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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s lunch orders fly by at the bustling Hon’s Wun-Tun House restaurant, Mayor London Breed is touting her efforts to boost police technology and staffing. She’s flanked by Chinatown community leaders who have promised to back her reelection and is vowing to crack down even further on the community’s public safety concerns that ramped up following the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re catching people, we made some major arrests, and our district attorney is prosecuting. So when this stuff goes down, look out because we have the technology to come for you,” said Breed. “That’s very exciting and has had an incredible transformative difference around public safety, and it’s a game changer for us here in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Chinese American community has a long history of political activism, from leading the fight for school desegregation decades before the Brown v. Board of Education ruling to advocating for affordable housing for low-income and immigrant families. Today, with just two months left in the race, public safety has emerged as a key issue for many Chinese American voters, polls show. Democratic candidates across the city’s political spectrum are rushing to prove their commitment to law and order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, the city became an organizing hub for Stop AAPI Hate following the rise in attacks against Asian residents, and Chinese American voters later turned out in force for the District Attorney and School Board recall races in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, mayoral candidates hoping to harness that momentum are courting one of the city’s largest and fastest-growing demographics — with their eyes set on crime and policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a progressive candidate, recently addressed supporters in a velvet-red banquet hall in Chinatown, championing his efforts to bring Cantonese-speaking officers to the neighborhood and increase veteran officer salaries. Across town, former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell, a moderate Democrat, echoed similar promises in a small Visitacion Valley park, vowing to boost multilingual police presence and greater support for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the candidates’ rhetoric around public safety varies, and Farrell has made increasing police to soothe crime fears a key part of his platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is a top concern for San Francisco. Homelessness is on the rise. Tent encampments have never been worse in San Francisco. A record number of people are dying from drug overdose. Deaths on our streets every single day in our city, and our economy is completely stuck in cement,” Farrell said, standing in front of a group of elderly Chinese supporters. “We need change in San Francisco, and we need a change of direction in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of supporters hold signs for Mark Farrell outside a press conference in Visitacion Valley on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diane Lee, a longtime San Francisco resident and voter, told KQED that she feels less safe in the city today than ever before, even as police data shows that retail and violent crime rates are significantly down in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ridiculous. They should put some of these people in jail. And I’m a moderate Democrat, but I’m tired of all this crime,” Lee told KQED at the Sunset Night Market, where mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie was out meeting voters on a recent Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market on Irving Street, Lee peppered Lurie with questions about how he plans to reduce street homelessness and crime, which she and other voters said they view as related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing beside retired San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep, who is backing Lurie’s campaign, Lurie detailed his plans to staff up the police department, speed up 911 response times and find long-term solutions for the public disarray Lee and others are troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to get (unhoused people) into shelter. We’re going to get them bus tickets home, and then we’re going to get those that are suffering on our streets into mental health and drug treatment beds,” Lurie said to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie shakes voter Diane Lee’s hand as he campaigns at the Sunset Night Market in San Francisco on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, founder of the nonprofit Tipping Point and heir to the Levis Strauss clothing fortune, is a political outsider who hasn’t run for office before but said his background in nonprofit work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">positioned him to bring new ideas to City Hall\u003c/a>. “We have the money. We have the resources to do this. That’s why I’m running, because all these folks who I’m running against, they had their chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other candidates are carving out more aggressive lanes when it comes to policing. Farrell, who recently won the endorsement from the Chinese American Democratic Club, has leaned into Chinese American voters’ frustration and fears around public safety. He plans to increase funding and staffing at the police department and said he will replace Police Chief Bill Scott and hopes to bring in armed National Guard troops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are incredibly fed up with day-to-day life in San Francisco,” Farrell told KQED, referring to the Chinese American voters he speaks to. “They want a mayor who’s going to bring change, and I will bring that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shifting politics and representation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rise in public safety as an issue among voters comes alongside the moderate takeover of San Francisco’s Democratic Party this past spring. Many of the new members have made broad calls for increased public safety and measures that give more powers to the mayor and police.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayor-election\"]It also comes as Asian representation among San Francisco officials has dropped — and none of the leading candidates in the race are Chinese American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 20 years ago, only a handful of San Francisco candidates even had literature of mailers in Chinese, and they were usually Chinese and Asian American candidates,” said former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who now serves as the California director of the Working Families Party. “Now, almost all campaigns try to hire Chinese bilingual organizers and come up with the best Chinese name” to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has given candidates the option to print their name — or a chosen name — in Chinese characters on the ballot for nearly 25 years in an attempt to appeal to Chinese-speaking voters. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/san-francisco-cracks-appropriation-chinese-names-gains-ballot-box-rcna128176\">the policy has met controversy\u003c/a>, it symbolizes how any serious candidate must make inroads with Chinese-speaking communities to have a shot in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s really about the network and community. Who are your neighbors and people you’re playing mahjong with and doing tai chi with? What are they saying? That’s how it’s really being relayed back to Asian voters,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, who is currently the only AAPI supervisor and running for reelection. “This is why endorsements are so critical and why the people that you know are so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, Chan, along with Assmeblymember Phil Ting and former Supervisor Gordon Mar are all backing Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin hands out campaign fliers in multiple languages while visiting store owners on Clement Street in the Inner Richmond on Aug. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Breed has support from State Attorney General Rob Bonta, Sheriff Paul Miyamota and Board of Education Commissioner Jenny Lam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their backing, Breed faces a tough reelection battle this fall. She’s had to assuage some skeptical voters who are still reeling from the spike in attacks against Asian residents during the pandemic — which spurred one Chinatown rapper to put out a diss track against Breed. He later apologized for the song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they really need to do is listen to Chinese voters and understand their needs. They need to provide campaign information so voters become educated, and then they have to get out the vote with Chinese volunteers,” said Russell Jeung, an Asian American studies professor who teaches at San Francisco State University. “That’s the voter education our communities need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A wide range of views\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2020, the Asian population in San Francisco had the highest growth rate among all ethnicities in the city, according to US Census data, and Chinese residents make up nearly 22% of the city’s overall population, making them a key voting bloc for mayoral hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, like any major demographic, opinions vary widely within the Chinese American community on issues like public safety and how that should be addressed. Having more representation within campaigns is important to understanding that, said Jeung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a range of different political views, and that, to me, shows the maturation of the community. You can’t just talk about the stereotypical Asian vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Chinese American voters, Supervisor Chan said, improving public safety isn’t about simply increasing police budgets or policies around harsher prosecutions. Often, she said, people’s general well-being — like the ability to pay the bills, access healthcare, walk on clean streets, attend good schools — shape feelings and conversations around safety and are part of solutions voters want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they consider as a safety issue is not just about incarceration or prosecution. It’s actually really more of a day-to-day, like, do I feel safe? Can I go shopping? 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However, the two said they are most interested in seeing a candidate who can provide housing to people who are homeless on the streets as a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone to get people off the street and into houses,” said Fong, who is heading off to college this fall but plans to place an absentee ballot for the mayor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better capture those varying opinions among Asian voters, candidates are also stacking their campaigns with bilingual staffers and volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have volunteers and paid staff who do speak Cantonese, and that’s really helpful for us when we are in neighborhoods where the majority language is monolingual Cantonese,” said Lauren Chung, a Chinese American and the campaign manager for Ahsha Safaí, another leading mayoral candidate who currently serves on the board of supervisors. “It’s definitely something we need on a campaign in San Francisco so we don’t leave any communities out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates also promise to increase Asian representation among department heads and other city positions if elected. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, a progressive candidate, recently addressed supporters in a velvet-red banquet hall in Chinatown, championing his efforts to bring Cantonese-speaking officers to the neighborhood and increase veteran officer salaries. Across town, former supervisor and interim mayor Mark Farrell, a moderate Democrat, echoed similar promises in a small Visitacion Valley park, vowing to boost multilingual police presence and greater support for law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the candidates’ rhetoric around public safety varies, and Farrell has made increasing police to soothe crime fears a key part of his platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public safety is a top concern for San Francisco. Homelessness is on the rise. Tent encampments have never been worse in San Francisco. A record number of people are dying from drug overdose. Deaths on our streets every single day in our city, and our economy is completely stuck in cement,” Farrell said, standing in front of a group of elderly Chinese supporters. “We need change in San Francisco, and we need a change of direction in City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of supporters hold signs for Mark Farrell outside a press conference in Visitacion Valley on Aug. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diane Lee, a longtime San Francisco resident and voter, told KQED that she feels less safe in the city today than ever before, even as police data shows that retail and violent crime rates are significantly down in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ridiculous. They should put some of these people in jail. And I’m a moderate Democrat, but I’m tired of all this crime,” Lee told KQED at the Sunset Night Market, where mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie was out meeting voters on a recent Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the market on Irving Street, Lee peppered Lurie with questions about how he plans to reduce street homelessness and crime, which she and other voters said they view as related issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing beside retired San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep, who is backing Lurie’s campaign, Lurie detailed his plans to staff up the police department, speed up 911 response times and find long-term solutions for the public disarray Lee and others are troubled by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to get (unhoused people) into shelter. We’re going to get them bus tickets home, and then we’re going to get those that are suffering on our streets into mental health and drug treatment beds,” Lurie said to Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003092\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003092\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/20240830-AAPIVOTERS-JY-004-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie shakes voter Diane Lee’s hand as he campaigns at the Sunset Night Market in San Francisco on Aug. 30, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie, founder of the nonprofit Tipping Point and heir to the Levis Strauss clothing fortune, is a political outsider who hasn’t run for office before but said his background in nonprofit work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">positioned him to bring new ideas to City Hall\u003c/a>. “We have the money. We have the resources to do this. That’s why I’m running, because all these folks who I’m running against, they had their chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, other candidates are carving out more aggressive lanes when it comes to policing. Farrell, who recently won the endorsement from the Chinese American Democratic Club, has leaned into Chinese American voters’ frustration and fears around public safety. He plans to increase funding and staffing at the police department and said he will replace Police Chief Bill Scott and hopes to bring in armed National Guard troops to the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are incredibly fed up with day-to-day life in San Francisco,” Farrell told KQED, referring to the Chinese American voters he speaks to. “They want a mayor who’s going to bring change, and I will bring that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Shifting politics and representation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rise in public safety as an issue among voters comes alongside the moderate takeover of San Francisco’s Democratic Party this past spring. Many of the new members have made broad calls for increased public safety and measures that give more powers to the mayor and police.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It also comes as Asian representation among San Francisco officials has dropped — and none of the leading candidates in the race are Chinese American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Almost 20 years ago, only a handful of San Francisco candidates even had literature of mailers in Chinese, and they were usually Chinese and Asian American candidates,” said former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who now serves as the California director of the Working Families Party. “Now, almost all campaigns try to hire Chinese bilingual organizers and come up with the best Chinese name” to appear on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has given candidates the option to print their name — or a chosen name — in Chinese characters on the ballot for nearly 25 years in an attempt to appeal to Chinese-speaking voters. While \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/san-francisco-cracks-appropriation-chinese-names-gains-ballot-box-rcna128176\">the policy has met controversy\u003c/a>, it symbolizes how any serious candidate must make inroads with Chinese-speaking communities to have a shot in the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, it’s really about the network and community. Who are your neighbors and people you’re playing mahjong with and doing tai chi with? What are they saying? That’s how it’s really being relayed back to Asian voters,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, who is currently the only AAPI supervisor and running for reelection. “This is why endorsements are so critical and why the people that you know are so important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, Chan, along with Assmeblymember Phil Ting and former Supervisor Gordon Mar are all backing Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240827-AAPI-VOTERS-SJ-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Aaron Peskin hands out campaign fliers in multiple languages while visiting store owners on Clement Street in the Inner Richmond on Aug. 14, 2024. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Breed has support from State Attorney General Rob Bonta, Sheriff Paul Miyamota and Board of Education Commissioner Jenny Lam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their backing, Breed faces a tough reelection battle this fall. She’s had to assuage some skeptical voters who are still reeling from the spike in attacks against Asian residents during the pandemic — which spurred one Chinatown rapper to put out a diss track against Breed. He later apologized for the song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they really need to do is listen to Chinese voters and understand their needs. They need to provide campaign information so voters become educated, and then they have to get out the vote with Chinese volunteers,” said Russell Jeung, an Asian American studies professor who teaches at San Francisco State University. “That’s the voter education our communities need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A wide range of views\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>From 2010 to 2020, the Asian population in San Francisco had the highest growth rate among all ethnicities in the city, according to US Census data, and Chinese residents make up nearly 22% of the city’s overall population, making them a key voting bloc for mayoral hopefuls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, like any major demographic, opinions vary widely within the Chinese American community on issues like public safety and how that should be addressed. Having more representation within campaigns is important to understanding that, said Jeung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing a range of different political views, and that, to me, shows the maturation of the community. You can’t just talk about the stereotypical Asian vote,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many Chinese American voters, Supervisor Chan said, improving public safety isn’t about simply increasing police budgets or policies around harsher prosecutions. Often, she said, people’s general well-being — like the ability to pay the bills, access healthcare, walk on clean streets, attend good schools — shape feelings and conversations around safety and are part of solutions voters want to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they consider as a safety issue is not just about incarceration or prosecution. It’s actually really more of a day-to-day, like, do I feel safe? Can I go shopping? Can I do my daily routine without being interrupted or any type of incident?” Chan said. “Those are more their top concerns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240816-BREED-AAPI-MERCHANTS-MD-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs for San Francisco mayoral candidates Ahsha Safaí and London Breed outside Hon’s Wun-Tun House in Chinatown in San Francisco on Aug. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For friends and San Francisco natives Richard Fong and David Zhao, public safety is a concern. However, the two said they are most interested in seeing a candidate who can provide housing to people who are homeless on the streets as a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need someone to get people off the street and into houses,” said Fong, who is heading off to college this fall but plans to place an absentee ballot for the mayor’s race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better capture those varying opinions among Asian voters, candidates are also stacking their campaigns with bilingual staffers and volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have volunteers and paid staff who do speak Cantonese, and that’s really helpful for us when we are in neighborhoods where the majority language is monolingual Cantonese,” said Lauren Chung, a Chinese American and the campaign manager for Ahsha Safaí, another leading mayoral candidate who currently serves on the board of supervisors. “It’s definitely something we need on a campaign in San Francisco so we don’t leave any communities out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates also promise to increase Asian representation among department heads and other city positions if elected. On Monday, Breed announced the city’s first Chinese American to serve as interim Fire Chief, Sandy Tong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Outside contractors and grantees will face tighter scrutiny in order to receive city dollars, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25084138-executive-directive-24-04_nonprofit-grant-administration-reform\">a directive Mayor London Breed issued\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order, which is effective immediately, comes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998148/arrested-sf-nonprofit-chief-also-ran-a-richmond-charity-it-too-had-questionable-spending\">after numerous high-profile scandals in City Hall\u003c/a>. Breed is facing a tight reelection this fall, and her move comes as opponents lay out their own competing plans to clean up corruption in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Misconduct from those that would wrongfully take advantage of City resources has not been tolerated during my administration, and these new efforts expand on this commitment,” Breed said in a statement. “We are putting stronger protections in place and expanding the guidance of our Departments to strengthen the public trust and improve accountability in how our government operates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s directive orders city departments to ensure by Nov. 1 that any staff involved with grant-making understands and complies with the City Controller’s standards for agreements with external nonprofits. Those standards include tracking performance measures, engaging in regular fiscal monitoring and retaining all records from the selection process. 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Prosecutors allege that Worthy funneled more than $700,000 into her personal bank account and to throw lavish parties through a combination of fake invoices and employee wage theft.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"san-francisco-mayor-election\"]The city is also still working to earn back voters’ trust after a spiraling corruption scandal within the Department of Public Works and the Department of Building Inspection, which has led to convictions for Mohammed Nuru, former head of the Director of Public Works, and former Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those who undermine our contracting processes and exploit public resources are not welcome to do business with our City and will be held accountable,” said City Attorney David Chiu. “I am proud of our attorneys and investigators who have worked diligently to root out corruption and maintain the integrity of City government”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, those hoping to unseat Breed in the mayoral election are laying out their own plans to combat corruption in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t solve the problem when you are the problem, and we can’t trust the same people who built this broken, corrupt bureaucracy to turn it around,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001601/city-hall-outsider-daniel-lurie-wants-to-clean-up-local-government\">nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie said in a statement\u003c/a>. “I am the only candidate who will bring a new culture of accountability to City Hall on day one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie wants to remove a campaign fundraising loophole where candidates are able to raise more than the $500 contribution limit through ballot measure initiatives. 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His nonprofit has helped build affordable housing with local government, and Lurie chaired the Super Bowl 50 committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can call business leaders across this country,” he said. “We need action, and we need someone committed to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>He’s an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lurie comes from a long line of San Francisco denim royalty. The heir to the Levis Strauss fortune said he is proud of his connections to the iconic brand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in and around the company. I am proud of it. I saw Levi’s values firsthand,” he said. We took care of our LGBTQ workers… long before it was required by law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie was born and raised in San Francisco, where his father, Brian Lurie, was a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El and ran the Jewish Federation for 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People he never met, he was helping. 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With San Francisco struggling to build tens of thousands of units in its pipeline, Lurie said the Bryant Street project, which received $50 million through Tipping Point, will serve as a model for overcoming housing production delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11999653,news_12000444\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s build a modular factory here that’s union-run,” he said. “This is the city that knows how, but we have become the city of ‘No, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is a proponent for more housing at all income levels but said that as mayor, he would be focused on expanding options for middle-income families, such as teachers and firefighters and increasing development in the city’s commercial corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lurie stresses City Hall needs more accountability\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I am tired of these insiders that have built up a broken, ineffective and corrupt City Hall. 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His opponents, meanwhile, have pointed out that a budget deficit, a lack of shelter beds or housing for people living on the street, and overcrowded jails weaken the tough-on-crime argument that has resonated with Farrell’s supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, he welcomed the firefighters’ endorsement, which will come with campaign support. Local 798 is one of the city’s largest unions and has broad appeal to everyday voters who put trust in the Fire Department, making its endorsement highly coveted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I grew up in a working-class, union family here in San Francisco that instilled the values of community, solidarity, and collective strength in me from a young age,” Farrell told reporters on Thursday. “As mayor, I promise that our firefighters and emergency medical responders will have the tools, support, and resources they need to do their jobs and make San Francisco safer and stronger.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union does not plan to set up an independent expenditure committee to raise money for Farrell, Rollins said, although it did in Breed’s previous campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell and another candidate, nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie, have come out in support of the union’s Proposition H, a ballot measure that would lower the full retirement age for the city’s firefighters from 58 to 55. The initiative is driven by concerns over research showing older firefighters in San Francisco and other major cities were more likely to die of lung cancer and leukemia due to prolonged exposure to smoke and other hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, who was on the fire commission before becoming a city supervisor, does not back Proposition H.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a good week for Farrell, who also received the top endorsement from San Francisco’s Chinese American Democratic Club. The group selected Lurie as its second pick and Breed for third in the ranked-choice system. The group had endorsed Breed as its top pick in her last run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='san-francisco-mayor-election']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A battle over whether or not to permanently convert the Great Highway into a public park through another ballot measure, Proposition K, played a key factor in the decision. Farrell has come out against Proposition K, which would ban traffic on the road, while Breed, who herself has received backing from groups like SF YIMBY Action and the city’s primary Democratic Party organizing body, is backing the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.probolskyresearch.com/2024/08/14/race-for-san-francisco-mayor-tied/\">polling\u003c/a> from Probolsky Research found Breed and Farrell neck-and-neck at this stage in the race, with a simulated ranked-choice vote ending in Breed taking 50.8% to Farrell’s 49.2%. Their leading progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, finished third with 28% of the vote before being eliminated in the last round before the head-to-head matchup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll, which was funded by the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association Political Action Committee, was taken from July 30 to Aug. 7 and asked responders to rank their top choices for candidates. 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Contrary to common narratives about unhoused people in San Francisco, about 71% of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco had been living in the city when they lost their housing, according to \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Count-Report-San-Francisco-Updated-8.19.22.pdf\">2022 federal homelessness data\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"billionaires\">\u003c/a>Which candidates are the tech billionaires bankrolling this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To be sure, tech billionaires in San Francisco are funding \u003cem>multiple\u003c/em> candidates and initiatives in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998411/heres-how-much-money-san-francisco-mayoral-candidates-have-raised-this-year\">San Francisco’s mayoral race\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='san-francisco-mayor-election']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has received major support from billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, who has donated $200,000 to her reelection campaign, and crypto entrepreneur Chris Larsen, who has donated more than $400,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s courtship of the tech community is not new — for example, she opposed Proposition C in 2018, a ballot measure, approved by voters, that imposed a tax on businesses earning more than $50 million in total annual income, in order to fund homelessness services and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s not alone in accepting donations from billionaires. 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He has also received donations from billionaire Republican donor William Oberndorf.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"public-comment\">\u003c/a>What happened to remote public comment in SF Board of Supervisors meetings? Can a mayor bring that back?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, showing up in person to local government meetings was the primary way for residents to speak directly to elected officials on city issues. That shifted in 2020, during the pandemic when San Francisco and governments across the globe transitioned to online and call-in meetings. During that time, public comment in the city was entirely remote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As vaccines became available and public meetings began happening in person again, San Francisco voted to keep remote public comment, instituting a hybrid system that allowed people to participate in person or call in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That didn’t last, however, after a number of city meetings were derailed by \u003ca href=\"https://sfist.com/2023/09/27/racist-commenters-zoombombing-public-meetings-across-us-even-here-in-sf/\">callers spouting racist, antisemitic comments. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want the Board of Supervisors to be a form of hate speech,” Peskin said. “I don’t think these callers were from San Francisco, and it was abhorrent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors would have to approve bringing back the call-in option. Lurie said he would support doing so. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facing a tough reelection this November, San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s “tough-love” approach to homelessness in the city has become increasingly vitriolic — an approach some critics say could put actual lives at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996234/sf-mayor-says-very-aggressive-encampment-sweeps-will-start-in-august\">Breed vowed to begin “aggressively” removing people experiencing homelessness\u003c/a> from encampments beginning in August. She told reporters, “We are going to make them so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer” of shelter or housing. She continued, “We will be using law enforcement to cite, and those citations can get progressive and can lead to a misdemeanor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intensified rhetoric comes as voter polling \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/press-releases/2022-bay-area-council-poll-voters-demand-get-tough-approach-on-homelessness/\">frequently shows homelessness is a top issue for San Franciscans\u003c/a> and as the incumbent seeks to overcome challengers’ accusations that she hasn’t done enough to clean the city’s streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997352/newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-dismantle-homeless-encampments-across-california\">Gov. Gavin Newsom’s order last month\u003c/a>, directing state agencies to clear encampments from state properties, along with a majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June, which gave cities greater leeway to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">fine or jail people for camping on sidewalks and in parks\u003c/a> — even if no alternative shelter is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12, flanked by former Mayor Mark Farrell (left), Mayor London Breed and Aaron Peskin (right). \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed’s progressive opponent, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, said Breed is promoting harsh policies that often fail to efficiently and compassionately move people into long-term housing after an encampment is removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Policies to address homelessness must be humane, lawful and effective — not implemented just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often seems like a uniquely, or at least, acutely San Francisco problem. But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. West Coast cities, with high costs of living and scarce housing, are particularly susceptible to homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998920\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/M6A2369_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks to members of the press after a dramatic meeting in April 2019 about the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In December 2022, a U.S. judge barred San Francisco from enforcing sit-lie laws without first offering an alternative shelter as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958939/sf-homelessness-lawsuit-faces-critical-hearing-over-sweeps-ban\">ongoing lawsuit against the city\u003c/a> for not following its own homelessness response policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Grants Pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11993312/court-lifts-restrictions-on-sf-encampment-sweeps\">overturned that ruling\u003c/a>, giving the city more freedom to clear encampments even if shelters are full. The lower court, however, kept the city bound to its own requirement to “bag and tag” personal items during sweeps so people could later recover them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has always been some level of (homeless) criminalization that’s taken place in San Francisco, but it’s been more behind the scenes,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, who leads the Coalition on Homelessness. “Fast-forward to today, and this administration is calling for arrests of unhoused people as if that is a potential solution to homelessness. That’s what’s changed significantly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='homelessness']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Breed’s six years as mayor, San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/\">temporary shelter supply\u003c/a> has increased by more than 60%, according to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, thousands of new permanent supportive housing units \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data/ocoh-fund-annual-report-fy22-23-executive-summary?_gl=1*edbb9g*_ga*MTk2Mzg5NzE0NS4xNzE0Njc0NTIx*_ga_BT9NDE0NFC*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.*_ga_63SCS846YP*MTcyMjg4NDk0MC4zNi4xLjE3MjI4ODUyMzMuMC4wLjA.#ocoh-capacity-added\">have come online\u003c/a>, and the city has invested millions of dollars into affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed’s administration helped 2,400 people move into San Francisco’s temporary shelter last year and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/news/new-data-san-francisco-street-homelessness-hits-10-year-low\">more than 15,000 people off the street\u003c/a> during her overall tenure, according to the mayor’s office. And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. Chan and others also urged the city to rapidly fill the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-tents-vacancy-sros-street-18348739.php\">hundreds of empty permanent supportive housing units\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The irony of people who are denied housing but are offered jail on a daily basis is really concerning,” Chan said. “I think every San Franciscan should really take stock of this moment and push our city to use our resources much more wisely and much more humanely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Breed appeared to deliver on her promises: A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-mayor-california-homeless-encampments-3f8b79c8446bb60b5168711f8b06695c\">flurry\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/30/san-francisco-aggressive-homeless-camp-sweeps-begin/\">media\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/homeless-encampments-sweeps-breed-19607448.php\">reports\u003c/a> detailed encampment sweeps taking place throughout the city despite a shortage of available shelter. At last count, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986620/san-francisco-homelessness-up-7-despite-decline-in-street-camping\">more than 4,300 people sleeping in tents or cars on San Francisco’s streets\u003c/a> on any given night, and only around 3,600 shelter beds, of which more than 90% were \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/shelter/#:~:text=Capacity%20Card%20showing%20the%20total,Use%20Escape%20to%20exit.\">already occupied\u003c/a>. On Monday, there were 170 people on the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/adult-temporary-shelter/shelter-reservation-waitlist/\">online reservation system\u003c/a> for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What Breed’s Opponents Are Saying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-36-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a San Francisco mayoral debate on June 12. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not all Democrats are falling in line with the gloves-off approach. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, for example, criticized the governor’s encampment order, and the county’s Board of Supervisors recently passed a motion to prevent jail time for simply living in an encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, mayoral candidates to Breed’s left and right jumped at the opportunity to critique the recent blitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear: Nothing prohibited the city from clearing encampments pre-Grants Pass,” Mark Farrell, a former supervisor and interim mayor who is running to unseat Breed, posted to social media last week, referring to the recent Supreme Court ruling. “Mayor Breed used ongoing litigation as an excuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is campaigning on promises to sweep all of the city’s major encampments if elected and has positioned himself as the most conservative among a largely moderate slate of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofit founder and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie echoed the criticism, calling it a “lack of action” and pointing out that the city does not have enough shelter beds or supportive housing to move people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pushing encampments from one block to another didn’t work when Mark Farrell tried it, and it’s not going to work under this mayor,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240612-SFMayoralDebate-90-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, 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just because someone’s job is on the line…What is happening now is a quick and performative election-year gimmick,” Peskin said in a statement. “Mayor Breed and former Mayor Farrell are advocating for failed policies from the past that simply sweep our homeless problem from one neighborhood to another without any long-term solutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tough Love\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for people experiencing homelessness say that although Breed’s rhetoric has ramped up, her actual policies have not changed as dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her narratives have shifted as she has seen political opportunity,” said Christin Evans, a small business owner in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood and vice chair of the city’s Homelessness Oversight Commission. “I think in this particular political moment, the rhetoric is amplified.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans pointed to the mayor’s recent order \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">that city workers conducting sweeps first offer homeless people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998474/breed-orders-sf-homeless-outreach-workers-to-offer-relocation-out-of-city-before-shelter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bus ticket out of the city\u003c/a> — \u003c/span>a tool the city has had available and used since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She is amplifying these things to make it sound like she is doing something when it’s really theater,” Evans said. “She has been capable and able to address these issues all along, and she hasn’t done that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in 2018, when running for mayor, Breed promoted a tough-love approach in her plans to address homelessness. “There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets,” she said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was also careful to contextualize homelessness as the result of larger structural inequalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness often 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But it isn’t,” she \u003ca href=\"https://londonbreed.medium.com/a-bold-approach-to-homelessness-a42121dc586c\">wrote in a Medium post\u003c/a> during her campaign. “The federal government has been cutting supportive housing and homelessness funding for decades and leaving cities holding the bag. 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And, while the city’s overall homeless population has increased in recent years, the number of people in San Francisco sleeping in tents, cars and RVs has \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit/\">decreased by 16%\u003c/a> since 2019, according to data from the federal Point-in-Time count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with those efforts, a drop-off of pandemic-era rent and eviction relief, persistent economic inequality, and the ongoing shortage of both emergency and permanent affordable housing have all enabled a steady flow of people falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers don’t show that kind of impact because, sadly, we’re dealing with the influx of people from everywhere,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Dangerous Precedent\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Caught in the middle of the political winds are people actually living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really fueling some very mean-spirited policies and acts of vigilantism and attacks on homeless people,” Supervisor Dean Preston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston joined other government officials and unhoused San Francisco residents at a recent rally outside Hotel Whitcomb, where attendees decried Breed’s recent actions. Advocates are calling on the city to acquire the hotel and use it to house people who are experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several speakers highlighted the fact that people living on the street are \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2803839\">more likely to die of overdose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://nhchc.org/study-shows-involuntary-displacement-of-people-experiencing-homelessness-may-cause-significant-spikes-in-mortality-overdoses-and-hospitalizations/\">end up in the hospital\u003c/a>, and experience other traumatic setbacks when they are forcefully displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, we have seen in an election year over and over again, going back decades in this city, that ramped-up rhetoric and talk of criminalizing homeless people is viewed by some as a ticket to electoral success in this city,” Preston said. “And it’s disgusting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Dept. of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Breed did not confirm when reporters asked last week whether jail time is on the table for people who defy sit-lie laws. Legal advocates, however, say that is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unhoused folks are being criminalized purely for being poor. And we have lots of clients coming to us who have been arrested and have faced harassment from police,” said Angela Chan, attorney and advocate at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the rally said they would like to see the city further expand rental and eviction relief, housing subsidies like Section 8 vouchers, and continue to invest in both shelter and permanent housing for extremely low-income people. 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