and Peskin represent a fundamental difference in views: Lurie’s solution assumes unhoused people flock to San Francisco for services, while Peskin’s asserts people who fall behind on rent are vulnerable to becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to send the message to the country, to the world: You do not come to San Francisco to do drugs, to deal drugs or to sleep on our streets,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin noted that 69 percent of people who are homeless lived in San Francisco before they were homeless, adding that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986991/peskin-ballot-measure-aims-to-pay-rent-for-thousands-of-low-income-households-in-sf\">rent assistance\u003c/a> can be a powerful tool to prevent homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will make it my mission to prevent more homelessness before it happens,” Peskin said. “Every family we save from eviction is one less person living on our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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When the candidates were asked what they could do to revive downtown, Farrell said San Francisco should give tax incentives for businesses. Breed and Peskin teamed up to put forward a ballot measure in November that would exempt 2,500 businesses from some city taxes while lowering taxes for hotels and entertainment organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to be incredibly pro-active with our business community and bring them back to the downtown core,” Farrell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate was moderated by Manny Yekutiel, proprietor of the event space Manny’s and Heather Knight, San Francisco bureau chief of The New York Times. Yekutiel told the audience “not to clap, sneer or jeer.” That didn’t stop the crowd from intermittently booing. The candidates were civil even as they criticized their opponents. 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