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"content": "\u003cp>San Franciscans have been on a recall frenzy over the last five years, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">ousting a progressive district attorney\u003c/a> and removing three members from the Board of Education to weighing in on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unsuccessful recall attempt in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, it’s residents in the city’s westside district who are up in arms over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035795/sunset-dunes-san-franciscos-controversial-new-park-officially-opens\">beachside park\u003c/a> and the local supervisor, Joel Engardio, who supported closing a portion of the Great Highway to cars to create it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Election day is Tuesday, Sept. 16. Here’s what else to know about how to vote in San Francisco’s latest recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I vote in this San Francisco special election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only registered voters in District 4 can participate in the special election. Ballots have already been mailed to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">50,000 District 4 voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I vote in the recall?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to vote in person on election day, you can fill out or drop off completed ballots at one of 20 different polling places in the city that are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/return-your-ballot\">Click here to find your local polling place and accessibility information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio, center, and other community leaders participate in the ribbon cutting during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to drop off your ballot during early voting, you have a few options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mail in your ballot, which must be postmarked by Sept. 16 and received no more than a week after election day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop off at one of three official ballot drop boxes:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ortega Branch Library (3223 Ortega St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Parkside Branch Library (1200 Taraval St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ballots may also be returned directly to the Department of Elections office inside City Hall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to sign your ballot!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition A, the measure to recall Engardio, is the only item on this special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters are asked a single question: “Shall Joel Engardio be recalled (removed) from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A “yes” vote means you want to remove Engardio.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “no” vote means you want him to remain in office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory to this recall effort?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city closed parts of the Great Highway and other streets to provide open space for social distancing and recreation. Residents from across the city began using the open road for biking, rollerblading, strolling and other activities, and many pushed to make it permanent. Environmentalists joined the effort and noted that the road faces coastal erosion, and parts are already closed to cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio, meanwhile, gained political support by backing multiple recalls in San Francisco in 2022, against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">several school board members\u003c/a>. That year, Engardio won his seat, beating incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway is closed to vehicles between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way on Friday at noon for the current weekend closure in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995077/yes-on-k-declares-victory-on-san-franciscos-proposition-k\">voters citywide passed Proposition K\u003c/a>, which officially closed the upper portion of the Great Highway to cars. The strip of highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035185/sfs-new-park-closed-great-highway-about-get-name\">an oceanfront park called Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio faced criticism for supporting the measure, even though the majority of District 4 voters, who live closest to the Great Highway, opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents, angry about losing the thoroughfare, continued fighting the road closure in conversations with neighbors and \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/\">in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2025, the Department of Elections certified that recall organizers had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are recall backers saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Residents who want Engardio recalled say they feel “betrayed” by their supervisor for failing to listen to the majority of District 4 residents who opposed removing cars from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say traffic has worsened, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/reports/outer-sunset-traffic-report-spring-2025\">a recent study\u003c/a> on the road closure shows little impact.[aside postID=news_12053978 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-15_qed-1020x680.jpg']“He’s taken away our highway,” said Jen, a Sunset resident who spoke during public comment at a recent Democratic Party meeting. “I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. We have bumper-to-bumper traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others point to the money flowing into Engardio’s campaign from wealthy donors, including tech billionaires and developers. The campaign to defeat the recall has collected over $822,000 from donors, including cryptocurrency billionaire Chris Larsen, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis, co-founder of communications software company Twilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joel has nearly taken half a million dollars from wealthy tech donors like Chris Larsen, Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis – people who don’t live here and don’t share our struggles,”” said Julia Quon, a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club. “This means that he answers to them, not us who live in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which is not chartered with the local Democratic Party, donated $27,000 to the effort to recall Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are Engardio’s supporters saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Engardio in the Sunset said they enjoy the park and what it offers both the neighborhood and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I 100% support Sunset Dunes being open. Being part of nature is necessary for human well-being. It’s necessary for mental health. It’s also a really great way to build community, to meet your neighbors, being able to take your kids out, to have safe places to ride your bikes, to safe places for recreation without fear of car accidents,” said Karen Trinidad, a florist and Sunset resident. “With my business specifically, I mainly sell through pop-ups in collaboration with brick and mortar businesses in the sunset. And I have been seeing a lot more folks walking by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals attend the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents like Engardio’s stances on homelessness and public safety, saying he’s brought the neighborhood more policing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since he’s been in office, he’s been improving the whole city on homelessness and crime. And he’s actually promoting the Sunset Night Market … and he’s been good on education,” another Engardio supporter said at the Democratic Party meeting. She was referring to the district’s night market and a ballot measure Engardio supported that voters passed to promote eighth-grade Algebra in San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio has endorsements from five fellow supervisors, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there door-knocking every day making the case that what I did was I joined four other supervisors to put something on the ballot for democracy, to give people a choice of what to do with their coast,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911119/san-francisco-voters-decide-once-again-whether-to-recall-an-elected-official\">Engardio said on KQED Forum\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio stands by his decision to support the park, but said he still believes in residents’ right to recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sunset Dunes has the potential to become a transformational space that in a few years from now, not even that long from now, we won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without an oceanside park,” he said. “Traffic is going to get where it needs to go, it already is, and we’re going to see immense benefit from this park for the environment and for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If the recall is successful, what happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie would appoint a temporary replacement to represent District 4 until the next election in June 2026. Lurie, who opposed Proposition K, has not endorsed either side in the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, recalling Engardio would not immediately reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars. That would require a new ballot measure to undo Proposition K. Supervisor Connie Chan has said she might explore such a measure if the recall succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear who Lurie might appoint if Engardio is removed, but political observers say it would likely be someone open to revisiting the highway closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor is under a lot of pressure to appoint a moderate Chinese, or conservative Chinese American, who’s at least going to say, ‘I agree with Connie Chan. Let’s bring back the ballot measure and let the voters decide,’” political consultant David Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if the recall does not succeed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the recall fails, Engardio will serve out his term through January 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will the results of this recall be available?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preliminary results will be posted on election night, Sept. 16, at 8:45 p.m. on \u003ca href=\"http://sfelections.gov/results\">sfelections.gov/results\u003c/a>. Vote-counting will continue until the election is certified, no later than Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall needs a simple majority (50% plus one “yes” vote) to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I vote in this San Francisco special election?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Only registered voters in District 4 can participate in the special election. Ballots have already been mailed to about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041124/sunset-residents-weigh-recall-of-supervisor-engardio-over-great-highway-closure\">50,000 District 4 voters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I vote in the recall?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to vote in person on election day, you can fill out or drop off completed ballots at one of 20 different polling places in the city that are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/return-your-ballot\">Click here to find your local polling place and accessibility information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055249\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-16_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio, center, and other community leaders participate in the ribbon cutting during the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you prefer to drop off your ballot during early voting, you have a few options:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mail in your ballot, which must be postmarked by Sept. 16 and received no more than a week after election day.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drop off at one of three official ballot drop boxes:\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ortega Branch Library (3223 Ortega St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Parkside Branch Library (1200 Taraval St)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Hall (1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl.)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Ballots may also be returned directly to the Department of Elections office inside City Hall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Don’t forget to sign your ballot!\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is on the ballot?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Proposition A, the measure to recall Engardio, is the only item on this special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters are asked a single question: “Shall Joel Engardio be recalled (removed) from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A “yes” vote means you want to remove Engardio.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A “no” vote means you want him to remain in office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory to this recall effort?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the city closed parts of the Great Highway and other streets to provide open space for social distancing and recreation. Residents from across the city began using the open road for biking, rollerblading, strolling and other activities, and many pushed to make it permanent. Environmentalists joined the effort and noted that the road faces coastal erosion, and parts are already closed to cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio, meanwhile, gained political support by backing multiple recalls in San Francisco in 2022, against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">District Attorney Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\">several school board members\u003c/a>. That year, Engardio won his seat, beating incumbent Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014721\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241115-PropKFolo-18-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Highway is closed to vehicles between Sloat Boulevard and Lincoln Way on Friday at noon for the current weekend closure in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1995077/yes-on-k-declares-victory-on-san-franciscos-proposition-k\">voters citywide passed Proposition K\u003c/a>, which officially closed the upper portion of the Great Highway to cars. The strip of highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035185/sfs-new-park-closed-great-highway-about-get-name\">an oceanfront park called Sunset Dunes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio faced criticism for supporting the measure, even though the majority of District 4 voters, who live closest to the Great Highway, opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset residents, angry about losing the thoroughfare, continued fighting the road closure in conversations with neighbors and \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/03/prop-k-opponents-to-sue-city-five-supervisors-over-great-highway-closure/\">in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 29, 2025, the Department of Elections certified that recall organizers had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the ballot for a special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are recall backers saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Residents who want Engardio recalled say they feel “betrayed” by their supervisor for failing to listen to the majority of District 4 residents who opposed removing cars from the Great Highway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say traffic has worsened, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/reports/outer-sunset-traffic-report-spring-2025\">a recent study\u003c/a> on the road closure shows little impact.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He’s taken away our highway,” said Jen, a Sunset resident who spoke during public comment at a recent Democratic Party meeting. “I live on La Playa and Lincoln, where it’s a nightmare. We have bumper-to-bumper traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others point to the money flowing into Engardio’s campaign from wealthy donors, including tech billionaires and developers. The campaign to defeat the recall has collected over $822,000 from donors, including cryptocurrency billionaire Chris Larsen, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis, co-founder of communications software company Twilio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Joel has nearly taken half a million dollars from wealthy tech donors like Chris Larsen, Jeremy Stoppelman and John Wolthuis – people who don’t live here and don’t share our struggles,”” said Julia Quon, a member of the Chinese American Democratic Club. “This means that he answers to them, not us who live in the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group, which is not chartered with the local Democratic Party, donated $27,000 to the effort to recall Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What are Engardio’s supporters saying?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Engardio in the Sunset said they enjoy the park and what it offers both the neighborhood and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I 100% support Sunset Dunes being open. Being part of nature is necessary for human well-being. It’s necessary for mental health. It’s also a really great way to build community, to meet your neighbors, being able to take your kids out, to have safe places to ride your bikes, to safe places for recreation without fear of car accidents,” said Karen Trinidad, a florist and Sunset resident. “With my business specifically, I mainly sell through pop-ups in collaboration with brick and mortar businesses in the sunset. And I have been seeing a lot more folks walking by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-17_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Individuals attend the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other residents like Engardio’s stances on homelessness and public safety, saying he’s brought the neighborhood more policing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since he’s been in office, he’s been improving the whole city on homelessness and crime. And he’s actually promoting the Sunset Night Market … and he’s been good on education,” another Engardio supporter said at the Democratic Party meeting. She was referring to the district’s night market and a ballot measure Engardio supported that voters passed to promote eighth-grade Algebra in San Francisco public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio has endorsements from five fellow supervisors, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, state Sen. Scott Wiener and San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m out there door-knocking every day making the case that what I did was I joined four other supervisors to put something on the ballot for democracy, to give people a choice of what to do with their coast,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101911119/san-francisco-voters-decide-once-again-whether-to-recall-an-elected-official\">Engardio said on KQED Forum\u003c/a> last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio stands by his decision to support the park, but said he still believes in residents’ right to recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sunset Dunes has the potential to become a transformational space that in a few years from now, not even that long from now, we won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without an oceanside park,” he said. “Traffic is going to get where it needs to go, it already is, and we’re going to see immense benefit from this park for the environment and for the people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If the recall is successful, what happens next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie would appoint a temporary replacement to represent District 4 until the next election in June 2026. Lurie, who opposed Proposition K, has not endorsed either side in the recall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, recalling Engardio would not immediately reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars. That would require a new ballot measure to undo Proposition K. Supervisor Connie Chan has said she might explore such a measure if the recall succeeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035824\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035824\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250412_SunsetDunesGrandOpening_GC-18_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play on a tree branch at the Sunset Dunes Park grand opening on the Upper Great Highway in San Francisco on April 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear who Lurie might appoint if Engardio is removed, but political observers say it would likely be someone open to revisiting the highway closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor is under a lot of pressure to appoint a moderate Chinese, or conservative Chinese American, who’s at least going to say, ‘I agree with Connie Chan. Let’s bring back the ballot measure and let the voters decide,’” political consultant David Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens if the recall does not succeed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If the recall fails, Engardio will serve out his term through January 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When will the results of this recall be available?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preliminary results will be posted on election night, Sept. 16, at 8:45 p.m. on \u003ca href=\"http://sfelections.gov/results\">sfelections.gov/results\u003c/a>. Vote-counting will continue until the election is certified, no later than Oct. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall needs a simple majority (50% plus one “yes” vote) to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:57 p.m. Friday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years after safe street advocates celebrated San Francisco’s decision to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11797529/san-franciscos-market-street-is-going-car-free-next-week-7-things-you-need-to-know\">make Market Street \u003c/a>car-free, cars — both with and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12035348/mayor-lurie-allows-waymo-on-sfs-car-free-market-street\">without drivers\u003c/a> — will begin rolling down the thoroughfare on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that his office was granting Waymo autonomous vehicles and some Uber and Lyft cars access to the two-mile vehicle-free span of the street as part of his push to revitalize downtown. But Robin Pam, the executive director of Streets for All San Francisco, says the limited, and likely expensive, vehicle expansion will only harm the corridor’s long-desired transformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting cars back on Market is really a big step backwards, and it’s going to prevent us from making progress toward that vision of a more vibrant people-first space that really will attract more people to come downtown and want to be there,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot phase that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency starts Tuesday will test the impact of Waymo and some Uber and Lyft operations on Market Street outside peak commute hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes after Lurie gave Waymo permission to begin mapping the street for an expansion in April, which was met with opposition from other ride-hail companies. Since Waymos, as well as Uber and Lyft’s black cars, are categorized as commercial vehicles, they’ve not been legally obligated to stay off the car-free section of Market Street under SFMTA traffic regulations. Waymo confirmed in April that it had voluntarily refrained from operating there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12053385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12053385\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_0527_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_0527_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_0527_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_0527_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Uber and Lyft driver drops off a customer in San Francisco’s downtown neighborhood on Aug. 31, 2015. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and overnight from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., Waymo can drop off and pick up passengers at seven locations along Market Street, between 5th and 8th streets. They’ll be allowed to run on the two-mile strip between Van Ness Avenue and Steuart Street, where cars are barred, according to SFMTA Director Julie Kirschbaum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft black cars, the apps’ top-line rides that offer a more luxurious experience at a higher price tag, will be allowed to pick up passengers at those locations during the evening and night hours, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Both apps require drivers to meet certain car standards: the cars have to be black, and Lyft prohibits vehicles older than 2018, while Uber requires them to be models made within the last five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area where these vehicles will begin operating is a sector of Market Street that has been closed to cars since January 2020, following more than a decade of advocacy to remove cars from the busy downtown road.[aside postID=news_12035348 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230921-TaxiDriver-10-BL-1020x680.jpg']In a statement, Lurie said, “The city will monitor Muni performance, traffic conditions, safety incidents, and Waymo, Uber Black, and Lyft Black’s performance through shared data and street traffic observations,” to decide how best to increase safe transportation through all modes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pam said data shows banning cars from the road has already benefited non-drivers. Since 2020, she said, SFMTA found that traffic collisions on the road \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2023/05/san_francisco_collisions_report_2017_2022.pdf\">fell by 40%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are going to lose are the hundreds of thousands of people who take Muni, who walk and bike downtown every day, versus a couple dozen people traveling in these luxury vehicles,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reliant on Muni to get downtown are already adjusting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021178/sf-muni-reducing-bus-light-rail-service-amid-fiscal-crisis-more-cuts-loom\">service cuts along Market\u003c/a> that went into effect in June. As the city agency struggles to recover from a plummet in ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">facing a dire financial crisis\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041824/bay-area-transit-faces-a-fiscal-crisis-newsoms-budget-plan-could-make-it-worse\">threatens to force even more cuts\u003c/a> in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two months, three lines that used to run all the way down to the Embarcadero from various city neighborhoods have begun turning back when they reach Market Street. Two other routes headed toward the Bay from the Inner Sunset and the northeast edge of Golden Gate Park were combined into a new Muni line, which also now ends when it hits the street. 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Both banning the commercial vehicles outright or allowing all private vehicles back onto the road would need to go through more rigorous channels, but many of the advocates who’ve formed the Keep Market Street Moving coalition to oppose the expansion fear it will only be a matter of time before the road is hopping with cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple advocates told KQED they already see private vehicles on prohibited parts of the street fairly often, and with some Uber and Lyft operators in standard cars allowed to operate, enforcement of the rules will only become more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people have forgotten how chaotic and dangerous Market was,” Lindsey said. “We cannot go back to how dangerous and chaotic it was, and these changes are opening up the door to going back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie said, “The city will monitor Muni performance, traffic conditions, safety incidents, and Waymo, Uber Black, and Lyft Black’s performance through shared data and street traffic observations,” to decide how best to increase safe transportation through all modes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pam said data shows banning cars from the road has already benefited non-drivers. Since 2020, she said, SFMTA found that traffic collisions on the road \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2023/05/san_francisco_collisions_report_2017_2022.pdf\">fell by 40%\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who are going to lose are the hundreds of thousands of people who take Muni, who walk and bike downtown every day, versus a couple dozen people traveling in these luxury vehicles,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those reliant on Muni to get downtown are already adjusting to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021178/sf-muni-reducing-bus-light-rail-service-amid-fiscal-crisis-more-cuts-loom\">service cuts along Market\u003c/a> that went into effect in June. As the city agency struggles to recover from a plummet in ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">facing a dire financial crisis\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041824/bay-area-transit-faces-a-fiscal-crisis-newsoms-budget-plan-could-make-it-worse\">threatens to force even more cuts\u003c/a> in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two months, three lines that used to run all the way down to the Embarcadero from various city neighborhoods have begun turning back when they reach Market Street. Two other routes headed toward the Bay from the Inner Sunset and the northeast edge of Golden Gate Park were combined into a new Muni line, which also now ends when it hits the street. After feedback from residents, Muni is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/supporting-trips-school-and-work-muni-service-changes-start-aug-30\">restoring two morning trips\u003c/a> on the 1X California Express and adding one trip on the 30X Marina Express into downtown on Aug. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734349\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11734349\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty.jpg\" alt=\"An SUV in San Francisco displaying the Lyft logo in its back window.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/lyft-getty-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SUV in San Francisco displays the Lyft logo. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At a time when Muni is facing an enormous fiscal crisis and we’re already cutting service, to make Market more congested with vehicles and slow down Muni and make it less efficient is really not the direction the city needs to go in,” Pam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Market Street has wide sidewalks designated for foot traffic, Marta Lindsey, WalkSF’s communications director, said increased vehicle traffic will increase collision risks for pedestrians, especially in crosswalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re crossing the street one of the biggest risks is turning vehicles,” she said. “Bringing back vehicles is less of a risk to someone walking on the sidewalk, but it’s bringing back all this intersection chaos and maneuvers that really put pedestrians at risk.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:13 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> could be saying goodbye to civilian oversight of the city’s Sheriff’s Department, as an efficiency task force considers wiping out a voter-approved watchdog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition D in 2020, creating the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/departments--sheriffs-department-oversight-board\">Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board to\u003c/a> field complaints and recommend policy changes for the Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition D \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844487/bay-area-police-accountability-measures-draw-strong-support-across-the-board\">followed\u003c/a> years of reports that San Francisco County jails were understaffed, overcrowded and in poor conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board also appoints an inspector general, tasked with overseeing investigations into misconduct within the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That board now faces possible permanent elimination by the city’s Commission Streamlining Task Force, a group approved after voters approved Proposition E in November 2024, to make recommendations on where the city should consolidate or dismantle government agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force last week released a \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/Borderline_Inactive_Recommendation_Memo_v2_2025-08-15_M61IIE1.pdf\">memo\u003c/a> listing recommendations for “borderline inactive bodies” that have either met fewer than four times in the last calendar year or have a vacancy rate greater than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12037949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12037949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250428_WARRANTLESSSEARCHES_GC-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, center, speaks during a press conference announcing the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s plan to resume warrantless searches of criminal defendants who have been released and awaiting trial, outside of City Hall on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board was on that list, with its vacancy rate exceeding 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations land in the midst of the city’s historic, nearly $800 million deficit. 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Wechter said it took a year to find an inspector general, and he accused the board of hostility and failure to adhere to ethical conduct recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead of the Wednesday meeting where the commission recommended the board’s elimination, San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton, who sponsored Proposition D, told KQED that “we can’t just override the voters.”[aside postID=news_12014666 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/RS21357_20161005_100742-qut-1-1020x765.jpg']He referred to the City Charter, which maintains that any initiatives or amendments “shall not be subject to veto, or to amendment or repeal except by the voters, unless such initiative or declaration of policy shall otherwise provide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that the voters voted on and voters supported,” Walton said. “So you can’t just eliminate a charter commission without the voter approval.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s task force also recommended that if the board is eliminated, the Department of Police Accountability, a separate entity, could absorb its responsibilities. Walton called that a “poor recommendation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Police Accountability doesn’t even have the capacity right now to adequately provide oversight for the police department,” he said. “Let alone adding the additional services of the Sheriff’s Oversight Board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Wednesday meeting, Wechter appeared alongside other citizens to push back against the task force’s elimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the SDOB is eliminated, we will be going against national trends,” Wechter said. “We will be moving backwards and setting a very bad example.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoel Haile, the ACLU of Northern California’s director of the criminal law and immigration project, said that he has received multiple reports in recent years of assault and negligence by jail staff. 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San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\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>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:41] I wanted to focus on families because many of them already live in shelters and are not visible on the streets and are are not necessarily part of this population that the city is putting a lot of focus on right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:56] Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] They end up getting stuck in shelters and have had time limits for how long that they can stay there. And that can be a really tedious, onerous process to go through that extension while you’re waiting for housing to come through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] I know you met a family living in a shelter. Can you tell me a little bit about Maritza Salinas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:22] Maritza is a mother of three and she’s living in one of the city’s homeless shelters for families. She’s originally from El Salvador, but moved to the Bay Area when she was 19 and has lived in San Francisco for many years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] Maritza, I’m curious what a, just like a typical day is like for you and your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] For me, as a single mom, it’s many things daily. And sometimes I am blessed to accomplish one thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] I spent some time with her and her two littlest ones, Matthew who’s six and Renee who’s four. And you know, they’re just adorable little kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:03:04] We get up daily, shower first thing, prayer, and we make food. We share kitchen and community so you have to get up very early when nobody else is awake so you can have time to cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] How did she and her kids end up in a shelter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Maritza became homeless after leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. And this is unfortunately a pretty common experience for many mothers and families who are in the city’s shelter system. And it’s also a reminder of why shelters are important. People often need a place to go, sometimes immediately, when they know it’s time to leave their situation or if they don’t have a choice and are evicted. So she now lives in a shelter for families in the south of Market. It’s one of several shelters she’s bounced around from, including shelters specifically for domestic violence survivors. But these place often have time limits for how long you can stay. And, you know, she’s grateful to have the shelter and says the staff there are helpful and kind to her kids and that her children have other kids to play with there too. But it’s been a really unstable situation bouncing from shelter to shelter, and they’re really just looking for a home to stay in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] I have two extensions with Harbor House, which that comes to six months. And when those six months ends, that’s the question, right? Where we gonna go? What we gonna do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:57] Shelters aren’t meant to be forever homes, but affordable forever homes are just really hard to come by. At the same time, the city is focusing more on moving people off the streets and into these shelters, and they need more open beds to do that. So in December, San Francisco decided families could only stay in shelters for 90 days. And if they wanted to stay longer, they’d have to apply for it. When this rule was announced, families like Maritza’s pushed back because it felt like they were being punished for a system that just doesn’t move people into permanent housing fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] The shelter she’s staying at right now, she currently has a 90 day limit before she can apply for an extension. But at the last shelter she was at, she did reach that end of the term. And so she was waiting for an expansion to come through. She said it was an extremely confusing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:06:02] When I was being pushed away from Hamilton without an extension and it’s like y’all saying it’s so easy, it sounds so easy but I’m being pushed away, like what I’m supposed to do you know like where do I need to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] Families and advocates for people who are unhoused said this was incredibly stressful to essentially just be chasing application after application because they essentially were still just waiting for rapid rehousing vouchers or permanent housing placements to come through. For Maritza, she has stayed in shelters, but she has also stayed in cars. She has had her kids stay with family members. She stayed in hotels, and all of that change and disruption can be really taxing and demoralizing as you’re trying to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:03] That said, we are talking about this because changes are coming to these shelter extension rules in San Francisco, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Right. So the city recently announced that instead of requiring people who are in shelters to apply for extensions every 30 days, they now get about three months or 90 days at their shelter stay. You know, that still requires going through an application process, but it’s a bit more of a compromise, I think, between people in the city who are trying to deal with a limited number of beds and move people in and out of shelters. But also extending some grace to the families who are there and already stuck waiting for a housing opportunity to come through and don’t necessarily have somewhere else to go besides another shelter if that extension is not approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] Why is this change happening? Like, how did it happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:09] The change came about really after a lot of activism and outcry from families themselves. That was actually how I met Maritza. She was one of many mothers who have been showing up to City Hall and telling city officials that this 30-day extension process was extremely taxing and telling them, you know, we don’t want to stay in shelters forever. We want housing. 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And that can be a really tedious, onerous process to go through that extension while you’re waiting for housing to come through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:16] I know you met a family living in a shelter. Can you tell me a little bit about Maritza Salinas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:22] Maritza is a mother of three and she’s living in one of the city’s homeless shelters for families. She’s originally from El Salvador, but moved to the Bay Area when she was 19 and has lived in San Francisco for many years now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] Maritza, I’m curious what a, just like a typical day is like for you and your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] For me, as a single mom, it’s many things daily. And sometimes I am blessed to accomplish one thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:02:53] I spent some time with her and her two littlest ones, Matthew who’s six and Renee who’s four. And you know, they’re just adorable little kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:03:04] We get up daily, shower first thing, prayer, and we make food. We share kitchen and community so you have to get up very early when nobody else is awake so you can have time to cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] How did she and her kids end up in a shelter?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:03:33] So Maritza became homeless after leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. And this is unfortunately a pretty common experience for many mothers and families who are in the city’s shelter system. And it’s also a reminder of why shelters are important. People often need a place to go, sometimes immediately, when they know it’s time to leave their situation or if they don’t have a choice and are evicted. So she now lives in a shelter for families in the south of Market. It’s one of several shelters she’s bounced around from, including shelters specifically for domestic violence survivors. But these place often have time limits for how long you can stay. And, you know, she’s grateful to have the shelter and says the staff there are helpful and kind to her kids and that her children have other kids to play with there too. But it’s been a really unstable situation bouncing from shelter to shelter, and they’re really just looking for a home to stay in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:04:40] I have two extensions with Harbor House, which that comes to six months. And when those six months ends, that’s the question, right? Where we gonna go? What we gonna do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:57] Shelters aren’t meant to be forever homes, but affordable forever homes are just really hard to come by. At the same time, the city is focusing more on moving people off the streets and into these shelters, and they need more open beds to do that. So in December, San Francisco decided families could only stay in shelters for 90 days. And if they wanted to stay longer, they’d have to apply for it. When this rule was announced, families like Maritza’s pushed back because it felt like they were being punished for a system that just doesn’t move people into permanent housing fast enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:05:42] The shelter she’s staying at right now, she currently has a 90 day limit before she can apply for an extension. But at the last shelter she was at, she did reach that end of the term. And so she was waiting for an expansion to come through. She said it was an extremely confusing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:06:02] When I was being pushed away from Hamilton without an extension and it’s like y’all saying it’s so easy, it sounds so easy but I’m being pushed away, like what I’m supposed to do you know like where do I need to go?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:06:15] Families and advocates for people who are unhoused said this was incredibly stressful to essentially just be chasing application after application because they essentially were still just waiting for rapid rehousing vouchers or permanent housing placements to come through. For Maritza, she has stayed in shelters, but she has also stayed in cars. She has had her kids stay with family members. She stayed in hotels, and all of that change and disruption can be really taxing and demoralizing as you’re trying to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:03] That said, we are talking about this because changes are coming to these shelter extension rules in San Francisco, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:07:12] Right. So the city recently announced that instead of requiring people who are in shelters to apply for extensions every 30 days, they now get about three months or 90 days at their shelter stay. You know, that still requires going through an application process, but it’s a bit more of a compromise, I think, between people in the city who are trying to deal with a limited number of beds and move people in and out of shelters. But also extending some grace to the families who are there and already stuck waiting for a housing opportunity to come through and don’t necessarily have somewhere else to go besides another shelter if that extension is not approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:05] Why is this change happening? Like, how did it happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:08:09] The change came about really after a lot of activism and outcry from families themselves. That was actually how I met Maritza. She was one of many mothers who have been showing up to City Hall and telling city officials that this 30-day extension process was extremely taxing and telling them, you know, we don’t want to stay in shelters forever. We want housing. But it’s really stressful to have to go through this extra process week after week, month after month of ensuring that you can just stay where you’re at while you’re waiting for housing to come through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:08:50] For my autistic kid. This is a challenge, like transfer from one shelter to the next shelter, there’s no stability. There is a lot of behavior issues because of that. It’s a lot a stress for him and for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:09:11] And the city listened. And they said, okay, we’ll space that out a bit more, give you a little more breathing room while other parts of the homelessness system are hopefully catching up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:41] I want to talk a little more about this instability in shelters for families, because obviously the best case scenario is that when you get sent into a shelter, you then get eventually moved into some sort of permanent, more stable housing. But how often is that even happening for families like Maritza’s in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:07] A report from March of this year found that just 13% of people in the city’s shelters exited to permanent housing. That was overall. And for families specifically, it was a little higher, around 21%. But that’s still, you know, less than a quarter of families who are leaving shelters for housing. Many are moving back into other shelters, or they are deciding to stay in cars or doubling up with friends and family. For the majority, the city just doesn’t know. They might reach the end of their time limit at the shelter and then exit the city’s system of care entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:47] Why are these numbers so low? Does it really all just come back down to the fact that there is simply not enough affordable housing in California and in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] That’s certainly a big part of it, and that’s what Christin Evans, who is a member of the city’s Homeless Oversight Board, shared with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christin Evans \u003c/strong>[00:11:07] When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter. They actually want to exit to a permanent housing situation. We have limited amount of funds that are going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements and there are very long wait lists for people to get resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:11:28] It’s also some upstream effects too, like the city can also prevent homelessness by helping families who are facing eviction, providing legal aid to folks who maybe are going through a messy divorce that could cause them to lose their housing. You know, there are so many ways that people can become homeless. And so, yes, it’s certainly a deficit of affordable housing, specifically for people who have little to no income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Christin Evans \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] I’ve been working with a senior that has three school-age children and he just doesn’t make enough money. So this is the problem. We just have a lack of affordable housing, especially if you had two or more children. It’s really hard to find housing that would be within minimum wage or low wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:12:29] There are people who are just living on razor thin margins and that can also be a really powerful place where the city can address homelessness before it reaches that point, before someone needs a shelter bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:47] Coming back to Maritza here, what does she tell you about how this change to shelter stays and extensions are gonna help her in her daily life?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:00] Yeah, I mean, Maritza, I think is pretty clear-eyed about it. She’s grateful that she has, you know, one less thing that she had to do every four weeks or probably even more frequently than that, you know by not having to apply for a shelter extension so often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:13:20] This is a new thing for me, and I’m just gonna follow through. I don’t know yet how is it gonna go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:13:31] But she also recognizes that staying at the shelter is not the end goal for the city or for her and her family. Quite simply, she wants a home for her children. She is on the wait list for an apartment right now and has applied for housing vouchers and other support, but she’s still waiting to hear back. And in the meantime, her stay at the shelter is limited. And even though she can request extensions and doesn’t have to do so quite as frequently now, she still doesn’t wanna get caught there and wants to build a stable life for her kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Salinas \u003c/strong>[00:14:11] It will be nice for people to understand that we are humans, and it’s not that we want to be there. It is a process for us to move forward, and it will be for people to really see the children, our children, and that they have compassion and love for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:30] I mean, you cover homelessness in San Francisco. You’ve been covering Mayor Daniel Lurie’s approach to homelessness. I’m curious what takeaways you might have on the challenges that families in particular are facing around homelessness in Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson \u003c/strong>[00:14:49] You know, the city has put a lot of emphasis on clearing street homelessness, particularly for people with substance use disorder. And those people do need help, but families like Maritza’s, like we talked about, often go unnoticed. You know, her kids are in the city’s public schools. Her youngest daughter is starting kindergarten this fall. She’s active in her community and you just probably wouldn’t know she’s homeless if you saw her just picking up groceries at your local store. And at the same time, advocates say that families like hers are losing some attention and quite literal like material resources. In the city’s current fight over homeless funding and with this priority on clearing tents and sidewalks. The city is still planning to build more shelters, to be clear. The mayor’s office has said that they have about 1,000 shelter beds that they were planning to open by the end of the year. We’ll see if that actually comes about. It’s worth pointing out that many of these families, the city’s even quote unquote affordable housing doesn’t cut it. Vouchers and subsidized housing are really important and those are also limited resources. Because without places where people can move on to, the city kind of creates this bottleneck in the shelter system and beds become limited too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:28] Well, Sydney, thanks so much for sharing your reporting with us. I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is preparing to see up to 60,000 people a day for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979310/dead-and-company-san-francisco-concerts-golden-gate-park-summer-of-love-grateful-deads-60th\">Grateful Dead’s 60th anniversary festival in Golden Gate Park\u003c/a> this weekend, and Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city is ready.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even for those not attending the concerts, people on the west side can expect to hear Grateful Dead classics, see Deadheads roaming the streets and find difficulty getting around Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the park’s polo field — where the Dead haven’t played since 1991 — workers on Thursday were erecting a large stage where remaining members of the Grateful Dead will \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/event/dead-company/\">play as Dead & Company\u003c/a> through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie stood at a podium in front of the stage in the field’s northwest corner, where stagehands were testing lights and setting up equipment. Next to Lurie stood San Francisco law enforcement, fire and parks leaders who took turns assuring the public the event would be a safe one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our public safety teams and local law enforcement will be operating at full staffing, with additional personnel to manage the increases with all of these attendees and visitors,” Lurie said. “Our teams are equipped and trained to handle a variety of situations, and we are fully prepared for any emergencies that may arise during these weekends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12050533\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12050533 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GratefulDeadSF1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Thursday, July 31, 2025, ahead of the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebrations this weekend with multiple performances by Dead & Company. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910768/grateful-dead-keep-on-truckin-for-their-60th-anniversary\">Dead & Company shows\u003c/a> kick off a busy few weeks for the park, which is hosting two more events — Outside Lands and country musician Zach Bryan — over subsequent weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time ever there’s been three weekends of concerts in a row in Golden Gate Park,” said Allen Scott, president of concerts and festivals for Another Planet Entertainment, which produces Outside Lands as well as the new \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/\">Golden Gate Park Concerts series\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the park hosted a bill led by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955656/deftones-system-of-a-down-tickets-presale-code-san-francisco-golden-gate-outside-lands\">System of a Down and the Deftones\u003c/a> the weekend after Outside Lands, the first such show put on by Another Planet after city officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960570/sfs-golden-gate-park-may-soon-host-new-concert-series-from-producers-of-outside-lands\">approved the expanded series\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12049174 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-DEADCOMUNI_00014_TV-KQED.jpg']Scott said they’re expecting 450,000 people coming to San Francisco over the next three weekends, 290,000 of whom are from outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has always been a cultural destination and a world-class city, and this … these three weekends will prove it,” Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie encouraged all concertgoers to sign up for AlertSF by texting GGPC to 888777 and make plans with friends and family, as cellphone reception in San Francisco during large-scale events is notoriously unreliable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the next few weeks, we are going to keep everyone safe,” Lurie said. “We are going to shine on the global stage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials estimate the three concert weekends will bring in over $150 million into the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phil Ginsburg, head of San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department, said music is part of the city’s history, and the back-to-back-to-back festival weekends in Golden Gate Park are equally historic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just hosting concerts; we’re bringing people together, boosting our economy, showing the world that San Francisco is alive and thriving and, perhaps most importantly, facilitating joy,” Ginsburg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Space is limited in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/soma\">South of Market\u003c/a> kitchen Maritza Salinas shares, so she gets up around 5:30 a.m. to make breakfast for her three kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s just one way living in a homeless shelter shapes her daily routine. On top of parenting duties, she frequently checks in with a case worker and looks for updates on the availability of a permanent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cycle of moving in and out of shelters weighs heavily on Salinas and is especially hard for her 6-year-old son, who has autism. She dreams of the day she can bring them to a home they can stay in for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to say to my kids, ‘We got a key. We’re going to our place,’” Salinas said while pushing a stroller with her two young children on Market Street. Her 4-year-old daughter often asks when they’re going to go home. “That’s one of the hardest things for me as a mom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has intensified efforts to clear street-level homelessness, a key issue in Mayor Daniel Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">campaign platform\u003c/a>. Yet hundreds of families living in shelters still lack stable housing each night, as the city struggles with a shortage of affordable homes and limited subsidies for residents with extremely low income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049536\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas plays with her daughter Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salinas has experienced homelessness since leaving an abusive relationship in 2022. She stayed in cars, on sidewalks and multiple shelters for domestic violence survivors before arriving at her current spot, Harbor House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s on one of the city’s waitlists for housing, but her time at Harbor House is running out. She knows this feeling of stress and worry well. Last year, while at another shelter, she requested an extension to avoid ending up on the streets while her housing application was pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process was confusing and frequently left her panicked about whether she’d have a place to live at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sounds so easy, but I was being pushed away,” Salinas said. “What am I supposed to do, you know? Where do I need to go?”[aside postID=news_12049323 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240610-HomelessFamilies-12-BL_qed.jpg']San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.[aside postID=news_12044180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']However, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">walked back a key\u003c/a> campaign trail promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. Now, he’s focused on moving people more quickly through the homelessness response system and building more behavioral health and drug treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">His $16 billion budget\u003c/a> aligns with those new priorities. The board of supervisors approved his plan to reallocate funding for permanent supportive housing to improve existing parts of the shelter system. The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. In a stroller so large Salinas struggles to take it on the bus, her daughter looks up while chatting away about robots and “minions,” the yellow one-eyed characters from the movie \u003cem>Despicable Me\u003c/em>. Her son sits in the front of the carriage, playing a game on his iPad with headphones on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is still on a waitlist for a subsidized three-bedroom unit, and doesn’t know if she’ll need to seek another extension after her 90-day stay at the shelter is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re placed on a waiting list and you don’t know how many people are before you,” she said. “I’m just hoping for one of these days to be able to say to my kids, ‘We have a home to go to, and you’re going to have a room, with butterflies on the walls, and we’re going to be happy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>San Francisco is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049323/sf-homeless-agency-walks-back-more-restrictive-policy-on-family-shelter-stays\">making it easier for families to remain in temporary shelters\u003c/a> longer starting this fall, according to a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing memo sent to the board of supervisors this month. Beginning Oct. 1, people in temporary family shelters can apply for an unlimited number of 90-day extensions, so long as they meet eligibility requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy shift came after months of pushback against a rule implemented in December that required families to apply for 30-day extensions after their initial 90-day stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This win would not have happened without homeless families coming to City Hall themselves to tell their stories and organizing the community for months on end,” Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who advocated for the policy change, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a welcome change for those repeatedly filing extension applications while waiting for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We started receiving eviction notices almost every month,” said Yaneth Perez, who lives in the Oasis shelter, in a press statement. Perez and Salinas have both organized alongside groups such as Faith in Action and the Coalition on Homelessness, advocating for more funding and resources for homeless families. “It created incredible stress and anxiety for us and our kids.” Advocates held press conferences outside schools to protest the evictions and met with Mayor Lurie in February. “We’re glad he’s finally listening,” Perez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-07-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas and her daughter Ranea, 4, and son Matthew, 6, attend a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2025, in opposition to a citywide RV ban. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But extensions don’t resolve the underlying need for more affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/CON_Shelter_Assessment_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to a March 2025 report\u003c/a> from the city controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one of the fundamental problems, said Christin Evans, vice chair of the city’s homelessness oversight body. “When people come into shelter, they’re seeking assistance to secure stable housing. They don’t want to remain in the shelter,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Lurie has set up a public-private fund to build out more transitional beds, passed legislation to speed up contracts for homelessness service providers, and opened up a new drop-in facility for mental health care. The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/illegal-lodging-arrests-are-soaring-in-s-f-20269807.php\">increased citations and arrests\u003c/a> for people sleeping outside and is clearing more encampments.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, Lurie has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">walked back a key\u003c/a> campaign trail promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. Now, he’s focused on moving people more quickly through the homelessness response system and building more behavioral health and drug treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">His $16 billion budget\u003c/a> aligns with those new priorities. The board of supervisors approved his plan to reallocate funding for permanent supportive housing to improve existing parts of the shelter system. The budget deal restored $30 million for rental subsidies for homeless families, which was previously on the chopping block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lurie’s initial budget proposal did not include any new investments in addressing family homelessness. Advocates and experts were alarmed, pointing out that the number of families experiencing homelessness nearly doubled from 2022 to 2024, \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/2024_PIT_Slide_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the city’s 2024 Point in Time count\u003c/a> of the homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have limited funds going to rapid rehousing vouchers and permanent supportive housing placements, and there are very long waitlists for people to get those resources,” Evans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates for unhoused families celebrated the shelter extension policy and additions to the budget. Lurie praised the change, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many families get stuck in our system, with kids growing up year after year in temporary shelter without a path to stable, permanent housing. Meanwhile, thousands of people sleep on the street every night, and the city has few indoor options to offer because our shelters are full,” Lurie said in a statement. “When government isn’t afraid to try things and listen to feedback, we can craft thoughtful, effective policies, and that’s what we’ve done here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts say the city still needs far more places for residents with extremely low income to live so shelter stays are brief and new people can move in and out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without that, efforts to open more shelter beds and improve flow through the system overall will fall short, said Margot Kushel, an expert on homelessness based at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Time limits are an effort to spread the limited resource of shelters around, but the only way to truly create enough shelter spots is to have reasonable options for people to leave shelter with housing,” Kushel said in an email. “We need to be sure that we create housing that front-line workers can afford, that those on disability can afford. And that is really hard to do, because the numbers don’t always pencil out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Salinas hugs her daughter, Ranea, 4, at a playground in San Francisco on July 22, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mothers like Salinas are meanwhile stuck in line while trying to give their children a reliable routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between check-ins with her case worker, she likes to walk her kids to a park near their shelter. In a stroller so large Salinas struggles to take it on the bus, her daughter looks up while chatting away about robots and “minions,” the yellow one-eyed characters from the movie \u003cem>Despicable Me\u003c/em>. Her son sits in the front of the carriage, playing a game on his iPad with headphones on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salinas is still on a waitlist for a subsidized three-bedroom unit, and doesn’t know if she’ll need to seek another extension after her 90-day stay at the shelter is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re placed on a waiting list and you don’t know how many people are before you,” she said. “I’m just hoping for one of these days to be able to say to my kids, ‘We have a home to go to, and you’re going to have a room, with butterflies on the walls, and we’re going to be happy.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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His cheeky celebration of economic recovery downtown came a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">violently clashed with protesters\u003c/a> outside the city’s downtown courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical internet fashion, backlash followed almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s troublingly dystopian to see this video about Labubus from you while your constituents are being kidnapped by federal agents, and those who are trying to stop that from happening are being brutalized. Is this what you want your legacy to be?” read one comment from a group representing a coalition of left-leaning San Francisco City Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment was one of many criticizing the mayor online for not speaking out more about escalating ICE raids in San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD officer stares straight ahead past a line of anti-ICE protesters during a protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie takes a cautious, positive approach on TikTok and Instagram, highlighting the city’s recovery while avoiding the partisan fights that fuel much of today’s online political discourse. His strategy reflects the challenge moderate Democrats face in balancing tough issues with hopeful messaging in a polarized digital landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, he speaks directly to residents through selfie videos showing off things like thriving coffee shops, housing development plans or AI companies making San Francisco their home base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is important is that we’ve got to show all the good things happening,” Lurie told KQED after wrapping up a selfie video with Warriors star Jimmy Butler at his new coffee pop-up in the Mission.[aside postID=news_12023569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240108-LurieInaugurationDay-34_qed-1020x680.jpg']The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.[aside postID=news_12048367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/BondiBurgumSFVisitAP1.jpg']“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. In two takes, Lurie summarized what he saw in the area: mild but incomplete progress clearing the area of outdoor drug use. He chatted with neighborhood outreach workers and police officers before returning to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicizing it, I don’t get into that. I’m going to work with anybody that wants to fix this issue,” Lurie said as he strolled down Mission Street. “We’re going to work with every side of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his carefully crafted online persona and his restraint from wading into heated online debates, Lurie said, “I’m trying to highlight not just to San Franciscans but to the world what is so unique and special about San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical internet fashion, backlash followed almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s troublingly dystopian to see this video about Labubus from you while your constituents are being kidnapped by federal agents, and those who are trying to stop that from happening are being brutalized. Is this what you want your legacy to be?” read one comment from a group representing a coalition of left-leaning San Francisco City Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comment was one of many criticizing the mayor online for not speaking out more about escalating ICE raids in San Francisco this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC4999-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD officer stares straight ahead past a line of anti-ICE protesters during a protest in San Francisco on June 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie takes a cautious, positive approach on TikTok and Instagram, highlighting the city’s recovery while avoiding the partisan fights that fuel much of today’s online political discourse. His strategy reflects the challenge moderate Democrats face in balancing tough issues with hopeful messaging in a polarized digital landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day, he speaks directly to residents through selfie videos showing off things like thriving coffee shops, housing development plans or AI companies making San Francisco their home base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think is important is that we’ve got to show all the good things happening,” Lurie told KQED after wrapping up a selfie video with Warriors star Jimmy Butler at his new coffee pop-up in the Mission.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The mayor isn’t shying away from tough topics that San Franciscans care about, like the city’s $800-million budget deficit, homelessness and the overdose crisis. He often films himself walking through parts of the city, talking to residents where those issues are most visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be totally transparent, while driving here, I saw people struggling on the street,” he said on Mission Street. “We have to be honest and transparent with people, and that’s what we’re able to do with our Instagram.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie strikes a different tone online compared to other politicians who have fueled and benefited from online vitriol. President Donald Trump, who also owns the social media website Truth Social, exemplifies how lashing out at \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/trump-blames-newsom-deadly-los-angeles-fires/\">political opponents\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/business/timeline-elon-musk-trump-x-dg\">or allies\u003c/a>) online can have real implications and capture the internet’s fleeting attention. Trump’s posts have had wild success on social media platforms like X, where \u003ca href=\"https://csmapnyu.org/research/reports-analysis/twitter-amplifies-conservative-politicians-is-it-because-users-mock-them\">studies show\u003c/a> posts from conservative politicians are amplified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Democrats have found their niche, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom, for example, saw a \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2025/07/07/how-trolling-trump-is-helping-gavin-newsom-00441062\">boost in popularity online\u003c/a> after criticizing Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests and posting things like \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1932447842683249033\">Star Wars memes\u003c/a> to mock White House actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this moment, what goes viral, what gets attention, is really being outspoken either as a MAGA guy or as an anti-MAGA person. And Lurie struggles with both of those,” said Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches politics at Columbia University and writes about San Francisco, where he grew up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048164 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00053_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Golden State Warriors player Jimmy Butler (right) record a selfie video together at the opening of the Corner Store in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. Democratic politicians are using social media to rally their supporters, and Mayor Daniel Lurie is doing just that, but moderate Democrats like him face challenges in a volatile online landscape. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Partisan conflict isn’t the only ticket to online success for politicians. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has become nationally known through TikTok and Instagram videos explaining populist economic ideas like free bus service and child care — a factor \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-campaign-videos.html\">credited as a powerful tool\u003c/a> in his rise and victory in the city’s mayoral race primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lurie’s not doing just the vibes and values like [Kamala] Harris. He’s also not quite Mamdani, who had this amazing two-minute video of him breaking down the food truck permitting process,” said Zeve Sanderson, executive director of NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics. “He sort of sits in between those two poles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie isn’t picking fights or giving followers radical new ideas to chew on. His focus appears to be on presenting a counter-narrative to the so-called “doom loop,” contrasting with his predecessor, former Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s a good political strategy,” Mitchell said of Lurie’s pro-San Francisco tone. “His predecessor decided that she could benefit by telling a story about how horrible San Francisco is. That has never worked, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some residents, Lurie’s affable selfie videos are a welcome reprieve from headlines of the city’s struggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems super personable. And the fact that he’s the one taking the selfie videos seems more personal with SF residents versus just having someone make it super professional,” said Boris Cotom, an Excelsior resident who brought his younger brother to wait in line at Butler’s coffee pop-up. “I think it’s a cool way to kind of show what he’s been doing for the city so far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/daniel-lurie-poll-data-sf-20774151.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> poll\u003c/a> found similar opinions. Half of surveyed voters said the mayor should remain focused on local issues, and 29% said Lurie should help lead the opposition to Trump. His Instagram account drew 9.7 million views in the past month, reaching more than 880,000 accounts — all without paid promotion, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s cautious online approach aims to project his genuine optimism on the city’s recovery, according to Annie Gabillet, who manages his social media with Gen Z staffers Haakon Black and Sophia Robles-Mendoza. The team follows Lurie around throughout the day, snapping photos, revising texts and quickly editing his videos for residents to see what the mayor is up to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upbeat “cheerleader dad” tone is authentic to his personality off-camera. A moderate Democrat and father of two, he has rarely, if ever, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">said Trump’s name\u003c/a> when asked by reporters about federal issues affecting San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12048167 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00159_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie (left) and Haakon Black (right), a member of his social media team, walk in the Mission District in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several city supervisors have participated in anti-ICE protests. Lurie’s cautious stance has left some followers frustrated, comments to his posts show, and feeling like their outrage over mass deportations, wealth inequality and cuts to public services isn’t echoed by their mayor, who is also an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicians just a few years ago were less willing to get into arguments on social media or directly engage in criticism. And I think today, establishment politicians who have been around a while do that on the flip side, sort of Bravo TV-style, just steering into fights,” Sanderson said. “[Lurie] seems to engage with what he perceives to be criticisms or problems, but he doesn’t go full Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie had never posted a selfie video before running for office. But he understands how provocative content tends to get more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was apparent when JJ Smith, who frequently posts videos of unhoused residents and outdoor drug use on X, filmed Lurie approaching him on the street. \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/status/1925038514393251850\">In the video\u003c/a>, Lurie told Smith that his posting “kills our economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if Lurie would help San Francisco by fighting with Republicans online. Breed struck a much stronger tone against Trump during his first presidential term, while Lurie has managed to somewhat steer right-wing pundits’ attention away from the city’s ills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048168\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048168\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250714-tiktokpoliticians_00251_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie looks to his social media team to prepare for a social video recording on 16th Street in the Mission District with his team in San Francisco on July 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When he does wade into thornier territory, such as the city’s drug and homelessness crises, Lurie often acknowledges that there’s “more work to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After visiting Butler’s pop-up on Valencia Street, Lurie’s team headed to 16th Street to observe conditions around homelessness and drug use, which neighbors say have worsened as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">crackdowns in the Tenderloin and South of Market\u003c/a> have displaced issues to other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the 16th Street BART station, Lurie stopped and faced Black, his cameraman, while Gabillet stood to the side, ready to offer feedback. In two takes, Lurie summarized what he saw in the area: mild but incomplete progress clearing the area of outdoor drug use. He chatted with neighborhood outreach workers and police officers before returning to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Politicizing it, I don’t get into that. I’m going to work with anybody that wants to fix this issue,” Lurie said as he strolled down Mission Street. “We’re going to work with every side of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his carefully crafted online persona and his restraint from wading into heated online debates, Lurie said, “I’m trying to highlight not just to San Franciscans but to the world what is so unique and special about San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">status as a sanctuary city\u003c/a> goes back to 1989. The city prides itself as a haven for immigrants, regardless of legal status, and a place where local law enforcement is sharply restricted from cooperating with or assisting federal immigration agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a>, the implementation of the policy is facing pressure from Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district represents parts of the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola. Fielder is concerned by two things:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">report\u003c/a> that SFPD accessed information from Oakland’s license plate reader database to share with federal law enforcement agencies.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Statements made by Deputy Chief Derrick Lew at a town hall in the Castro last week regarding what he described as SFPD’s obligation to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sfpd-ice-protesters/\">protect ICE agents\u003c/a> from protesters, to keep them out of harm’s way.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who called ICE “a fascist agency doing Trump’s bidding,” \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/687554cccdab921972c25b38/1752519885394/LOI+to+SFPD+Protocols+for+ICE+and+protests.pdf\">sent a letter \u003c/a>to interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Lurie and the city controller demanding answers about policies that may conflict with the city’s sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and one of the Board of Supervisors’ most liberal members, Fielder pledged to keep an open mind to Lurie’s programmatic priorities. But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. And according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">reporting by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, protesters were being put in danger as they were trying to basically block ICE agents from coming into or out of the building — to the point where ICE agents used pepper spray, shoved people to the ground and in one instance brandished a rifle on protesters as well as a reporter with \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came to light through a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>Standard\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> that SFPD has been requesting data from automatic license plate readers in Oakland on behalf of federal law enforcement agencies, which is a violation of state law. And so I have a lot of questions related to all of these different issues that I’d like answers to very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.[aside postID=news_12047506 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250609-SEIUProtests-07-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> One of the things that Lew said was, essentially, “We can’t just sit by and watch our fellow law enforcement agent or officer get hurt.” Are you saying that, actually, “Yes, you can, and you should step aside and let them defend themselves?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> According to the department’s own directives, they’re allowed to intervene in any federal immigration actions when it appears reasonably necessary to prevent serious injury to persons, whether or not a crime is actively happening. That also has to be reconciled with our sanctuary city law, where we’re not allowed to assist ICE or agents for routine operations, investigations or raids. And so I want SFPD to be transparent with their protocols and decision-making for whether they’re going to intervene in a situation or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> Can you see a role for SFPD in “keeping the peace” and putting themselves between the protesters and the ICE agents?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>Again, SFPD has to intervene wherever there is a threat to people’s safety. And that has to be applied everywhere. What I’m not seeing is questions around how they’re going to protect unarmed and largely defenseless protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> The city is undergoing a search to hire a new police chief, and I would guess that one of the candidates internally could be Lew. Would you say that his comments are disqualifying for him to be the next chief?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043437\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. 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He has said that the city will protect immigrants. What would you like to see him do or say that so far he has not?[aside postID=news_12047397 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/immigration-protest-1020x680.jpeg']\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder, who called ICE “a fascist agency doing Trump’s bidding,” \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65023928e628bd272e752a09/t/687554cccdab921972c25b38/1752519885394/LOI+to+SFPD+Protocols+for+ICE+and+protests.pdf\">sent a letter \u003c/a>to interim SFPD Chief Paul Yep, Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Lurie and the city controller demanding answers about policies that may conflict with the city’s sanctuary law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and one of the Board of Supervisors’ most liberal members, Fielder pledged to keep an open mind to Lurie’s programmatic priorities. But as the Trump administration’s actions toward California and sanctuary cities intensify, there are signs that Fielder is growing impatient with the mayor’s approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with Fielder about her concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview has been edited for length and clarity\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Scott Shafer: \u003c/strong>First of all, let’s talk about your letter of inquiry. What prompted you to send it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jackie Fielder: \u003c/strong>Last week, we saw a number of protesters clashing with ICE agents outside of a federal government building where immigration court proceedings take place. And according to \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/\">reporting by \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, protesters were being put in danger as they were trying to basically block ICE agents from coming into or out of the building — to the point where ICE agents used pepper spray, shoved people to the ground and in one instance brandished a rifle on protesters as well as a reporter with \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It came to light through a \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/\">\u003cem>Standard\u003c/em> article\u003c/a> that SFPD has been requesting data from automatic license plate readers in Oakland on behalf of federal law enforcement agencies, which is a violation of state law. And so I have a lot of questions related to all of these different issues that I’d like answers to very quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024436\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024436 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-33-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Mayor Lurie has vowed the city will protect immigrants. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer\u003c/strong>: You mentioned the meeting in the Castro with Deputy Chief Derrick Lew, where he responded to questions about the role or the responsibility that SFPD has when it comes to protesters and ICE. What was it about his answer that concerns you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder: \u003c/strong>What’s concerning is that there’s an equivalency being made between ICE, which is armed, and protesters, who are not. And ICE agents can protect themselves with pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, their armor as they did July 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have sanctuary city laws. [Lew] was basically also comparing ICE with CHP, where ICE is treated differently by our sanctuary laws. We have prohibited our employees from cooperating with ICE. We cannot prevent them from coming into San Francisco, we cannot prevent them from detaining and deporting people, but what we can do is ensure that they are identifying themselves. We can ensure that they’re following due process and, of course, abiding by our basic local public safety and traffic laws.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I think he could be doing more. He could be saying more. Every single elected leader in our city has made a public stand to honor our sanctuary city laws. He will not say the word sanctuary. He will not mention Trump. And I don’t think it’s a practice that is actually saving us from any repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other examples across the country of mayors standing up. For example, Mayor [Michelle] Wu in Boston is filing FOIA requests to try to seek some answers on who exactly ICE is detaining in Boston. The point here is compliance. And by not saying a ton about our sanctuary laws, by not mentioning Trump, I think it just gives them exactly what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in San Francisco, where we have a large immigrant population, that means that ICE is picking up family, neighbors, friends. These are not people with criminal histories. They are mothers, they’re fathers, they’re sisters and, even at some points, children. And so, SFPD leadership, whoever the next police chief is, has to take this responsibility seriously and take our sanctuary city laws seriously as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shafer:\u003c/strong> When you came into office, you went out of your way to extend an olive branch to Lurie. Is there still a reservoir of goodwill with the mayor?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fielder:\u003c/strong> I’m never gonna close my door to people who change their minds. I’m always open to the possibility of people coming around again. I think we’re headed for a new level of prevalence of ICE agents and terror that we haven’t seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.[aside postID=news_12047562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-023-BL_qed.jpg']In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. Earlier this year, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">piloted a similar program\u003c/a> that pays residents $175 per linear foot of an RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if San Francisco is still pursuing a new westside safe parking site similar to one opened in the Bayview during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the city was looking for two lots in the area to convert into safe parking, but neither of the sites has been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes — especially at a time when there’s an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community and basically anyone that is not in the one percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast:\u003c/strong> In 2024, city officials attempted to implement targeted parking restrictions in neighborhoods with longstanding RV communities, like the Lake Merced area near \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">Stonestown Galleria and San Francisco State University\u003c/a> and Bernal Hill. In the fall, former Mayor London Breed proposed legislation that would allow vehicles parked overnight to be towed citywide if residents had previously refused shelter, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">supervisors blocked it\u003c/a> in December after pushback from community advocates. Last month, Mayor Daniel Lurie revived the ban, proposing a strict two-hour limit for oversized vehicles on all city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">June legislation\u003c/a> takes a citywide approach to address the reshuffling caused by earlier iterations and includes incentives for people moving into housing, his office told the board this month. Some carve-outs will be made for commercial vehicles parked in industrial areas. The proposal received unanimous approval from the city’s Budget and Finance Committee last week, and this week, it passed a first vote, 9–2. Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, and Walton, whose district spans the Bayview and Potrero Hill, opposed the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lurie’s office said the plan “offers a path forward on what has long been an intractable challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With compassion and accountability, we will give those living in vehicles a better option and deliver safe and clean streets for our communities,” he said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>Other cities across the Bay Area, including Berkeley and Fremont in the East Bay, have also been cracking down on vehicle homelessness. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">Fremont passed\u003c/a> what is believed to be the most restrictive overnight camping ban in the state, prohibiting RV parking on public and private property, including residential streets, for more than three consecutive nights.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November, Berkeley’s city council directed city workers to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">clean up a known RV community\u003c/a> on Second Street in West Berkeley. The move was in line with a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014227/progressive-berkeley-new-tough-stance-homeless-encampments\">aggressive approach\u003c/a> to sweeping encampments, which allows people to be cleared from streets even if the city cannot offer them housing. Both cities’ new rules came after Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">ordered state agencies\u003c/a> last July to dismantle homeless encampments across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>If Lurie’s legislation passes a second vote in the coming weeks as expected, the new parking regulations will take effect. Homelessness advocates say this could affect residents living in about 475 vehicles, many of whom may not be willing to trade their private mobile homes for the housing options the city can provide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents actively looking for housing will be eligible for permits up to six months to remain in their RVs while they wait to relocate. The legislation includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots in addition to more than 300 similar subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are awaiting more details about another incentive to move people off the streets: a vehicle buyback program that will offer people cash for their RVs. It’s unclear how much residents stand to receive, though the legislation includes a $500,000 budget for buybacks. Earlier this year, Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">piloted a similar program\u003c/a> that pays residents $175 per linear foot of an RV, or about $6,000 for a 35-foot vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if San Francisco is still pursuing a new westside safe parking site similar to one opened in the Bayview during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the city was looking for two lots in the area to convert into safe parking, but neither of the sites has been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">crackdown on RV parking\u003c/a> is one step closer to reality after a key committee gave it the green light on Wednesday, despite unhoused residents and advocates’ pleas to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s Budget and Finance Committee voted unanimously to recommend policy changes limiting the amount of time RVs can park on streets citywide to two hours, sending the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors after years of strife over the large vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the meeting, San Franciscans who have lived in RVs for years asked board members to drop the legislation proposed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, which they said would exacerbate their housing difficulties and pose challenges for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking you to please legislate from your heart,” a woman named Lucy told the supervisors in Spanish. She was one of dozens who opposed the policy during public comment. “We feel like we were not heard. I feel personally destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bother anybody, we’re not asking for money, please just let us be in a place where we can have our home and be at peace,” she continued, speaking through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s plan is the latest effort to reduce the number of people living in RVs in pockets of the city, estimated to total hundreds citywide. The vehicles have blocked sidewalks, caused traffic congestion and created health hazards that harm surrounding neighborhoods, Lurie’s chief of health, homelessness and family services, Kunal Modi, told the supervisors on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the ongoing controversy has centered on the quiet westside streets around Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">dozens of families have lived for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents parked along Winston Drive behind Stonestown Galleria were forced to move last year after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passed new parking restrictions for the area in 2023. The changes came amid mounting complaints from neighbors and were meant to clear space for San Francisco State students and staff to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those limits briefly went into effect over the summer of 2024, RV dwellers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">moved to Zoo Road near Lake Merced\u003c/a> before facing similar pushback and notices to vacate.[aside postID=news_12047353 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250502-TENDERLOINTRIAGECENTER-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. That ban on overnight parking was set to go into effect in November, but an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a> from homelessness advocates delayed it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">the Board of Supervisors later reversed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the board’s Budget and Finance Committee that his plan, which seems to have wider support, differs from previous attempts to restrict RV parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe our small businesses and residents safe and clean public spaces,” he said. “People experiencing RV homelessness deserve compassion and pathways to stability. At the same time, our neighborhoods and small businesses deserve safe and clean streets. We really do believe that we can do both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-person committee — including Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, who had voted to overturn Breed’s policy — unanimously forwarded the proposal with a positive recommendation. It also has support from Board President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio, who are co-sponsors of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, some RV dwellers who are actively pursuing housing options would be eligible to receive temporary parking permits for up to six months while they wait to relocate, Modi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots, which policy documents say would be in addition to over 300 of these subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget for families, adults and young people this year. About 437 vehicles are currently being used as housing in San Francisco, according to city documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new half-million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">rebate program\u003c/a> would also allow residents to sell their vehicles back to the city — an idea some advocates believe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">could be valuable\u003c/a> so long as RV owners get fair compensation, but others view as possibly coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, co-chair of San Francisco’s Homeless Oversight Commission, warned that the ban on long-term parking might not have a significant effect on the level of street homelessness in the city, since it’s unlikely many families will agree to a communal or highly regulated housing option over their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">told KQED earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If vehicles are towed or impounded as a result of the crackdown, she said, it could increase the strain on the city’s shelters and housing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other homelessness advocates have urged supervisors to reconsider before the whole board is expected to hear the proposal in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m asking you to please legislate from your heart,” a woman named Lucy told the supervisors in Spanish. She was one of dozens who opposed the policy during public comment. “We feel like we were not heard. I feel personally destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t bother anybody, we’re not asking for money, please just let us be in a place where we can have our home and be at peace,” she continued, speaking through tears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017563\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017563\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/231017-LakeMercedRVs-020-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023, near San Francisco State University. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s plan is the latest effort to reduce the number of people living in RVs in pockets of the city, estimated to total hundreds citywide. The vehicles have blocked sidewalks, caused traffic congestion and created health hazards that harm surrounding neighborhoods, Lurie’s chief of health, homelessness and family services, Kunal Modi, told the supervisors on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the ongoing controversy has centered on the quiet westside streets around Lake Merced, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11965352/san-francisco-rv-community-fears-new-parking-rules-could-push-them-closer-to-homelessness\">dozens of families have lived for years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents parked along Winston Drive behind Stonestown Galleria were forced to move last year after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passed new parking restrictions for the area in 2023. The changes came amid mounting complaints from neighbors and were meant to clear space for San Francisco State students and staff to park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When those limits briefly went into effect over the summer of 2024, RV dwellers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999643/unhoused-san-francisco-rv-families-forced-to-move-yet-again-with-nowhere-to-go\">moved to Zoo Road near Lake Merced\u003c/a> before facing similar pushback and notices to vacate.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the months since, oversized vehicles have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000285/unhoused-rv-families-return-to-winston-drive-after-eviction-from-s-f-zoo-road\">shuffled around the area\u003c/a> as then-Mayor London Breed and now Lurie proposed plans that sought to appease residents in surrounding neighborhoods while coming up with housing solutions, including promises to find \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970299/city-delays-parking-restrictions-near-sf-state-offering-brief-reprieve-to-rv-community\">new westside spaces for a safe parking site\u003c/a> similar to one \u003ca href=\"https://www.allhomeca.org/solutions/bayview-vehicle-triage-center/\">opened in the Bayview\u003c/a> during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Breed proposed a plan that would have allowed SFMTA to tow large vehicles if people living in them refused shelter and housing services. That ban on overnight parking was set to go into effect in November, but an \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13531123&GUID=EE66C5B2-A7B2-4941-B9E6-1F0B62A1DC95\">appeal\u003c/a> from homelessness advocates delayed it, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017544/sf-supes-reverse-citys-controversial-rv-parking-ban\">the Board of Supervisors later reversed it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi told the board’s Budget and Finance Committee that his plan, which seems to have wider support, differs from previous attempts to restrict RV parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We owe our small businesses and residents safe and clean public spaces,” he said. “People experiencing RV homelessness deserve compassion and pathways to stability. At the same time, our neighborhoods and small businesses deserve safe and clean streets. We really do believe that we can do both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-person committee — including Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar, who had voted to overturn Breed’s policy — unanimously forwarded the proposal with a positive recommendation. It also has support from Board President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisors Stephen Sherrill, Matt Dorsey and Joel Engardio, who are co-sponsors of the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/231017-LakeMercedRVs-011-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">RVs line Winston Drive in San Francisco on Oct. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, some RV dwellers who are actively pursuing housing options would be eligible to receive temporary parking permits for up to six months while they wait to relocate, Modi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also includes funding to subsidize 65 rapid rehousing slots, which policy documents say would be in addition to over 300 of these subsidies added to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s annual budget for families, adults and young people this year. About 437 vehicles are currently being used as housing in San Francisco, according to city documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new half-million-dollar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043568/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-to-ban-rvs-from-long-term-street-parking\">rebate program\u003c/a> would also allow residents to sell their vehicles back to the city — an idea some advocates believe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043516/rv-encampments-are-notoriously-hard-to-close-this-city-found-something-that-works\">could be valuable\u003c/a> so long as RV owners get fair compensation, but others view as possibly coercive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christin Evans, co-chair of San Francisco’s Homeless Oversight Commission, warned that the ban on long-term parking might not have a significant effect on the level of street homelessness in the city, since it’s unlikely many families will agree to a communal or highly regulated housing option over their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not really a rational choice for somebody to make to switch out of a vehicle where they have privacy, a private bathroom, and move into a congregate shelter where they’re in a very crowded situation,” Evans \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047353/heres-why-sf-homeless-advocates-are-glad-lurie-ditched-push-for-1500-shelter-beds\">told KQED earlier this week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If vehicles are towed or impounded as a result of the crackdown, she said, it could increase the strain on the city’s shelters and housing resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t have those resources, I don’t know that that should be our priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and other homelessness advocates have urged supervisors to reconsider before the whole board is expected to hear the proposal in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Six months into his term, San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is abandoning his headline-making campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in that time, but homelessness experts and nonprofit leaders are optimistic about the shift in priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to help end unsheltered homelessness by significantly expanding the city’s shelter capacity in his first six months, a lofty goal that some homelessness advocates warned at the time was likely both unattainable and unproductive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his election, though, Lurie doubled down on the plan in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">an executive order\u003c/a>, and in May, he announced he’d raised nearly $40 million toward the goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the six-month mark, Lurie has fallen short, with just 400 beds opening during his term so far. Now, the pivot suggests he is coming to terms with advocates’ warnings that the huge investment in short-term housing might not be the best way to address San Francisco’s homelessness and behavioral health crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Lurie’s chief of homelessness policy, Kunal Modi, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2025/07/07/we-promised-the-city-1500-shelter-beds-heres-what-were-doing-instead/\">op-ed published by the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a> on Monday that the administration will focus on “making our system more effective, not building toward a specific number of beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team members at 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Modi said that while San Francisco’s unsheltered homeless population needs places to sleep, many also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045893/sf-supervisors-preserve-millions-for-homeless-prevention-housing-in-budget\">need wraparound services\u003c/a> like drug treatment options, mental health care and more permanent housing support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates expressed optimism about the Lurie administration’s pivot, but they’re also urging the mayor not to bow to constituent pressure and initiatives that are more focused on the public’s perception of homelessness than on systemic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to resources like those wraparound services, many people who are placed in short-term shelters remain homeless, said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.[aside postID=news_12046854 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/021_SanFrancisco_Housing_07292021_qed.jpg']Right now, only 13% of people who make use of San Francisco’s different shelter types move into permanent housing, according to Friedenbach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their health outcomes are still diminished. They don’t have the stability. They don’t have that opportunity for the transformation that often takes place once folks leave homelessness behind and have a safe and dignified home,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you really want to do is make sure that folks have housing so that they can move out of shelter and then that bed can be available for someone else,” Friedenbach said. “You want to invest in prevention. That really has been our recommendation all along.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach said that ideally, when the city adds a shelter bed, it should also be adding two to three longer-term housing exits for people to move into next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, San Francisco has overinvested in shelter beds compared to other types of supportive housing, she said, which often results in a short-term reprieve from street homelessness, followed by a strong resurgence. Similarly, San Franciscans who go into \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036307/sf-expand-combination-shelter-opioid-treatment-program-homeless-residents\">drug treatment\u003c/a> but don’t have a suitable housing option to transition to often end up back on the street, she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The systems that work the best … really concentrate on system flow,” Friedenbach said. “We’ve done massive expansion to shelter over the past few years, and that has not resulted in a dramatic difference, but it’s been quite expensive. 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