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The lone dissenter was Connie Chan, who cited concerns that the events would cause disruptions in the Richmond District where her constituents live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original \u003c/b>\u003cb>story\u003c/b>\u003cb>, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal Tuesday that would bring more concerts to Golden Gate Park the weekend after Outside Lands in addition to three free concerts scattered throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concerts would be organized by Berkeley-based promoter Another Planet Entertainment, the company that also produces the Outside Lands music festival every August, and would take place at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11659844/does-anyone-play-polo-at-the-golden-gate-park-polo-field-anymore\">the same location as Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the proposal, Another Planet would pay the city of San Francisco up to $1.4 million for a two-day event, or $2.1 million for a three-day event, annually, during the duration of the permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the extra weekend of entertainment slated for Golden Gate Park, Another Planet has also committed to staging three free concerts in downtown San Francisco on the same summer weekend if the city approves the permit. 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Solow said he spent $25,000 in legal fees and many hours looking at the legality of the festival’s noise levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite these concerns, city departments argue these concerts will bring citywide benefits to San Franciscans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for San Francisco Recreation and Parks, Tamara Aparton, said they came up with the plan for more concerts with Another Planet in response to a projected city budget deficit of $780 million over the next two years. Aparton said the extra funds are necessary to avoid cuts in park maintenance, classes and recreation programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Stories' tag='golden-gate-park'] She added that the new concerts would have the same support system for neighbors and the same infrastructure for attendees as Outside Lands, despite having smaller headliners. 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If there isn’t someone, you know, at the their belongings, but it’s clear that someone probably is staying there. The city also has a process that is called bag and tag, where they’re supposed to actually label the items and bring them to a place in the city where individuals can actually go and retrieve them. So all of those policies that we talked about offering shelter, bagging and tagging personal items, you know, these steps that are supposed to happen before an encampment is cleared. The plaintiffs in this case argued that the city had not been doing. Now, the city argues that it does lead with services, that it does do this, it understands and it does not deny that there is a huge additional need for more housing and for more temporary shelter. But the city says, you know, we do make these offers, we do follow our policies. But it’s arguing that the lawsuit has made it even more difficult for the city to respond to those calls that it gets from residents saying, hey, I’m concerned about this, you know, encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The news last week was about this injunction. Can you explain to me what is it and what did it do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Last September and 2022, that was when the lawsuit was first filed. That was when the coalition on homelessness sued the city of San Francisco just before Christmas Eve, also of last year. The judge granted a temporary injunction, which basically was a temporary order that said, hey, San Francisco, you cannot keep doing these encampment sweeps in the way that you’ve been doing it until you know this next step in the case. And that temporary injunction is still active right now. That doesn’t always mean that the city just can’t do anything right. If someone is breaking other laws while they’re sitting or lying. You know, that is a way that the city can still enforce its laws. The lawsuit came a bit to a head because there were two hearings. The city had tried to get the judge to release them from this injunction, and that was heard in a court. There were rallies happening outside on both ends, and it got pretty intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Protesters: \u003c/strong>[Chanting] Save our streets!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>News Anchor: \u003c/strong>Even before the hearing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals got underway. Both sides were arguing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some videos of people shouting directly at each other. However, you know, it did, I think, speak to just some of the frustration and also passion that people in San Francisco and across California right now really are feeling about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s dig into that a little bit more. Sydney, I want to start with the people who came out for this injunction, which to be clear means that they oppose the city doing sweeps more aggressively. Who came out last week on this side? Like, who is at the courthouse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So definitely lawyers from the ACLU and other attorneys who are representing the Coalition on homelessness were there. So all of those policies that we talked about just a minute ago, you know, these steps that are supposed to happen before an encampment is cleared. The plaintiffs in this case argued that the city had not been doing. In some circumstances, they said that city agencies would maybe just sort of wave a hand at shelter, not really genuinely offer it. In addition, they also had a lot of evidence showing that that bagging and tagging process was not being followed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>Unhoused folks have a constitutional right against being policed out of sight just because they have no housing to go to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Zal Shroff is the interim legal director with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been really involved in this case and essentially argues that San Francisco has not been following its own laws that are on the books and its own policies around what it can and can’t do to clear homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>So you can’t go around seizing and destroying people’s tents. You have to safeguard their property. You have to store it. You have to give an opportunity to recover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s all essentially walked me through some examples where the city has, you know, flagrantly just disregarded some of those bag and tag policies. You know, told me some pretty heartbreaking stories of people who had lost really important medications, devices that they use to contact family members or even sign up for shelter, since that’s an online system now and that they had lost these items without much recourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>The injunction goal was to have a disciplining effect to make sure the city’s goals were actually aligned with its actions, to make sure that when we actually approach an encampment, we have enough shelter. Folks, we are successful in getting them off the streets and into shelter and housing and the actually improving street homelessness conditions. That has not been the experience since the injunction because it’s very unclear whether or not they’re following it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>He is is really trying to underscore. Or that this lawsuit is not about just allowing the streets to delve into chaos. I don’t think anyone wants that. But, you know, he and others who are supporting this case say that the city needs to come up with actual solutions if it’s going to force people to move. And also just acknowledging the harm that is caused by forcing people to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>You know, I think we are, in a way talking past each other about the root causes of the homelessness crisis and also what causes street homelessness, because, of course, we know that a lack of access to shelter and a lack of access to affordable housing is the cause of the street homelessness crisis. And yet we have a huge gap in terms of what the city has been able to offer to actually mitigate that issue. And we see a real scapegoating about how people who are a problem that is really decades in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk about the other side of this debate. Who was at the courthouse on that side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The opposing rally that was there last week was really arguing for being able to clear encampments under most circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>London Breed: \u003c/strong>We are compassionate. We are supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Outside the courthouse, we saw signs that said, you know, streets are not homes. 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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, some pretty horrific and heartbreaking stories. You know, she did really rally a lot of that anger that people are having with seeing the poverty that they do see on the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>David Chiu \u003c/strong>Today, the city presented our case on why this injunction has been so difficult for San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>City attorney David Chiu was also there. He has been leading the case against this lawsuit and also the appeal against the injunction. 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However, I think that more often there is just not shelter available or offered, or if there is shelter that’s offered, it’s not always appropriate if it’s a congregate group home where someone had stayed out previously and maybe had a really horrible experience that might not be an appropriate shelter for them. If someone is transgender and offered a shelter for a home that they do not identify with, if it’s separated by gender, that can be really harmful as well. Not to mention families or people with pets or, you know, certain disabilities that may prevent them from getting on a top bunk or something like that. 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But that’s harmed the residents and the businesses of this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Terri Beswick: \u003c/strong>I love that the court took a stand on this and I hope that they stick to it and say, you know, you if you want people off the streets, you have to give them somewhere to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, what this legal battle means for encampment sweeps in San Francisco and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So essentially you have the Coalition on Homelessness, which is representing a group of individuals who are or were recently experiencing homelessness, who sued the city of San Francisco for essentially not following its own laws as it relates to clearing homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>People representing different city agencies are meant to approach the people or person who lives there and ask them, you know, would you like shelter or some sort of housing option that has to happen in these sweeps. If there isn’t someone, you know, at the their belongings, but it’s clear that someone probably is staying there. The city also has a process that is called bag and tag, where they’re supposed to actually label the items and bring them to a place in the city where individuals can actually go and retrieve them. So all of those policies that we talked about offering shelter, bagging and tagging personal items, you know, these steps that are supposed to happen before an encampment is cleared. The plaintiffs in this case argued that the city had not been doing. Now, the city argues that it does lead with services, that it does do this, it understands and it does not deny that there is a huge additional need for more housing and for more temporary shelter. But the city says, you know, we do make these offers, we do follow our policies. But it’s arguing that the lawsuit has made it even more difficult for the city to respond to those calls that it gets from residents saying, hey, I’m concerned about this, you know, encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The news last week was about this injunction. Can you explain to me what is it and what did it do exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Last September and 2022, that was when the lawsuit was first filed. That was when the coalition on homelessness sued the city of San Francisco just before Christmas Eve, also of last year. The judge granted a temporary injunction, which basically was a temporary order that said, hey, San Francisco, you cannot keep doing these encampment sweeps in the way that you’ve been doing it until you know this next step in the case. And that temporary injunction is still active right now. That doesn’t always mean that the city just can’t do anything right. If someone is breaking other laws while they’re sitting or lying. You know, that is a way that the city can still enforce its laws. The lawsuit came a bit to a head because there were two hearings. The city had tried to get the judge to release them from this injunction, and that was heard in a court. There were rallies happening outside on both ends, and it got pretty intense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Protesters: \u003c/strong>[Chanting] Save our streets!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>News Anchor: \u003c/strong>Even before the hearing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals got underway. Both sides were arguing…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some videos of people shouting directly at each other. However, you know, it did, I think, speak to just some of the frustration and also passion that people in San Francisco and across California right now really are feeling about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s dig into that a little bit more. Sydney, I want to start with the people who came out for this injunction, which to be clear means that they oppose the city doing sweeps more aggressively. Who came out last week on this side? Like, who is at the courthouse?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So definitely lawyers from the ACLU and other attorneys who are representing the Coalition on homelessness were there. So all of those policies that we talked about just a minute ago, you know, these steps that are supposed to happen before an encampment is cleared. The plaintiffs in this case argued that the city had not been doing. In some circumstances, they said that city agencies would maybe just sort of wave a hand at shelter, not really genuinely offer it. In addition, they also had a lot of evidence showing that that bagging and tagging process was not being followed as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>Unhoused folks have a constitutional right against being policed out of sight just because they have no housing to go to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Zal Shroff is the interim legal director with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been really involved in this case and essentially argues that San Francisco has not been following its own laws that are on the books and its own policies around what it can and can’t do to clear homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>So you can’t go around seizing and destroying people’s tents. You have to safeguard their property. You have to store it. You have to give an opportunity to recover it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s all essentially walked me through some examples where the city has, you know, flagrantly just disregarded some of those bag and tag policies. You know, told me some pretty heartbreaking stories of people who had lost really important medications, devices that they use to contact family members or even sign up for shelter, since that’s an online system now and that they had lost these items without much recourse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>The injunction goal was to have a disciplining effect to make sure the city’s goals were actually aligned with its actions, to make sure that when we actually approach an encampment, we have enough shelter. Folks, we are successful in getting them off the streets and into shelter and housing and the actually improving street homelessness conditions. That has not been the experience since the injunction because it’s very unclear whether or not they’re following it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>He is is really trying to underscore. Or that this lawsuit is not about just allowing the streets to delve into chaos. I don’t think anyone wants that. But, you know, he and others who are supporting this case say that the city needs to come up with actual solutions if it’s going to force people to move. And also just acknowledging the harm that is caused by forcing people to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Zal Shroff \u003c/strong>You know, I think we are, in a way talking past each other about the root causes of the homelessness crisis and also what causes street homelessness, because, of course, we know that a lack of access to shelter and a lack of access to affordable housing is the cause of the street homelessness crisis. And yet we have a huge gap in terms of what the city has been able to offer to actually mitigate that issue. And we see a real scapegoating about how people who are a problem that is really decades in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, let’s talk about the other side of this debate. Who was at the courthouse on that side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The opposing rally that was there last week was really arguing for being able to clear encampments under most circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>London Breed: \u003c/strong>We are compassionate. We are supportive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Outside the courthouse, we saw signs that said, you know, streets are not homes. We had a very fiery mayor London breed against the injunction, saying that the city should be able to clear encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>London Breed: \u003c/strong>We had prepared through our city attorney to do whatever it takes to make sure we are able to do our jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>She brought up some pretty hard examples that are really, I think, get to the emotion at the core of this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>London Breed: \u003c/strong>It is not humane to let people live on our streets in tents, use drugs. We have found dead bodies. We have found a dead baby in these tents. We have seen people in really awful conditions and we are not standing for it anymore. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, some pretty horrific and heartbreaking stories. You know, she did really rally a lot of that anger that people are having with seeing the poverty that they do see on the streets of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>David Chiu \u003c/strong>Today, the city presented our case on why this injunction has been so difficult for San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>City attorney David Chiu was also there. He has been leading the case against this lawsuit and also the appeal against the injunction. You know, similarly, he said that the city’s hands have been tied when it comes to resolving these encampments that many people are complaining about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>David Chiu \u003c/strong>I think everyone understands how incredibly challenging the situation is on the streets, how frustrating it has been. You only have to look out of the windows of the Ninth Circuit Courthouse building to see what’s happening in our streets. What the city’s hoping to do is balance the compassionate care and services that we want to provide to unhoused individuals with addressing the significant street conditions that we have throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We also saw three of the city’s more moderate supervisors, their supervisor, Mandelman, Engardio, and Dorsey. They were also there supporting David Chiu and supporting Mayor Breed, essentially arguing for the city to have more flexibility to carry out these sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I know the city says that it should have the right to sweep people out of an encampment, especially if they refuse offers of shelter or housing. Do we know how often that happens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>That’s a hard question to answer. There are, of course, some individuals who may reject a shelter option for them. I think that that’s a reality that shouldn’t be denied. However, I think that more often there is just not shelter available or offered, or if there is shelter that’s offered, it’s not always appropriate if it’s a congregate group home where someone had stayed out previously and maybe had a really horrible experience that might not be an appropriate shelter for them. If someone is transgender and offered a shelter for a home that they do not identify with, if it’s separated by gender, that can be really harmful as well. Not to mention families or people with pets or, you know, certain disabilities that may prevent them from getting on a top bunk or something like that. This question of like what is genuine shelter and what is a real shelter offer, I think is a really important one because we know that shelter in general and housing in general is so scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, it sounds like the city very much believes its hands are sort of tied under this injunction and also that a lot of the anger on this side comes from this sense that, like the city is being too lenient or too compassionate by having this injunction in place. Is that a good way, maybe to summarize?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think so. I’d say that that side is is really arguing for basically putting cleaning the streets before the rights of people who are homeless and are forced to live on those streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What’s next, Sydney?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There’s still a long way to go for this case. The judge is now considering the arguments over whether to appeal the injunction, but we probably won’t have an answer on that for a couple of weeks, maybe even a couple of months. And again, that is just for the injunction. So this temporary rule that the city cannot carry out sweeps in the way that it has been doing the full lawsuit and litigating, that is going to take even longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, do we know certainly whether there are implications beyond San Francisco here? Could this maybe escalate or even spread to other parts of the state that are dealing with, I mean, really the same problems that we’re seeing in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think that this has big implications for the West Coast in general. I think, you know, whether you are a lawyer trying to think about civil rights in this space, whether you are a resident trying to be compassionate or better, understand homelessness in your area and looking for solutions. I think that there is a lot of interest and certainly a lot of feelings associated with this. And I think that that has also been part of why this has gripped so many people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney, thanks so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Sydney Johnson, a reporter for KQED. This 38-minute conversation with Sydney was cut down and edited by Maria Esquinca. It was produced and scored by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Thanks as well to Billy Cruz and KTVU for some of the tape that you heard in this episode. If you’re new to The Bay, what’s up? Make sure to hit subscribe wherever you are listening so you don’t miss a beat. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>An effort to more strongly enforce an ongoing ban on homeless encampment sweeps in San Francisco won’t be happening just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a district court judge said the city was not violating some of its policies when it came to a ban on clearing homeless encampments — but she requested more information on other policies before she could rule on the entire motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing on Thursday was held over a \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ps-Motion-to-Enforce-PI-Order-and-Declarations.pdf\">motion (PDF)\u003c/a> meant to more strongly enforce a \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022.12.23-65-ORDER-on-Preliminary-Injunction.pdf\">temporary injunction (PDF)\u003c/a>, which stops the city from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">indiscriminately sweeping the streets of people who are unhoused\u003c/a>. This is just part of an ongoing legal battle, which had a separate hearing earlier in the week over whether the injunction should be lifted or not.[aside postID=news_11950967,news_11958939,news_11926891 label='More on Homeless Encampment Sweeps']The Coalition on Homelessness, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11926891/unhoused-san-francisco-residents-sue-city-over-displacement-rights-violations\">sued San Francisco in September 2022\u003c/a>, brought forward this motion. They’re arguing that the city has been violating the temporary ban on clearing homeless encampments, which was originally ordered by the same U.S. Magistrate Judge, Donna Ryu, in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Ryu ruled that the city was not violating a clause in the injunction that stops the city from “threatening to enforce” certain laws that prevent someone from sitting, lying or camping on sidewalks or other public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge delayed ruling on claims that the city has been violating its own so-called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/bag-and-tag-process#:~:text=Public%20Works%20%E2%80%9Cbag%20and%20tag,will%20record%20thedate%20of%20disposal.\">“bag and tag” policies\u003c/a> during routine street cleanups and permissible encampment resolutions. The judge will review those claims after receiving additional information from the defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When city agencies, like the Department of Public Works, clear a homeless encampment or an individual’s sleeping site but no one is present, they are required to bag and tag personal belongings so the individual can later retrieve them. Whether they are doing so or not is what’s under review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s likely there are DPW workers who bag and tag, but it also appears some are not. Some of the instances I called out are pretty clear and pretty blatant,” Ryu said in Thursday’s hearing. “I have a concern that at least the training should be more robust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ordered attorneys representing the city to submit more information by Sept. 22 on how it responds to calls regarding homeless encampments — including how many officers interact with unhoused people and if the city would consider adding more training for those officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge also requested more information on what type of training DPW workers received about the original injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryu said that plaintiffs could retry their motion around threats of enforcement, but that they would need stronger arguments and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that clearer communication, uniform communication, would be helpful across the board to the people of San Francisco,” Ryu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s hearing followed another major hearing in the lawsuit that took place on Wednesday, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">a three-judge panel heard arguments\u003c/a> over whether to consider appealing the same temporary injunction \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950967/advocates-for-unhoused-san-franciscans-say-encampment-sweeps-continue-despite-court-order-call-on-judge-to-rein-city-in\">that prevents the city from moving unhoused people under certain circumstances\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959129\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2023/08/24/judge-partially-denies-motion-to-more-strictly-enforce-ban-on-homeless-encampment-sweeps/rs68257_20230822-homelesslawsuit-15-jy-qut/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11959129\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959129\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut.jpg\" alt=\"a group of people hold up signs in front of a court building, one man yells into a megaphone\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68257_20230822-HomelessLawsuit-15-JY-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey speaks at a rally in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Dorsey voiced his opposition of the injunction filed by the Coalition on Homelessness, which has temporarily kept city workers from removing encampments on the streets. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In that hearing, plaintiffs and judges clarified that a person who denies genuine offers of shelter during an encampment clearing would no longer be considered “involuntarily homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distinction between who is or isn’t involuntarily homeless is important because the injunction only bans sweeps of those who are involuntarily homeless, meaning that if someone refuses shelter, the city can proceed to enforce its laws against sitting, lying or camping in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s appeal to remove the injunction is still processing, and it will likely be several months before a decision is made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several city leaders showed up to support the city attorney’s effort to appeal the injunction on Wednesday, including Mayor Breed and three moderate supervisors, saying the ban has stymied the city’s ability to clear streets and sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members and homeless advocates also rallied in front of the courthouse Wednesday, saying that the injunction is necessary to stop unlawful sweeps and bring about more effective solutions to the homeless crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Thursday’s hearing, Gov. Gavin Newsom released a public statement in support of striking down the injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, we are cutting red tape and making unprecedented investments to address homelessness, but with each hard-fought step forward, the courts are creating costly delays that slow progress,” Newsom said. “I urge the courts to empower local communities to address street encampments quickly and comprehensively.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A week after a 4-year-old girl in a stroller was struck and killed by a car just blocks from Oracle Park in San Francisco, over a hundred advocates on Tuesday evening gathered at the crosswalk where the crash occurred, many pushing empty strollers and chanting “never again,” demanding local leaders take immediate action to improve pedestrian safety in the city.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jodie Medeiros, executive director, Walk SF\"]‘Our streets are designed for people, for people’s safety, for safe streets.’[/pullquote]Last week’s tragic incident — at the intersection of Fourth and King streets in the South of Market neighborhood — marks the 11th pedestrian death in San Francisco so far this year, according to the advocacy group Walk San Francisco, which organized the rally. Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/traffic-fatalities\">20 people on foot\u003c/a> were struck and killed by vehicles. At Tuesday’s rally and memorial, Walk SF Executive Director Jodie Medeiros called on the city to take swift, decisive action to prevent future tragedies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all here today to make sure that something finally and truly changes,” she said. “Our streets are designed for people, for people’s safety, for safe streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt='A memorial in an outdoor setting combining stuffed animals and signage including one reading \"May all the children can walk across streets safely.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68198_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie Medeiros, executive director of Walk SF, speaks during a protest to demand safe streets on Fourth and King streets in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11956244,news_11927758,news_11929172\" label=\"Related Stories\"]The rally comes a day after Mayor London Breed instructed the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to quickly eliminate one right-turn lane at the Fourth and King street intersection and change the turn signal from green to yellow, among other safety measures. Breed also directed the agency to submit a plan to markedly improve safety conditions at all intersections listed in the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b2743a3fc0b14dd9814cf6668fc34773\">High Injury Network\u003c/a>, before the end of 2024. Possible safety measures would likely include allowing pedestrians more time to cross streets, increasing crosswalk visibility by using thick vertical striping and installing barriers that would force turning cars to slow down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a heartbreaking incident that took the life of an innocent child, leaving a family changed forever and our community deeply saddened. I know I speak for every San Franciscan in continuing to hold this family in our thoughts and prayers,” Breed said in a statement. “Our streets and roads in San Francisco should be safe for everyone to enjoy without feeling their lives are in danger, which is why I have directed the SFMTA to take immediate action to prevent this from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair and a child beside them speaks to a crowd in an outdoor space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lian Chikako Chang, from Walk SF, alongside her son Jay, 6, speaks during a rally to demand safe streets on Fourth and King Streets in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident occurred in the early evening of Aug. 15, when a silver SUV in one of two right-turn lanes, plowed into the girl, who was being pushed in a stroller by her parents. The girl, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead after arriving at San Francisco General Hospital. Her father, who was also struck by the vehicle, suffered serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver was identified as a 71-year-old woman, who police arrested for \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/intersection-death-4-year-old-arrest-18301658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/intersection-death-4-year-old-arrest-18301658.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">vehicular manslaughter and three counts of failure to yield to pedestrians\u003c/a>, according to the department. Police said she was cooperative and did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Jeffrey Tumlin addressed demonstrators on Tuesday, pledging that his agency’s rapid response team would complete the safety improvements to the intersection within three weeks — which he said would also include removing one of the two right turn lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No family should ever have to endure a tragedy like [what] happened here a week ago,” said Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA’s transportation director during the rally. “In fact, it should just be a basic fact of life in any normal city that any family should feel safe and comfortable bringing a child out in every street in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People cross a city intersection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cross the intersection at Fourth and King streets in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023, while traffic enforcement officers help guide traffic. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__attachments\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_attachment__delete_container\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But some advocates said that while the city’s action is a good first step, it doesn’t go far enough to ensure the safety of pedestrians crossing many of the city’s most dangerous streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to move quickly to not just fix [the Fourth and King street] intersection, but all 900 intersections on the High Injury Network,” Janelle Wong, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told demonstrators. “There are over 30 neighborhood streets in San Francisco that feed into a freeway entrance or an exit. And these streets need to be treated as neighborhood streets. Designed for people’s safety is the priority, and not traffic flow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Tuesday’s rally, a group of activists took matters into their own hands and used traffic cones and other barriers to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SafeStreetRebel/status/1694221866091901343\">shut down the turning lane\u003c/a> where the accident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today at the vigil, SFMTA said it would take 3 weeks to do a ‘quick build’ to make the intersection safer,” the group Safe Street Rebel said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “That’s too long to wait. So we did our own quick build tonight and closed one of the turn lanes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SafeStreetRebel/status/1694221866091901343\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk SF has previously called attention to this and other intersections in the city that it says are among the most dangerous for pedestrians. The group leads the \u003ca href=\"https://walksf.org/our-work/campaigns/vision-zero/vision-zero-coalition/\">Vision Zero Coalition\u003c/a>, which includes over 35 nonprofit organizations representing communities across the city most impacted by traffic deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vision Zero plan, which was adopted as a policy by the city in 2014, calls for using speed cameras, building protected bike lanes, and designing transportation systems that reduce the risk of severe injury or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the effort, 39 people were killed in traffic crashes in San Francisco in 2022 — including pedestrians, drivers and bikers — the highest number of deaths since 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The rally comes a day after Mayor London Breed instructed the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to quickly eliminate one right-turn lane at the Fourth and King street intersection and change the turn signal from green to yellow, among other safety measures. Breed also directed the agency to submit a plan to markedly improve safety conditions at all intersections listed in the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b2743a3fc0b14dd9814cf6668fc34773\">High Injury Network\u003c/a>, before the end of 2024. Possible safety measures would likely include allowing pedestrians more time to cross streets, increasing crosswalk visibility by using thick vertical striping and installing barriers that would force turning cars to slow down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a heartbreaking incident that took the life of an innocent child, leaving a family changed forever and our community deeply saddened. I know I speak for every San Franciscan in continuing to hold this family in our thoughts and prayers,” Breed said in a statement. “Our streets and roads in San Francisco should be safe for everyone to enjoy without feeling their lives are in danger, which is why I have directed the SFMTA to take immediate action to prevent this from happening again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958865\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair and a child beside them speaks to a crowd in an outdoor space.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68217_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-33-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lian Chikako Chang, from Walk SF, alongside her son Jay, 6, speaks during a rally to demand safe streets on Fourth and King Streets in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The incident occurred in the early evening of Aug. 15, when a silver SUV in one of two right-turn lanes, plowed into the girl, who was being pushed in a stroller by her parents. The girl, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead after arriving at San Francisco General Hospital. Her father, who was also struck by the vehicle, suffered serious injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver was identified as a 71-year-old woman, who police arrested for \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/intersection-death-4-year-old-arrest-18301658.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/intersection-death-4-year-old-arrest-18301658.php\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">vehicular manslaughter and three counts of failure to yield to pedestrians\u003c/a>, according to the department. Police said she was cooperative and did not appear to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Jeffrey Tumlin addressed demonstrators on Tuesday, pledging that his agency’s rapid response team would complete the safety improvements to the intersection within three weeks — which he said would also include removing one of the two right turn lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No family should ever have to endure a tragedy like [what] happened here a week ago,” said Jeffrey Tumlin, SFMTA’s transportation director during the rally. “In fact, it should just be a basic fact of life in any normal city that any family should feel safe and comfortable bringing a child out in every street in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958866\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People cross a city intersection.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68229_230822-SafeStreetsProtest-45-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cross the intersection at Fourth and King streets in San Francisco on Aug. 22, 2023, while traffic enforcement officers help guide traffic. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__attachments\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_attachment__delete_container\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>But some advocates said that while the city’s action is a good first step, it doesn’t go far enough to ensure the safety of pedestrians crossing many of the city’s most dangerous streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to move quickly to not just fix [the Fourth and King street] intersection, but all 900 intersections on the High Injury Network,” Janelle Wong, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, told demonstrators. “There are over 30 neighborhood streets in San Francisco that feed into a freeway entrance or an exit. And these streets need to be treated as neighborhood streets. Designed for people’s safety is the priority, and not traffic flow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Tuesday’s rally, a group of activists took matters into their own hands and used traffic cones and other barriers to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SafeStreetRebel/status/1694221866091901343\">shut down the turning lane\u003c/a> where the accident occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today at the vigil, SFMTA said it would take 3 weeks to do a ‘quick build’ to make the intersection safer,” the group Safe Street Rebel said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “That’s too long to wait. So we did our own quick build tonight and closed one of the turn lanes.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>After three years of economic growth and historic federal pandemic relief, local budgets in the Bay Area are looking a little different this year. Much of that federal aid has been spent, and cities are grappling with the economic fallout of a rise in working from home and empty downtown office buildings and storefronts. Elected officials often say that budgets are “statements of values.” So KQED is checking the receipts of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/city-budgets\">spending plans recently passed in San Francisco, San José and Oakland\u003c/a> to see how leaders in the region’s three largest cities are prioritizing taxpayer dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 26, San Francisco Mayor London Breed signed a $14.6 billion budget, after weeks of negotiations with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors over how to address a projected $780 million two-year deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that’s an eye-popping number compared to the budgets of San José and Oakland, it’s helpful to remember San Francisco is a county, as well as a city, and therefore funds additional expenses that Oakland and San José do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11957666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png\" alt=\"A graph that shows San Francisco's 2023-24 $14.6 Billion Budget\" width=\"1788\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1.png 1788w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-800x186.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1020x237.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-160x37.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/V9yeN-san-francisco-2023-24-budget-1-1536x357.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest budget battle in San Francisco centered on redirecting permanent housing funds to homeless shelters and temporary housing, similar to a controversial budget proposal in San José over homelessness spending. Breed proposed using $60 million earmarked by voters for permanent housing to fund her plan. Similarly, she also proposed dipping into a voter-approved tax that funds early childhood education and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors tussled with the mayor’s office over those proposed changes in negotiations for weeks. Ultimately, they reached a compromise using money they only later realized was available, using accrued interest from those two tax measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like San José, San Francisco’s budget also includes funding to increase the city’s police force. The police department budget grew by 8.5%, enough to hire 220 officers in the coming years. Public pressure to address a feared rise in crime prompted most lawmakers to back the mayor’s plan to increase the police department, one of the largest expansions in San Francisco’s spending plan, even as other departments were asked to take a cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-Time Funding Solutions in San Francisco's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Bar Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cD4o8\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cD4o8/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"654\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s shrinking daytime population and vacant office space blew a $780 million hole in San Francisco’s budget. Escalating health insurance costs and pensions contributed, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the way lawmakers plugged that hole won’t hold for long. The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. If downtown doesn’t boom like a Gold Rush in the near future, then San Francisco lawmakers will need to make drastic cuts in future budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year budget is often revised in its second year so lawmakers can adjust it to the realities of tax revenue projections. If the projections don’t hold, Breed can look forward to a bitter fight over what departments to cut during her mayoral re-election bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Projected Deficit in Upcoming Fiscal Years \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cMZn6\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cMZn6/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget process didn’t turn into the bloodbath many predicted it would. But that could happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-year estimate issued by the City Controller’s Office, Mayor’s Office and Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst foresees growing budget shortfalls in the coming years, starting at $488.9 million in 2024–2025 and reaching $1.3 billion in the 2027–2028 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some good news for the city, San Francisco’s tourism tax dollars are already rebounding. But it’s not enough money to offset a shrinking tax base from a massive dip in office use. A variety of taxes are tied to how many people work in San Francisco, from property taxes to various business taxes, and all of those have taken a hit post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing this all coming down the pike, Mayor Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin passed legislation to foster economic growth downtown. Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. Now the city is trying to attract new businesses downtown to generate more city revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under-the-Radar Projects Funded in SF's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0ampp\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0ampp/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"729\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the mayor and Board of Supervisors clash over the budget, it’s actually over a very small slice of the overall $14.6 billion pie. Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors reallocated $70 million after their weeks-long negotiations with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, that’s less than 1% of the budget.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101893348,news_11953006,news_11954871\"]And while it may be a small piece of the pie, the impact on the people and programs who need it is incalculable. Here are some of the program investments that caught our eye:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sisterhood Gardens near the Ocean View neighborhood received $115,000 to continue operating a community garden that serves the area’s large population of seniors and monolingual immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another $4.8 million went to the SRO Collaborative to keep up its code enforcement efforts in single-room occupancy hotels. 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The city’s two-year budget was balanced using nearly $1 billion in one-time funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This funding comes from a number of sources, including an opioid lawsuit settlement against Walgreens, FEMA reimbursements for emergency pandemic spending and various reserve funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of one-time sources to meet a budget need isn’t unheard of. And according to the City Controller’s Office, the use of one-time funding falls within the city’s legally mandated limits. But in a budget briefing letter, the controller also warned, “The use of one-time or nonrecurring sources to support ongoing operations creates a future budget shortfall, requiring expenditures to be reduced or replacement resources identified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means it’s the budget equivalent of using chewing gum to plug a leak. If downtown doesn’t boom like a Gold Rush in the near future, then San Francisco lawmakers will need to make drastic cuts in future budgets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-year budget is often revised in its second year so lawmakers can adjust it to the realities of tax revenue projections. If the projections don’t hold, Breed can look forward to a bitter fight over what departments to cut during her mayoral re-election bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"San Francisco's Projected Deficit in Upcoming Fiscal Years \" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-cMZn6\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/cMZn6/5/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s budget process didn’t turn into the bloodbath many predicted it would. But that could happen soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-year estimate issued by the City Controller’s Office, Mayor’s Office and Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst foresees growing budget shortfalls in the coming years, starting at $488.9 million in 2024–2025 and reaching $1.3 billion in the 2027–2028 budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some good news for the city, San Francisco’s tourism tax dollars are already rebounding. But it’s not enough money to offset a shrinking tax base from a massive dip in office use. A variety of taxes are tied to how many people work in San Francisco, from property taxes to various business taxes, and all of those have taken a hit post-pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing this all coming down the pike, Mayor Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin passed legislation to foster economic growth downtown. Much of that was supported in this year’s budget, including a program to waive city fees for small businesses in their first year of operation, and the “vacant to vibrant” program which will help artists beautify empty ground-floor spaces, and give grants to business owners to fill those storefronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have cited San Francisco’s reliance on the tech industry and the outsized impact of work-from-home as a major factor in its slow recovery from the pandemic. Now the city is trying to attract new businesses downtown to generate more city revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Under-the-Radar Projects Funded in SF's 2023–24 Budget\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-0ampp\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/0ampp/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"729\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the mayor and Board of Supervisors clash over the budget, it’s actually over a very small slice of the overall $14.6 billion pie. Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors reallocated $70 million after their weeks-long negotiations with the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that into perspective, that’s less than 1% of the budget.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Civic leaders came together Wednesday morning at the Powell Street cable car turnaround to celebrate 150 years since the iconic trolleys first made their appearance, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the woman credited with saving the cable cars from extinction when she was mayor, was a no-show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this week, her staff said the 90-year-old senator would be making a rare public appearance since health complications severely limited her ability to do the job of a U.S. Senator, but at last minute her appearance was canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was not feeling well and has a cough,” said the senator’s spokesperson Ron Eckstein. “She felt it was best to stay home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t stop Mayor London Breed and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi from giving Feinstein her due.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘So she (Feinstein) raised money [and] brought in the private sector to allow for an opportunity to make investments in the cable car to maintain and keep the system running.’[/pullquote]“This system in the late 1970s needed a complete overhaul. We needed to make sure it continued to run and it was safe,” said Breed. “So she (Feinstein) raised money [and] brought in the private sector to allow for an opportunity to make investments in the cable car to maintain and keep the system running.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Breed noted there were several women, including Feinstein, who kept the cable cars part of city history over the years. She acknowledged the role of Friedel Klussman, who in 1947 led a civic coalition to keep the cable cars when some wanted them scrapped for something more modern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed also mentioned the late author Maya Angelou, who briefly worked as a conductor during World War Two, and Fannie Mae Barnes, who became the first female grip person on a cable car in 1998.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was women who stepped up to make sure that this amazing cable car continued to be a part of the fabric of San Francisco for 150 years,” said Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks surrounded by a large group of people holding microphones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67609_230802-CableCarAnniversary-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks to the press after the 150th anniversary celebration of the cable car in San Francisco on Aug. 2, 2023, at the turnaround on Powell and Market Streets. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As mayor in the early 1980’s, Feinstein led the city’s campaign to save the cable cars, which were old, breaking down and in danger of extinction before the mayor made it a cause célèbre to renovate them. She also guided San Francisco out of its dark days after the Jonestown Massacre and the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein, frail and bound to a wheelchair, is still recovering from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950102/feinsteins-office-reveals-the-senators-previously-undisclosed-medical-complications-from-shingles\">debilitating bout of shingles\u003c/a> that forced her to leave Washington D.C. in February for months, and a widely reported decline in her cognitive abilities that has prompted aides to protect her from inquisitive reporters.[aside postID=\"news_11948930,news_11946976,news_11950102\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi underscored Feinstein’s role in preventing the cable cars that inspired Tony Bennett’s song “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” from falling into extinction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ardent Democrat used to joke with then-Mayor Feinstein about the cable cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we’d have our moments together because she’d be praising some Republicans in Congress who had helped with the cable cars,” said Pelosi. “And I’d be like, ‘Why are you praising them — the Republicans? We’re trying to defeat them.’ But she was always about San Francisco and she was always about the cable cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps no single thing is more emblematic of San Francisco’s image and international allure than the city’s cable cars, and when a rash of accidents in 1979 forced a reevaluation of the system’s safety and efficiency, the price to fix it came in at $60 million. By today’s dollars, that’s not much — consider the recent infrastructure bill signed by President Joe Biden contained $1.2 trillion — but back then, it required a civic campaign to find the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957167\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-800x614.jpg\" alt=\"A cable car full of people with a woman waving at the front.\" width=\"800\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-800x614.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-1020x782.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-160x123.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-1536x1178.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED-1920x1473.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-FEINSTEIN-BENNET-CABLE-CAR-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, on a cable car with Tony Bennett, June 22, 1984. \u003ccite>(Photo by Frederic Larson/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feinstein personally took charge of the effort, convincing Ken Derr, then CEO of Chevron USA (which was then headquartered in San Francisco) to raise the bucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor even fast-tracked the effort, making sure the tourist-friendly cable cars were back on track in time for the Democratic Convention, which the city hosted in July of 1984.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein’s image of a fiscally-minded, can-do executive who put the city back together after tragedy, landed her on the cover of \u003cem>Time Magazine\u003c/em> as a leading candidate to be Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale’s running mate. 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There is much more to come, and I’m excited [to] see this area continue to blossom.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Dean Preston\"]‘The Civic Center area isn’t just a hub for cultural activities or city government, it is home to families who want to celebrate summer with healthy activities and fun right in their neighborhood.’[/pullquote]The carnival will be between the Main Library and Asian Art Museum on Fulton Street. The city is projecting the event will attract 500 to 1,000 people each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admission costs $10 for visitors over 12 years of age, and the city’s parks department will be distributing a limited number of free passes to nonprofits serving the city’s youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four-day event will feature spinning teacups, a ferris wheel, fun house and giant slide. Carnival games and prizes, plus food favorites including cotton candy, caramel apples and funnel cakes will also be on tap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visitors may also notice an uptick in park rangers and law enforcement in the area. In her latest budget, Mayor Breed assigned eight new park rangers to support United Nations Plaza, the historic and troubled gathering space adjacent to the carnival’s site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952571/san-francisco-to-deploy-130-sheriffs-deputies-in-downtown-drug-crackdown\">ramped up policing\u003c/a> in the area since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934281/heartbroken-visitors-staff-of-shuttered-tenderloin-center-left-reeling-amid-sfs-ongoing-overdose-crisis\">closing the former overdose prevention and support site located at Civic Center Plaza\u003c/a>, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915870/inside-san-franciscos-tenderloin-center-that-serves-hundreds-every-day\">the Tenderloin Center\u003c/a>. 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But limitations around that idea are already apparent: While arrests for drug use have ticked up recently, almost none of the people who were arrested because of their addiction have opted to voluntarily enter treatment, Breed’s office has stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addiction experts and harm reduction advocates have meanwhile called for increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954871/san-francisco-will-use-opioid-settlement-to-also-expand-treatment-for-meth-cocaine-use\">voluntary treatment options\u003c/a> for people who are ready and willing to enter treatment. \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291\">Research\u003c/a> shows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say\">overdose deaths can increase shortly after a stint in jail\u003c/a> because a person’s tolerance can go down, and they can more easily overdose when they exit and resume using again.[aside postID=\"news_11952571,news_11954871,news_11948062\" label=\"Related Stories\"]But even those who objected to some of the law enforcement approaches to social challenges downtown praised the idea of bringing some fun and delight to the area, both for residents and to draw new people in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Civic Center area isn’t just a hub for cultural activities or city government, it is home to families who want to celebrate summer with healthy activities and fun right in their neighborhood,” said Supervisor Dean Preston. “I believe in activating our streets and plazas for activities that draw visitors and make life more enjoyable for residents, particularly kids, and I’m excited for this activation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2022, San Francisco announced it would open \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/san-francisco-debuts-new-outdoor-roller-rink-civic-center\">an outdoor roller-skating rink\u003c/a> in the space between the Main Library and Asian Art Museum. The space was also previously used as \u003ca href=\"https://sf.curbed.com/2020/5/18/21262280/tent-city-sf-san-francisco-coronavirus-homeless\">a safe tent sleeping site during the pandemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The carnival dovetails with plans from the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to revitalize United Nations Plaza, located adjacent to the carnival’s site. The department has plans now to install exercise equipment, chess and ping pong tables, as well as a skate park to try to inject new activities into the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those projects are slated to begin construction in September and are expected to take about six weeks to complete, according to the Mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our experience, the most effective way to make our public spaces healthier and more vibrant is to make them fun,” said San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department General Manager Phil Ginsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The carnival’s kickoff will also coincide with the Asian Art Museum’s unveiling of the new East West Terrace, a 7,500-square–foot outdoor space and sculpture gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the intersection of culture, politics, vibrant immigrant communities, and tech, our neighborhood is always transforming in new and exciting ways and it’s a thrill to see the City reimagine how Civic Center can play a role in making San Francisco residents’ lives not just better, but filled with fun,” said Asian Art Museum CEO Jay Xu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours for the carnival will be 2:30–9:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 12:30–9:30 p.m. on Saturday; and noon–8 p.m. on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A growing number of California mayors are pushing for a realignment of homelessness spending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">toward shelters and temporary housing\u003c/a> in the face of political pressure to clear encampments and deliver visible reductions of people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that shift has a trade-off: In a world of limited and often dwindling local dollars, more money for short-term solutions means less funding for permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This dynamic has led to pitched budget battles this month in the Bay Area’s two largest cities, with Mayors London Breed in San Francisco and Matt Mahan in San José pushing for more voter-approved homelessness dollars to go toward temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[ad fullwidth]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayors are grappling with the legal reality that making housing available is a prerequisite for clearing tents — and they are bolstered by advancements in the quality of temporary shelters they can offer residents living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly need housing at all levels of affordability that will require public subsidy — not disagreeing with any of that,” said Mahan, who was dealt a setback this week \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">when his homelessness spending plan was voted down\u003c/a> by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘The goal is to shift it towards what the needs are. And so that includes housing, it includes shelter because we need to immediately get people into a place to help decide where they belong.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But as long as we have thousands of people living and literally dying on our streets, I think we have to lean into the faster-to-deploy, more cost-effective solutions for getting people into a safe, managed environment with the privacy and stability that they need to take advantage of supportive services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pressures driving this pivot are familiar to mayors across the state and the nation. Thousands of unsheltered residents are suffering and dying on city sidewalks, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/homeless-populations-are-rising-around-california/\">homelessness in California has risen since the pandemic at a higher rate than elsewhere in the country\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Breed, the shift is a political response to worsening street conditions. In her budget reveal at the end of May, she proposed a controversial move to help fund temporary shelters for unhoused adults by reallocating funding meant to build housing for families and young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to shift it towards what the needs are. And so that includes housing, it includes shelter because we need to immediately get people into a place to help decide where they belong,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with brown hair and a light blue dress stands with her hands folded in front of her. She is looking toward the left. She is standing in front of San Francisco's City Hall building listening to a speech.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS52736_023_SanFrancisco_OmicronPressConference_12012021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed at San Francisco City Hall on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, Mayor Karen Bass defeated a more pro-shelter opponent in last year’s mayoral election. But she has turned to temporary units and hotels as a way to ameliorate street homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, city officials are scrambling to implement a voter-approved measure requiring a certain level of shelter capacity. And hours after San José’s vote, the city council in San Diego approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/homelessness/story/2023-06-13/study-shows-san-diego-falls-far-short-of-shelter-beds-needed-to-house-homeless-people\">an encampment ban that will necessitate an expansion of shelter beds\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing interest in the quick-build, particularly, because I think to really address the dangerous encampments, to try to do it as quickly as possible, you need this kind of mid-term or interim approach,” said Michael Lane, state policy director at SPUR, a Bay Area think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s why you’re seeing some of these fights at the local level, because that is a relatively new development over the past few years to really say, yes, we need all of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lane shares in the consensus that cities need investments in permanent as well as temporary housing. But debates in San José and San Francisco have centered on limited pools of tax dollars dedicated to reducing homelessness.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_11952870 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>In that context, a dollar spent paying for an affordable apartment complex can’t be used for a shelter bed. And then, there’s the politics: Both Mahan and Breed are up for reelection next year and face “tremendous pressure” to ensure their city streets are clear of homelessness, Lane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mahan’s homelessness spending plan ran into heavy opposition from members of the city council, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">instead opted to approve a more modest reallocation toward temporary beds\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader “rebalancing” of homelessness spending priorities is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe this is a trend across the state,” he said. “I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also informing the mayors’ moves: the changing nature of shelter beds and the length of time people can stay in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has opened six interim housing sites that bear little resemblance to traditional congregate shelters. Instead of a cot in a large room, residents of the city’s emergency interim housing units can stay for months — and sometimes longer — in a prefabricated apartment, often with a private bathroom and on-site supportive services. When Breed announced her homelessness funding plan in May, she did so at the site of a tiny-home village on Gough Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Francisco mayor looks to redirect money for youth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the permanent housing funds that Breed wants to tap come from a hard-fought pot of money intended for youth and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 ballot measure known as Proposition C, the Our City, Our Home tax, got just under a two-thirds majority vote to pass, opening it up to legal challenge — even after the effort got major financial backing from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The measure eventually won out, and it taxes businesses making more than $50 million to raise an expected $300 million annually, half of which was earmarked for permanent housing by voter mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a $780 million budget shortfall over the next two years, however, Breed’s new budget proposes the city reallocate roughly $60 million of Proposition C funding over the next two years — money that was intended to build permanent homes for young people age 18–24 who are experiencing homelessness, or families with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that funding may pay for the expansion of hours at two city homeless shelters, add 350 slots for temporary rental assistance and 75 units of supportive housing for adults, maintain the operation of a program helping people who live in oversize RVs to repair their vehicles, and to help fund a Bayview small-cabin shelter site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherilyn Adams, executive director of Larkin Street Youth Services, a service provider focused on unhoused youth, said the city already under-spends on young people as well as “transitional age youth,” who are between 18 and 25.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sherilyn Adams, executive director, Larkin Street Youth Services\"]‘The reason there are people living outside is because we have insufficient housing stock for young people. That only gets worse if we don’t bring on any new interventions.’[/pullquote]There were roughly 1,100 people under 25 years old living on San Francisco’s streets during the last point-in-time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason there are people living outside is because we have insufficient housing stock for young people. That only gets worse if we don’t bring on any new interventions” like building more housing, Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101893348/s-f-mayor-london-breed-on-how-to-prevent-an-economic-doom-loop-and-her-new-budget\">KQED’s Forum in early June\u003c/a>, Breed defended her budget reallocation, saying there aren’t any sites in San Francisco that have been identified yet to build housing for transitional-age youth. But Adams said that’s an easily fixable problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not having a building identified for transition-aged youth, so that they could allocate or use the existing Prop. C funds, does not mean that there’s not young people sleeping outside. It means you didn’t find a building. Unallocated is not the same as unneeded,” Adams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Legal and national pressures on mayors \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the push for California mayors to favor shelters over permanent housing is the result of legal constraints. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/23748522/tent-encampments-martin-boise-homelessness-housing\">2018 Martin v. City of Boise federal appeals court decision\u003c/a> bars locales from clearing out tent encampments if they don’t have enough shelter to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter placements for the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city, which in December prompted U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu to place an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950967/advocates-for-unhoused-san-franciscans-say-encampment-sweeps-continue-despite-court-order-call-on-judge-to-rein-city-in\">injunction against encampment sweeps\u003c/a>.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eric Tars, legal director, National Homelessness Law Center\"]‘When you have that increased street homelessness, in particular, you get this pressure for increased short-term, quick-fix kind of solutions. People want folks out of sight, out of mind.’[/pullquote]\u003c/span>Building more temporary shelters, then, is a pathway to gain the legal go-ahead to conduct more encampment sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while California is home to 30% of the U.S. unhoused population, the shift in funding allocation to favor temporary shelter is a national one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Tars, legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center, said in addition to the push being seen in Democratic California cities, many red states are contemplating the adoption of model legislation to put more funding toward short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that increased street homelessness, in particular, you get this pressure for increased short-term, quick-fix kind of solutions. People want folks out of sight, out of mind. And so our elected officials are under pressure to kind of get those quick results,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn’t think shelters are unnecessary — far from it — he does think the budget reallocations are shortsighted, and will actually increase homelessness rates in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Budget challenges ahead sharpen the debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates involved in homelessness policy expect the tug-of-war between permanent and temporary housing to intensify — infusing future debates over shrinking local budgets and any attempts to bolster city coffers with new tax or bond money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, long-term budget projections are far from rosy. The Mayor’s Office confirmed its budget proposal still has structural deficits that will remain in future years and has large amounts of deficits plugged by one-time funding sources. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to debate the budget with the mayor throughout June and put forward a compromise budget proposal by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg\" alt='A man with a beard wearing a suit and tie stands behind a podium labeled, \"San José Capital of Silicon Valley.\" He is surrounded by people holding various signs. Some read, \"Protect our Democracy.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1536x946.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader ‘rebalancing’ of homelessness spending priorities is underway. ‘I believe this is a trend across the state,’ he said. ‘I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.’ \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The debate over homelessness spending in San José hinged on money created by Measure E, a voter-approved tax on expensive home sales in the city. Mahan proposed spending $40 million in Measure E funds on short-term solutions such as prefabricated homes and parking lots for RV dwellers. When that plan was voted down, he joined a council majority to support putting $29 million toward those interim programs — leaving the largest share of city homelessness dollars for permanent housing.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside label='More Stories on the Unhoused Community' tag='unhoused']\u003c/span>David Low, director of policy and communications for the nonprofit Destination: Home, said those funds are vital for the half-dozen permanent affordable housing projects awaiting Measure E funding next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have affordable housing projects ready to go, and without that funding, we will see further delays, increased costs, at a time we can afford neither, or the very serious risk that some of these projects will all fall apart together,” said Low, a former senior adviser to San José’s previous mayor, Sam Liccardo. “So it’s that real-world trade-off and that real-world opportunity we have to build more affordable housing that we don’t want to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those trade-offs are likely to dominate future budget discussions across the region and state, particularly as cities grapple with diminished general fund resources, said Lane, with SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push and pull between permanent and temporary housing will animate discussions about state housing aid from the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the fight could be a key factor in determining the shape of a regional housing bond that could go before Bay Area voters next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To show that we actually have a way that we can move people from off the streets ultimately into permanent affordable housing … interim and mid-term types of solutions have to be a key part of that,” Lane said. “And I think that the voters will expect to see that as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomiquia Moss, CEO of the nonprofit All Home, sees the injection of new revenue as an opportunity to break the growing homelessness policy binary. Her organization works with elected officials, businesses and nonprofits across the Bay Area to promote regional strategies to reduce homelessness. At the core is a belief in concurrent investments in both temporary and permanent housing, in addition to aid for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax and bond measures are no easy lift, particularly across a nine-county region. But Moss, who previously worked for Mayors Ed Lee in San Francisco and Libby Schaaf in Oakland, said such an initiative could unlock that full portfolio of solutions — and unite the factions of homelessness spending around a single cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That, to me, is where you are growing the pie,” Moss added. “You are not robbing Peter to pay Paul. You are increasing resources for the entire region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>In that context, a dollar spent paying for an affordable apartment complex can’t be used for a shelter bed. And then, there’s the politics: Both Mahan and Breed are up for reelection next year and face “tremendous pressure” to ensure their city streets are clear of homelessness, Lane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Mahan’s homelessness spending plan ran into heavy opposition from members of the city council, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952913/san-jose-council-approves-modest-shift-toward-temporary-homeless-housing\">instead opted to approve a more modest reallocation toward temporary beds\u003c/a>. Nevertheless, Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader “rebalancing” of homelessness spending priorities is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe this is a trend across the state,” he said. “I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also informing the mayors’ moves: the changing nature of shelter beds and the length of time people can stay in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José has opened six interim housing sites that bear little resemblance to traditional congregate shelters. Instead of a cot in a large room, residents of the city’s emergency interim housing units can stay for months — and sometimes longer — in a prefabricated apartment, often with a private bathroom and on-site supportive services. When Breed announced her homelessness funding plan in May, she did so at the site of a tiny-home village on Gough Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Francisco mayor looks to redirect money for youth\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the permanent housing funds that Breed wants to tap come from a hard-fought pot of money intended for youth and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 ballot measure known as Proposition C, the Our City, Our Home tax, got just under a two-thirds majority vote to pass, opening it up to legal challenge — even after the effort got major financial backing from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. The measure eventually won out, and it taxes businesses making more than $50 million to raise an expected $300 million annually, half of which was earmarked for permanent housing by voter mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing a $780 million budget shortfall over the next two years, however, Breed’s new budget proposes the city reallocate roughly $60 million of Proposition C funding over the next two years — money that was intended to build permanent homes for young people age 18–24 who are experiencing homelessness, or families with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, that funding may pay for the expansion of hours at two city homeless shelters, add 350 slots for temporary rental assistance and 75 units of supportive housing for adults, maintain the operation of a program helping people who live in oversize RVs to repair their vehicles, and to help fund a Bayview small-cabin shelter site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherilyn Adams, executive director of Larkin Street Youth Services, a service provider focused on unhoused youth, said the city already under-spends on young people as well as “transitional age youth,” who are between 18 and 25.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>Building more temporary shelters, then, is a pathway to gain the legal go-ahead to conduct more encampment sweeps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while California is home to 30% of the U.S. unhoused population, the shift in funding allocation to favor temporary shelter is a national one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Tars, legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center, said in addition to the push being seen in Democratic California cities, many red states are contemplating the adoption of model legislation to put more funding toward short-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you have that increased street homelessness, in particular, you get this pressure for increased short-term, quick-fix kind of solutions. People want folks out of sight, out of mind. And so our elected officials are under pressure to kind of get those quick results,” Tars said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he doesn’t think shelters are unnecessary — far from it — he does think the budget reallocations are shortsighted, and will actually increase homelessness rates in the long term.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Budget challenges ahead sharpen the debate\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates involved in homelessness policy expect the tug-of-war between permanent and temporary housing to intensify — infusing future debates over shrinking local budgets and any attempts to bolster city coffers with new tax or bond money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, long-term budget projections are far from rosy. The Mayor’s Office confirmed its budget proposal still has structural deficits that will remain in future years and has large amounts of deficits plugged by one-time funding sources. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is expected to debate the budget with the mayor throughout June and put forward a compromise budget proposal by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953073\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953073\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg\" alt='A man with a beard wearing a suit and tie stands behind a podium labeled, \"San José Capital of Silicon Valley.\" He is surrounded by people holding various signs. Some read, \"Protect our Democracy.\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1182\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-800x493.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1020x628.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS61499_IMG_4613-qut-1536x946.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan said that conversations with fellow mayors have led him to believe a broader ‘rebalancing’ of homelessness spending priorities is underway. ‘I believe this is a trend across the state,’ he said. ‘I suspect that we will see federal, state and county sources shift toward the solutions that are faster and more cost-effective and help us scale solutions.’ \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The debate over homelessness spending in San José hinged on money created by Measure E, a voter-approved tax on expensive home sales in the city. Mahan proposed spending $40 million in Measure E funds on short-term solutions such as prefabricated homes and parking lots for RV dwellers. When that plan was voted down, he joined a council majority to support putting $29 million toward those interim programs — leaving the largest share of city homelessness dollars for permanent housing.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>David Low, director of policy and communications for the nonprofit Destination: Home, said those funds are vital for the half-dozen permanent affordable housing projects awaiting Measure E funding next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have affordable housing projects ready to go, and without that funding, we will see further delays, increased costs, at a time we can afford neither, or the very serious risk that some of these projects will all fall apart together,” said Low, a former senior adviser to San José’s previous mayor, Sam Liccardo. “So it’s that real-world trade-off and that real-world opportunity we have to build more affordable housing that we don’t want to lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those trade-offs are likely to dominate future budget discussions across the region and state, particularly as cities grapple with diminished general fund resources, said Lane, with SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push and pull between permanent and temporary housing will animate discussions about state housing aid from the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom. And the fight could be a key factor in determining the shape of a regional housing bond that could go before Bay Area voters next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To show that we actually have a way that we can move people from off the streets ultimately into permanent affordable housing … interim and mid-term types of solutions have to be a key part of that,” Lane said. “And I think that the voters will expect to see that as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomiquia Moss, CEO of the nonprofit All Home, sees the injection of new revenue as an opportunity to break the growing homelessness policy binary. Her organization works with elected officials, businesses and nonprofits across the Bay Area to promote regional strategies to reduce homelessness. At the core is a belief in concurrent investments in both temporary and permanent housing, in addition to aid for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax and bond measures are no easy lift, particularly across a nine-county region. But Moss, who previously worked for Mayors Ed Lee in San Francisco and Libby Schaaf in Oakland, said such an initiative could unlock that full portfolio of solutions — and unite the factions of homelessness spending around a single cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That, to me, is where you are growing the pie,” Moss added. “You are not robbing Peter to pay Paul. You are increasing resources for the entire region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is tasking its emergency unit with arresting and compelling treatment for people who use drugs or are intoxicated in public, city leaders announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan comes shortly after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950520/compassion-is-killing-people-london-breed-pushes-for-more-arrests-to-tackle-sfs-drug-crisis\">Mayor London Breed last month told the Board of Supervisors that “force” needs to be part of the city’s response to drug use\u003c/a>. The sheriff’s plan includes deploying 130 additional deputies to the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, two areas where drug use, sales and overdoses are concentrated in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies will work overtime for a six-month deployment beginning this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, individuals suffering from drug addiction only seek help when they hit their lowest point, and the sad truth for many is that the low point is incarceration,” Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said at a press conference Thursday morning outside City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emergency Services Unit at the sheriff’s office will work with the Mayor’s Office to increase arrests for drug sellers as well as people using drugs outdoors and in public settings, particularly those who are deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an official uniform with a starred badge pinned to it speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference outside City Hall Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement including the San Francisco Police Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">the California Highway Patrol and the National Guard\u003c/a> in recent months have renewed focus on the Tenderloin and SoMa, two areas that have become central to ongoing debates over how to respond to challenges around outdoor drug use and sales, homelessness and substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the solution is making sure we have enough law enforcement on the ground in the Tenderloin, South of Market and in the Civic Center area to make sure drug dealers understand that their behavior will not be tolerated any longer in this city and that those who are struggling with addiction get the help they so desperately need,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters at Thursday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts have historically decried the notion put forward Thursday that jails can rehabilitate substance use disorders for many. And incarceration can make life much worse for some people seeking employment or housing upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the approach mimics tried-and-failed approaches to cracking down on drugs in the past, which led to outsized incarceration for members of Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rounding up individuals for being under the influence is another war-on-drugs tactic that we know from decades of experience and research will not be effective in addressing our city’s public health crisis,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in a statement following Thursday’s press conference. “Our jails, which already subject people to frequent lockdowns, little contact with family, and no sunlight, are not well-equipped to treat individuals with substance use disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a purple suit speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks during Thursday’s press conference. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say\">efforts to criminalize drug use can also lead to increased overdoses\u003c/a> once targeted operations subside, and even immediately after individual arrests themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Indianapolis, \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">researchers found that opioid overdose deaths doubled within a 500-meter radius of each drug arrest\u003c/a>. “Elevated fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses were sustained over one, two and three weeks,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">a report published June 7, 2023, in the \u003cem>American Journal of Public Health\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the uptick in overdoses, the paper explains, is that disrupting the drug supply can drive drug users to find new suppliers who may have tainted substances, and pushing people to use drugs alone or secretly can lead to more erratic drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Breed applauded arrests made on 25 people for public intoxication with drugs or alcohol in the Tenderloin and SoMa. 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