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There were 198 people on the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s online waitlist for shelter on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin pointed to places like the now-full family homeless shelter at Buena Vista Horace Mann K–8 Community School as examples of the work he wants to uplift as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998571\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unhoused man relocates his belongings to a new site in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Department of Public Works near Showplace Square in San Francisco on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a dire situation across the school district,” said Anabel Ibanez, a teacher at Buena Vista Horace Mann who helps oversee the homelessness program. “Currently, there is a waitlist in the stayover program that’s housed here at my school. In other words, a waitlist for basic security and dignity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s plan would use existing funding sources — a statewide mental health bond and a San Francisco tax to fund homeless services — to open new housing and treatment beds in reactivated state and county-run hospitals and treatment centers. He is also backing Proposition G on the November ballot, which would amend the city’s charter to use general funds to subsidize housing for extremely low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reducing evictions and keeping tenants in their homes is another pillar of the plan. Peskin said he would expand rent control to about 40% more San Francisco apartments that currently don’t have it, create a fund for emergency loans of up to $2,000 for people facing eviction, and expand other rent-relief programs for families facing eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not pie in the sky. And I am ready to implement it on day one to make significant progress on day one in the area of homelessness, which is the most important issue that San Francisco faces for both our housed residents and unhoused residents,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor Art Agnos endorsed Peskin’s plan on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_12000285 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/231017-LakeMercedRVs-019-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each mayor comes up with their own program depending on the politics of the times they are in office rather than what’s in the best interest of the homeless,” Agnos said. “This complicated, unpopular social challenge needs smart management with services aimed at strengthening our current system to honestly help people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin’s plan comes as San Francisco ramps up citations and sweeps of unhoused people who refuse to move from city streets. Breed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">promised the crackdown\u003c/a> after the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that cities can remove tent encampments on sidewalks and other public places and force people to move even if there is no alternative place for them to go, like a temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently directed street crews that clear encampments to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\">first offer people bus tickets home\u003c/a>, a resource the city has had since 2005 but recently began promoting again. Peskin said he would broaden that program, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed has also been working for years to open up places for unhoused people to go. Since 2018, when she entered office, San Francisco’s shelter slots have expanded by over 60% and housing for formerly homeless people has increased by more than 50%, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, without enough places for people to go, Peskin and advocates for unhoused residents say the recent crackdown has mostly amounted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000781/sf-encampment-crackdown-gets-tents-but-not-people-off-the-streets-neighbors-say\">moving people around from block to block\u003c/a> rather than helping people exit the streets for longer-term housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have received as a supervisor more complaints about homelessness in the last 10 days than I have in the last several years,” Peskin said, adding, “I have never gotten complaints about homelessness on Pacific and Leavenworth. I’m getting them now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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When Harris launched a run for president in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11739580/laphonza-butler-on-her-move-from-labor-leadership-to-the-harris-campaign\">Butler served as a top adviser to the campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Harris prepares to accept her party’s nomination for president, Butler \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000760/sen-laphonza-butler-on-the-rise-of-her-friend-kamala-harris\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> that she’s feeling a mix of pride and downright astonishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To now have a woman who I know, who has known my daughter her entire life, who every day is an example of what is possible for not just my daughter, but California, what’s possible for our country — is something that I don’t know that will fully set in until November,” Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a wide-ranging interview, Butler expressed confidence in Harris’ ability to navigate the war in Gaza and left open the possibility of joining a potential Harris administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is clear: Butler seemed to have no regrets about her decision to leave the Senate when her term finishes in January — and not run to hold the seat she was appointed to by Gov. Gavin Newsom following the death of Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s not what I want to do with my life,” Butler said. “We can’t go and tell our daughters that they can be anything that they want to be and then try to make someone else be the thing that we want them to be. I just don’t want to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_12000691 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/GettyImages-2166686058-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her brief tenure in the Senate, Butler said she has focused on seeking common ground on issues that connect California with states represented by Republicans. 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That is true for Iowa and Kansas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On perhaps the most high-profile issue to come to the Senate floor during her tenure, Butler \u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00039.htm\">voted in favor of a bipartisan border security deal\u003c/a> that added border funding and new immigrant visas — but also curtailed America’s asylum system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the process, Butler broke with California’s other Democratic Senator, Alex Padilla, who said the asylum limits would put the country in conflict with international obligations and throw the border into chaos. Butler said the issue will remain “extremely challenging” for the next administration and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have got to make sure that we are electing leaders who can both tell the truth about the challenge of migration that’s happened at our borders and see the value and contribution that immigrants make to our country and to our economy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six days after Butler was sworn into the Senate, Hamas launched its attack against Israel. Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza and the ongoing war has loomed over Butler’s tenure in Washington; just months into the job, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/12/sen-laphonza-butler-faces-cease-fire-protesters-at-forum-00131437\">faced protesters who urged her to call for a cease-fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in Chicago as thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched toward the convention arena, Butler said Harris is well-positioned to lead efforts toward peace in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the vice president has been louder than a whole lot of folks in Washington about the need to get to a cease-fire,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, getting to a cease-fire isn’t going to happen at this convention,” Butler said. “What we’re here to do at this convention is to nominate the vice president as the Democratic Party nominee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because she shares the value set of so many of those activists, I think she’s also in the right place to be doing the work to actually bring the cease-fire to pass,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should Harris win, it remains to be seen whether Butler will have a role in doing that work alongside her longtime confidant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked about her future plans, Butler replied simply: “I am figuring that out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The survey found just 64% of registered voters knew what Harris stood for — as opposed to 86% for former President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How much will Harris lean into her California record?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The vice president’s supporters have quickly drawn the contrast between Harris, the prosecutor, and Trump, the convicted felon. Harris’ experience as attorney general in a border state has also shaped her campaign’s early messaging on immigration. But which parts of Harris’ political career in the Golden State will her supporters highlight at the convention? Will they tout her $25 billion \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-senate-harris-banks-20161016-snap-story.html\">settlement with big banks\u003c/a> following the foreclosure crisis? Or her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10352855/corinthian-college-sell-off-no-deal-yet-for-california-students\">crackdown against for-profit Corinthian College\u003c/a>? 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In fact, the protests were underway on Sunday night, as hundreds of demonstrators marched south down Michigan Avenue behind banners that read “Feminists and LGBTQ+ People for a Free Palestine” and “STOP Gaza’s Genocide, No More Arms to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what effect the demonstrations will have on the convention, which is intended to serve as a prime-time advertisement for the Democratic Party. The party has been divided over the war Israel launched in Gaza in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more politics coverage\" tag=\"politics\"]Protests have bubbled up at Harris rallies and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999777/vice-president-kamala-harris-makes-fundraising-stop-in-san-francisco-amid-protests\">even at her recent fundraising swing in San Francisco\u003c/a>. In Chicago, a “March on the DNC” is planned for Monday and Thursday, advocating, among other goals, for the end of U.S. aid to Israel. 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