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"content": "\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support the idea of requiring every county to do something,\" Campos said in an interview. \"I think that there are some instances where people may not be able to decide for themselves if something is appropriate for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some civil liberties advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/civil-rights-advocates-worry-newsoms-care-court-is-too-coercive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bristled at the idea of compelling treatment\u003c/a>, and are urging that the government's focus and resources instead be directed toward voluntary treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in justifying his support for the bill, Haney told KQED, \"[T]he current system is failing, it's not getting those people into care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Housing was a major flashpoint in the primary election, when Haney finished just 726 votes ahead of Campos, a margin thin enough to trigger the runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sparred over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Why-did-S-F-supervisors-vote-against-a-project-16569809.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed development in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which Haney supported, but ultimately was voted down by the Board of Supervisors. Meanwhile, endorsements from housing groups have split along familiar lines, with Haney gaining the backing of homebuilders and \"yes in my backyard\" (YIMBY) groups, while Campos is supported by the city's tenants union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"matt-haney\"]But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. Haney said he will be introducing a resolution at a future Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that we have to build a lot more housing at all [income] levels of all types,\" Haney said. \"That means both market-rate housing and also a lot more housing that is subsidized, that is built by the government, that is built by nonprofits and that ensures a true affordability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos also both back \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2469\u003c/a>, which would create a state registry of information about rental properties, owners and tenants. Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one wants to give a green light to retail theft, no one wants to let people do whatever they want without consequences,\" Campos said. \"But I don't think that this is the way to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. Haney said he will be introducing a resolution at a future Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that we have to build a lot more housing at all [income] levels of all types,\" Haney said. \"That means both market-rate housing and also a lot more housing that is subsidized, that is built by the government, that is built by nonprofits and that ensures a true affordability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos also both back \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2469\u003c/a>, which would create a state registry of information about rental properties, owners and tenants. Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s assembly race has no clear winner on election night, Tuesday, but two candidates may be emerging as opponents in an April runoff election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for the San Francisco Assembly District 17 seat looks to be heading to a contest solely between candidates Matt Haney and David Campos as neither commands the majority needed to win the race, but both are clearly ahead of their remaining two opponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 10:37 p.m., Haney and Campos have 35% and 37% of the vote, respectively, short of the majority needed to be a clear winner. Bilal Mahmood, a scientist and candidate new to the political system, has 20% of the vote. Thea Selby, a City College board trustee, has 6% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voting turnout stands at 26% on election night, roughly 130,000 voters out of 499,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at the end of the day we’re going to be at the top two and this is going to go down to a runoff,” Campos said at his election night party at the San Francisco Eagle bar. As revelers clinked glasses in celebration behind him under stark red lighting, Campos said the closeness of the vote between him and Haney was a “testament to the ground game that we ran.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney also described his results as positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s really a statement of the kind of campaign we ran and the message we had, focused on solutions to really tough problems like housing,” Haney said, standing at the SOMA StrEat Food Park. Surrounded by food trucks and with music bumping, his revelers cheered as the newest count came in to his favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905324\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11905324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1.jpg\" alt=\"Candidate David Campos in a gray suit on the right side of the drame, standing awaiting election results in San Francisco's Assembly race.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/20220215_211006-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Assembly candidate David Campos, right, awaits election results at the SF Eagle bar. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The election was far from decisive, however. Haney, a San Francisco supervisor, made a prediction for a likely April runoff: He thinks his more pro-development message, among other policies, may resonate more with those who voted for Mahmood or Selby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think if this were a ranked-choice race I would’ve won decisively. I think that a lot of the folks who maybe voted for Bilal or Thea are closer to where I am,” he said. “But we’ll have to make that case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s election was set in motion by the appointment of former Assemblymember David Chiu to serve as San Francisco’s city attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four candidates quickly lined up to pursue the open office. The winner has the opportunity to become a leading progressive voice in California, by holding a seat previously battled over by Democratic stalwarts like Art Agnos, Harvey Milk, John Burton, Tom Ammiano, Mark Leno and Chiu, who defeated David Campos by a razor-thin margin back in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his second run for the seat, Campos jumped out early — forming an exploratory committee before Chiu was even appointed city attorney. Campos lined up support from the progressive flank of San Francisco politics, running on a platform of single-payer health care, a higher minimum wage and higher taxes on wealthier Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos’s early entry into the race left Haney, often a leading progressive voice against Mayor London Breed, with little choice but to pivot to the political center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates’ differences were starkest on housing: While Campos argued for the preservation of local control in housing decisions, Haney promised to support changes in zoning laws to open the door for more housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GuyMarzorati/status/1493826944063840256?cxt=HHwWgICpzZzskbspAAAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Haney faced criticism for championing homeless solutions despite the Tenderloin neighborhood’s obvious struggle to house people living on the street, a neighborhood Haney represents. To those critiques, Haney said homelessness is not a problem that can be solved at the hyperlocal level, but an issue that needs state intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got people we get off the street by the dozens and the next day you look around and think we didn’t do anything. That’s because to solve the challenges of homelessness and drug addiction you need to solve them at the state level, the regional level,” he said. Other neighborhoods and even cities need to “do their part” to provide homeless services and housing, he added, which is something he could urge at the state level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former neuroscientist and entrepreneur, Mahmood began the campaign as a political unknown, but was able to gain traction in recent weeks with straightforward positions in favor of streamlining housing production, strict mandates for vaccinating schoolkids against COVID-19, charging fentanyl dealers with manslaughter and supporting the recall of all three San Francisco school board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood’s self-funded campaign allowed him to match Haney’s fundraising throughout the race. But a handful of independent super PACs, backed by building trades and realtors, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost Haney and print campaign mailers bashing Campos and Mahmood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not what we were hoping for,” said Mahmood, outside of his election night party at Red’s Place in Chinatown. Addressing a crowd that had spilled onto Jackson Street, the first-time candidate said he would stay involved in politics. “I’m not going away,” he added. “I think we started something that many didn’t think was possible, and change happens with repeated runs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1493811159358603268?cxt=HHwWiICssbfVirspAAAA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selby entered the race as the only candidate to have won a citywide election. But she struggled to establish a clear political identity in the race, testing her claim as the “public safety candidate” or “parent’s voice” at various points in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Haney believes he has the advantage in a runoff because of his affinity to Mahmood and Selby’s policies, Campos thinks the race may run in his favor due to a smaller turnout, which favors candidates who knock on more doors, over those who spend more cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a small special election, “that’s where the strength of your base and support is key. I think a low-turnout election has been very positive for progressive candidates who have a strong base,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood is officially in a state of emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Thursday night to approve \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Mayor London Breed’s order to declare a state of emergency\u003c/a> in the long-beleaguered city neighborhood, where the needs of people suffering and dying from poverty and substance use disorders have clashed with the needs of nearby families, who are demanding relief from the psychological toll of continuous open-air drug markets and unregulated use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the supervisors who voted to approve the declaration still expressed their concerns that the ordinance may condone the criminalization of those experiencing substance use disorders in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11899726\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_20191127_153031-e1574905962967-1020x802.jpg\"]“I will note, the mayor can crack down on the Tenderloin today no matter what we do,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who represents the Mission and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, during the meeting, the mayor’s staff promised not to use the emergency powers to boost police funding, but instead to enable more services to help people with substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Between now and January, if they use a cent to increase [the San Francisco Police Department budget], we can cancel this order on the spot,” Ronen said. “I’m going to vote to approve this order today, but I’m going to watch this thing like a hawk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supervisors had seven days to approve Breed’s emergency declaration for the Tenderloin, which will last 90 days. Eight supervisors voted to approve the order, with Supervisors Dean Preston and Shamann Walton voting no, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin absent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen, District 9\"]‘Between now and January, if they use a cent to increase [the SFPD budget], we can cancel this order on the spot.’[/pullquote]In their vote to approve the measure, some members of the board cited a longstanding informal policy of voting alongside a supervisor on issues that affect the neighborhood that supervisor represents. Since Supervisor Matt Haney, who is running for State Assembly and represents the Tenderloin, backed the emergency order, other supervisors were swayed to join him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they did so amid publicly aired concerns. Breed spurred fears she would criminalize drug use when she announced earlier this month \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899060/vowing-to-end-reign-of-criminals-destroying-our-city-sf-mayor-breed-announces-latest-tenderloin-crackdown\">a new public safety strategy in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, calling for a “tough love” approach that would have more cops on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her remarks, she said San Franciscans should be “less tolerant of all the bull— that has destroyed our city,” and suggested that people who did not accept services would be jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those words, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2021/12/san-francisco-tenderloin-matrix-declaration-of-emergency-london-breed/\">and others from Breed\u003c/a>, hung over the more than 10-hour-long meeting, as some of the supervisors argued people using drugs need care, not jail, to find healthier lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, city staff delivered a softened version of Breed’s message to the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11899060\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/20211214_115252-1020x771.jpg\"]“I can say unequivocally our office will not use authority in the emergency order to provide appropriations [of funding] to the police department,” Mayor’s Office Deputy Chief of Staff Andres Power told the board Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Power and other staff said, the state of emergency would cut red tape and enable San Francisco agencies to lease a location near the Tenderloin to establish a “linkage site” to help connect people who use drugs to health services and resources, staffed by social workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the emergency order, it would take months, perhaps a year, to create such a site in the Tenderloin, city staff said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order also would allow the city to more quickly hire 250 behavioral health staffers to help people with substance use disorders heal from their illnesses by blazing through “byzantine” civil-service rules, city staff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are things that can absolutely save lives,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those assurances, other supervisors said they were disappointed Breed didn’t attend the meeting herself to tell them how much, or how little, the police would be involved in her plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who represents Haight-Ashbury, the Fillmore and Japantown, among other neighborhoods, was openly critical of the emergency order, calling it a “publicity stunt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, who represents the Richmond neighborhood, also questioned the political nature of the declaration and asked why the mayor hadn’t taken similar action earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this declaration was truly about tackling the fentanyl crisis, where was this declaration when we voted to urge the mayor to do so in September of this year?” Chan said, referencing a resolution introduced by Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some supervisors worried approving the emergency order would tacitly endorse Breed’s law-and-order messaging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a community market opening in the Tenderloin in mid-December,\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1474166266797518888\"> Breed was recorded on video saying\u003c/a>, “We are going to make people who are dealing drugs, who are using drugs out in the open with no regard for the community, people who are assaulting and spitting on and stabbing and shooting and destroying this community, we are going to make life hell for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston called out those words in the meeting — making “life hell” for those who use drugs — when \u003ca href=\"https://health.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/news/headlines/its-time-to-treat-substance-abuse-like-a-chronic-disease/2021/12\">public health experts consider substance use disorder to be a disease that can be treated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, SFPD Chief Bill Scott expressed frustration at the position his officers are placed in when addressing the sale and consumption of drugs in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this ‘no-person’s-land’ where they’re being asked not to arrest, and they’re seeing people smoking fentanyl out on the streets,” Scott said. “What tools do they have to address this, if they’re not going to be arresting?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1474177258323546120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other critiques, Supervisor Shamann Walton questioned why there wasn’t an emergency order when homicides rose in the southeast of the city, which he represents, and Chan questioned why the mayor didn’t have similar urgency around attacks against the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of people called in to comment on the vote during the public meeting. Those supporting Breed’s emergency order ran the gamut: Some lauded Breed’s plan as compassionate for boosting access to services, while others embraced more police action, even going so far as to suggest jailing drug dealers on Alcatraz, or encouraging the police to commit violence against drug users and dealers alike. Callers often called the Tenderloin a “dystopia,” and called for “order.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other callers lived with their families in the Tenderloin, and were calling for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t forget that children and young people are affected in their mental health directly. It’s a day-to-day situation where they’re offered drugs and are afraid of being shot,” said Norma Carrera, a 26-year Tenderloin resident who spoke in Spanish with the aid of an interpreter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas Wolf, who previously struggled with substance abuse \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/san-francisco-drug-crisis.html\">and became notable in San Francisco for going sober after his arrest by city police\u003c/a>, told the board, “I’m alive today, and in recovery, because I was held accountable when I broke the law to support my addiction. Accountability is the cornerstone of recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People speaking publicly against Breed’s emergency order sometimes characterized it as police overreach, even though the mayor’s office pledged in the meeting not to add funding to policing by using the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Callers repeatedly described fear of the police, citing the police killings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1000988747/george-floyds-murder-one-year-later\">George Floyd\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/21/death-by-gentrification-the-killing-that-shamed-san-francisco\"> Alex Nieto\u003c/a>. They also often suggested officials boost funding for the Community Alternative Response Team (CART), a citywide program designed to connect unhoused people with community workers, as opposed to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Hernandez, an 18-year-old who said they were unhoused, said “instead of a police crackdown,” Breed should increase funding for housing initiatives to aid those living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to live in fear,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Murphy, a Tenderloin resident who works at the Mental Health Association of San Francisco, said his agency opposes the emergency order and any measure that would criminalize substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I identify as an addict and an alcoholic. The only thing that’s worked for me is voluntary treatment,” he said, and suggested the city fund CART. “This is not the time to repeat the mistakes of the past, with over-policing the Tenderloin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deaths attributable to drug overdoses have increased more than 200% in San Francisco since 2018, and last year, more than 700 people died from drug overdoses in the city, more than the number who died from COVID-19, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/Emergency%20Declaration%20-%20Tenderloin.pdf\">Breed’s proclamation of a local emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11894981\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/NPR-fentanyl-1-1020x766.jpg\"]Nearly 600 people have died of drug overdoses through November of this year, with nearly half the deaths occurring in the Tenderloin and the neighboring South of Market neighborhood, the proclamation said. These areas make up 7% of San Francisco’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined the city’s public defender Mano Raju at a news conference on Monday to denounce the mayor’s plan, saying that jailing people experiencing substance use disorders, mental health issues and homelessness would not work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If arrests and prosecutions alone could solve the drug crisis in this country or in this city, it would have been solved long ago,” Boudin said. “We’ve invested over a trillion dollars in fighting the so-called war on drugs, and where has it gotten us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1473064841568940034\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said the “raw human suffering” he sees in the neighborhood outrages him. But using outdated methods won’t make people any safer, and the city has other options, said Boudin, who worked in the public defender’s office before becoming DA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among local community activists, reaction to Breed’s declaration has been mixed, at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, last week slammed the mayor’s strategy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really clear that Mayor Breed is vilifying and degrading people who are living in poverty,” she said, calling it a shortsighted political response to the “misleading flood of media hysteria around crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to Proposition C, the 2018 voter-approved measure that directs hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for services for unhoused people in the city, Friedenbach said Breed was already “sitting on very carefully crafted solutions to these issues that the community has been calling for, with feedback and expertise from unhoused community members themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, the supervisor representing the Richmond, said at the meeting that San Francisco has seen police-focused plans to address drug use and homelessness in the past, and they haven’t succeeded — because the problem still lingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been in city government for almost two decades, serving under four different mayors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nearly 600 people have died of drug overdoses through November of this year, with nearly half the deaths occurring in the Tenderloin and the neighboring South of Market neighborhood, the proclamation said. These areas make up 7% of San Francisco’s population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin joined the city’s public defender Mano Raju at a news conference on Monday to denounce the mayor’s plan, saying that jailing people experiencing substance use disorders, mental health issues and homelessness would not work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If arrests and prosecutions alone could solve the drug crisis in this country or in this city, it would have been solved long ago,” Boudin said. “We’ve invested over a trillion dollars in fighting the so-called war on drugs, and where has it gotten us?”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After appointing state Assemblymember David Chiu as city attorney Wednesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed quipped that \"the worst-kept secret in San Francisco is finally out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the campaign to replace Chiu in the state Legislature will also burst into the open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of speculation, a handful of candidates have announced plans to run in a special election. A compressed campaign timeline, which could result in a vote in late winter or early spring 2022, could pose challenges to campaigns trying to get their message in front of voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's going to be interesting, to say the least, in terms of the holidays and time of year when you have to stand up a campaign, stand up a strategy, and then turn around and be on the ballot,\" said political consultant Lauren Feuerborn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu is planning to leave his Assembly seat on Oct. 31, too early for Gov. 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Facing voters who are likely fatigued after the gubernatorial recall election, the quartet of candidates has little time to waste in their quest to fundraise and capture key endorsements, Feuerborn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're going to have to make some really fast decisions about where to spend their energy and time,\" Feuerborn added. \"You can always raise more money, you can always recruit more volunteers and put out policy papers and knock on doors and call folks, but you can't get more time.\"[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More political coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strategists following the race agree that the accelerated campaign accentuates the advantage for candidates who enter the race with higher name identification in the district, which spans the eastern half of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos, who represented the Mission, the Portola and Bernal Heights on the Board of Supervisors from 2008 to 2016, also ran for the seat in 2014, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10346232/san-francisco-assembly-race-expected-to-be-tight\">losing a competitive race to Chiu\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that in life, you actually learn more from your failures or mistakes than you do victories,\" said Campos. \"And when I lost that race, I didn't just leave. I actually continued working and found other ways in which I could continue to serve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos was chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party from 2017 until this year, worked as a county executive in Santa Clara and is now chief of staff to San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The son of Guatemalan immigrants who brought him to the U.S. as a teen, when he was undocumented, Campos said his priority in the Assembly will be looking out for the health needs of working Californians like his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first bill that I will introduce will be a bill to make Medicare for all and single-payer the law in California,\" he said. \"We need single-payer to address the health disparities that led to different outcomes during the pandemic for some communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney, the former president of the San Francisco Board of Education, has represented neighborhoods including SoMa, the Tenderloin and Civic Center on the Board of Supervisors since 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney has been a recurrent critic of Mayor London Breed, calling for more oversight of the mayor's department heads. But he was able to compromise with Breed to achieve an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786202/s-f-mayor-breed-and-supes-agree-on-plan-to-overhaul-citys-mental-health-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overhaul of the city's mental health care\u003c/a> system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I represent ... one of the toughest districts, where I've taken on really big problems and delivered,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If elected to the state Legislature, Haney said he would tackle the root causes of the issues that have turned his district into the epicenter of San Francisco's homelessness and drug crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not just pull the bodies out of the river to get them help, but to go up the river and find why they're being pushed in there to begin with,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selby, a City College of San Francisco board trustee and public transit advocate, did not respond to a request for an interview. She has served as a member of the board of directors for the state's High-Speed Rail Authority and is co-chair of the San Francisco Transit Riders board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political newcomer in the race is Bilal Mahmood, an entrepreneur who founded the analytics startup ClearBrain, which was acquired by Amplitude last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this Assembly race, he's likely to run to the center of Campos and Haney, in an attempt to appeal to the bloc of voters considered \"moderate\" in reliably liberal San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The son of Pakistani immigrants, Mahmood remembers visiting the Tenderloin as a kid to eat at Shalimar Restaurant on Jones Street. Now, he says, the neighborhood is evidence of how the city's \"tribal politics\" have failed residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of the foundations of what makes it possible to achieve the American dream, from safety to schools to transit to health care [are] disappearing,\" said Mahmood. \"And I feel that a lot of San Franciscans are upset about that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he is working with Saikat Chakrabarti — the former chief of staff to New York Rep. 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The recall against the trio, driven by parents angry with the board's handling of pandemic schooling, is likely to make it to the ballot after its supporters submitted hundreds of thousands of signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos and Haney said they only support the removal of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">Collins, who came under fire for inflammatory tweets \u003c/a>about Asian Americans and subsequently sued the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to recall Boudin faces an October deadline to submit signatures. Campos and Haney oppose the recall attempt and argue that Boudin has done nothing to warrant a removal prior to the end of his term. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Thursday afternoon announced charges against a man suspected of stabbing two elderly Asian women on Market Street earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Thompson, a 54-year-old San Francisco resident, is being charged with two counts of premeditated attempted murder, along with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon and elder abuse, the San Francisco DA's office said in a statement Thursday. The charges carry a potential life sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin will personally represent the prosecution at the arraignment Friday and ask that Thompson be held in jail until his trial, according to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The strength and courage of these women is inspiring,\" Boudin said in the statement. \"Their pain was tangible and will serve as a constant reminder of the importance of our work to make San Francisco safer for all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"anti-asian-attacks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stabbing incident occurred late Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop close to 4th and Stockton Streets, near the Powell Street BART station. San Francisco police found two women, one in her 60s, the other in her 80s, suffering from stab wounds, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement. One of the victims had a punctured lung and required extensive surgery, the DA said. Both were treated at a local hospital and are reportedly in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What happened is a devastating tragedy, and we will use the full force of our office’s resources to prosecute this case,\" DA spokesperson Rachel Marshall said in the statement, calling it a \"brutal attack.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is among a growing number of recent anti-Asian attacks that have rattled the region and the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the stabbing, police arrested Thompson, who officers recognized \"from prior police contacts,\" the SFPD said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/san-francisco-police-make-arrest-tenderloin-stabbing-21-087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers also obtained surveillance footage of the attack and said in an email to KQED that it showed \"without provocation or warning the suspect began stabbing the victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police booked Thompson on suspicion of attempted murder and elder abuse. The DA's office said it is now working with police to investigate any evidence of a hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1390457675276644352\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson has been intermittently involved in the city’s criminal justice and mental health systems for several years, the DA's office said. Nearly four years ago, he was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and battery, according to court records reviewed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Suspect-in-S-F-double-stabbing-faced-assault-16154864.php\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>. A judge at the time found him incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to receive mental health treatment at a state hospital in Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Thompson returned to San Francisco in 2018, he entered a mental health diversion program in lieu of detention. Thompson’s defense attorney last year sought his exit from the program, which a judge granted, the DA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members of one of the victims, the woman in her mid-80s, whose status was changed on Wednesday from threatening to non-life threatening, have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account to cover her medical expenses. The campaign has already raised nearly $100,000 as of Thursday evening, almost twice its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While she was waiting at the bus stop, she was stabbed with a long knife in her right arm and entered into her chest,\" Drew Eng, the victim's grandson, wrote on the GoFundMe page. \"San Francisco is my home and my grandma's home. We need to feel safe where we live and not in constant fear. Please keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, following a mass shooting in Georgia that killed six Asian women and two others, Mayor London Breed directed the SFPD to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865171/enough-is-enough-asian-american-community-leaders-and-bay-area-officials-react-to-atlanta-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramp up foot patrols\u003c/a> in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Asian American residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents the district where the attack took place, said he supports investigating the incident as a potential hate crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen these types of deliberate, intentional, targeted attacks on Asian people so often that I don't think it's just a coincidence. I think that they're being targeted,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added that such violence has ripple effects across San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has huge impacts on our city when people are afraid to go outside, they're afraid to go onto public transit — our city can't operate and our city is failing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reports of anti-Asian hate crimes, some loosely linked to the coronavirus pandemic, have spiked in recent months in a number of cities across the country, including San Francisco, where 12 attacks were reported in the first quarter of 2021. That's up from five during the same period the year before, marking a 140% increase, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.csusb.edu/sites/default/files/Report%20to%20the%20Nation%20-%20Anti-Asian%20Hate%202020%20Final%20Draft%20-%20As%20of%20Apr%2030%202021%206%20PM%20corrected.pdf\">Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a new report released this week, \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>, a national coalition addressing anti-Asian racism, said there's been a 64% increase in reports of physical assault against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community across the nation over the past year. From mid-March 2020 to the end of March 2021, more than 6,000 hate incidents were reported to Stop AAPI Hate and its partner groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a third of reported incidents happened in public streets or parks, and a nearly equal share occurred in businesses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report shows that incidents of hate are not abating,\" said Stop AAPI Hate co-founder Cynthia Choi. \"So this is really very disconcerting, and a very challenging time for our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11860549 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/AAPI-1038x576.jpg']The San Francisco division of the FBI says it is expanding resources to investigate hate crimes and increasing outreach efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In separate San Francisco attacks in March, an 83-year-old Vietnamese man was knocked down and broke his neck in the fall and a 77-year-old woman was similarly attacked. Police arrested a man on charges of assault and elder abuse in both cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 83-year-old man who was pushed down in San Francisco in February, broke a hip and spent weeks in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in January, an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-senior-attacked-sf-man-pushed-on-video-day-time-attack-caught-anza-vista-crime/10205928/\">84-year-old man\u003c/a> in San Francisco died after being forcefully pushed to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While pledging to aggressively prosecute the case, Boudin's office on Thursday also called on lawmakers to implement more effective prevention and treatment systems to address the many mental health crises that occur regularly on San Francisco's streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For over 40 years, we have failed to invest resources into treatment, supportive housing and other necessary services for those who are mentally ill and their families. We are all less safe as a result of that legacy,\" Marshall, the DA spokesperson, said in Thursday's statement. \"Public safety demands urgent, new approaches to treating those with mental illness in order to protect everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from KQED's Julie Chang and Holly McDede, and from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco man has been arrested in the stabbing of two Asian seniors in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood. The attack is just one in a rising number of similar anti-Asian incidents that have rattled the region. And the wave of violence has prompted conversations about how to address anti-Asian racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 4:51 p.m. Tuesday, San Francisco Police Department officers responded to a double stabbing at a bus stop near 4th and Stockton Streets, near the Powell Street BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers arrived at the scene they found a 63-year-old woman and an 84-year-old woman suffering from stab wounds, police said in a statement. The women were taken to a local hospital and both are currently in stable condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11865171\" label=\"The Bay Area responds to hateful attacks\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours of the incident, police arrested 54-year-old San Francisco resident Patrick Thompson. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/san-francisco-police-make-arrest-tenderloin-stabbing-21-087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement\u003c/a>, SFPD said \"Through the course of the investigation, officers obtained an image of the suspect. Tenderloin officers recognized the suspect from prior police contacts.\" Officers also obtained surveillance footage of the attack and said it showed \"without provocation or warning the suspect began stabbing the victims.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police booked Thompson on suspicion of attempted murder and elder abuse, and are investigating the attack for racial bias. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said charges will be announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grandsons of the 85-year-old victim have started a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/exvd5-help-my-grandma-with-medical-bills?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&utm_medium=os&utm_source=customer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GoFundMe\u003c/a> account to cover her medical expenses as she recovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While she was waiting at the bus stop, she was stabbed with a long knife in her right arm and entered into her chest,\" Drew Eng, the victim's grandson, wrote on the GoFundMe page. \"San Francisco is my home and my grandma's home. We need to feel safe where we live and not in constant fear. Please keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account has surpassed its goal of $50,000 in donations as of Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin said he’s outraged by Tuesday’s senseless attack. In a statement, he said his office is still receiving evidence from SFPD and that his office will announce charging details Thursday. He said they expect the suspect to be arraigned as soon as Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Attacks on our [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community and especially on our elderly residents are horrifying, not just to the victims who suffer physical injury but to the entire AAPI community that has been living in fear,\" Boudin said, in the statement. \"We will hold those who commit these acts of violence and hate accountable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chesaboudin/status/1390066797542469632?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the rise in racist attacks against the Asian and Asian American community in San Francisco, Mayor London Breed asked SFPD to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11865171/enough-is-enough-asian-american-community-leaders-and-bay-area-officials-react-to-atlanta-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ramp up foot patrols\u003c/a> in areas with a high concentration of Asian and Asian American residents and businesses in addition to launching \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866311/in-the-wake-of-anti-aapi-violence-sf-launches-community-safety-teams-expands-escorts-for-seniors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community safety teams\u003c/a> earlier this year. Breed’s office also created the SFPD Community Liaison Officer Unit in October 2020 to serve as a liaison to the city’s Asian and Asian American community and more, including communities with limited English proficiency and elderly victims. 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"content": "\u003cp>Over the past year, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera has rooted out wrongdoing in an expansive, still unfolding city corruption scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Herrera has been tapped to lead one of the agencies at the center of that scandal — the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission — a move announced Monday by Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As head of the city's water and power agency, Herrera would be tasked with reducing San Francisco's dependency on PG&E, California's largest utility, which has itself drawn heavy scrutiny in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move would also leave an empty seat at the helm of the City Attorney's Office, leading to a potential power shuffle in city government. Those rumored to be vying for the seat include two sitting supervisors, the head of the local Democratic Party and a state assemblymember.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1386728480360988674\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some of those rumored to be potential candidates denied a run outright, former city supervisors David Campos and Jane Kim, and current Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, both responded to inquiries with statements that left the door open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If recommended by the SFPUC, Herrera would assume the general manager position previously held by Harlan Kelly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849113/u-s-attorney-charges-san-francisco-department-head-with-fraud-in-connection-to-bribery-scheme\">who stepped down in November after being charged\u003c/a> by the U.S. attorney's office in the city's sprawling corruption scandal. Attorneys alleged Kelly accepted dinners and a lavish trip to China paid for by a city permitting agent — who has since pleaded guilty — in exchange for favorable treatment securing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As head of the agency, Herrera told KQED he'd be ready to clean house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"san-francisco-corruption\"]\"There's obviously been a void of leadership at the Public Utilities Commission,\" he said. \"And the mayor and I, in the course of our discussions about the executive leadership of that agency, each came to the conclusion that putting the city's top watchdog in that position would do a great deal to help restore the legacy and the reputation of that agency and at the same time demonstrate our city's commitment to bringing affordable public power to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said she's \"proud\" to nominate Herrera for the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dennis has been a great champion in San Francisco across a wide range of issues,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera was initially elected as city attorney in 2001, the first Latino to ever hold that office, and has been subsequently reelected five times. His office played a key role in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage equality case and staunchly defended San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city against relentless attacks by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's Herrera's pivotal work investigating City Hall corruption that has some officials concerned about the prospect of him switching roles now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents parts of the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods, said he's worried Herrera is leaving the City Attorney's Office as the corruption investigation into Kelly and other city department heads continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, Haney noted, Herrera's successor would be appointed by Breed, who had strong political alliances with at least three officials deeply embroiled in the scandal, including Kelly, his wife Naomi Kelly — the former city administrator — and former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're taking somebody who is leading a corruption investigation, moving them, and then having the executive branch, the mayor, which is the body that's under investigation, appointing the replacement,\" Haney said. \"I think that should be of concern to the residents of San Francisco who really want to make sure that we have effective, ethical government with integrity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added, \"I respect Dennis Herrera and think he's a strong leader.\" But he called the role change \"highly unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Catherine Stefani and Rafael Mandelman, who represent the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods and the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission neighborhoods, respectively, are also among the growing group rumored to be eyeing the city attorney job. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>While some of those rumored to be potential candidates denied a run outright, former city supervisors David Campos and Jane Kim, and current Assemblymember David Chiu, D-San Francisco, both responded to inquiries with statements that left the door open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If recommended by the SFPUC, Herrera would assume the general manager position previously held by Harlan Kelly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849113/u-s-attorney-charges-san-francisco-department-head-with-fraud-in-connection-to-bribery-scheme\">who stepped down in November after being charged\u003c/a> by the U.S. attorney's office in the city's sprawling corruption scandal. Attorneys alleged Kelly accepted dinners and a lavish trip to China paid for by a city permitting agent — who has since pleaded guilty — in exchange for favorable treatment securing contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As head of the agency, Herrera told KQED he'd be ready to clean house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"There's obviously been a void of leadership at the Public Utilities Commission,\" he said. \"And the mayor and I, in the course of our discussions about the executive leadership of that agency, each came to the conclusion that putting the city's top watchdog in that position would do a great deal to help restore the legacy and the reputation of that agency and at the same time demonstrate our city's commitment to bringing affordable public power to San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said she's \"proud\" to nominate Herrera for the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dennis has been a great champion in San Francisco across a wide range of issues,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera was initially elected as city attorney in 2001, the first Latino to ever hold that office, and has been subsequently reelected five times. His office played a key role in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark gay marriage equality case and staunchly defended San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city against relentless attacks by the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's Herrera's pivotal work investigating City Hall corruption that has some officials concerned about the prospect of him switching roles now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents parts of the South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods, said he's worried Herrera is leaving the City Attorney's Office as the corruption investigation into Kelly and other city department heads continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Importantly, Haney noted, Herrera's successor would be appointed by Breed, who had strong political alliances with at least three officials deeply embroiled in the scandal, including Kelly, his wife Naomi Kelly — the former city administrator — and former Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're taking somebody who is leading a corruption investigation, moving them, and then having the executive branch, the mayor, which is the body that's under investigation, appointing the replacement,\" Haney said. \"I think that should be of concern to the residents of San Francisco who really want to make sure that we have effective, ethical government with integrity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added, \"I respect Dennis Herrera and think he's a strong leader.\" But he called the role change \"highly unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Catherine Stefani and Rafael Mandelman, who represent the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods and the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission neighborhoods, respectively, are also among the growing group rumored to be eyeing the city attorney job. Neither responded to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Campos, now the chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, told KQED, \"I haven't decided but I'm seriously considering it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Jane Kim, she responded by text, \"Last I checked, we still have a city attorney!\" When asked if she would run when he leaves, she said, \"Let's chat then.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, who once worked in the City Attorney's Office under Herrera, is also rumored to be considering the seat, although he told KQED he was not interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chiu, meanwhile called Herrera a \"model of public service\" and an inspired choice to lead the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about his interest in replacing Herrera, Chiu said, \"I haven't had time to give today's news the consideration it deserves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, \"Throughout my career, I've always considered where I can best serve the city I love, and will continue to do that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the ongoing corruption probe, at least one figure who was prominently involved in it isn't too worried about any future city attorney throwing a wrench in the works. Dave Anderson, the former U.S. attorney who led the federal criminal probe into the scandal (as opposed to Herrera's office, which pursued a civil investigation), said he expected the investigation to continue unimpeded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would expect continuity in the public corruption investigation because there is continuity in the team that's actually driving the investigation forward day to day,\" he said, noting that other leading attorneys in Herrera's office who will remain in place even if he steps down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for his response, Herrera sought to calm any fears.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking a role at the SFPUC \"should actually alleviate people's concerns, that you have the city's top watchdog also going over to head the PUC,\" he said. \"If there's anybody that's going to send a message that unethical or illegal conduct is not going to be tolerated, and is going to show that they're willing to cooperate with investigations and further them, it's me, since I started this public corruption investigation myself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:05 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco residents living in the city's single room occupancy hotels are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccinations, the city's Department of Public Health announced in a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SF_DPH/status/1375188999086637060\">tweet\u003c/a> Thursday afternoon. SRO residents were previously not included under vaccine eligibility guidelines from the state, which nonetheless included residents of congregate settings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SF_DPH/status/1375188999086637060\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move comes in the wake of criticism from city leaders and SRO managers, who encouraged the city's health department to modify local vaccine priorities to include SRO dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 4 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco's new COVID-19 vaccination priorities aren't helping some of the city's most vulnerable communities, some local leaders say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State vaccination rules that took effect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#eligible\">on March 15 \u003c/a> prioritize people living in congregate settings like homeless shelters. But in a move that's leaving some confused and others outraged, those state rules leave out often-impoverished single room occupancy hotel dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's true people living in SROs do have a single room to a household, offering some COVID-19 protection, they often share kitchens and bathrooms with neighbors outside their household.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders and SRO managers are questioning the San Francisco Department of Public Health's interpretation of state health orders regarding congregate settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's inexcusable to me [to leave SROs out of the vaccine priority],\" said Malcolm Yeung, executive director of the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown CDC operates 11 SRO buildings across the Tenderloin neighborhood and Chinatown, home to some of the city's most vulnerable tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s been putting people’s lives in danger since day one,\" Yeung said. \"We need to get folks vaccinated in high congregate settings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's guidelines on how localities should distribute COVID-19 vaccines have been reworked a few times since they first debuted – and the current iteration does offer localities some leeway. The California Department of Public Health says local health care providers \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Provider-Bulletin-2-12-21.aspx\">may use their clinical judgement\u003c/a>\" to vaccinate people with high health risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in its \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2020-12/COVID-19%20Vaccination%20Plan%20-%20City%20and%20County%20of%20SF.pdf\">vaccination planning document\u003c/a>, San Francisco argues it has control over \"just a portion of the vaccine\" coming to the city, compared to other localities, due to its unique structure as both a city and a county, and because there are so many health care providers in San Francisco not directly under city control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's health leadership at the COVID-19 Command Center say their hands are tied by state mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"According to the State, a Single Room Occupancy (SRO) building and its apartments are considered 'lower risk' and are not included as part of the vaccine eligibility criteria for March 15,\" a spokesperson for the city's COVID-19 Command Center wrote in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That said, we know that many residents of SROs in San Francisco live with chronic illness and/or disability and may be over the age of 65; therefore, they would meet the State’s expanding criteria and are eligible for the vaccine right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11866302\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/IMG_2633-scaled-e1616624730302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A free COVID-19 testing program pioneered by Chinese Hospital aimed to prevent the virus' spread in crowded housing in Chinatown. Seen here, an SRO hotel resident is tested for COVID-19 at Waverly Place. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chinese Hospital)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State guidelines, however, have proved somewhat fungible in San Francisco during the pandemic — the city has at times decided to modify state orders to prioritize other groups in need. San Francisco has looser body mass index requirements for vaccinations, for instance, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-03-24/californias-vaccine-eligibility-is-expanding-if-you-live-in-the-right-places\">has made people living with HIV locally eligible\u003c/a> for vaccination even though that group is not on the state's list of highest-risk conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are roughly 500 SRO buildings in San Francisco, housing nearly 30,000 San Franciscans, from the Tenderloin to Chinatown and the Mission District among other neighborhoods, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/#:~:text=demolitions%20and%20conversions%2C%20S.R.O.'s,some%20estimates%20run%20much%20higher\">according to the Central City SRO Collaborative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Jian Zhang, CEO of Chinese Hospital\"]'I actually walked through the SROs, tears literally came out ... you have an entire floor of 16 or more living on one floor. You have one bathroom, one kitchen. How is it possible to social distance? There's no way.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, the city has carved out specific protections to acknowledge the difficulty of quarantining from COVID-19 in SRO buildings, and offered janitorial services, cleaning supplies, face masks, hand sanitizer and toilet paper to SROs. The city also offers alternative housing like hotels to suspected and confirmed COVID-19-positive patients who can't quarantine well enough in SROs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,209 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 264 SRO buildings, with 15 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVID-19-Cases-Deaths-in-SROs/j28y-d6d4/\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. About 400 people living in SROs have stayed at a city-provided isolation and quarantine site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Jian Zhang is the CEO of Chinese Hospital, which has served Chinatown since 1925. While she acknowledged there has been a lot done to help SRO residents, she said those were also hard-fought wins by the community to obtain more help from the government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco's shelter-in-place order first began last year, she toured Chinatown SRO buildings to assess their pandemic vulnerability. Zhang began to imagine the possibility for viral spread in tight living quarters with little opportunity for quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I actually walked through the SROs, tears literally came out,\" Zhang said. \"You have an entire floor of 16 or more living on one floor. You have one bathroom, one kitchen. How is it possible to social distance? There's no way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwh748tA7A\">PBS NewsHour highlighted that effort\u003c/a> in July. SRO resident Yongfaz Zhu told reporters in Cantonese, through a translator, \"We have little space in here besides the bed. We don't have our own kitchen, we don't have our own restroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhang quickly wrote a grant proposal for free, robust testing in her community, including at SROs. While those efforts aided in preventing large community outbreaks, Zhang said prioritizing a vaccine is still necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody can predict which SRO will have it, or whether we can control it on a timely basis,\" Zhang said. \"Vaccines are the best way to prevent it from happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch PBS NewsHour coverage of the effort by Zhang and others to protect Chinatown from COVID-19 spread:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwh748tA7A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chinatown CDC \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11816116/chinatown-housing-group-feeds-vulnerable-sro-tenants-by-reviving-legacy-restaurants\">also organized a free cooked-meal program for SRO tenants\u003c/a> so they wouldn't have to gather in their kitchens and risk spreading COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local officials have noticed San Francisco health leadership's hesitance to modify local vaccine priorities for SRO dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It should be up to us to define what a congregate setting is in our city,\" said Supervisor Matt Haney. The need is urgent, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney added, \"If you look at a map, the Tenderloin has the highest case rate over the last 30 days. That's largely because people in this neighborhood live in tighter living environments like SROs that put them at greater risk of exposure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin agreed that the city should prioritize vaccinations for SRO residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think SROs are an incredibly obvious example of congregate living,\" Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't care if the state says we can't give them vaccines, DPH needs to do it,\" he said. \"Because of the state's guidance, California has become the equity laughing stock of the nation [in vaccination], it's time for DPH to take this into their own hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides, Peskin said, \"What's Gavin Newsom gonna do, call the police?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's David Marks contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A handful of San Francisco leaders and community activists have publicly opposed a plan announced this week by City Attorney Dennis Herrera to block more than two dozen drug dealers from entering the Tenderloin neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan, which must be approved by a state Superior Court, is essentially a restraining order against 28 repeat-offender drug dealers, in an effort to prevent them from entering a roughly 50-square-block area, under penalty of fine or arrest. The civil injunctions will target specific dealers, from cities like Oakland, Hayward and San Jose, who have been known to frequent the neighborhood, selling fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine or heroin, Herrera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Mano Raju, SF Public Defender\"]‘We should use our resources to provide meaningful alternatives to street-level dealers – including housing, job training, and employment.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immediately after Herrera made the announcement, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and Public Defender Mano Raju both issued statements saying they don’t believe the plan will be effective. And community activists who have long fought against ‘gang injunctions’ in the city argue this is more of the same punitive approach that the city previously took with gang injunctions, one that will increase police presence and limit civil liberties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many Tenderloin residents and community leaders remain desperate for action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the year, 81 people have died in the neighborhood from drug overdoses. And in the city at large, the availability and use of fentanyl is a growing concern. Use of the drug spiked in 2019 — a 70% increase over the previous year — and was the cause of more than half of the city’s 441 overdose deaths, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/More-than-one-person-a-day-died-in-SF-of-an-15529006.php\">San Francisco Department of Public Health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Matt Haney, who represents part of the Tenderloin, says his constituents are exhausted. Haney says he typically sees about 50 people selling and using drugs within just a block of his Hyde Street apartment. And although he has some hesitations about Herrera’s move, he thinks the plan will prompt a much-needed “disruption of the status quo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can have an understanding and a deep belief that the drug war in and of itself is an ineffective response, and … also feel that those folks shouldn’t be coming into this neighborhood day in and day out and doing that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, San Francisco Mayor London Breed voiced her support for the plan, stressing that the Tenderloin “has always had its challenges, but it has never been worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood’s current dismal conditions make sense to Jose Bernal, an organizer who grew up in the Tenderloin and still visits his family and friends there. Bernal used to work at Hospitality House, a local service organization, and knows that, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major disruption of services and available resources, leaving many people more desperate than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks need dire support,” Bernal said. “They need a lot of help and we have to provide that somehow in the context of COVID, with where we’re at right now, because I don’t want our folks dying on the streets of overdoses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Herrera’s plan, Bernal sees overlaps with previous policies he has fought against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"tenderloin\"]As a formerly incarcerated gang member, Bernal advocated against “gang injunctions,” which the city put into effect in 2006 in an effort to prohibit suspected gang members from entering certain “safety zones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benal argued that the injunctions increased police harassment of Black and brown men, violating their civil liberties, while failing to address the root causes of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As opposed to having 40 cops deployed to the Tenderloin at once to arrest these ‘drug dealers,’ what does it look like to have 40 outreach workers at any given time?” Bernal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju, the city’s public defender, echoes that sentiment, saying additional enforcement of street-level sellers is not the answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should use our resources to provide meaningful alternatives to street-level dealers – including housing, job training, and employment,” Raju said in a press release. 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They collectively donated $966,000 to the Parks Alliance into a Public Works-specific account — funds Nuru was able to freely direct, and sometimes himself was paid from — according to the report. Those same contractors were awarded more than $570 million in city contracts by the Public Works Department, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Dennis Herrera \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcityattorney.org/2020/02/12/city-attorney-subpoenas-8-organizations-in-widening-public-corruption-investigation/\">issued subpoenas\u003c/a> investigating those same city contractors in February, in connection with the ongoing corruption scandal that first ensnared Nuru, but has only grown in the following months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru and others would direct staff to pay for goods and services for staff appreciation, volunteer programs, merchandise, community support and events from specific vendors, \"circumventing city purchasing controls,\" the report found. 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