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It ultimately failed to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon did not comment for the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there have been concerns about the proposal from a wider group of business stakeholders and grocery retailers, not only Amazon, said David Harrison, director of public policy for the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.[aside postID=news_12087737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260616-SFAffordableGroceries-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“We have not seen evidence that we believe the tax component is going to support the stated goal of reopening more pharmacies and groceries stores, and we don’t necessarily see that the revenue will be substantial enough to meet those stated goals either,” Harrison said. “We have concerns about the reputational impacts of the city for the tax component also… We don’t think it’s ready for prime time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closure of grocery stores and pharmacies has factored into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/affordability\">affordability challenges\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a third of San Franciscans living below the poverty line are food insecure, according to a 2024 report by the city’s Food Security Task Force, and nearly 110,000 residents utilize CalFresh, a food benefits program that the Trump administration has made qualifying for more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie has said Mahmood’s plan won’t help fill the city’s many empty grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie is working to bring grocery stores to San Francisco’s communities. 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Earlier this year, 127 workers received pink slips, and others were notified about changes to their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final add-back, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reverse layoffs for workers at the 311 call center, Laguna Honda Hospital, and the Human Services Agency, according to the office of Supervisor Connie Chan, who chairs the budget committee.[aside postID=news_12088662 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260624-ShipyardCleanupRally-10-BL-KQED.jpg']“This budget represents a remarkable victory for every single San Francisco resident,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, coordinator for the San Francisco People’s Budget Coalition, a group representing unions, social services advocates and other community groups protesting the proposed cuts. “It shows that public pressure works. Showing up works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is set to go before the full Board of Supervisors on July 21. Few changes are expected for the final budget vote next month following Thursday’s agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past 4 fiscal years, my work as budget chair has been centered on reducing wasteful spending, creating guardrails against corruption, saving for the future by putting reasonable dollars on reserve, reversing cuts for the most vulnerable San Franciscans and saving essential city jobs and services,” Chan, who has served as budget chair since 2023, said in a statement. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to preserve the city’s law enforcement spending and boost benefits programs as departments across the city face cuts to close the city’s multimillion-dollar budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lurie released his anticipated \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/FY2027__FY2028_-_MAYORS_PROPOSED_INTERIM_AAO.pdf\">$16.9 billion budget proposal\u003c/a> for the next two fiscal years. It reduces the city’s more than $600 million projected budget shortfall by $300 million through a combination of department reorganizations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075213/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-looks-to-eliminate-500-city-jobs\">eliminating positions\u003c/a> and other spending reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan has sparked pushback from some worker advocates, who say the cuts will harm residents. 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And when the federal government cuts funding, those costs fall to the city of San Francisco — unless we help people keep the benefits they need,” Lurie said. “This budget strengthens the work happening right here, using funding from the emergency reserve we set up last year to respond to sweeping federal cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for city workers and services impacted by proposed cuts say Lurie’s administration should focus on raising more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The underlying concern here is the strategy of making cuts to get us out of this deficit instead of raising revenue. And it’s just utterly concerning that they’re sticking to this no matter what,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of nonprofit organizations, unions and community advocates working to shape the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling for the passage of the Overpaid CEO Tax, or Proposition D, which is on the June primary ballot. The proposition would increase taxes on the city’s largest corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has come out against Proposition D and its opposing measure, Proposition C, saying that the city needs to focus on attracting more companies and their tax dollars to the city. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While most departments are expected to be impacted by budget cuts, the mayor is proposing injecting more funding into programs that enroll residents in public benefits programs like CalFresh and Medi-Cal, which have been targeted for cuts by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, the city’s Human Services Agency would receive $34 million to hire more caseworkers in preparation for changes to benefits enrollments and work requirements implemented at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When people lose healthcare coverage, they turn to our public hospitals. And when the federal government cuts funding, those costs fall to the city of San Francisco — unless we help people keep the benefits they need,” Lurie said. “This budget strengthens the work happening right here, using funding from the emergency reserve we set up last year to respond to sweeping federal cuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for city workers and services impacted by proposed cuts say Lurie’s administration should focus on raising more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The underlying concern here is the strategy of making cuts to get us out of this deficit instead of raising revenue. And it’s just utterly concerning that they’re sticking to this no matter what,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of nonprofit organizations, unions and community advocates working to shape the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is calling for the passage of the Overpaid CEO Tax, or Proposition D, which is on the June primary ballot. The proposition would increase taxes on the city’s largest corporations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has come out against Proposition D and its opposing measure, Proposition C, saying that the city needs to focus on attracting more companies and their tax dollars to the city. If Proposition D does pass, it would raise the tax rate for certain businesses beginning in 2027, after the current budget is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/250418-SFPDFile-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department headquarters in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to the city’s Human Services Agency, law enforcement also saw a boost in the mayor’s budget proposal, with $20 million earmarked for public safety equipment like a new fleet of police cars and fire trucks, along with a 14% pay increase over four years for both police officers and firefighters. It also includes $1.9 million to coordinate the city’s street violence reduction program, as well as targeted funds for the city’s new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081889/not-a-jail-not-an-emergency-room-what-is-daniel-luries-new-reset-center\">RESET Center\u003c/a>, a police-run sobering center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie also wants to invest $71 million in street resurfacing projects to fill potholes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On housing, the mayor’s plan puts $120 million toward \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081593/homeless-funding-plan-raises-concerns-as-san-francisco-looks-to-narrow-budget-deficit\">homelessness prevention\u003c/a> and legal services for families at risk of losing their housing and directs $90 million to shelter and other temporary housing, including some specifically for families, which saw the largest increase in homelessness in the city’s latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083310/fewer-people-are-sleeping-on-san-francisco-streets-but-family-homelessness-is-up\">federal survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups following the mayor’s budget process closely expressed relief that the proposal did not come with a bloodbath of layoffs. 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"content": "\u003cp>The staffers who run \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s city-owned art galleries and grant programs for artists say they’ve been thrown into chaos as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/budget-cuts\">budget cuts\u003c/a> hit the Arts Commission while it is already navigating major restructuring and a broader shift toward privatizing arts funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco faces a nearly $600 million budget deficit over the next two years, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is asking departments across the city to reduce personnel spending in part by laying off hundreds of workers. One of those layoffs has targeted the San Francisco Arts Commission, the city’s agency charged with championing the arts, and other workers have been asked to move departments. The way those changes have been communicated has resulted in even more frustration and confusion for staff at the small city agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jen Atwood, a program manager with the commission, received notice May 1 that she had been laid off after more than two years of overseeing grant-making programs. But it turned out that Atwood’s role was not going away. Instead, it had been offered to a more senior employee whose position will be eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very confusing for me. I’ve never gone through anything like this before,” Atwood said. “I take a lot of pride in my work, and that pride is a little hurt right now because, I mean, I really busted my ass for the commission, especially that week I received notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maysoun Wazwaz is the manager of exhibition and public programs with the commission’s galleries program and has worked for the city for nearly a decade. She also received a layoff notice just weeks ago and was told her position would be eliminated. But her layoff was later “rescinded,” she said, and the department offered to reassign her to another program within the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come even as the mayor has repeatedly said the arts are critical to the city’s recovery, and promoted free concerts around the city with the help of philanthropic dollars and private funding through groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081975/the-civic-joy-fund-promises-to-help-revitalize-san-francisco-some-artists-want-no-part-in-it\">Civic Joy Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco is preparing for a new exhibit on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s arts and culture ecosystem is the most vibrant in the country, and under my administration, we are working to do a better job supporting the artists and arts organizations who are driving our city’s economic recovery,” Lurie said in a statement on Wednesday, announcing two new arts grants. “In a moment when it’s more difficult than ever for our small arts organizations to thrive, we are stepping in to support our community groups and add two more grant opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team overseeing public galleries that Wazwaz was part of has been reduced by half. Even before these cuts, the San Francisco\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13984752/jack-fischer-gallery-closing-minnesota-street-project\"> arts landscape had been struggling\u003c/a>. Both nonprofit and commercial art spaces in the city have closed over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep hearing how this mayor is an arts and culture mayor, and it just feels like someone who doesn’t know what we do well enough to be able to make a measured decision about where a cut can happen without impacting the core mission of the agency,” Wazwaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the layoff notices, Wazwaz and other staff were screened and asked to report their qualifications for their position and other roles they could potentially be moved into if their current roles were cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12083587 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maysoun Wazwaz, whose position with the San Francisco Arts Commission was recently eliminated, in San Francisco, on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are stressed out, and that obviously has an impact on the work that they’re doing,” Wazwaz said. “In inconveniencing people to ask for proof of experience, it just feels very disrespectful and really chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, sometimes called “bumping,” is intended to give employees with more public service experience more job security during budget deficit years like this one, and it is playing out across city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood and Wazwaz support the seniority protections, but said the process has felt like a game of musical chairs, sending staff into a frenzy about which positions could be cut next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels icky,” said Atwood, who has been offered a lower-paying position at City College that she’s still considering whether to take. “We’re being pitted against each other for the position in a way.”[aside postID=news_12079126 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-18-BL_qed.jpg']The mayor has stressed that the city must make difficult decisions to get on a stronger financial footing. The city has already issued 127 layoffs, and a total of 500 are expected to be cut around $100 million in personnel spending. Other departments, like public health, have seen several positions completely cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the budget cuts at the Arts Commission also come during a time of dramatic change at the agency overall. This year, the city moved to merge the Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, and the Film Commission into a single agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I recognize how challenging this news is. Those impacted have made meaningful contributions to our work and mission in championing and supporting the arts,” Ralph Remington, Director of Cultural Affairs, wrote in an email to staff at the Arts Commission about the layoffs. “As the budget process continues over the coming months, it is possible that additional cuts and changes may be required before the final budget is adopted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remington \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13986140/ralph-remington-director-of-cultural-affairs-retirement\">announced his retirement in February\u003c/a> and has since been serving in an advisory role. The city recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13988903/san-francisco-appoints-matthew-goudeau-to-top-arts-job\">tapped Matthew Goudeau\u003c/a> to serve as the city’s first executive director of arts and culture, steering the new superagency formed by the three merged arts agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood said there’s been a leadership vacuum in the arts during the budget process at a time of shifting priorities and a changing strategic approach to public arts in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leadership being absent and still taking a salary, and then having these layoffs take place, it’s especially demoralizing and frustrating,” Atwood said. “My worry with the merger and these layoffs is that it’s going to dilute this core focus on funding projects and organizations that represent the city’s diversity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083531\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry to the San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackie von Treskow, another arts agency staff member and shop steward for the local union, said the anxiety she’s heard from staff stemmed from the city’s handling of layoffs, not the bumping process itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The union’s position is that the notices as issued bypassed the verification process required before anyone can be noticed, seniority wasn’t properly reviewed, and funding insufficiency wasn’t demonstrated as required under civil service rules,” she said. “The bumping that displaced one colleague from her position isn’t an abstract labor technicality. It’s the human cost of a process that wasn’t followed correctly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials for the Arts Commission said they could not comment on specific staffing changes or individual personnel cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Arts Commission remains committed to supporting artists, cultural organizations and creative workers across San Francisco,” said Edward Tom, spokesperson for the Arts Commission. “We also value the dedication and service of the employees who help carry out that mission every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With budget negotiations still underway, von Treskow said she hopes the city will invest more public dollars in the arts through ways like tapping into reserves. Lurie’s budget proposal is due June 1.\u003cbr>\n“The layoffs and the merger make a lot more sense when you look at them alongside the administration’s broader approach to funding public services,” she said, “which is increasingly turning to private philanthropy to fill the void that public disinvestment creates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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But her layoff was later “rescinded,” she said, and the department offered to reassign her to another program within the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts come even as the mayor has repeatedly said the arts are critical to the city’s recovery, and promoted free concerts around the city with the help of philanthropic dollars and private funding through groups like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081975/the-civic-joy-fund-promises-to-help-revitalize-san-francisco-some-artists-want-no-part-in-it\">Civic Joy Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083530\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12083530\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-08-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Arts Commission gallery in the War Memorial Building in San Francisco is preparing for a new exhibit on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s arts and culture ecosystem is the most vibrant in the country, and under my administration, we are working to do a better job supporting the artists and arts organizations who are driving our city’s economic recovery,” Lurie said in a statement on Wednesday, announcing two new arts grants. “In a moment when it’s more difficult than ever for our small arts organizations to thrive, we are stepping in to support our community groups and add two more grant opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team overseeing public galleries that Wazwaz was part of has been reduced by half. 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Both nonprofit and commercial art spaces in the city have closed over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We keep hearing how this mayor is an arts and culture mayor, and it just feels like someone who doesn’t know what we do well enough to be able to make a measured decision about where a cut can happen without impacting the core mission of the agency,” Wazwaz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the layoff notices, Wazwaz and other staff were screened and asked to report their qualifications for their position and other roles they could potentially be moved into if their current roles were cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12083587\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12083587 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/260513-SF-ARTS-LAYOFFS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maysoun Wazwaz, whose position with the San Francisco Arts Commission was recently eliminated, in San Francisco, on May 13, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People are stressed out, and that obviously has an impact on the work that they’re doing,” Wazwaz said. “In inconveniencing people to ask for proof of experience, it just feels very disrespectful and really chaotic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process, sometimes called “bumping,” is intended to give employees with more public service experience more job security during budget deficit years like this one, and it is playing out across city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atwood and Wazwaz support the seniority protections, but said the process has felt like a game of musical chairs, sending staff into a frenzy about which positions could be cut next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels icky,” said Atwood, who has been offered a lower-paying position at City College that she’s still considering whether to take. “We’re being pitted against each other for the position in a way.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The number of people sleeping outside on San Francisco’s sidewalks is plummeting, but families continue to struggle to find affordable, stable housing amid rising rents and a skyrocketing cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/2026-point-in-time-count-preliminary-results\">preliminary data\u003c/a> from this year’s Point in Time (PIT) Count, a federal survey of the city’s homeless residents conducted in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It found that there were 1,000 fewer unsheltered people compared to the 2024 survey, marking a 22% decrease and the lowest recorded level since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More people are coming inside to get shelter and treatment, and we are moving in the right direction,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said during a press conference on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie campaigned on addressing street homelessness and outdoor drug use in the lead-up to his 2024 election as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has made a number of changes to its approach to both issues since he stepped into office in January 2025, including opening a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">crisis stabilization center\u003c/a> at 822 Geary St. and, most recently, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12081889/not-a-jail-not-an-emergency-room-what-is-daniel-luries-new-reset-center\">the RESET Center\u003c/a>, a controversial sobering center and jail alternative where police bring people using drugs outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Homeless Population\" aria-label=\"Line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Yvyf5\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Yvyf5/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"500\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When more than 800 people died of overdose in 2023, how could we expect San Franciscans or anyone else, for that matter, to feel like we were at our best as a city,” Lurie said at the press conference outside of Hope House, a recovery-focused transitional housing site. “I thought we had lost our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the city saw a 4% decline in all homelessness in the latest count, dropping from 8,323 to 7,973 people since 2024, according to the PIT data.[aside postID=news_12081889 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_018-KQED.jpg']The tally, which takes place every two years, sends surveyors out to scan the city block by block in a single day to count the number of people who are homeless both outside, including in cars and tents, and in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is widely considered an imperfect measure, but a valuable tool in measuring broad changes in the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the encouraging overall decrease, this year’s PIT Count found a 15% increase since 2024 in families experiencing homelessness. Many live in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finding comes as rent prices and evictions in San Francisco have increased. Kunal Modi, the mayor’s homelessness chief, pointed to the city’s rising cost of living as a key reason families are struggling to stay housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everything from the availability of affordable housing to the cost of everyday living, whether it’s gas or groceries or rising rents,” Modi said. “The homeless response system sits alongside other work around family zoning or efforts to keep people enrolled in their benefits… and we’re going to think about all of these elements working together to keep families housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration has focused on clearing RVs as part of its overall approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, in San Francisco, addressing the San Francisco Unified School District’s newly reached agreement with the teachers’ union. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October 2025, permits were issued to large vehicles and RVs to avoid towing and citations as the city worked to move families and individuals living in campers into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 132 households have moved from their vehicles to housing, and the city has cited nearly 800 large vehicles and towed 240 since the start of the program, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mayor-lurie-still-popular-poll-120000359.html?guccounter=1\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll,\u003c/a> has a whopping 74% approval rating among the more than 1,000 registered voters surveyed, said the bump in the number of families experiencing homelessness has been tied to the RV program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of those families [in the survey] were in shelter, but among those who weren’t, many were living in RVs,” he said. “I’m optimistic that our work around RVs has shown progress, and we are on track to have every family with a permitted vehicle in shelter or housing by the end of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest PIT Count recorded a roughly 85% decline in tents and other shelter structures outside, compared to the nearly 650 people identified in tents in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous years where the PIT Count took place overnight, this year’s survey was conducted in the early morning. Some homelessness advocates argued that the data was manipulated “for political gain” because the count took place when many working homeless people were out at service jobs or other responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The PIT Count results can also be skewed by the Lurie administration’s refusal to halt sweeps during the count,” reads a statement from the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come as the city has ramped up efforts to clear sidewalk encampments and move or arrest people on sidewalks who are using drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Homeless Population\" aria-label=\"Stacked Bars\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-8a3tf\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8a3tf/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"460\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie campaigned on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059460/bay-area-cities-expand-homeless-shelters-winning-over-neighbors-is-the-hard-part\">promise to build 1,500 shelter beds\u003c/a> within his first six months in office. But the mayor later pivoted, saying instead that the city needs the “right kind of beds,” such as treatment beds and transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has closed some non-congregate shelter options under Lurie’s administration, but overall has added a net total of 408 shelter beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some homelessness advocates have criticized Lurie’s focus on short-term shelter, saying that the city must do more to focus on preventing homelessness and providing long-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Municipalities that overinvest in shelter see a short-term decrease in street counts, but without investment in prevention and housing, street counts will undoubtedly balloon in future years,” the Coalition on Homelessness said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, 57% of San Francisco’s homeless population is sheltered, and there are not enough beds for everyone who wants a spot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The tally, which takes place every two years, sends surveyors out to scan the city block by block in a single day to count the number of people who are homeless both outside, including in cars and tents, and in shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is widely considered an imperfect measure, but a valuable tool in measuring broad changes in the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the encouraging overall decrease, this year’s PIT Count found a 15% increase since 2024 in families experiencing homelessness. Many live in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finding comes as rent prices and evictions in San Francisco have increased. Kunal Modi, the mayor’s homelessness chief, pointed to the city’s rising cost of living as a key reason families are struggling to stay housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everything from the availability of affordable housing to the cost of everyday living, whether it’s gas or groceries or rising rents,” Modi said. “The homeless response system sits alongside other work around family zoning or efforts to keep people enrolled in their benefits… and we’re going to think about all of these elements working together to keep families housed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s administration has focused on clearing RVs as part of its overall approach to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/DanielLurieSFUSDStrike-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a press conference on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, in San Francisco, addressing the San Francisco Unified School District’s newly reached agreement with the teachers’ union. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October 2025, permits were issued to large vehicles and RVs to avoid towing and citations as the city worked to move families and individuals living in campers into housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A total of 132 households have moved from their vehicles to housing, and the city has cited nearly 800 large vehicles and towed 240 since the start of the program, according to city data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/mayor-lurie-still-popular-poll-120000359.html?guccounter=1\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll,\u003c/a> has a whopping 74% approval rating among the more than 1,000 registered voters surveyed, said the bump in the number of families experiencing homelessness has been tied to the RV program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of those families [in the survey] were in shelter, but among those who weren’t, many were living in RVs,” he said. “I’m optimistic that our work around RVs has shown progress, and we are on track to have every family with a permitted vehicle in shelter or housing by the end of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest PIT Count recorded a roughly 85% decline in tents and other shelter structures outside, compared to the nearly 650 people identified in tents in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike previous years where the PIT Count took place overnight, this year’s survey was conducted in the early morning. 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"content": "\u003cp>May 4 is now Star Wars Day in San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-supervisors\">Board of Supervisors\u003c/a>, who announced the christening on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proclamation recognizes the film franchise’s longstanding history in San Francisco — George Lucas, the creator of the \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Indiana Jones\u003c/em> movies, based his studio Lucasfilm in the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> has played such a significant role in San Francisco, and San Francisco has played such a significant role in \u003cem>Star Wars,\u003c/em>” Supervisor Bilal Mahmood told KQED on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, along with Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Danny Sauter, Myrna Melgar and Alan Wong, celebrated the holiday in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX61XXqyBpD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram video\u003c/a>, wishing city residents a happy Star Wars Day from City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declaration came hours ahead of a screening at the 69th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, with the Castro Theatre slated for a special viewing of \u003cem>Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superfans across San Francisco geared up for the screening, which was also set to feature an onstage discussion between C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels and Howard Roffman, the vice president of SFFILM’s board.[aside postID=news_11637723 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/12/IMG_1541-1180x885.jpg']One of those fans, Alameda resident Eric Stroker, said he’ll attend the event in his Darth Vader jacket and equipped with a lightsaber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a Connecticut native who moved to the Bay Area in 2010, Stroker recalled his childhood awe when visiting California and seeing certain areas that once showed up in the background of \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> films. A standout memory was in San Rafael, once home to Lucas’ editing and sound operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really explores our humanity,” he said of \u003cem>The Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em>. “That was one which was really formative for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for city officials’ efforts to cement Star Wars Day, Stroker acknowledged the positivity and appreciation behind the declaration. “But, you know, when I drive down Market Street, I’d rather the supervisors be doing something else,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Astrid Kane, a San Francisco resident whose \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> collection includes two tattoos, said that they once went to a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in the Mission, during which all nine \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> films were screened. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kane said it took roughly 20 hours, jokingly referring to the experience as “This amazing thing that I’m never doing ever again.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12082321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082321\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/starwarstattoos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/starwarstattoos.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/starwarstattoos-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/starwarstattoos-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/05/starwarstattoos-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: A tattoo featuring the “Star Wars” rebel insignia. Right: A tattoo with an LCD Soundsystem “Death Star” disco ball. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Astrid Kane)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also bringing a lightsaber to \u003cem>The Empire Strikes Back\u003c/em> screening Monday, as well as a replica of Luke Skywalker’s fighter helmet, Kane said that this particular movie is the most meaningful for them out of the trilogies.\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s the movie where Harrison Ford looks the hottest,” Kane said. “He’s the original bad boy from outer space.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today marks nearly 50 years since the original \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> film premiered at San Francisco’s now-defunct North Point Theater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a story about hope, resilience, and the fight for justice,” Mahmood wrote in a statement on Monday morning. “Those values resonate deeply here in San Francisco, and this recognition celebrates both the franchise and our city’s role in its history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco’s\u003c/a> latest effort to tackle rampant outdoor drug use is a new sobering center where law enforcement will drop off people detained for public intoxication as part of a pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s department and city officials say that the facility, called the Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage, or RESET, Center, is not a detention center or an emergency room, but a place where people can connect with different service providers. But the new model has already raised concerns from the City Attorney’s office and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073638/san-francisco-moves-ahead-with-sobering-center-despite-legal-risk-memo\">sparked infighting\u003c/a> in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie sees the center as a new opportunity for people struggling with addiction to get help while also cleaning up the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a different approach. We can’t just rely on bringing people to jail or to the emergency room. This RESET Center is going to… allow our law enforcement officers to bring somebody in with the consequence of facing an arrest,” Lurie said after a tour of the space on Wednesday. “But the goal is to get them into recovery. The goal is to get them the treatment they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RESET Center will officially open on Monday and operate 24/7. It is located at 444 Sixth St., next to the Hall of Justice on Bryant Street and around the corner from the jail. People arrested for public intoxication without violent behavior, emergency medical needs or active warrants can be brought to the center, where they will be detained while they sober up. The pilot program is expected to last a little over two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical supplies inside the RESET Center, which will provide stabilization and treatment connections for people in crisis, in San Francisco on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Those who accept a placement at the RESET Center will not be charged with a crime or booked at the site. If they refuse the RESET Center, they will be brought to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unusual nature of the facility has already faced scrutiny. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073638/san-francisco-moves-ahead-with-sobering-center-despite-legal-risk-memo\">memo\u003c/a> from the city attorney’s office, first obtained by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>, said it runs the risk of serving as an unlicensed detention center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot program is so far focused only on District 6, which includes the South of Market neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a consequential intervention that will pair real accountability with connections to treatment,” said Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who represents District 6.[aside postID=news_12081330 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231214-SF-OVERDOSE-GETTY-SS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I hope it sends a strong message to would-be drug offenders looking to travel to San Francisco that the party is over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the RESET Center, people enter through a door with a metal detector that opens into a waiting area. There are showers and bathrooms, and two large white rooms with 25 gray reclining chairs. In the middle of the space, behind glass windows, is a command station for law enforcement and other staff monitoring people brought to the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the purpose of the new facility is to offer an alternative to jail and free up space in hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drop-off process for officers… is designed to make sure that law enforcement personnel can get right back out onto the street,” Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said. “The intent of this entire resource is to provide a space for people to come, to not go to jail, not go to hospitals, but to a space where they can sober up, where they have access to services and healthcare and people who want to see them get into services and care and put them on a path to recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff deputies will be on site, along with medical staff, case managers and peer support specialists, to check in on people as they rest and sober up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miyamoto said that individuals who are brought there will be required to stay for a period of time before they are discharged, but will have the option to stay for up to 23 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081893\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081893\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_003-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_003-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_003-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_003-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto looks on during a press tour of the RESET Center, which will be overseen by the Sheriff’s Office, in San Francisco on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“The exact same thing happens when we bring them to jail. They’re put into what we call a release-when-sobering cell. So we wait for 48 hours to see what their state is, if they’re able to take care of themselves, if they’re sobering up. Then they’re released from our custody,” Miyamoto said. “But the difference here is we’re not releasing them from jail. We’re releasing them from a chair that they’re sitting in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials defended the approach and said that new ideas are needed in the current overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not jail, and it’s not the hospital. It’s a third way. It’s another option for people. It’s another option for our law enforcement, and we’re going to pilot this,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Department of Public Health is not operating the facility, officials said that there will be vans available to direct people to other health facilities and services after they stay at the RESET Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone wants to be connected to drug treatment, including opioid addiction medications like buprenorphine, a pharmacist could be called to the RESET Center to provide those kinds of services, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks to reporters during a press tour of the Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage (RESET) Center, an alternative-to-jail facility scheduled to open May 4, in San Francisco on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a range of ways to make sure they can get that very quickly, including having people able to come here to prescribe and get them the medication very, very rapidly,” Public Health Director Daniel Tsai said. “So that is part of the workflow that has been built in with the Connections Health team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connections Health Solutions, a company that operates across the country but will be working for the first time in San Francisco, will provide health services at the RESET Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Colin LeClair said the RESET Center is their first and only project where sheriffs completely run the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every other facility we operate, law enforcement and us are hand in hand. Most of them though are not owned or operated by the law enforcement,” LeClair told KQED. “This is the first step toward building out a continuum of services, so this is not a panacea. This is just a great first step.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can only be brought to the RESET Center by police, meaning there is no walk-in option for people looking for a space to sober up indoors or drop-offs if people want to bring their friends or loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a stark difference from the city’s existing sobering center, called SoMa Rise. 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They’re put into what we call a release-when-sobering cell. So we wait for 48 hours to see what their state is, if they’re able to take care of themselves, if they’re sobering up. Then they’re released from our custody,” Miyamoto said. “But the difference here is we’re not releasing them from jail. We’re releasing them from a chair that they’re sitting in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials defended the approach and said that new ideas are needed in the current overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not jail, and it’s not the hospital. It’s a third way. It’s another option for people. It’s another option for our law enforcement, and we’re going to pilot this,” Lurie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Department of Public Health is not operating the facility, officials said that there will be vans available to direct people to other health facilities and services after they stay at the RESET Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If someone wants to be connected to drug treatment, including opioid addiction medications like buprenorphine, a pharmacist could be called to the RESET Center to provide those kinds of services, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12081892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12081892\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/042906RESET-CENTER_GH_001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks to reporters during a press tour of the Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage (RESET) Center, an alternative-to-jail facility scheduled to open May 4, in San Francisco on April 29, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a range of ways to make sure they can get that very quickly, including having people able to come here to prescribe and get them the medication very, very rapidly,” Public Health Director Daniel Tsai said. “So that is part of the workflow that has been built in with the Connections Health team.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connections Health Solutions, a company that operates across the country but will be working for the first time in San Francisco, will provide health services at the RESET Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEO Colin LeClair said the RESET Center is their first and only project where sheriffs completely run the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every other facility we operate, law enforcement and us are hand in hand. 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"content": "\u003cp>Since 2023, a private initiative called the Civic Joy Fund has financially supported hundreds of arts and culture events in San Francisco. But a growing group of artists are calling for a boycott of events affiliated with the Civic Joy Fund, citing its connections to the Bay Area’s ultra-wealthy who already play an outsized role in local and state politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emma Silvers, journalist and co-owner of COYOTE Media Collective, explains why Bay Area artists are talking about the Civic Joy Fund right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.coyotemedia.org/how-could-you-be-against-joy-bay-area-artists-are-turning-on-the-civic-joy-fund/\">Bay Area Artists Are Turning on the Civic Joy Fund\u003c/a> (Coyote Media)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5054647239&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Last month, a free event called Ploverfest, featuring local artists and musicians, was scheduled to take place in San Francisco’s Sunset Dunes Park. Musician Sweet Lew was among those invited to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sweet Lew \u003c/strong>[00:00:25] And I was really excited and I went to post the flyer and upon checking the flyers I realized that they were funded by the Civic Joy Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:36] The Civic Joy Fund is a privately funded initiative backed by some of San Francisco’s richest and most powerful people. And while its stated goal is to help revitalize San Francisco through arts and culture, some artists say that the city’s struggling arts scene has left them with few good choices. And some of them, like Sweet Lew, say it’s time to boycott the Civic Joy Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sweet Lew \u003c/strong>[00:01:08] I didn’t want to be a part of it. I didn’t want to take their money, I didn’t want to play on their stage anymore. Like the more and more private equity gets in and the more we let the ruling billionaire class like muscle their way into our spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:22] Today, the Civic Joy Fund and why some artists are boycotting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:01:40] I think the first thing to understand about the Civic Joy Fund is it is very much a product of tShe time it was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:48] Emma Silvers is a co-founder and editor at Coyote Media Collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:01:54] 2023, if you will recall, San Francisco made a lot of national headlines in a bad way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreel \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] San Francisco spent millions of dollars for a national tourism campaign, hoping to change the perception that one of the world’s most beautiful destinations has turned into an urban nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] We were sort of the butt of a lot of jokes here. We were described as a failed city. A doom loop narrative. Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreel \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] So-called poop maps and poop apps have been created over the years to help residents avoid the excrement on sidewalks and streets. And there’s a lot of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] In May of 2023, Daniel Lurie and Manny Yakuteil started the Civic Joy Fund. It’s an initiative of a larger nonprofit called the Civic Space Foundation. And the whole idea was to quote unquote, revitalize San Francisco through arts and culture. Street parties, live music, they hired artists to paint utility boxes, they did a lot of street cleanups, and the whole idea was basically let’s get outside, let’s quote-unquote activate San Francisco streets use arts and culture as a means to economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:21] And so, Civic Joy Fund started in 2023 in the midst of this doom loop narrative in San Francisco. It’s billed as this thing to help bring San Francisco back. How involved, would you say now, is the Civic Joy fund in the San Francisco art scene?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] It is massively involved. For a variety of reasons, including the loss of public funding for the arts, the Civic Joy Fund is playing a really huge role in shaping cultural events in public space. According to their most recent tax filing available, which is from 2024, Luke Spray, the executive director of the Civic Joy Fund, told me that in 2025, they supported 938 events. Which were attended by more than 506,000 attendees. It’s a lot of programming and it’s reaching a lot people. Some of those are trash cleanups, but a lot them are these larger scale night markets and block parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:29] Your story Emma, of course, focuses on how artists are feeling about the Civic Joy Fund. How would you characterize, I guess, the range of feelings that artists have about doing work with the Civic joy fund these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:04:42] I think a lot of people feel really conflicted. I heard some artists calling for a boycott, like Sweet Lew, saying the only way we fight this is to withhold our labor. Other artists, I think, are, you know, don’t love it, but a paying gig is a paying gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] To me, nuance is the capital letter quote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:05:15] Stella Lockman is an artist and an activist and a long time San Franciscan. And she told me that I was, I think the third or fourth person who had called her that week alone to ask about the Civic Joy Fund. It’s in the zeitgeist and no one wants to do the wrong thing. She helped me really understand I think the landscape of the arts in San Francisco and the way that it’s changed. In the time since the Civic Joy Fund was founded, public funding for the arts has really disintegrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] You know, tale as old as time, the city is and has been slashing arts funding consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] The past few years have been really, really bleak in terms of cuts to arts organizations in San Francisco. We’ve seen venues like Bottom of the Hill announcing their closures, as well as tons of art galleries, California College of the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] What gets me about Civic Joy Fund is that it’s part of the shrinking art ecosystem and it stands out a lot stronger and seems to have an inflated sense of importance within the city’s ecosystem because the arts infrastructure is collapsing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] She sort of said that in a healthy arts ecosystem, we wouldn’t even be in this position. And the Civic Joy Fund is as a result playing a bigger role in the ecosystem than it might otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:51] It does seem like who is behind the Civic Joy Fund is a big part of artist skepticism here. What did the artist you spoke with say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So one of the big reasons artists have a hard time with the Civic Joy Fund, in my experience, is that they do not have to tell us because it is a privately funded initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] People want to know where that money is coming from. And unlike civic funds, they don’t really have to tell you anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] Unlike something like the San Francisco Arts Commission, the grants that the Civic Joy Fund issues are decided on by a small group of people, the Civic joy fund staff. There’s no process for regular people in San Francisco to weigh in on what’s getting funded. And there’s sort of a lack of transparency about where the money is coming from in the first place. I think their largest benefactor is still Chris Larson. The founder of Ripple, a fintech company. He’s given a lot of money to the San Francisco Police Department and engaged in other forms of support for political causes that many artists are not in line with. Joby Pritzker, who is from the Hyatt Hotels family, Bob Fischer of Gap. They also have money from the Levi Strauss Foundation, Michael Moritz, a lot very wealthy, I think it’s fair to say power brokers in the Bay Area. One thing I kept running into with this story is a lot of artists have strong opinions that they will tell you off the record. A lot of people did not want to talk to me on the record for this story. I mean, Chris Larson in particular is fighting labor unions and working to defeat the billionaire’s tax. I think there is a sense of frustration at culture in the city being shaped by people who are arguably, with the other hand, supporting or enacting legislation that does not help working class people or artists to survive here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:16] I mean, we’re just talking about San Francisco art scene, struggling, we keep hearing about these closures of small venues. Affordability is just such a big topic right now, especially for artists, always has been. It seems like there’s this sense among artists that the Civic Joy Fund isn’t helping the way that they need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Austin Woz \u003c/strong>[00:09:47] San Francisco seems so invested in entertainment and so uninvested in art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:09:52] Austin Woz is the founder and frontman of an awesome band called Analog Dog. He is also a booker at Kilowatt in The Mission, which is an independent venue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Austin Woz \u003c/strong>[00:10:05] They view it all as entertainment, and they don’t understand the complexes that support art at the very foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:10:11] He describes a situation where there’s just so little support from the city and then this massive entity that is supported by so much private funding that is ostensibly supporting arts and culture, and it just doesn’t feel like the money is going where it needs to\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Austin Woz \u003c/strong>[00:10:31] I think that there’s this staunch reality where you have these opportunities that come up in the streets one day, one fund, and they put $100,000, $200,000 up to half a million, maybe a million dollars into these things, when you could have saved an entire community with that fund. You could have created the conditions with just those funds for one day that would allow a venue of 10 venues to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:10:57] I do see artists saying it feels hypocritical for politicians and billionaires to pat themselves on the back and sort of position themselves as these benevolent philanthropists when artists are struggling so severely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Austin Woz \u003c/strong>[00:11:15] And it’s really good at creating, you know, a nice bandaid that makes it really seem like these things are going well and that San Francisco is so back. But those of us on the ground who work at this day to day, we know that it has never been more difficult to be here and to try and provide the city with the core thing that it is known for in its global history, which is free thinking, progressive ideologies and good art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:11:44] Can you expand rent control? Can you ensure that artists have adequate health care? All these things that are sort of less flashy, they’re not photo opportunities. They’re institutional, structural support that will make it possible for artists to survive here. And I think people are starting to ask, you know, can we ask for more?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:19] How does the Civic Joy Fund respond to these criticisms as well, especially this discomfort around the people who are behind the fund?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Spray \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] For as long as San Francisco has existed, it has had benefactors, some of them of questionable politics and morals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:12:36] Luke Spray is the executive director of the Civic Joy Fund as of last fall. He took that position over from Manny, I believe in September of 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Spray \u003c/strong>[00:12:48] The San Francisco that we have is the result of like this push and pull this like tug of private and public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:12:57] He said that, you know, San Francisco has always had benefactors. This is part of the way culture works, is people with the means to do so, donate money to support things. And this is no different than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Spray \u003c/strong>[00:13:12] And the city that we get as a result of those conversations and like, I can think of a way to get there them up, bringing people together in public again. And again, and again, markets and block parties and all that to start. A dialog and a time where, like, we’re drifting away from that and it feels so, so, very important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:13:34] He also said, the outcome of getting people out of their houses and talking to each other is the goal, and they are achieving that goal. And the massive amount of need as evidenced by the insane number of grant applications they get, I think is validating in some ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:58] What do you think this story says about what it means to be an artist in San Francisco and the Bay Area right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:14:08] I think it shows how difficult it is. The idea of, especially in the music industry, there’s no such thing as clean money. Every time you play the film where you’re talking about working with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, if you go to Coachella, you’re supporting Golden Voice. We live under capitalism and how you make choices about your own politics and how they intersect with money is such a personal thing when you also have bills to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:42] For people who are not deep in the San Francisco art scene, what do you hope they take away from this story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:14:48] I hope that people will be moved to ask questions about the economics behind their entertainment. To me, this story requires a little bit of an ability to yes and. I think that they are supporting events that get people out and talking to each other. And especially given the pandemic, I think, that’s really important. I also think it’s okay to poke at the larger situation and say, What does it mean that the health of the arts ecosystem relies on a few very wealthy people? The Civic Joy Fund, depending on how you look at it, it’s sort of a hidden picture psychological test. Whether you see benevolent, rich people swooping in to save the arts and fill in these gaps in funding, or see nefarious billionaires taking over public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:52] Emma Silvers, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with me, I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:15:57] Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\n\n",
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And while its stated goal is to help revitalize San Francisco through arts and culture, some artists say that the city’s struggling arts scene has left them with few good choices. And some of them, like Sweet Lew, say it’s time to boycott the Civic Joy Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sweet Lew \u003c/strong>[00:01:08] I didn’t want to be a part of it. I didn’t want to take their money, I didn’t want to play on their stage anymore. Like the more and more private equity gets in and the more we let the ruling billionaire class like muscle their way into our spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:22] Today, the Civic Joy Fund and why some artists are boycotting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:01:40] I think the first thing to understand about the Civic Joy Fund is it is very much a product of tShe time it was founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:48] Emma Silvers is a co-founder and editor at Coyote Media Collective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:01:54] 2023, if you will recall, San Francisco made a lot of national headlines in a bad way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreel \u003c/strong>[00:02:03] San Francisco spent millions of dollars for a national tourism campaign, hoping to change the perception that one of the world’s most beautiful destinations has turned into an urban nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] We were sort of the butt of a lot of jokes here. We were described as a failed city. A doom loop narrative. Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Newsreel \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] So-called poop maps and poop apps have been created over the years to help residents avoid the excrement on sidewalks and streets. And there’s a lot of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:02:34] In May of 2023, Daniel Lurie and Manny Yakuteil started the Civic Joy Fund. It’s an initiative of a larger nonprofit called the Civic Space Foundation. And the whole idea was to quote unquote, revitalize San Francisco through arts and culture. Street parties, live music, they hired artists to paint utility boxes, they did a lot of street cleanups, and the whole idea was basically let’s get outside, let’s quote-unquote activate San Francisco streets use arts and culture as a means to economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:21] And so, Civic Joy Fund started in 2023 in the midst of this doom loop narrative in San Francisco. It’s billed as this thing to help bring San Francisco back. How involved, would you say now, is the Civic Joy fund in the San Francisco art scene?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:03:40] It is massively involved. For a variety of reasons, including the loss of public funding for the arts, the Civic Joy Fund is playing a really huge role in shaping cultural events in public space. According to their most recent tax filing available, which is from 2024, Luke Spray, the executive director of the Civic Joy Fund, told me that in 2025, they supported 938 events. Which were attended by more than 506,000 attendees. It’s a lot of programming and it’s reaching a lot people. Some of those are trash cleanups, but a lot them are these larger scale night markets and block parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:29] Your story Emma, of course, focuses on how artists are feeling about the Civic Joy Fund. How would you characterize, I guess, the range of feelings that artists have about doing work with the Civic joy fund these days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:04:42] I think a lot of people feel really conflicted. I heard some artists calling for a boycott, like Sweet Lew, saying the only way we fight this is to withhold our labor. Other artists, I think, are, you know, don’t love it, but a paying gig is a paying gig.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] To me, nuance is the capital letter quote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:05:15] Stella Lockman is an artist and an activist and a long time San Franciscan. And she told me that I was, I think the third or fourth person who had called her that week alone to ask about the Civic Joy Fund. It’s in the zeitgeist and no one wants to do the wrong thing. She helped me really understand I think the landscape of the arts in San Francisco and the way that it’s changed. In the time since the Civic Joy Fund was founded, public funding for the arts has really disintegrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] You know, tale as old as time, the city is and has been slashing arts funding consistently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:05:58] The past few years have been really, really bleak in terms of cuts to arts organizations in San Francisco. We’ve seen venues like Bottom of the Hill announcing their closures, as well as tons of art galleries, California College of the Arts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:06:13] What gets me about Civic Joy Fund is that it’s part of the shrinking art ecosystem and it stands out a lot stronger and seems to have an inflated sense of importance within the city’s ecosystem because the arts infrastructure is collapsing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:06:34] She sort of said that in a healthy arts ecosystem, we wouldn’t even be in this position. And the Civic Joy Fund is as a result playing a bigger role in the ecosystem than it might otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:51] It does seem like who is behind the Civic Joy Fund is a big part of artist skepticism here. What did the artist you spoke with say about that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:07:01] So one of the big reasons artists have a hard time with the Civic Joy Fund, in my experience, is that they do not have to tell us because it is a privately funded initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stella Lockman \u003c/strong>[00:07:15] People want to know where that money is coming from. And unlike civic funds, they don’t really have to tell you anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emma Silvers \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] Unlike something like the San Francisco Arts Commission, the grants that the Civic Joy Fund issues are decided on by a small group of people, the Civic joy fund staff. There’s no process for regular people in San Francisco to weigh in on what’s getting funded. And there’s sort of a lack of transparency about where the money is coming from in the first place. I think their largest benefactor is still Chris Larson. The founder of Ripple, a fintech company. He’s given a lot of money to the San Francisco Police Department and engaged in other forms of support for political causes that many artists are not in line with. Joby Pritzker, who is from the Hyatt Hotels family, Bob Fischer of Gap. They also have money from the Levi Strauss Foundation, Michael Moritz, a lot very wealthy, I think it’s fair to say power brokers in the Bay Area. One thing I kept running into with this story is a lot of artists have strong opinions that they will tell you off the record. A lot of people did not want to talk to me on the record for this story. I mean, Chris Larson in particular is fighting labor unions and working to defeat the billionaire’s tax. 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The Civic Joy Fund, depending on how you look at it, it’s sort of a hidden picture psychological test. Whether you see benevolent, rich people swooping in to save the arts and fill in these gaps in funding, or see nefarious billionaires taking over public space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:52] Emma Silvers, thank you so much for sharing your reporting with me, I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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