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"content": "\u003cp>One outgoing supervisor is calling on the city to harmonize public health and law enforcement’s approach to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/overdose-crisis\">overdose crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although overdose deaths have dipped 20% to date this year compared to 2023, San Francisco continues to face an epidemic-level drug overdose crisis. Supervisor Dean Preston, who lost his reelection bid earlier this month, released a report on Tuesday that offers a blueprint for how San Francisco can emulate an approach used in Zurich, Switzerland – one of San Francisco’s sister cities that similarly struggled with an opioid crisis in the 1990s, but has since become an international model for overdose prevention and reducing drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is making sure the Department of Public Health, the Police Department, homeless services and others at the table are actually pursuing a unified approach, and we do not have anything like that in San Francisco right now,” Preston told KQED. “My hope is that this is a top priority for not only the new mayor but for incoming supervisors also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After implementing a “Four Pillars Strategy” that unites prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement, overdose deaths in Zurich decreased by 50% from 1991 to 2010, according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, along with a 65% decrease in HIV infections, and 80% decrease in new heroin users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF addiction expert Daniel Ciccarone has studied safe consumption sites in Zurich and around the globe. He said the report offers a “rational, clear-minded policy analysis that the city needs for this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this report is it gives us an opportunity to look at evidence-based approaches and move the city forward,” he said. “There is no good ‘Plan B.’ Relying on police interventions is not sustainable, and bribing or threatening people into treatment does not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several differences could make implementation look different between San Francisco and Zurich, including that the Swiss city is about half the size of San Francisco, has a smaller homeless population, and has more medication-assisted treatment options legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the success in Zurich, Preston requested that the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office produce the report on how San Francisco might replicate that success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13, 2024, while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Do we need to do exactly everything that Zurich has done? No. But the defining feature of their Four Pillars approach is that all of these relevant departments are working on each pillar,” he said. “They don’t just work to put Band-Aids on a situation or reactive crisis response. They actually have both a short and long-term plan for success, and that’s what this city has really been lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the report’s recommendations is a call for all departments working on overdose issues to coordinate – a seemingly simple task but one that the city has struggled to achieve throughout the current overdose crisis. For example, when the city opened up a temporary overdose prevention center in 2022, police fined some drug users for carrying publicly-funded harm reduction supplies that were provided at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie plans to initiate a state of emergency for the fentanyl crisis when he takes office in January, which Preston said could be an opportunity to implement the report’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s unclear exactly what the incoming mayor will do with the emergency powers. Lurie ran on a platform of increasing drug treatment availability, improving behavioral health interventions and creating more supportive housing, as well as using ankle monitors on first-time drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the process of setting up a meeting with Mayor-elect Lurie to go over this,” Preston said. “A culture shift needs to happen, but it’s all doable. And one of the problems right now is we just are not pursuing a unified approach to solve this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to get into the Tenderloin Linkage Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie wouldn’t be the first to declare a state of emergency, which allows the city to bypass certain bureaucratic steps to release and direct urgently needed resources. In December 2021, Mayor London Breed declared an emergency in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city. It allowed Breed to call in federal law enforcement agencies to help slow the flow of fentanyl into the city and arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her emergency order, the city temporarily opened up a safe consumption site in 2022, called the Tenderloin Center, a medically supervised space where drug users could get off the street and get free meals, showers and other basic necessities. More than 300 people visited the center daily, and health professionals reversed 100% of overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safe consumption site was intended to be temporary, and the city closed it after about 10 months following public criticism and scrutiny from local businesses who complained about long lines outside extending into United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, San Francisco released an Overdose Prevention Plan that called for opening up replacement centers in more dispersed wellness hubs around the city. However, today, efforts to open such centers remain at a standstill and political willpower to make them happen has waned in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000161 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/021_SanFrancisco_StFrancisER_08262021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report also recommends that the city open up safe consumption sites and coordinate with law enforcement to help people move safely indoors and reduce drug use in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report also calls for expanding medication-assisted treatment, like buprenorphine, which helps curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms for people struggling with opioid addiction. The city has increased access to this type of therapy by reducing barriers, such as providing medication treatment on demand to residents in permanent supportive housing and expanding the city’s behavioral health pharmacy hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see more people accept treatment, whether it’s abstinence-based, buprenorphine or methadone,” Mayor London Breed told reporters at a Monday press conference about the city’s overdose response. “The people are out there doing the work and making sure that folks know it’s not a one-size-fits-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, about 75% of Zurich residents with opioid addiction take medication for opioid use disorder. But in San Francisco, only about 25% of people struggling with opioid use disorder are connected to medication-assisted treatments, according to the BLA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because many people struggling with opioid addiction may not know that the treatment options exist, said San Francisco resident Juliana Gurrola Nuño, who is now part of the city’s public health campaign \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">promoting available drug treatment and stories of San Franciscans\u003c/a> who benefitted from recovery services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are services available to help you start your recovery journey, even if it’s just taking the first small step. 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He said the report offers a “rational, clear-minded policy analysis that the city needs for this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this report is it gives us an opportunity to look at evidence-based approaches and move the city forward,” he said. “There is no good ‘Plan B.’ Relying on police interventions is not sustainable, and bribing or threatening people into treatment does not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several differences could make implementation look different between San Francisco and Zurich, including that the Swiss city is about half the size of San Francisco, has a smaller homeless population, and has more medication-assisted treatment options legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the success in Zurich, Preston requested that the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office produce the report on how San Francisco might replicate that success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13, 2024, while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Do we need to do exactly everything that Zurich has done? No. But the defining feature of their Four Pillars approach is that all of these relevant departments are working on each pillar,” he said. “They don’t just work to put Band-Aids on a situation or reactive crisis response. They actually have both a short and long-term plan for success, and that’s what this city has really been lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the report’s recommendations is a call for all departments working on overdose issues to coordinate – a seemingly simple task but one that the city has struggled to achieve throughout the current overdose crisis. For example, when the city opened up a temporary overdose prevention center in 2022, police fined some drug users for carrying publicly-funded harm reduction supplies that were provided at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie plans to initiate a state of emergency for the fentanyl crisis when he takes office in January, which Preston said could be an opportunity to implement the report’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s unclear exactly what the incoming mayor will do with the emergency powers. Lurie ran on a platform of increasing drug treatment availability, improving behavioral health interventions and creating more supportive housing, as well as using ankle monitors on first-time drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the process of setting up a meeting with Mayor-elect Lurie to go over this,” Preston said. “A culture shift needs to happen, but it’s all doable. 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More than 300 people visited the center daily, and health professionals reversed 100% of overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safe consumption site was intended to be temporary, and the city closed it after about 10 months following public criticism and scrutiny from local businesses who complained about long lines outside extending into United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, San Francisco released an Overdose Prevention Plan that called for opening up replacement centers in more dispersed wellness hubs around the city. However, today, efforts to open such centers remain at a standstill and political willpower to make them happen has waned in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report also recommends that the city open up safe consumption sites and coordinate with law enforcement to help people move safely indoors and reduce drug use in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report also calls for expanding medication-assisted treatment, like buprenorphine, which helps curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms for people struggling with opioid addiction. The city has increased access to this type of therapy by reducing barriers, such as providing medication treatment on demand to residents in permanent supportive housing and expanding the city’s behavioral health pharmacy hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see more people accept treatment, whether it’s abstinence-based, buprenorphine or methadone,” Mayor London Breed told reporters at a Monday press conference about the city’s overdose response. “The people are out there doing the work and making sure that folks know it’s not a one-size-fits-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, about 75% of Zurich residents with opioid addiction take medication for opioid use disorder. But in San Francisco, only about 25% of people struggling with opioid use disorder are connected to medication-assisted treatments, according to the BLA report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because many people struggling with opioid addiction may not know that the treatment options exist, said San Francisco resident Juliana Gurrola Nuño, who is now part of the city’s public health campaign \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014134/sf-launches-media-campaign-to-promote-addiction-treatment-and-recovery-services\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">promoting available drug treatment and stories of San Franciscans\u003c/a> who benefitted from recovery services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are services available to help you start your recovery journey, even if it’s just taking the first small step. But not every person struggling with addiction knows about these resources,” she told reporters at the news conference. “I know that when I was in my addiction, I had no idea of any of these services. I want to change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was a rough night Tuesday for San Francisco’s incumbent supervisors who are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco\">up for reelection\u003c/a> — all three are in tight races and at risk of losing their seats on the progressive-majority board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most likely to be ousted, it seems, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dean-preston\">Dean Preston\u003c/a> — the only self-described democratic socialist on the Board of Supervisors and a lightning rod for critics of the city’s left who has publicly sparred with people from Mayor London Breed to Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors’ opponents say the backlash feels like a statement from San Franciscans: they’re not happy with the current state of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an anti-incumbency wave in San Francisco,” Bilal Mahmood, who looks poised to be the next District 5 supervisor, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After multiple rounds of ranked choice elimination, narrowed the field to two candidates, Mahmood led Preston by about 6 percentage points, according to San Francisco’s latest update around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. In District 1, fewer than 40 votes separate Supervisor Connie Chan and Marjan Philhour, a local business owner who narrowly lost to Chan in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Supervisor Myrna Melgar leads in District 7, she is in a much tighter race than she anticipated — only about 700 votes, or 3 percentage points, ahead of challenger Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s District 5, which spans the Tenderloin, Western Addition, Fillmore and Hayes Valley neighborhoods, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012416/san-franciscos-elections-big-money-against-progressive-incumbents\">the most expensive\u003c/a> — and high-profile — of the six supervisor races this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston, who picked up prominent endorsements from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), took an early lead in first-choice votes, ranked choice rounds that knocked out candidates running to his right and redistributed their votes have given Mahmood a significant boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood and one of those candidates, Scotty Jacobs, had a joint ranked choice voting strategy, but Mahmood said his early success points to dissatisfaction among District 5 constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something that we heard at the doors is that in the end, the differences between me and [Preston] in terms of what was resonating with voters wasn’t just that he wasn’t talking about the issues, it’s that he wasn’t listening to people,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990534\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-17-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston campaigns for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5 at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mahmood and the other main challenger, Autumn Looijen, spent much of the campaign attacking Preston’s record, calling him ineffective and uncompromising as a leader. GrowSF, a moderate political action committee, poured money into a campaign against his reelection focused on blaming him for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997837/yimby-lawsuit-over-sf-supervisor-dean-prestons-housing-record-is-thrown-out\">a lack of new housing\u003c/a> and calling him soft on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">drug and homelessness crises\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look at the priorities of Dean [Preston] and myself,” Mahmood told KQED. “We were both talking about wanting to build more housing, but the fundamental difference was that Dean [Preston] has a track record and a reputation for being ideologically obstinate and very divisive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston said in a statement on Wednesday that the race is still too close to call, and he pointed to the GrowSF and other moderate influences working against him throughout the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ran a truly grassroots campaign, neighbor to neighbor, and are proud to have been able to match vote-for-vote a two-year disinformation campaign funded by tech and real estate billionaires,” the statement reads. “We are hopeful that the late vote will cut our way and are looking forward to the next set of returns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District 1, a similar story is playing out, though the margins so far are thinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Live 2024 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco,San Francisco: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/10/Aside-Results-Local-Elections-San-Francisco-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race is a rematch between Chan and Philhour, who lost by just over 100 votes in 2020. This time around, Philhour is leading by only 35 votes. She said in a statement that with “thousands of ballots left to count,” she would be waiting for the city’s elections department to make an updated announcement on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is Philhour’s third run for the seat in District 1, which stretches from the Richmond District and Sea Cliff to the University of San Francisco. The local business owner has campaigned on bringing a more moderate perspective, including support for a “fully funded” police department and cracking down on homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While labor groups showed strong financial support for Chan, GrowSF also spent on a campaign to “Clear Out Connie Chan.” The group endorsed none of the incumbent candidates for supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgar, representing the Inner Sunset and much of the city’s west side, is in a closer-than-expected race against Boschetto. She \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/05/san-francisco-election-2024-live-results/\">told\u003c/a>\u003cem> The San Francisco Standard \u003c/em>at her election night watch party that she didn’t think anyone of note would run against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had prepared for a real race, but I didn’t think I was going to have to run one,” she said. “I left it all on the table. I feel good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boschetto had endorsements from GrowSF and another moderate political group, TogetherSF Action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Mayor London Breed is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012353/daniel-lurie-leads-as-early-results-for-san-franciscos-mayors-race-come-in\">at risk of being ousted\u003c/a> unless she can make up significant ground in later vote drops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the apparent anti-incumbent wave threatens the progressive wing’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11787512/after-sf-progressives-win-big-a-shift-in-dynamics-at-city-hall\">Board of Supervisors majority gained in 2019\u003c/a>, before San Francisco’s official Democratic Party this spring voted in a new majority-moderate leadership board, one progressive candidate is faring well. In District 9, which covers the Mission District, Jackie Fielder is leading in early returns to fill the seat vacated by termed-out progressive Supervisor Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Wednesday morning, Fielder held a firm lead with 57% of the votes after ranked choice tallying, followed by moderate opponent Trevor Chandler with nearly 43% of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Elections plans to post its next round of updated results and begin calling some of the outstanding races on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an anti-incumbency wave in San Francisco,” Bilal Mahmood, who looks poised to be the next District 5 supervisor, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After multiple rounds of ranked choice elimination, narrowed the field to two candidates, Mahmood led Preston by about 6 percentage points, according to San Francisco’s latest update around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. In District 1, fewer than 40 votes separate Supervisor Connie Chan and Marjan Philhour, a local business owner who narrowly lost to Chan in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Supervisor Myrna Melgar leads in District 7, she is in a much tighter race than she anticipated — only about 700 votes, or 3 percentage points, ahead of challenger Matt Boschetto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston’s District 5, which spans the Tenderloin, Western Addition, Fillmore and Hayes Valley neighborhoods, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012416/san-franciscos-elections-big-money-against-progressive-incumbents\">the most expensive\u003c/a> — and high-profile — of the six supervisor races this election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston, who picked up prominent endorsements from Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Sen. 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They had been on a city program that provides cash assistance to low-income residents, they say, but Jay missed his most recent check-in, so he lost his eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts invites the couple to walk with him the two blocks back to GLIDE, where there’s hot fried chicken being served — and options to sign up for a place to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can help get you guys assessed, get you a number to give you an idea of how long it’s going to be [to get housed]. In the meantime, I can get you guys into shelters,” Roberts tells Trisha and Jay, who are already packing the blanket they’re sitting on into a rolling cart carrying the rest of their belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want, even today, I can get you guys a place to stay. It’s up to you guys, if you come with us,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly agree, and Roberts is back on the move to tell them about their possible next steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. They all start with a 7:30 a.m. meeting before heading out to their designated zones in pairs for morning rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clean up everything from last night’s parties or encampments that were started,” Roberts says as he picks up littered receipts and dumps them into the quickly filling trash can he’s pushing. “We want to get the streets as clean for the community as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors are acutely aware that the Tenderloin is also home to a community of small businesses — and one of the largest child populations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to walk and access services too,” Gina Fromer, GLIDE’s president and CEO, said at a morning meeting full of song, prayer and friendly greetings Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Colorado, the executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants and Property Owners Association, said he’s seen the ambassadors out and about, doing a lot of cleaning that helps the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one above picking up some garbage; there’s no one below engaging with ‘Good morning,’ ‘How are you doing today?’” said Sam Dodge, the director of street response coordination for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has worked closely with GLIDE to get the ambassador program up and running, and said it has made real gains in the community, despite a long road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy. It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. That’s unconditional love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Kenneth Holloway (left) and Chaz Cobb pick up trash on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they walk along picking up trash, the ambassadors also check in with anyone sitting or lying on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are idle,” says Kenneth Holloway, another ambassador. “By going up and engaging, saying ‘Hi,’ letting them know GLIDE has lunch, it kind of re-enlivens them. Telling them to just go around the corner and get something to eat, something to drink. And now look — do you see anybody still sitting there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After heading out of GLIDE’s headquarters on Ellis Street and up Taylor, Holloway engages with familiar faces like a man known as Smooth, whom the ambassadors see just about every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, he’s having a good day; sometimes he comes down to GLIDE and gets food. Sometimes, it’s like, he’s not,” Holloway says. “But either way, we’re here; we say, ‘I still got you,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holloway has been in San Francisco for a long time, though he was in prison for about 30 years of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the front page of the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> one time. I robbed a bank and I shot some people many years ago,” he says as he walks back to GLIDE for lunch alongside clients and regulars in need of a warm meal. “I’m almost 60 now, but I didn’t want to be acting like I’m some Puritan person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors, who travel in pairs, are all considered low-threshold case managers, meaning they’re trained in “starting the process of bringing people out of marginalization back into community,” LaSala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s their focus in the afternoon, though they all have a different area of expertise. Some work on street beautification, while others, like Holloway, offer people on the streets snacks and socks, grab water from corner stores, and encourage them to come to GLIDE for meals, harm reduction tools and other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts looks for ways to connect his clients with housing. Sometimes it can take many tries to get people into a housing option that works for them. But when it happens, he says, “it’s a success story for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a couple with a dog that I’ve been working with since we started in July,” he tells KQED. “I finally got them housing on Monday for both of them in the same spot with their animals. You know, it’s very gratifying because we went through like three different shelters to get to where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s often said that people on the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter\">refuse shelter\u003c/a>, LaSala said that the truth is more complicated than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t accept housing that feels dangerous to them,” she told KQED. “So, yes, we have folks who are afraid to go into the shelter system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced any one of our clients refusing long-term housing, but what I have experienced is people afraid to go into the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12006541 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qed.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, Roberts has gotten eight people into shelters and 13 into the Journey Home program, a relocation assistance service that Breed required to be the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\">first offer\u003c/a> for unhoused residents starting in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts also regularly checks in on his many clients who are still on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know these people, I know them by face,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been times when he’s out on a shift and comes across one of his clients in a tense situation with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of talking to them like … somebody that’s committing crime, I come up and I talk to them like a person, and I make them remember who they are,” Roberts says. “I ask, ‘Hey, it’s me, man. What can I do for you?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ambassador says he’s helped reverse seven overdoses in his first two and a half months on the job. More than two dozen people have been referred to recovery support groups, and four have been placed in sober living environments, according to GLIDE’s early data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE “allowed my lived experience to be a viable, marketable, usable tool to help them,” Holloway said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They gave me the opportunity to really help me too — I’m employed. When I stand up and get to see you on the street, I get to stand up with a straight face and almost be on equal footing with everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The community ambassador program that has Roberts and others walking the streets of the Tenderloin was launched in July in honor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983768/cecil-williams-legendary-pastor-of-glide-church-dies-at-94\">the late Cecil Williams\u003c/a> — GLIDE’s longtime pastor and a civil rights leader — and funded by Mayor London Breed’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">30X30 downtown revitalization plan\u003c/a>. Its goals are to make the Tenderloin safer and cleaner, build community in the neighborhood and ease peoples’ transition from the streets to housing and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The launch came at a tough time for the Tenderloin, as Breed promised aggressive encampment sweeps after a Supreme Court decision made it easier for cities to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">cite or arrest people for sleeping on the streets\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998871/the-rhetoric-is-amplified-sf-homeless-sweeps-a-focal-point-of-mayors-race\">tight re-election year\u003c/a> for Breed, all eyes have been on how the mayor handles the neighborhood’s notorious problems, and how her challengers say they would if elected next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassador Kenneth Holloway checks to see if an unhoused person is in need of medical care in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Crackdowns and sweeps have certainly had an effect on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006541/sfs-homeless-sweeps-have-cleared-over-1200-tents-where-are-people-going\">the number of tents and visible encampments\u003c/a> on the area’s sidewalks since August, but GLIDE’s strategy is emblematic of another approach to people experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit’s chief operating and information officer Donna LaSala said its work has a “special sauce” that helps people not just move around more but get off the streets for good, and also serves to revitalize the neighborhood, which has become increasingly fraught in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cecil said all the time, ‘We got to be for the people, feet in the street,’” LaSala told KQED. “And so what we did was we launched an ambassador program to bring those feet in the street and bring our walk-in center out into the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, we’re out there cleaning the neighborhood — almost as an excuse to be there and to build the trust and to engage with folks,” she continued. “Our ultimate goal is to create a relationship so we can get them to trust us so that we can bring them into services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLIDE’s seven community ambassadors have lived experiences that make it easier for them to connect with potential clients, and understand which resources to offer and how.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are these people,” said Roberts, who grew up in Reno, Nevada, where he said he experienced a lot of problems similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997174/sfs-top-district-5-candidates-outline-bold-plans-to-tackle-drug-crisis-in-tenderloin\">those the Tenderloin is facing\u003c/a>. He moved to San Francisco after being released from incarceration, looking for a fresh start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only difference between them and me is that I have a roof over my head at the moment. But, you know, that’s subject to change. If I miss a paycheck or two, guess what? I’m in the same position that they are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009986\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009986\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Jamika Love and Ezellia Johnson speak with unhoused people in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Roberts leads one of the four ambassador teams at GLIDE. They all start with a 7:30 a.m. meeting before heading out to their designated zones in pairs for morning rounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We clean up everything from last night’s parties or encampments that were started,” Roberts says as he picks up littered receipts and dumps them into the quickly filling trash can he’s pushing. “We want to get the streets as clean for the community as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors are acutely aware that the Tenderloin is also home to a community of small businesses — and one of the largest child populations in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They need to be able to walk and access services too,” Gina Fromer, GLIDE’s president and CEO, said at a morning meeting full of song, prayer and friendly greetings Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rene Colorado, the executive director of the Tenderloin Merchants and Property Owners Association, said he’s seen the ambassadors out and about, doing a lot of cleaning that helps the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one above picking up some garbage; there’s no one below engaging with ‘Good morning,’ ‘How are you doing today?’” said Sam Dodge, the director of street response coordination for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has worked closely with GLIDE to get the ambassador program up and running, and said it has made real gains in the community, despite a long road ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy. It’s a marathon. It’s coming back and back,” he says to the ambassadors. “Our friend here said it’s giving people three or four chances — no, we’re in the double digits at least. That’s unconditional love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009981\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009981\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-GLIDE-COMMUNITY-AMBASSADORS-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLIDE Community Ambassadors Kenneth Holloway (left) and Chaz Cobb pick up trash on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they walk along picking up trash, the ambassadors also check in with anyone sitting or lying on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are idle,” says Kenneth Holloway, another ambassador. “By going up and engaging, saying ‘Hi,’ letting them know GLIDE has lunch, it kind of re-enlivens them. Telling them to just go around the corner and get something to eat, something to drink. And now look — do you see anybody still sitting there?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After heading out of GLIDE’s headquarters on Ellis Street and up Taylor, Holloway engages with familiar faces like a man known as Smooth, whom the ambassadors see just about every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, he’s having a good day; sometimes he comes down to GLIDE and gets food. Sometimes, it’s like, he’s not,” Holloway says. “But either way, we’re here; we say, ‘I still got you,’ every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holloway has been in San Francisco for a long time, though he was in prison for about 30 years of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the front page of the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> one time. I robbed a bank and I shot some people many years ago,” he says as he walks back to GLIDE for lunch alongside clients and regulars in need of a warm meal. “I’m almost 60 now, but I didn’t want to be acting like I’m some Puritan person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ambassadors, who travel in pairs, are all considered low-threshold case managers, meaning they’re trained in “starting the process of bringing people out of marginalization back into community,” LaSala said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s their focus in the afternoon, though they all have a different area of expertise. Some work on street beautification, while others, like Holloway, offer people on the streets snacks and socks, grab water from corner stores, and encourage them to come to GLIDE for meals, harm reduction tools and other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roberts looks for ways to connect his clients with housing. Sometimes it can take many tries to get people into a housing option that works for them. But when it happens, he says, “it’s a success story for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a couple with a dog that I’ve been working with since we started in July,” he tells KQED. “I finally got them housing on Monday for both of them in the same spot with their animals. You know, it’s very gratifying because we went through like three different shelters to get to where we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s often said that people on the streets \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter\">refuse shelter\u003c/a>, LaSala said that the truth is more complicated than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t accept housing that feels dangerous to them,” she told KQED. “So, yes, we have folks who are afraid to go into the shelter system here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never experienced any one of our clients refusing long-term housing, but what I have experienced is people afraid to go into the shelters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Facing a tough reelection this November, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s “tough-love” approach to homelessness in the city has become increasingly vitriolic — an approach some critics say could put actual lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">Breed vowed to begin “aggressively” removing people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> from encampments beginning in August. She told reporters, “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing. She continued, “We will be using law enforcement to cite, and those citations can get progressive and can lead to a misdemeanor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified rhetoric comes as voter polling \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/2022-bay-area-council-poll-voters-demand-get-tough-approach-on-homelessness/\">frequently shows homelessness is a top issue for San Franciscans\u003c/a> and as the incumbent seeks to overcome challengers’ accusations that she hasn’t done enough to clean the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order last month\u003c/a>, directing state agencies to clear encampments from state properties, along with a majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, which gave cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">fine or jail people for camping on sidewalks and in parks\u003c/a> — even if no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. Chan and others also urged the city to rapidly fill the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-tents-vacancy-sros-street-18348739.php\">hundreds of empty permanent supportive housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The irony of people who are denied housing but are offered jail on a daily basis is really concerning,” Chan said. “I think every San Franciscan should really take stock of this moment and push our city to use our resources much more wisely and much more humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Facing a tough reelection this November, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s “tough-love” approach to homelessness in the city has become increasingly vitriolic — an approach some critics say could put actual lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">Breed vowed to begin “aggressively” removing people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> from encampments beginning in August. She told reporters, “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing. She continued, “We will be using law enforcement to cite, and those citations can get progressive and can lead to a misdemeanor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified rhetoric comes as voter polling \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/2022-bay-area-council-poll-voters-demand-get-tough-approach-on-homelessness/\">frequently shows homelessness is a top issue for San Franciscans\u003c/a> and as the incumbent seeks to overcome challengers’ accusations that she hasn’t done enough to clean the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order last month\u003c/a>, directing state agencies to clear encampments from state properties, along with a majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, which gave cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">fine or jail people for camping on sidewalks and in parks\u003c/a> — even if no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Democratic Party endorsed Bilal Mahmood for District 5 supervisor on Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote for Mahmood, an elected member of the Democratic County Central Committee, occurred just hours after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997233/nancy-pelosi-endorses-democratic-socialist-dean-preston-for-san-francisco-d5-supervisor\">announced she was endorsing incumbent Dean Preston\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the district is represented by Preston, Mahmood or Autumn Looijen, another top candidate, might be determined by how voters feel about the Tenderloin, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982329/tenderloins-troubles-take-center-stage-in-city-elections\">San Francisco’s drug epidemic is on full display\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">deadliest on record\u003c/a> for overdose deaths in San Francisco when the city recorded 810. As of June, there have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/2024%2007_OCME%20Overdose%20Report.pdf\">374 accidental overdose deaths\u003c/a> in 2024, according to data from the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Almost a quarter — 21% — of overdoses have occurred in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During 2022’s redistricting, the Tenderloin was added to District 5, which now includes Japantown, Western Addition and Haight Ashbury. The overdose data and discontent over street conditions make Preston vulnerable in his reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders have tried to address the drug crisis. In December 2021, Mayor London Breed issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">state of emergency\u003c/a>, and in May 2023, her office launched the Drug Market Agency Coordination Center to streamline efforts by local law enforcement and other city departments to shut down open-air drug dealing in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.[aside postID=news_11997233 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67599_230802-CableCarAnniversary-13-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Mayoral candidates Daniel Lurie and Mark Farrell have promised to implement similar emergency plans if elected. Both target fentanyl, which accounted for around 80% of overdoses in 2023 and 71% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, Mahmood and Looijen have also announced proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has advocated for the city to adopt the “Four Pillars” strategy, an approach to combating addiction developed in Europe in the 1990s. At an April event, Mahmood said he would advocate for drug market intervention, a strategy developed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Looijen announced her “Fenta-NIL” plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, who worked as a senior policy adviser in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration, weighed in on the candidates’ approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dean Preston\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preston, the only democratic socialist on the Board of Supervisors, has faced criticism over his handling of the fentanyl crisis since his district absorbed much of the Tenderloin. He has butted heads with moderate officials, including Breed, who believe increased policing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mahmood and Looijen have pointed to Preston’s apprehension to support arresting fentanyl dealers, adding that he dismissed the approach as pointless in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/fentanyl-dealers-san-francisco-17801754.php\">according\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston denied the assertion. He said that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.deanprestonsf.com/press-releases/preston-calls-4-pillars\">“Four Pillars” strategy\u003c/a> — prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement — includes policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our approach includes enforcement of laws against fentanyl dealing and targeting and disruption of the fentanyl supply,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy promotes collaboration between law enforcement, social service providers and public health officials as equal partners. The goal is to use police enforcement to maintain public order and lower barriers to treatment and harm reduction resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that idea of recognizing all four pillars as valuable. I don’t think we’ve had enough of that,” said Humphreys, who advises Congress on strategies for reducing drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Four Pillars were first implemented in Switzerland and resulted in a 50% decrease in overdose deaths in the country by 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/inside_switzerlands_radical_drug_policy_innovation\">according\u003c/a> to the Stanford Social Innovation Review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another priority for Preston is opening more safe injection and overdose prevention sites, like the defunct Tenderloin Center that was introduced as part of Breed’s 2021 state of emergency. Preston blames Breed for closing the center in December 2022 and increasing the policing of drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by SFPD, law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-breed-proposes-community-led-solution-increase-nighttime-safety-tenderloin-limiting\">arrested\u003c/a> 1,284 drug users and 1,008 drug dealers during the drug market coordination center’s first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve arrested almost 1,000 people for the ‘crime’ basically of being addicted to drugs instead of addressing it as a health crisis or a criminal law enforcement issue,” Preston told KQED. “That doesn’t do anything. Studies show it increases overdose deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city should open more wellness hubs like the Tenderloin Center. The Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/SFDPH%20Overdose%20Prevention%20Plan%202022_EN.pdf\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, released in 2022, said that at least two should have been established within two years. Despite requests from his office, none have opened, Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that overdose prevention sites do offer a safer place for those who use them, but the sites can be expensive, and the city could get better output for its money with a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t touch much of the population,” he said of the sites. “The people who use them don’t tend to use them very much, and people who use them also don’t seem to change their behavior much outside the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilal Mahmood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahmood announced his plan to address the drug crisis alongside District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey at a campaign event in April. Both are supporters of drug market intervention, a strategy that has been implemented in cities across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, said the DMI approach is “long overdue to try in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t get rid of drugs, but it does get the dealers off the corner, which has all kinds of good benefits,” he said. “Kids can walk to school more safely. The whole neighborhood feels really different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMI has three components: incapacitation, deterrence and prevention. Mahmood, who California Attorney General Rob Bonta endorsed, said that the first step of DMI is identifying and building cases against drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealers are then presented with the evidence against them and offered one chance to quit before drug markets are shut down, according to Humphreys. Anyone who is arrested for dealing drugs after the initial crackdown faces prosecution and potentially jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get people to leave [drug dealing] on their own, save a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of lives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying dealers, building cases, and eventually, keeping markets closed requires collaboration between local law enforcement, prosecutors and community members. This can make DMI challenging since law enforcement and the communities they police often distrust each other, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there has to be some atonement,” he told KQED. “It often has to begin with police saying, ‘We’re sorry that what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working, about many bad incidents that have happened over the years, but we want to have a good relationship and work with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood also supports the drug-free housing legislation proposed at the city level by Dorsey and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. The legislation would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autumn Looijen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She gained notoriety after co-leading the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897089/its-going-to-make-it-worse-parents-wary-of-sf-school-board-recall\">recall of three San Francisco school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. She also launched SF Guardians, a political action committee with an associated program that trains candidates running for office. She said that DMI would be a part of her “Fenta-NIL” plan, which calls for cutting drug supply and demand, cleaning streets and adding beat cops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone choosing to deal drugs to our people after that day would be immediately arrested and sent to federal court,” Looijen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1920x1304.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen poses for a portrait at Alamo Square Park on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Looijen is running against Dean Preston for the District 5 Board of Supervisor seat in November. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that most drug dealers’ cases will likely be handled at the city and state levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Federal resources in this area are limited and have to be carefully prioritized,” he said. “Although it is often possible to charge low-level drug dealers under federal law, most federal prosecutors would prefer to devote their limited resources to big fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen’s plan also calls for more drug-assisted treatment beds and clearing neighborhood blocks of drug use. She also supports Dorsey and Mandelman’s proposal.[aside postID=news_11982329 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-003-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']Humphreys said that having streets free of drug sales and use would be a good indicator of whether the city’s efforts to suppress drug markets were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen told KQED that she would also advocate for increased penalties for dealing drugs in the proximity of treatment centers and sober living housing. The penalties would be similar to a policy introduced in 2022 by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that considers enhancements for drug dealing within 1,000 feet of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is the only candidate who has said she would support compelled treatment as a last resort when drug use is affecting the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be on the table,” she said. “I don’t like the idea of having to arrest drug users, but I think it does need to be in our pocket as a last resort to get them into treatment. I realize that forced treatment has a much lower success rate, but that rate is not zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that coerced treatment has mixed results at best. While some people do respond to compelled treatment, it’s generally not a pathway for sustained recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research has found that coerced treatment can actually increase overdose risk after the treatment course has ended. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938130/\">Research published\u003c/a> in the Society for the Study of Addiction in 2019 found that involuntary treatment was associated with an increased risk of non-fatal overdoses for those who inject drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a strategy of last resort after we’ve implemented extensive low barrier and culturally appropriate voluntary treatment,” Humphreys said. “I think the city has done a decent job, but in the treatment system, there’s still a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mayoral candidates Daniel Lurie and Mark Farrell have promised to implement similar emergency plans if elected. Both target fentanyl, which accounted for around 80% of overdoses in 2023 and 71% this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, Mahmood and Looijen have also announced proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston has advocated for the city to adopt the “Four Pillars” strategy, an approach to combating addiction developed in Europe in the 1990s. At an April event, Mahmood said he would advocate for drug market intervention, a strategy developed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Looijen announced her “Fenta-NIL” plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Humphreys, who worked as a senior policy adviser in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration, weighed in on the candidates’ approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dean Preston\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Preston, the only democratic socialist on the Board of Supervisors, has faced criticism over his handling of the fentanyl crisis since his district absorbed much of the Tenderloin. He has butted heads with moderate officials, including Breed, who believe increased policing is necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mahmood and Looijen have pointed to Preston’s apprehension to support arresting fentanyl dealers, adding that he dismissed the approach as pointless in 2023, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article/fentanyl-dealers-san-francisco-17801754.php\">according\u003c/a> to \u003cem>The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990539\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990539\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240613-DeanPreston-38-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13 while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Preston denied the assertion. He said that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.deanprestonsf.com/press-releases/preston-calls-4-pillars\">“Four Pillars” strategy\u003c/a> — prevention, treatment, harm reduction and enforcement — includes policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our approach includes enforcement of laws against fentanyl dealing and targeting and disruption of the fentanyl supply,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy promotes collaboration between law enforcement, social service providers and public health officials as equal partners. The goal is to use police enforcement to maintain public order and lower barriers to treatment and harm reduction resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that idea of recognizing all four pillars as valuable. I don’t think we’ve had enough of that,” said Humphreys, who advises Congress on strategies for reducing drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Four Pillars were first implemented in Switzerland and resulted in a 50% decrease in overdose deaths in the country by 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://ssir.org/articles/entry/inside_switzerlands_radical_drug_policy_innovation\">according\u003c/a> to the Stanford Social Innovation Review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another priority for Preston is opening more safe injection and overdose prevention sites, like the defunct Tenderloin Center that was introduced as part of Breed’s 2021 state of emergency. Preston blames Breed for closing the center in December 2022 and increasing the policing of drug users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data released by SFPD, law enforcement officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/mayor-breed-proposes-community-led-solution-increase-nighttime-safety-tenderloin-limiting\">arrested\u003c/a> 1,284 drug users and 1,008 drug dealers during the drug market coordination center’s first year of operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve arrested almost 1,000 people for the ‘crime’ basically of being addicted to drugs instead of addressing it as a health crisis or a criminal law enforcement issue,” Preston told KQED. “That doesn’t do anything. Studies show it increases overdose deaths.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city should open more wellness hubs like the Tenderloin Center. The Department of Public Health’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/SFDPH%20Overdose%20Prevention%20Plan%202022_EN.pdf\">Overdose Prevention Plan\u003c/a>, released in 2022, said that at least two should have been established within two years. Despite requests from his office, none have opened, Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that overdose prevention sites do offer a safer place for those who use them, but the sites can be expensive, and the city could get better output for its money with a different strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t touch much of the population,” he said of the sites. “The people who use them don’t tend to use them very much, and people who use them also don’t seem to change their behavior much outside the site.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bilal Mahmood\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mahmood announced his plan to address the drug crisis alongside District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey at a campaign event in April. Both are supporters of drug market intervention, a strategy that has been implemented in cities across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, said the DMI approach is “long overdue to try in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240410-BilalMahmood-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board of Supervisors District 5 candidate Bilal Mahmood speaks during a press conference about his strategy to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco on April 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t get rid of drugs, but it does get the dealers off the corner, which has all kinds of good benefits,” he said. “Kids can walk to school more safely. The whole neighborhood feels really different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DMI has three components: incapacitation, deterrence and prevention. Mahmood, who California Attorney General Rob Bonta endorsed, said that the first step of DMI is identifying and building cases against drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dealers are then presented with the evidence against them and offered one chance to quit before drug markets are shut down, according to Humphreys. Anyone who is arrested for dealing drugs after the initial crackdown faces prosecution and potentially jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can get people to leave [drug dealing] on their own, save a lot of money, a lot of time and a lot of lives,” Mahmood said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Identifying dealers, building cases, and eventually, keeping markets closed requires collaboration between local law enforcement, prosecutors and community members. This can make DMI challenging since law enforcement and the communities they police often distrust each other, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes there has to be some atonement,” he told KQED. “It often has to begin with police saying, ‘We’re sorry that what we’ve been doing hasn’t been working, about many bad incidents that have happened over the years, but we want to have a good relationship and work with you.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood also supports the drug-free housing legislation proposed at the city level by Dorsey and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. The legislation would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">require the city to create more drug-free recovery housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Autumn Looijen\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She gained notoriety after co-leading the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897089/its-going-to-make-it-worse-parents-wary-of-sf-school-board-recall\">recall of three San Francisco school board members\u003c/a> in 2022. She also launched SF Guardians, a political action committee with an associated program that trains candidates running for office. She said that DMI would be a part of her “Fenta-NIL” plan, which calls for cutting drug supply and demand, cleaning streets and adding beat cops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone choosing to deal drugs to our people after that day would be immediately arrested and sent to federal court,” Looijen told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601_BOSPORTRAIT-6-KQED-1920x1304.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Autumn Looijen poses for a portrait at Alamo Square Park on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Looijen is running against Dean Preston for the District 5 Board of Supervisor seat in November. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that most drug dealers’ cases will likely be handled at the city and state levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Federal resources in this area are limited and have to be carefully prioritized,” he said. “Although it is often possible to charge low-level drug dealers under federal law, most federal prosecutors would prefer to devote their limited resources to big fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen’s plan also calls for more drug-assisted treatment beds and clearing neighborhood blocks of drug use. She also supports Dorsey and Mandelman’s proposal.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Humphreys said that having streets free of drug sales and use would be a good indicator of whether the city’s efforts to suppress drug markets were successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looijen told KQED that she would also advocate for increased penalties for dealing drugs in the proximity of treatment centers and sober living housing. The penalties would be similar to a policy introduced in 2022 by District Attorney Brooke Jenkins that considers enhancements for drug dealing within 1,000 feet of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is the only candidate who has said she would support compelled treatment as a last resort when drug use is affecting the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything has to be on the table,” she said. “I don’t like the idea of having to arrest drug users, but I think it does need to be in our pocket as a last resort to get them into treatment. I realize that forced treatment has a much lower success rate, but that rate is not zero.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphreys said that coerced treatment has mixed results at best. While some people do respond to compelled treatment, it’s generally not a pathway for sustained recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some research has found that coerced treatment can actually increase overdose risk after the treatment course has ended. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938130/\">Research published\u003c/a> in the Society for the Study of Addiction in 2019 found that involuntary treatment was associated with an increased risk of non-fatal overdoses for those who inject drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a strategy of last resort after we’ve implemented extensive low barrier and culturally appropriate voluntary treatment,” Humphreys said. “I think the city has done a decent job, but in the treatment system, there’s still a long way to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note:\u003c/strong> This story was updated at 2 p.m. July 28 to add context around a January social media post by Garry Tan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaker Emerita \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996704/former-speaker-nancy-pelosi-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president\">Nancy Pelosi\u003c/a> endorsed Dean Preston, the progressive incumbent, for District 5 supervisor on Wednesday, KQED confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The endorsement from one of the country’s most powerful Democrats came as a major boost in an already heated election for Preston, whose jurisdiction includes the Tenderloin, Haight Ashbury, Fillmore, Japantown and Hayes Valley. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">\u003cem>Politico\u003c/em> first \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/24/pelosi-endorses-progressive-san-francisco-00170980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> the endorsement\u003c/span>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a powerful endorsement from one of San Francisco’s most important leaders, and I look forward to working with Speaker Emerita Pelosi in our united effort to defeat Donald Trump and address the challenges facing our city,” Preston said in a statement. “In our district, Speaker Emerita Pelosi has championed crucial federal investments in our neighborhoods. I’m very grateful for her support in this race.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, a democratic socialist, has become a fixation for critics of progressive politicians. Last year, Elon Musk posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the supervisor should be imprisoned.[aside postID=news_11992055 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/028_KQED_TenderloinHousingClinicStrike_07272022-1020x678.jpg']In January, Garry Tan, CEO of the tech incubator Y Combinator, attacked seven San Francisco Supervisors on X, writing “Die slow motherf—ers.” Tan, who is a major donor to San Francisco’s Democratic Party, which elected a new moderate majority leadership this year, apologized for the remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a subsequent post on X, Tan wrote that “die slow” was from “Hit ‘Em Up,” a popular diss track by the rapper Tupac Shakur. The week after Tan’s attack, five supervisors received mailers to their homes that wished “a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.” The San Francisco Police Department opened an investigation into Tan’s post and the mailers received by supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the billionaire-backed moderate political organizing group GrowSF has made \u003ca href=\"https://growsf.org/dumpdean/\">ousting Preston\u003c/a> a key part of their platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi isn’t exactly throwing her support behind the Democratic Socialist movement, and she is supporting other incumbents in her hometown. On Wednesday, Pelosi also endorsed Supervisors Connie Chan and Myrna Melgar for reelection in their respective districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dean-preston\">Dean Preston\u003c/a>, like other progressive city leaders, is no stranger to fending off NIMBY allegations from pro-development groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest swipe came this week in a lawsuit accusing him of lying in his reelection paperwork when he said he had approved 30,000 new housing units. Corey Smith, executive director of the Housing Action Coalition, filed a writ of mandate on Monday asking the San Francisco Department of Elections to remove Preston’s claim from his candidate statement, arguing that the number is closer to 14,000, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston called the move a publicity stunt “splitting hairs” over his housing record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit cites UC Berkeley political science professor David Broockman, who in 2021 created “\u003ca href=\"https://nimby.report/preston\">Dean Preston’s Housing Graveyard\u003c/a>,” a website listing housing projects the supervisor has voted against since taking office in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, volunteers supporting Preston released their own report, slighting the “graveyard” and critiques of his housing record as “disinformation.” According to their site, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.deanshousingrecord.com/\">Dean’s Housing Record\u003c/a>,” Preston voted to approve over 29,800 housing units through 2023, 86% of which were affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the projects it includes are among those Smith’s lawsuit said were false and misleading, such as the temporary transition of hotel rooms to low-income housing during the COVID-19 pandemic and 10,000 units of municipal housing approved through Proposition K, a ballot measure passed by voters in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had voted against [authorizing] Proposition K, my critics would say I was opposing 10,000 units,” Preston said, arguing against Smith’s claim that voters, not board members, approved these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somehow, when I’m the author of that ballot measure [and] I voted for that ballot measure at the [Board of Supervisors] to put it on the ballot, somehow it’s incorrect for someone to characterize that as a vote for 10,000 units of housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he believes Preston is opposed to building market-rate housing, which he calls a hindrance to increasing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think, ‘The only thing we need to be building is affordable housing,’ and I think that’s actually a mask for those who actually want to oppose housing but are scared to do so politically,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s Housing Action Coalition and other pro-development groups like SF YIMBY argue that building more housing at every level will bring all housing costs down, often going toe to toe with Preston and other progressive city leaders like Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor. Preston and Mayor London Breed have commonly sparred over the number of affordable units in housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Preston’s two challengers in his reelection campaign, the SF YIMBY-endorsed Bilal Mahmood, has also parrotted the claim that Preston is a NIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has blocked thousands of units of housing, not just affordable housing but middle-income housing,” Mahmood told KQED in March. “We need to be building housing at all levels, and Dean has been standing in the way of that progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pushing back against this week’s lawsuit, Preston called the Housing Action Coalition, which describes itself as a nonprofit advocating for more homes at all levels, a “landlord lobbyist group” and said its leaders have sued to try to halt multiple of his office’s affordable housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only describe it as a publicity stunt and probably designed to drain our campaign of time and resources defending ourselves,” Preston said, adding that his voting record is public and saying that he favors affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston also pointed to a recent report from the city’s Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board that examined affordable housing funds his 2020 ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-11/sf-prop-i-transfer-tax-increase#:~:text=Proposition%20I%20would%20double%20San%20Francisco%E2%80%99s%20property%20transfer,%2425%20million%20or%20more%20from%203%25%20to%206%25.\">Proposition I\u003c/a>, which doubles the transfer tax on properties sold for over $10 million, has generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I revenue, which flows into the general fund but is intended for use on rent relief and affordable housing, according to Preston, has reached $324 million since 2021. Of it, $203 million has advanced affordable housing initiatives and provided emergency rent relief, including by acquiring five sites for affordable housing projects totaling 550 units and a sixth to build 66 units of educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efforts to further affordable housing have been an uphill battle, Preston said, blaming Breed for not earmarking any general fund money for affordable housing projects in her annual budget since Proposition I passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to sugarcoat, at the end of the day, we need massive federal and state investment to really scale up affordable housing in San Francisco, but through Prop. I, we really showed that people are willing to levy this kind of tax in order to push to fund these kind of alternate strategies for affordable housing locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2023, volunteers supporting Preston released their own report, slighting the “graveyard” and critiques of his housing record as “disinformation.” According to their site, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.deanshousingrecord.com/\">Dean’s Housing Record\u003c/a>,” Preston voted to approve over 29,800 housing units through 2023, 86% of which were affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of the projects it includes are among those Smith’s lawsuit said were false and misleading, such as the temporary transition of hotel rooms to low-income housing during the COVID-19 pandemic and 10,000 units of municipal housing approved through Proposition K, a ballot measure passed by voters in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had voted against [authorizing] Proposition K, my critics would say I was opposing 10,000 units,” Preston said, arguing against Smith’s claim that voters, not board members, approved these units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somehow, when I’m the author of that ballot measure [and] I voted for that ballot measure at the [Board of Supervisors] to put it on the ballot, somehow it’s incorrect for someone to characterize that as a vote for 10,000 units of housing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said he believes Preston is opposed to building market-rate housing, which he calls a hindrance to increasing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people think, ‘The only thing we need to be building is affordable housing,’ and I think that’s actually a mask for those who actually want to oppose housing but are scared to do so politically,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith’s Housing Action Coalition and other pro-development groups like SF YIMBY argue that building more housing at every level will bring all housing costs down, often going toe to toe with Preston and other progressive city leaders like Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who is running for mayor. Preston and Mayor London Breed have commonly sparred over the number of affordable units in housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Preston’s two challengers in his reelection campaign, the SF YIMBY-endorsed Bilal Mahmood, has also parrotted the claim that Preston is a NIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has blocked thousands of units of housing, not just affordable housing but middle-income housing,” Mahmood told KQED in March. “We need to be building housing at all levels, and Dean has been standing in the way of that progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In pushing back against this week’s lawsuit, Preston called the Housing Action Coalition, which describes itself as a nonprofit advocating for more homes at all levels, a “landlord lobbyist group” and said its leaders have sued to try to halt multiple of his office’s affordable housing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only describe it as a publicity stunt and probably designed to drain our campaign of time and resources defending ourselves,” Preston said, adding that his voting record is public and saying that he favors affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston also pointed to a recent report from the city’s Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board that examined affordable housing funds his 2020 ballot measure, \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2020-11/sf-prop-i-transfer-tax-increase#:~:text=Proposition%20I%20would%20double%20San%20Francisco%E2%80%99s%20property%20transfer,%2425%20million%20or%20more%20from%203%25%20to%206%25.\">Proposition I\u003c/a>, which doubles the transfer tax on properties sold for over $10 million, has generated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I revenue, which flows into the general fund but is intended for use on rent relief and affordable housing, according to Preston, has reached $324 million since 2021. Of it, $203 million has advanced affordable housing initiatives and provided emergency rent relief, including by acquiring five sites for affordable housing projects totaling 550 units and a sixth to build 66 units of educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The efforts to further affordable housing have been an uphill battle, Preston said, blaming Breed for not earmarking any general fund money for affordable housing projects in her annual budget since Proposition I passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to sugarcoat, at the end of the day, we need massive federal and state investment to really scale up affordable housing in San Francisco, but through Prop. I, we really showed that people are willing to levy this kind of tax in order to push to fund these kind of alternate strategies for affordable housing locally,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nikysha Parker-Dalton walks to work through the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blocks between her apartment and the Glide Foundation, where she’s a community advocate, are strewn with crushed cardboard boxes, shopping bags and piles of feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One morning last week, a KQED reporter and photographer walked the route Parker-Dalton takes. A cluster of tents, tarps and bicycles in front of the Cutting Ball Theater obstructed most of the sidewalk on Taylor Street, and on Turk Street, a woman sat on the curb wrapped in a plastic trash bag. Two blocks past Glide, a man was splayed out on Ellis Street with his arms above his head and his feet dangling over the curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Freddy Martin, congregational life and community engagement manager, Glide Memorial Church\"]‘We need to be dealing with the trauma and issues people have that perpetuate the conditions they struggle with.’[/pullquote]“You live with the lack of cleanliness of the streets — the drug paraphernalia and usage openly, the tents that make it so you can’t even walk,” Parker-Dalton told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tenderloin’s troubles are at the center of this year’s city elections. The poor street conditions, exacerbated by San Francisco’s yearslong battle to support unhoused residents while simultaneously curtailing drug dealing and drug overdoses, have led the neighborhood’s small businesses to struggle. Some residents and tourists feel unsafe on the neighborhood’s streets. Others who work and live in the area, like Parker-Dalton, just want the city to provide solutions for those stuck between opioid addiction and homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982333\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men sitting on the sidewalk while another man on the left wearing a neon yellow and orange jacket stands near parked cars on the street.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-006-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People sit on the sidewalk in the Tenderloin on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, two mayoral candidates announced emergency declarations around fentanyl. Daniel Lurie’s plan would give people on the street a choice: enter treatment or face arrest. A day after Lurie, Mark Farrell released a similar plan. If elected, Farrell would request more California Army National Guard soldiers in the Tenderloin and South of Market. The plans are comparable to Mayor London Breed’s 2021 Tenderloin state of emergency, which led to the creation of the Tenderloin Center, a place for drug users to connect with harm reduction services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s drug epidemic worsened despite Breed’s declaration.[aside postID=\"news_11979508,news_11972898,news_11975156\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recorded 806 drug overdose deaths in 2023, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">deadliest year on record\u003c/a>. About 80% of the deaths were fentanyl-related. During 2022’s redistricting, the Tenderloin was added to District 5, which now includes Japantown, Western Addition and Haight Ashbury. The overdose data and discontent over street conditions make Dean Preston, the district representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, vulnerable in his November reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, the board’s only Democratic Socialist who said he is focused on tenants rights and alternatives to policing, has two opponents. Bilal Mahmood, a tech entrepreneur, said he wants to digitize City Hall to reduce red tape. Autumn Looijen, who co-launched San Francisco’s school board recall in 2022, told KQED she will concentrate on thwarting the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston and his challengers squabble over ideological differences, residents and business owners interviewed for this story said they want elected officials to take a new approach to cleaning up the Tenderloin’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freddy Martin, a congregational life and community engagement manager at Glide, has lived in the Tenderloin for more than 20 years. He said getting people into housing should be a priority, but making sure they have access to wraparound mental health and addiction resources is key to keeping them off of the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be dealing with the trauma and issues people have that perpetuate the conditions they struggle with,” Martin said. “Not having their mental health issues addressed or access to healthcare is part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tourist bus, a person on a bike and a vehicle drive down a street with murals painted on the sides of buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tourist bus passes through the Tenderloin on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Martin, elected officials should be asking Tenderloin community members what housing and drug rehabilitation services they need if they want to see a positive, permanent change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These issues can’t be solved in the chambers in City Hall or in a meeting once a week,” he said. “You have to go to where people are at and meet them at that level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filling vacant supportive housing units is a solution, Martin believes. According to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/hrs-data/vacancies-in-permanent-supportive-housing/\">there are more than 600 vacancies\u003c/a>. This is down from just over 1,000 in September when Preston \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12321199&GUID=F2C16A39-FA19-4503-9090-3F024FECA13B\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> urging HSH to reduce the number of vacant units by 50% in 90 days. As of this month, about \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/hrs-data/vacancies-in-permanent-supportive-housing/\">36% of the vacancies have been filled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the homes; we have a lot of the resources. We just need to be more aggressive and bold,” said Preston, who has opposed Breed’s drug and homelessness policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, who worked as a policy analyst in the Obama Administration, believes it’s too difficult for people to acquire supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons people are in the streets is because it’s easier to sleep in a tent than it is to apply to get a bed,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, who rents in the Tenderloin, said he would advocate for a technology-based strategy to track homeless people, identify their health status and get them into housing. He has argued that the city’s existing tracking system is ineffective and outdated. At 10:30 a.m. today, he is planning to unveil his plan to end open-air drug markets at the corner of Market and Seventh streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker-Dalton, 39, said that the city needs to designate spaces for those who choose not to be housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have people that don’t want to be inside,” the decadelong Tenderloin resident said. “They don’t want to be confined. They have been on the streets for as long as they can remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not necessarily saying put them in housing, but I believe safe camping sites could be a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said harm reduction strategies are necessary to address the fentanyl crisis. He would like to see the Tenderloin Center, which closed in December 2022, return. The site was part of Breed’s plan to reduce overdose deaths and increase access to addiction services. According to city data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin#overdose-reversals-by-emergency-medical-services\">333 overdoses were reversed\u003c/a> at the Tenderloin Center. Critics of the site, including Farrell, said it became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934281/heartbroken-visitors-staff-of-shuttered-tenderloin-center-left-reeling-amid-sfs-ongoing-overdose-crisis\">safe consumption area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justin Bautista owns Tilted Brim, a clothing store on Larkin Street. He said when he moved into the space in 2016, it was a thriving commercial corridor. Now, there are empty storefronts on his block. Bautista said groups like the Tenderloin Community Benefit District’s Clean Team remove debris and respond to 311 calls, but their efforts aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in Little Saigon, and we have some of the best restaurants in the city,” Bautista said. “People would come from all over the city to eat at these restaurants. People still do, but it’s in a much fewer number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come to the Tenderloin, the optics are very bad. It’s heartbreaking, and it’s hard to live with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One solution Looijen has suggested is designating areas around businesses where unhoused people cannot congregate. She thinks this will encourage residents and tourists to visit the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A U-Haul van parked in front of a home.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240404-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A moving van is parked outside of a home on Haight Street on April 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We should have a zone where people can go to the amazing restaurants in Little Saigon without being afraid that they’re going to get hurt on the way there,” she told KQED. “It doesn’t solve the problem of crime existing, but I do think it makes it so that people can get to the services in their neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker-Dalton isn’t sure clearing encampments and restricting where people can gather will do much to rehabilitate the neighborhood. She pointed to the skate park that opened in U.N. Plaza in November. Many people who used to hang around the plaza moved down to Seventh Street, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People migrate to other streets,” she said. “When you have a heavy police presence on one block, people move to another.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco recorded 806 drug overdose deaths in 2023, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972898/2023-was-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-for-drug-overdoses-new-data-confirms\">deadliest year on record\u003c/a>. About 80% of the deaths were fentanyl-related. During 2022’s redistricting, the Tenderloin was added to District 5, which now includes Japantown, Western Addition and Haight Ashbury. The overdose data and discontent over street conditions make Dean Preston, the district representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, vulnerable in his November reelection bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, the board’s only Democratic Socialist who said he is focused on tenants rights and alternatives to policing, has two opponents. Bilal Mahmood, a tech entrepreneur, said he wants to digitize City Hall to reduce red tape. Autumn Looijen, who co-launched San Francisco’s school board recall in 2022, told KQED she will concentrate on thwarting the fentanyl crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Preston and his challengers squabble over ideological differences, residents and business owners interviewed for this story said they want elected officials to take a new approach to cleaning up the Tenderloin’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freddy Martin, a congregational life and community engagement manager at Glide, has lived in the Tenderloin for more than 20 years. He said getting people into housing should be a priority, but making sure they have access to wraparound mental health and addiction resources is key to keeping them off of the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be dealing with the trauma and issues people have that perpetuate the conditions they struggle with,” Martin said. “Not having their mental health issues addressed or access to healthcare is part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982331\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tourist bus, a person on a bike and a vehicle drive down a street with murals painted on the sides of buildings.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-001-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tourist bus passes through the Tenderloin on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Martin, elected officials should be asking Tenderloin community members what housing and drug rehabilitation services they need if they want to see a positive, permanent change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These issues can’t be solved in the chambers in City Hall or in a meeting once a week,” he said. “You have to go to where people are at and meet them at that level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filling vacant supportive housing units is a solution, Martin believes. According to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/hrs-data/vacancies-in-permanent-supportive-housing/\">there are more than 600 vacancies\u003c/a>. This is down from just over 1,000 in September when Preston \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=12321199&GUID=F2C16A39-FA19-4503-9090-3F024FECA13B\">passed a resolution\u003c/a> urging HSH to reduce the number of vacant units by 50% in 90 days. As of this month, about \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/hrs-data/vacancies-in-permanent-supportive-housing/\">36% of the vacancies have been filled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the homes; we have a lot of the resources. We just need to be more aggressive and bold,” said Preston, who has opposed Breed’s drug and homelessness policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, who worked as a policy analyst in the Obama Administration, believes it’s too difficult for people to acquire supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons people are in the streets is because it’s easier to sleep in a tent than it is to apply to get a bed,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, who rents in the Tenderloin, said he would advocate for a technology-based strategy to track homeless people, identify their health status and get them into housing. He has argued that the city’s existing tracking system is ineffective and outdated. At 10:30 a.m. today, he is planning to unveil his plan to end open-air drug markets at the corner of Market and Seventh streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parker-Dalton, 39, said that the city needs to designate spaces for those who choose not to be housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have people that don’t want to be inside,” the decadelong Tenderloin resident said. “They don’t want to be confined. They have been on the streets for as long as they can remember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not necessarily saying put them in housing, but I believe safe camping sites could be a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin said harm reduction strategies are necessary to address the fentanyl crisis. He would like to see the Tenderloin Center, which closed in December 2022, return. The site was part of Breed’s plan to reduce overdose deaths and increase access to addiction services. According to city data, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/reducing-fatal-and-non-fatal-overdoses-tenderloin#overdose-reversals-by-emergency-medical-services\">333 overdoses were reversed\u003c/a> at the Tenderloin Center. Critics of the site, including Farrell, said it became a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934281/heartbroken-visitors-staff-of-shuttered-tenderloin-center-left-reeling-amid-sfs-ongoing-overdose-crisis\">safe consumption area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982336\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982336\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A bicyclist rides in the street by parked cars and stores.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240405-District5BOSRedistricting-014-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by the Tilted Brim in the Tenderloin on April 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Justin Bautista owns Tilted Brim, a clothing store on Larkin Street. He said when he moved into the space in 2016, it was a thriving commercial corridor. Now, there are empty storefronts on his block. Bautista said groups like the Tenderloin Community Benefit District’s Clean Team remove debris and respond to 311 calls, but their efforts aren’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in Little Saigon, and we have some of the best restaurants in the city,” Bautista said. “People would come from all over the city to eat at these restaurants. People still do, but it’s in a much fewer number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you come to the Tenderloin, the optics are very bad. It’s heartbreaking, and it’s hard to live with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One solution Looijen has suggested is designating areas around businesses where unhoused people cannot congregate. 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She pointed to the skate park that opened in U.N. Plaza in November. Many people who used to hang around the plaza moved down to Seventh Street, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Today is one of those days where it feels like San Francisco is still here.’[/pullquote]Approved by a vote of 8–3, the resolution also demands the release of all hostages and an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza and condemns antisemitic, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our actions today take a stand on this issue, and it will help push our government to change its actions,” Supervisor Hillary Ronen, a co-sponsor of the resolution, said at Tuesday’s packed Board of Supervisors meeting. “Today is one of those days where it feels like San Francisco is still here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to build consensus around the vote, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a last-minute amendment to the resolution, including a statement explicitly condemning attacks by both Hamas and Israel and urging the Biden administration to similarly call for a cease-fire. 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