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"content": "\u003cp>After losing her job because of substance abuse, Chantel Hernandez-Wood was living \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994288/you-mean-something-to-someone-overcoming-homelessness-and-addiction-this-san-francisco-woman-now-helps-others-heal\">on the streets of San Francisco\u003c/a> when she saw a red van parked nearby one day in 2022. It was the city’s former Street Overdose Response Team, and she flagged them down for help. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Equipped with a peer counselor trained to connect with people in crisis, the crew drove her to a recovery center, where she received medication to assist with alcohol withdrawal and entered a 90-day recovery program. While there, she decided she wanted to do the same kind of work as the people who came to her rescue. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It felt like I meant something to someone. They went above and beyond to help get me off the streets,” Hernandez-Wood told KQED. “I thought, ‘I’d love to do that, I want to give back.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After successfully finishing the recovery program, Hernandez-Wood completed training to become a certified peer support specialist, learning techniques to engage with vulnerable populations and navigate social services. She started working at the nonprofit Glide, helping people who struggle with drug use, went on to work on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994288/you-mean-something-to-someone-overcoming-homelessness-and-addiction-this-san-francisco-woman-now-helps-others-heal\">Street Overdose Response Team\u003c/a>, and later stepped into her current role as a peer responder on the Street Crisis Response Team. Peer responders currently pair with fire department paramedics to respond to some calls together. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged woman stands in front of a red van labeled 'Street Overdose Response Team'\" class=\"wp-image-12014173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/240903-OverdoseResponse-48-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Counselor Chantel Hernandez-Wood, member of the Street Overdose Response Team, gets supplies from her van after speaking with two people sitting on the street in the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco on Sept. 3, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It was so surreal, because I was working on the same type of team that helped me when I needed help the most,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, San Francisco is quietly shifting its emergency response networks and the roles that peers with lived experience have within them. The fire department is planning to remove peer specialists from its 911 response this summer, setting off alarms for peer advocates who say the decision is a regressive step in the city’s approach to mental and behavioral health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just an incredible disservice to the community,” Hernandez-Wood said. “I feel blindsided.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fire department officials said the move to pull peers off of the Street Crisis Response Team came after “careful consideration,” and cited challenges with scheduling that made picking up the peer responders before calls difficult. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This decision was not made lightly and reflects the evolving needs and direction of crisis response within the larger 911 system,” a spokesperson for the fire department said in an email. “We believe that by working together within the Street Response framework, SFFD can ensure those we serve continue to receive the appropriate response.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Widespread protests against police brutality in 2020 sparked national discussions around how first responders can better serve people experiencing a mental health crisis, overdose or other behavioral health issues. In the wake of those conversations, the city did not decrease its police budget, but instead created new teams to respond to people in crisis, including the Street Crisis Response Team.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The peer responders are not fire department employees, but are contracted through the nonprofit RAMS, which the Department of Public Health administers. Others are specialists with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team. The Department of Public Health declined to comment on the staffing changes, saying the Street Crisis Response Team is under the fire department’s purview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Peer responders with the Street Crisis Response Team help address issues ranging from a street-level overdose to a domestic dispute in a penthouse, offering support for de-escalation, navigating social services and sometimes bringing lived experiences to a crew of medical and safety professionals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over the years, I’ve noticed that a lot of people will look to their peers for guidance or answers because we’re not in uniform,” Hernandez-Wood said. “A lot of unhoused folks that have substance use disorders, they don’t want to talk to anybody in uniform, they just feel more comfortable and less intimidated.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has served as a model for other cities and jurisdictions looking to improve the way that they address complicated 911 emergency calls. A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a33e881b631bc60d4f8b31/t/668d922525a2bc711295fe86/1720554079016/San+Francisco%27s+Public+Safety+System\">report\u003c/a> by the Policing Project at New York University found that the city’s programs “saved law enforcement resources, freeing up the police for other more pressing work.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A San Francisco fire engine on March 25, 2026. (Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the novel approach presented challenges. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>According to the report, “911 dispatchers are stretched thin and struggle with the scripted protocols they must use to assess call eligibility, in particular because those protocols may not always resolve the calls they receive. There still is some confusion among frontline workers about responsibilities of each at the scene of an incident. And many community members and some call takers are disappointed that alternative responses are not solving complex social problems.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department has meanwhile been developing its Community Paramedicine team, whose members have training in trauma-informed care and resource navigation, to more appropriately respond to people struggling with substance use, mental health crises, homelessness and other behavioral health challenges. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The community paramedics have more training in emergency medicine, and they arrive in uniform and steel-toed boots, unlike the peer specialists, who work in regular street clothes, a small but important detail that can signal a more relatable helper for some 911 callers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The last day on the Street Crisis Response rigs for peer responders, who say their lived experience is central to their expertise, is Aug. 14.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Amelia Harmon, who works with peer responders on the Street Crisis Response Team, has been advocating to keep the positions within the fire department at public health and law enforcement commission meetings, as well as urging city supervisors to step in to reverse the decision. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She said it’s especially urgent after behavioral health clinicians were removed from the Street Crisis Response Team in 2023. Pulling peer responders off of 911 responses is further “chipping away” at the work that she and others have spent the last five years building, she said. \u003cbr>\u003cbr>“Removing peers doesn’t cut costs, it moves costs to the most expensive part of the system,” said Harmon, a peer supervisor with RAMS. “Why would we forfeit high-quality care that has mechanisms for federal and state reimbursement in this budget climate?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The decision to remove peer specialists from 911 responses is also drawing wider criticism from other workers in the city’s homelessness response system and public safety. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“I have personal experience with crisis, and I would rather speak to a non-uniformed peer,” said Joshua Cantero, a case manager at a San Francisco homeless shelter, in a letter to the Board of Supervisors. A peer counselor, Cantero wrote, “makes the clients feel more comfortable and assists with getting them into shelters and making them feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s not yet clear what will happen next to the peer responders. They have not received layoff notices and could be reassigned to different street teams. Fire department officials said they will continue to refer people to experts with lived experience when it’s appropriate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Harmon is desperate to keep the peer responders on 911 calls, saying she’s seen firsthand how their approach can be both life-saving and ease the burden for other first responders. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would you cut out the heart and soul of the program,” she said, “and risk burning out your own people?”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, San Francisco is quietly shifting its emergency response networks and the roles that peers with lived experience have within them. The fire department is planning to remove peer specialists from its 911 response this summer, setting off alarms for peer advocates who say the decision is a regressive step in the city’s approach to mental and behavioral health emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It’s just an incredible disservice to the community,” Hernandez-Wood said. “I feel blindsided.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Fire department officials said the move to pull peers off of the Street Crisis Response Team came after “careful consideration,” and cited challenges with scheduling that made picking up the peer responders before calls difficult. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This decision was not made lightly and reflects the evolving needs and direction of crisis response within the larger 911 system,” a spokesperson for the fire department said in an email. “We believe that by working together within the Street Response framework, SFFD can ensure those we serve continue to receive the appropriate response.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Widespread protests against police brutality in 2020 sparked national discussions around how first responders can better serve people experiencing a mental health crisis, overdose or other behavioral health issues. In the wake of those conversations, the city did not decrease its police budget, but instead created new teams to respond to people in crisis, including the Street Crisis Response Team.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The peer responders are not fire department employees, but are contracted through the nonprofit RAMS, which the Department of Public Health administers. Others are specialists with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team. The Department of Public Health declined to comment on the staffing changes, saying the Street Crisis Response Team is under the fire department’s purview. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Peer responders with the Street Crisis Response Team help address issues ranging from a street-level overdose to a domestic dispute in a penthouse, offering support for de-escalation, navigating social services and sometimes bringing lived experiences to a crew of medical and safety professionals. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Over the years, I’ve noticed that a lot of people will look to their peers for guidance or answers because we’re not in uniform,” Hernandez-Wood said. “A lot of unhoused folks that have substance use disorders, they don’t want to talk to anybody in uniform, they just feel more comfortable and less intimidated.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has served as a model for other cities and jurisdictions looking to improve the way that they address complicated 911 emergency calls. A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a33e881b631bc60d4f8b31/t/668d922525a2bc711295fe86/1720554079016/San+Francisco%27s+Public+Safety+System\">report\u003c/a> by the Policing Project at New York University found that the city’s programs “saved law enforcement resources, freeing up the police for other more pressing work.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092840\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/San-Francisco-Fire-Dept-Getty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A San Francisco fire engine on March 25, 2026. 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"content": "\u003cp>New permanent supportive housing in San Francisco must prohibit on-site drug use in order to receive full city funding, after a controversial vote this week at the Board of Supervisors. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The board voted 7-4 to approve the ordinance, authored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, that enables evictions on the basis of drug use in city-funded housing projects. The plan has drawn criticism from public health and homelessness advocates who say it could send more \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">drug users to the street if they relapse\u003c/a>, a common experience for people recovering from substance-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But proponents say it will create environments where more people in recovery can succeed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This responds to real needs of [permanent supportive housing] residents themselves, people who may or may not be in recovery, but who simply want to live in a drug-free residential community,” Dorsey, who identifies as a former drug addict himself, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has around 9,600 site-based permanent supportive housing units, most of which follow the state’s Housing First approach, which attempts to keep people housed regardless of drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12034108\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/240410-BilalMahmood-002-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood speaks with District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey before a press conference about strategies to end open-air drug markets in San Francisco, California, on April 10, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>There are currently just over 1,400 total permanent supportive housing units in San Francisco in various stages of development, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. But almost all of the city’s upcoming permanent supportive housing projects receive some form of state funding, making them ineligible for drug-free housing. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy would apply specifically to new city-funded permanent supportive housing projects. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We have not secured funding for all of the projects in the pipeline, but we almost always pursue state funding for 100% affordable projects, including PSH,” said Anne Stanley, communications manager for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “Projects need to be fully funded through local dollars in order for the [drug-free] ordinance to apply.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>If someone living in a drug-free building were to get caught using drugs, Dorsey said eviction would be uncommon. But those who do violate the policy could be evicted or relocated to a new building or homeless shelter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should expect evictions under this ordinance to be exceedingly rare,” he said. “The self-selection of residents who voluntarily opt into drug-free residential communities largely solves in advance for scenarios that involve persistent drug relapses or habitual returns to use.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said it builds on the work the city is doing to prop up more sober-living options, such as Hope House and James Baldwin Place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opposing members on the Board of Supervisors raised concerns about unintended outcomes from the policy change. Supervisor Jackie Fielder put forward an amendment that would have removed shelters from the list of places someone relapsing could be relocated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shelter is not housing. Shelter is a rough place for someone struggling with substance-use disorder to be. A person is not considered housed when they’re in shelter, they’re still considered homeless,” Fielder said on Tuesday. “People should be offered the option for treatment and if they participate in treatment, be able to return to their unit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The amendment failed to pass, despite research showing that relapse is a common part of the recovery journey for many people who have struggled with substance use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t want somebody who doesn’t have the linear progression of being sober and falls off the wagon a couple of times to have to go back to square one and have to start in the coordinated entry system at shelter,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supported Fielder’s amendment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The version of the ordinance passed this week comes after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">advocacy at the state level\u003c/a> to allow for more state-funded drug-free housing, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">months of discussions\u003c/a> about the local proposal with neighbors, local leaders and medical professionals, including some who previously opposed Dorsey’s measure for putting additional risk on vulnerable residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An individual with a substance-use disorder evicted from housing because of relapses should be moved to a setting with more intensive services,” a May 4 letter from members of the San Francisco-Marin Medical Society said. “The ordinance as currently written does not contain minimum guardrails that, at the very least, would ensure that the evicted individual is not relegated to an undetermined setting with less support and possibly homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Signs promoting dignity and welcome hang on a door inside St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake requirements. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The policy does not prohibit alcohol or marijuana or medication-assisted recovery treatment like methadone or buprenorphine, which assist in opioid-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other homelessness advocates said the plan creates new barriers to building housing that is affordable to extremely low-income residents, at a time when rents in the city are skyrocketing, evictions are increasing and the city is on the hook to build thousands of affordable housing units to meet state requirements. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This unnecessarily creates obstacles for backfilling Trump HUD cuts, and for projects in the pipeline,” Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director for the Coalition on Homelessness, said in a letter to the Board of Supervisors. “We can and should do sober housing, have done sober housing and simply need to recognize that by doing so we don’t want to drive up evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has seen a downward trend in overdose deaths this year, according to new data from the Department of Public Health. 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But those who do violate the policy could be evicted or relocated to a new building or homeless shelter. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We should expect evictions under this ordinance to be exceedingly rare,” he said. “The self-selection of residents who voluntarily opt into drug-free residential communities largely solves in advance for scenarios that involve persistent drug relapses or habitual returns to use.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Supporters of the plan said it builds on the work the city is doing to prop up more sober-living options, such as Hope House and James Baldwin Place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But opposing members on the Board of Supervisors raised concerns about unintended outcomes from the policy change. Supervisor Jackie Fielder put forward an amendment that would have removed shelters from the list of places someone relapsing could be relocated. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Shelter is not housing. Shelter is a rough place for someone struggling with substance-use disorder to be. A person is not considered housed when they’re in shelter, they’re still considered homeless,” Fielder said on Tuesday. “People should be offered the option for treatment and if they participate in treatment, be able to return to their unit.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The amendment failed to pass, despite research showing that relapse is a common part of the recovery journey for many people who have struggled with substance use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“We don’t want somebody who doesn’t have the linear progression of being sober and falls off the wagon a couple of times to have to go back to square one and have to start in the coordinated entry system at shelter,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who supported Fielder’s amendment. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The version of the ordinance passed this week comes after years of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12082132/following-newsoms-veto-lawmaker-returns-with-drug-free-homeless-housing-bill\">advocacy at the state level\u003c/a> to allow for more state-funded drug-free housing, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">months of discussions\u003c/a> about the local proposal with neighbors, local leaders and medical professionals, including some who previously opposed Dorsey’s measure for putting additional risk on vulnerable residents. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“An individual with a substance-use disorder evicted from housing because of relapses should be moved to a setting with more intensive services,” a May 4 letter from members of the San Francisco-Marin Medical Society said. “The ordinance as currently written does not contain minimum guardrails that, at the very least, would ensure that the evicted individual is not relegated to an undetermined setting with less support and possibly homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12072183\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020226SUPER-BOWL-HOMELESSNESS-_GH_006-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Signs promoting dignity and welcome hang on a door inside St. John’s the Evangelist Episcopal Church, home to the Gubbio Project, on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. The program allows unhoused guests to rest inside the church without intake requirements. (Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The policy does not prohibit alcohol or marijuana or medication-assisted recovery treatment like methadone or buprenorphine, which assist in opioid-use disorder. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Other homelessness advocates said the plan creates new barriers to building housing that is affordable to extremely low-income residents, at a time when rents in the city are skyrocketing, evictions are increasing and the city is on the hook to build thousands of affordable housing units to meet state requirements. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This unnecessarily creates obstacles for backfilling Trump HUD cuts, and for projects in the pipeline,” Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director for the Coalition on Homelessness, said in a letter to the Board of Supervisors. “We can and should do sober housing, have done sober housing and simply need to recognize that by doing so we don’t want to drive up evictions.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>San Francisco has seen a downward trend in overdose deaths this year, according to new data from the Department of Public Health. From January to June 2026, there were a total of 262 overdose deaths, around 27% fewer compared to the same time period last year. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This downward trend is encouraging, but the number of people that continue to die of overdose is still unacceptable,” Deputy Director of Public Health Naveena Baba said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It is not enough to prevent deaths. We want people to flourish.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Health officials attributed the changes in overdose deaths to a number of interventions in the city, including ramping up access to medication-assisted treatment. The city’s trajectory also mirrors nationwide trends of a decreasing rate of overdose deaths, Baba said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The new policy also comes as Mayor Daniel Lurie has initiated various changes to the city’s drug response, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032239/overdoses-climb-lurie-orders-scaling-back-harm-reduction-programs\">shift away from harm reduction\u003c/a> practices that aim to reduce health and social risks involved with drug use. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Under his administration, the city has stopped handing out safe smoking supplies and people seeking access to other harm reduction services now must participate in counseling. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now that the ordinance has passed, Dorsey said city leaders can still work together to finalize details around implementation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Mandelman said that although the city released the plan in 2023, many of its strategies have yet to be implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change is warming the Bay, experts warned, and \u003ca href=\"https://toolkit.climate.gov/case-study/burning-issues-cool-solutions-san-francisco%E2%80%99s-heat-and-air-quality-resilience-plan\">Cal-Adapt’s High Emissions Scenario\u003c/a> predicts that by 2050, San Francisco will see twice as many extreme heat events per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2000299/a-delight-mare-bay-area-sizzles-march-heat-wave-could-shatter-records\">hit a record-breaking\u003c/a> 90 degrees Fahrenheit — the highest temperature recorded in the month of March in the past 152 years, according to Mandelman’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rishee Jain, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, said that “just like wildfires have become a California annual occurrence, I think this is going to be an annual occurrence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062093\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251029-SNAP-PRESSER-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman speaks at a press event in front of San Francisco City Hall on Oct. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that San Francisco residents are extra vulnerable given their lack of exposure to extreme heat. “San Francisco has less air conditioning than any major city in the country,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also cited the city Department of Public Health, which estimates that “the risk of hospitalization and death here starts climbing at 85 degrees, an unremarkable temperature by California standards — because our bodies and our buildings are unprepared for that kind of heat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor and senior fellow at Stanford University, said that humans can adapt to a variety of climates, and what’s safe for some humans can be disastrous for others. “It’s really relative to what we’re accustomed to and what we’re prepared for,” he continued.[aside postID=news_12076584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS4903_marajuanasales-e1550105105781.jpg']Even within San Francisco, the risk is not evenly distributed, Mandelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When heat arrives in San Francisco, it hits hardest in neighborhoods like SoMa, Bayview-Hunters Point and Chinatown — urban heat islands that run significantly hotter than surrounding areas and whose residents are the least likely to have access to cooling,” he explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the day, Diffenbaugh said, “resilience to severe heat really comes down to preparation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jain said that in order to prepare for extreme heat, San Francisco may need to revisit its infrastructure. “Many of our buildings are designed to keep heat in because it’s notoriously cold here,” he said. He explained that because they’re designed to keep the heat in, buildings can stay hot inside even after the heat breaks outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said another solution could involve making it easier to get cool air back into buildings. “Most people in San Francisco still get to use Karl as their primary source of cooling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So a big part of this is also thinking about how we can harness that cooling power even on days that it does get hot,” Jain continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077503\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077503\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-2266506019-scaled-e1783536611934.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People flock to Baker Beach near the Golden Gate Bridge as heat advisory issued in San Francisco, California, on March 16, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diffenbaugh also offered solutions such as installing air conditioning, having warning systems, designating cooling centers for heat waves, and getting vulnerable people access to those centers when the heat waves come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman’s office said that although the hearing isn’t officially scheduled yet, he’s aiming for July 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, Mandelman said that the hearing will answer one question: “When an extreme heat event strikes again — because it is a question of when, and not if — is San Francisco in a better place to respond?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Earlier this year, 127 workers received pink slips, and others were notified about changes to their positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the final add-back, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reverse layoffs for workers at the 311 call center, Laguna Honda Hospital, and the Human Services Agency, according to the office of Supervisor Connie Chan, who chairs the budget committee.[aside postID=news_12088662 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/06/260624-ShipyardCleanupRally-10-BL-KQED.jpg']“This budget represents a remarkable victory for every single San Francisco resident,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, coordinator for the San Francisco People’s Budget Coalition, a group representing unions, social services advocates and other community groups protesting the proposed cuts. “It shows that public pressure works. Showing up works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is set to go before the full Board of Supervisors on July 21. Few changes are expected for the final budget vote next month following Thursday’s agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the past 4 fiscal years, my work as budget chair has been centered on reducing wasteful spending, creating guardrails against corruption, saving for the future by putting reasonable dollars on reserve, reversing cuts for the most vulnerable San Franciscans and saving essential city jobs and services,” Chan, who has served as budget chair since 2023, said in a statement. 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A recall election in 2024 ousted Supervisor Joel Engardio, which was followed by an appointed supervisor who lasted a week and then Wong’s appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We won because of the hard work of our campaign team, our volunteers and because we had the right message and goals for the Sunset: focus on the basics of governance and deliver practical results for constituents,” Wong said in a statement. “My message and goals were simple: for too long, City Hall has been focused on political ideology and grandiose policies while many Sunset residents have felt unheard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Gee, a legislative aide for Supervisor Shamann Walton, was carrying 31% of the initial vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gee raised $402,000 in donations and \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/guidance/campaigns/candidates/public-financing-program/public-financing-program-overview\">public financing\u003c/a> combined, plus around $386,000 from a committee backed by local labor organizations. Wong, who had Lurie’s endorsement, received $394,000, plus big boosts from PACs aligned with Mayor Daniel Lurie, including $207,000 from moderate political group GrowSF and $410,000 from SF Believes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong ran on promises to restore a “compromise” to bring cars back to the Great Highway during the week and keep the road car-free on weekends. The fate of the road, which is currently closed to cars and known as Sunset Dunes park, was a central issue in the district’s recent recall election. 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She supported the Overpaid CEO Tax as a way to raise funding for affordable housing and other public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the plan passed, we immediately saw large-scale development proposals move forward without meaningful community input,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing was also a central issue in the city’s District 2 supervisor race, where Stephen Sherrill, the incumbent, took a commanding 70% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud of the progress we’ve made over the last year to keep San Francisco moving in the right direction. We’ve made our neighborhoods safer, brought new energy to our commercial corridors, advanced much-needed housing and pushed City Hall to be more responsive and accountable. There is still more work to do, but I believe deeply in this city and in what we can accomplish together,” Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lori Brooke, president of the Cow Hollow Association, carried 30%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brooke strongly opposed the mayor’s housing plan, telling KQED it won’t solve the affordability crisis and “it’s just deregulating our zoning in San Francisco.” She characterized the statewide push for more housing as “a developer giveaway,” arguing that it ignores local voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before building more housing, Brooke said she wanted to find ways to put vacant units and illegal units into use for rentals. 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