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"content": "\u003cp>A fall-themed Snoopy jazz playlist hums throughout the art studio, rising just above the soft scratching of brushes on canvas. One person uses purple paint to carefully outline Squidward, his fourth SpongeBob-themed painting. Another artist prefers to paint airplanes, having previously worked at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Ansley’s specialty is abstract paintings, often inspired by Tiggy, his cat who passed away. Today, he’s using oil pastels to outline an illustration of plates and cups sprouting cactuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making art is what I call a relaxation stress breaker,” Ansley said. “Mostly, I just like to express myself in painting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansley, 64, has autism and several physical disabilities, including deep vein thrombosis and cataracts. Since 2019, he’s been attending art classes three days a week at The Arc \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. 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When President Donald Trump signed into law his sweeping policy bill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill, it included roughly $1 trillion in federal Medicaid cuts over the next decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057949\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057949\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Albert Ansley, a student in ArtReach, shows his painting of glass vases in the art studio at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California, is best known for helping low-income people access health care, but it also funds services for people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The White House website claims Trump’s megabill \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">won’t impact Americans with disabilities\u003c/a>: “Rest assured, those with disabilities receiving Medicaid will receive no loss or change in coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policy experts, however, say that while nothing in the bill specifically targets disability services, they’re unlikely to be left unscathed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because people with disabilities are more likely to depend on Medi-Cal compared to the general population, we would argue that any cuts to this funding would disproportionately harm folks with a disability,” said Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto, a senior policy analyst at the California Budget and Policy Center. “They’re essentially destabilizing a whole program and system that supports these communities.”[aside postID=news_12058418 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00613_TV-KQED.jpg']The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) estimates the state could \u003ca href=\"https://ahea.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2025-08/dhcs-slide-presentation.pdf\">lose $30 billion a year\u003c/a> in federal MediCal funding for the next decade. It falls to state legislators to close that gap when they take on next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos-Yamamoto expects the state will drain money from a benefit known as home- and community-based care, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/dashboards/Pages/LTSS-Dashboard.aspx\">serves more than 900,000 Californians\u003c/a>, according to 2022 data from DHCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home- and community-based services are programs like those provided by The Arc, which allow people to live and work in their homes and communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During tough budget years, these home- and community-based services are at risk because they’re optional services and when budgets are tight, those are often times on the chopping block,” Ramos-Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law requires states to provide certain benefits, like nursing home services, to receive matching Medicaid dollars. Other benefits, like home- and community-based services, are considered optional. That means states can make changes to them — limiting enrollment, reducing benefits or cutting them entirely — when they face budgetary emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the Great Recession, just about every state in the country ended up cutting some of their home- and community-based services,” said William Dow, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “And these account for about half of the Medicaid optional service spending nationwide, and so they’re just ripe for cutting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wecley Borges, a student in ArtReach, paints in the art studio at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the White House disputed that Medicaid changes will jeopardize home- and community-based services and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/health-provisions-in-the-2025-federal-budget-reconciliation-law/#2ca666ac-5d15-4454-8973-241566e22bb5\">provision in the bill\u003c/a> providing additional funding to expand access to this care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ramos-Yamamoto said it’s unlikely states will spend limited resources to make new investments in these services while facing billions of dollars in cuts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite there being some promising revisions related to this HCBS expansion … it is really insignificant compared to the amount that Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are cutting from Medicaid overall,” Ramos-Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Pedersen, executive director of The Arc San Francisco, said even before these changes to Medicaid, disability services were underfunded. Most of The Arc’s programs have a 12-month waitlist with over 125 people waiting.[aside postID=news_12048636 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/npr.brightspotcdn-1020x680.jpg']“What’s really concerning for us is… knowing that funding is going to be sparse for a system that’s already pretty anemic as it is,” Pedersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pederson is most worried about their clients with complex needs, like Ansley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think those folks are very much at risk of ending up in institutional settings,” she said. “As the funding depletes and you aren’t able to pay direct service workers for very skilled work that they do to support these individuals, I think that options are going to really decrease.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to attending art classes, Ansley lives at The Arc’s affordable housing project in San Francisco. He receives care from direct support professionals who take him to the grocery store and help him with his laundry, budgeting and medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ansley, the thought of losing his independent living services is terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m an independent man. I just have to stay independent,” Ansley said. “I don’t want to end up in no nursing home. If I end up in a nursing home, I’m a nobody. I am just a number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansley also relies on a health advocate named Arlo Beckman, who takes him to doctor’s appointments and coordinates his health care services like insurance renewal. Beckman said that although home- and community-based care is deemed optional, it’s vital to people’s quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Ruth Defoe, left, and Douglas Morales, right, work on art in the art studio at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In this world, we all consider in-home supportive services to be critical to our participants’ lives and their well-being,” Beckman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of The Arc’s clients rely on this support to hold jobs, volunteer in their communities and go to school. Any reductions in funding could mean less staff available for individualized services and even longer waitlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find that the clients that are more homebound are sad, more frequently struggle with mental health issues,” Beckman said. “I think we’re at a point where we understand how significantly being social and getting outside and just moving in general impacts both physical and mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the changes to Medicaid don’t go into effect until after the 2026 midterm elections, but advocates are already pushing state leaders to uphold obligations as laid out in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/transparency/laws-regulations/lanterman-act-and-related-laws/\">Lanterman Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawers with art students’ names taped in ArtReach Studios at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The landmark law, passed in California in 1969, ensures people with developmental disabilities have the support to live full and inclusive lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that the balancing of the budget isn’t done on the backs of people with disabilities,” Pedersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To offset the impending damage of federal cuts, some health care advocates have proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311855234.html\">ballot measure to raise taxes on the ultra-rich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County has already put the question before voters, placing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">sales tax measure on a November special election ballot\u003c/a> to support the county’s health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Albert Ansley poses for a portrait at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedersen said her organization is also approaching 2026 gubernatorial candidates, asking them to make a campaign pledge to prioritize disability services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really have someone right now who’s taking up that mantle,” Pedersen said. “That’s something we’re really working on at The Arc California level and just educating our new legislators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, as they wait for state lawmakers to unveil their budget plan, the disability community has to sit with uncertainty and the fear of what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like you have to choose: medicine or food. Medicine or art supplies. Medicine or laundry money. Medicine or bus rides. Medicine or paying your bills,” Ansley said. “It’s the worst thing that is going to ruin people’s physical health and their mental health. I don’t like it at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) estimates the state could \u003ca href=\"https://ahea.assembly.ca.gov/system/files/2025-08/dhcs-slide-presentation.pdf\">lose $30 billion a year\u003c/a> in federal MediCal funding for the next decade. It falls to state legislators to close that gap when they take on next year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos-Yamamoto expects the state will drain money from a benefit known as home- and community-based care, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/dashboards/Pages/LTSS-Dashboard.aspx\">serves more than 900,000 Californians\u003c/a>, according to 2022 data from DHCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Home- and community-based services are programs like those provided by The Arc, which allow people to live and work in their homes and communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During tough budget years, these home- and community-based services are at risk because they’re optional services and when budgets are tight, those are often times on the chopping block,” Ramos-Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law requires states to provide certain benefits, like nursing home services, to receive matching Medicaid dollars. Other benefits, like home- and community-based services, are considered optional. That means states can make changes to them — limiting enrollment, reducing benefits or cutting them entirely — when they face budgetary emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the Great Recession, just about every state in the country ended up cutting some of their home- and community-based services,” said William Dow, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “And these account for about half of the Medicaid optional service spending nationwide, and so they’re just ripe for cutting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wecley Borges, a student in ArtReach, paints in the art studio at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, the White House disputed that Medicaid changes will jeopardize home- and community-based services and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/health-provisions-in-the-2025-federal-budget-reconciliation-law/#2ca666ac-5d15-4454-8973-241566e22bb5\">provision in the bill\u003c/a> providing additional funding to expand access to this care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Ramos-Yamamoto said it’s unlikely states will spend limited resources to make new investments in these services while facing billions of dollars in cuts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite there being some promising revisions related to this HCBS expansion … it is really insignificant compared to the amount that Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration are cutting from Medicaid overall,” Ramos-Yamamoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristen Pedersen, executive director of The Arc San Francisco, said even before these changes to Medicaid, disability services were underfunded. Most of The Arc’s programs have a 12-month waitlist with over 125 people waiting.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He receives care from direct support professionals who take him to the grocery store and help him with his laundry, budgeting and medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ansley, the thought of losing his independent living services is terrifying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m an independent man. I just have to stay independent,” Ansley said. “I don’t want to end up in no nursing home. If I end up in a nursing home, I’m a nobody. I am just a number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansley also relies on a health advocate named Arlo Beckman, who takes him to doctor’s appointments and coordinates his health care services like insurance renewal. Beckman said that although home- and community-based care is deemed optional, it’s vital to people’s quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057950\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-7-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students Ruth Defoe, left, and Douglas Morales, right, work on art in the art studio at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In this world, we all consider in-home supportive services to be critical to our participants’ lives and their well-being,” Beckman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of The Arc’s clients rely on this support to hold jobs, volunteer in their communities and go to school. Any reductions in funding could mean less staff available for individualized services and even longer waitlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find that the clients that are more homebound are sad, more frequently struggle with mental health issues,” Beckman said. “I think we’re at a point where we understand how significantly being social and getting outside and just moving in general impacts both physical and mental health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the changes to Medicaid don’t go into effect until after the 2026 midterm elections, but advocates are already pushing state leaders to uphold obligations as laid out in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dds.ca.gov/transparency/laws-regulations/lanterman-act-and-related-laws/\">Lanterman Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawers with art students’ names taped in ArtReach Studios at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The landmark law, passed in California in 1969, ensures people with developmental disabilities have the support to live full and inclusive lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to make sure that the balancing of the budget isn’t done on the backs of people with disabilities,” Pedersen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To offset the impending damage of federal cuts, some health care advocates have proposed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article311855234.html\">ballot measure to raise taxes on the ultra-rich\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County has already put the question before voters, placing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058418/santa-clara-county-sales-tax-measure-a-pitched-to-offset-deep-medicaid-cuts-measure-a\">sales tax measure on a November special election ballot\u003c/a> to support the county’s health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12057952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12057952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250923_MEDICAIDDISABILITY_GC-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Albert Ansley poses for a portrait at the Arc in San Francisco on Sept. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedersen said her organization is also approaching 2026 gubernatorial candidates, asking them to make a campaign pledge to prioritize disability services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t really have someone right now who’s taking up that mantle,” Pedersen said. “That’s something we’re really working on at The Arc California level and just educating our new legislators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, as they wait for state lawmakers to unveil their budget plan, the disability community has to sit with uncertainty and the fear of what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like you have to choose: medicine or food. 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"content": "\u003cp>After Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> last week vetoed an initiative aimed at expanding sober housing in California, San Francisco supervisors are proposing new legislation that would all but bar new city money from funding supportive housing developments that don’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034006/san-francisco-mans-housing-struggle-relapse-put-him-back-on-streets\">require residents to be drug-free\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, San Francisco’s exclusively drug-tolerant [permanent supportive housing] model is blamed for disproportionate rates of fatal overdoses, chaotic and too often violent\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>neighborhood conditions, and a wide range of drug-driven public safety challenges,” Supervisor Matt Dorsey said in a statement. “It’s time to deliver the drug-free options [permanent supportive housing] residents have long been asking for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For about a decade, California has required supportive housing programs that utilize state funding to follow a “Housing First” framework, which aims to remove barriers to housing by requiring programs to accept tenants regardless of their credit score, criminal history or drug use, among other conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco legislation, co-sponsored by Board President Rafael Mandelman, aims to expand the availability of drug-free supportive housing in the city, despite Newsom’s veto of the state bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-14-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Matt Haney speaks during a press conference announcing legislation to increase nightlife in Downtown San Francisco to help the recovery of the neighborhood, in Union Square, San Francisco, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Matt Haney’s \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">AB 255\u003c/a>, which would have allowed cities and counties to use up to 10% of state supportive housing dollars to fund sober living centers, was returned unsigned by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and other San Francisco leaders have long \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990693/san-francisco-lawmakers-want-sober-housing-to-be-part-of-homelessness-plan\">advocated for the expansion of state-funded sober living programs\u003c/a>, which many believe are prohibited by California’s Housing First framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Interagency Council on Homelessness, which oversees the implementation of those guidelines in the state, said the intention is to provide housing as a starting place for all people, including those who want to seek recovery, instead of using housing as a “reward” for achieving recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many housing providers have interpreted the framework to mean they could not bar a new tenant, or evict an existing one, if they were not sober — which Haney said creates living environments that make it difficult for many people trying to get sober.[aside postID=news_12057616 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00437_TV-KQED-1.jpg']“If you know you need to get off of and away from drugs, you shouldn’t be forced into housing where drug use is allowed and where recovery is not supported,” he said. “Some folks won’t go into housing because they know that it actually is dangerous for them because they’re still experiencing an addiction. … This isn’t about having zero tolerance to drug use. It’s about having environments where recovery is explicitly supported, and that is the goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Newsom, jurisdictions can already use state dollars to “support recovery housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was news to most cities and counties,” Haney said after \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">AB 255\u003c/a> was vetoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said in his veto message that he believes “recovery-focused” housing is essential, but that Haney’s legislation would require the state to establish a separate — and costly — certification and oversight process. The Senate Appropriations Committee estimated that creating the new regulatory system would have cost more than $4 million in its first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he pointed to guidance the California Interagency Council on Homelessness published in July, which allows jurisdictions to access state funding for recovery housing already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A series of tents lined up along a city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on a sidewalk in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the guidance, recovery housing programs “may include sobriety requirements; however, the decision to pursue sobriety must be made by the participant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, it said, is that choice is central to the Housing First framework — “This includes the choice to participate in recovery housing and sober living programs, programs with a focus on implementing harm reduction methods, or other programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People using substances or in recovery from substance use disorders have diverse needs, goals, and interests and should be provided with meaningful choice within the housing and services options available to them,” the guidance continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the veto, Haney and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who co-sponsored the bill, both said they were disappointed but would continue to create housing “across the spectrum” at the city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation announced Tuesday appears poised to do just that.[aside postID=news_12057448 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-24-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Dorsey said he and Mandelman — with support from Supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Danny Sauter — would propose legislation to prevent San Francisco officials from using city dollars to open new non-sober housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already generates independent revenue for sober housing through Proposition C, which voters passed in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said that since he took office, “We’ve stood up over 300 new beds, the right kind of beds, treatment beds, recovery beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not offered a new drug-free supportive program that provides the sort of permanent housing that Dorsey’s proposal would apply to, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would prohibit the use of city funds for drug-tolerant permanent supportive housing sites and more clearly separate the models of permanent supportive housing projects in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dorsey’s office, there would be three: state-funded housing that prohibits evictions of tenants found using illegal drugs; drug-free sites that disallow use of illegal drugs but allow legal substances like alcohol and marijuana; and sober, recovery-oriented housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort — and sobriety restrictions on housing in general — could invite more pushback from homelessness advocates, like Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach, who opposed the less-restrictive Assembly bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are at a place where they would love to have sober housing, so let’s do that, but let’s not rob Peter to pay Paul,” she said. “Let’s find funding for that and expand it so there are those options available for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney pushed back on Friedenbach’s assertion that his state bill would have carved out a portion of already-thin funding exclusively for those in recovery. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If you know you need to get off of and away from drugs, you shouldn’t be forced into housing where drug use is allowed and where recovery is not supported,” he said. “Some folks won’t go into housing because they know that it actually is dangerous for them because they’re still experiencing an addiction. … This isn’t about having zero tolerance to drug use. It’s about having environments where recovery is explicitly supported, and that is the goal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Newsom, jurisdictions can already use state dollars to “support recovery housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was news to most cities and counties,” Haney said after \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB255\">AB 255\u003c/a> was vetoed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said in his veto message that he believes “recovery-focused” housing is essential, but that Haney’s legislation would require the state to establish a separate — and costly — certification and oversight process. The Senate Appropriations Committee estimated that creating the new regulatory system would have cost more than $4 million in its first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, he pointed to guidance the California Interagency Council on Homelessness published in July, which allows jurisdictions to access state funding for recovery housing already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11962415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A series of tents lined up along a city sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230925-ENCAMPMENT-SAN-FRANCISCO-GETTY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless encampment on a sidewalk in San Francisco on Sept. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the guidance, recovery housing programs “may include sobriety requirements; however, the decision to pursue sobriety must be made by the participant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea, it said, is that choice is central to the Housing First framework — “This includes the choice to participate in recovery housing and sober living programs, programs with a focus on implementing harm reduction methods, or other programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People using substances or in recovery from substance use disorders have diverse needs, goals, and interests and should be provided with meaningful choice within the housing and services options available to them,” the guidance continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the veto, Haney and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who co-sponsored the bill, both said they were disappointed but would continue to create housing “across the spectrum” at the city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation announced Tuesday appears poised to do just that.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dorsey said he and Mandelman — with support from Supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Danny Sauter — would propose legislation to prevent San Francisco officials from using city dollars to open new non-sober housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city already generates independent revenue for sober housing through Proposition C, which voters passed in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie said that since he took office, “We’ve stood up over 300 new beds, the right kind of beds, treatment beds, recovery beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s not offered a new drug-free supportive program that provides the sort of permanent housing that Dorsey’s proposal would apply to, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would prohibit the use of city funds for drug-tolerant permanent supportive housing sites and more clearly separate the models of permanent supportive housing projects in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Dorsey’s office, there would be three: state-funded housing that prohibits evictions of tenants found using illegal drugs; drug-free sites that disallow use of illegal drugs but allow legal substances like alcohol and marijuana; and sober, recovery-oriented housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort — and sobriety restrictions on housing in general — could invite more pushback from homelessness advocates, like Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach, who opposed the less-restrictive Assembly bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are at a place where they would love to have sober housing, so let’s do that, but let’s not rob Peter to pay Paul,” she said. “Let’s find funding for that and expand it so there are those options available for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney pushed back on Friedenbach’s assertion that his state bill would have carved out a portion of already-thin funding exclusively for those in recovery. Dorsey’s forthcoming city legislation, on the other hand, would appear to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A long-brewing effort to open the nation’s first municipal bank in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> could go before the city’s voters next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s according to lead organizers behind the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition, who released a poll on Monday showing 67% of likely San Francisco voters support the creation of a public bank. The push comes as the city faces a pressing housing crisis, the coalition said the bank could help address, and as legal barriers to creating the institution have cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in this moment of crisis with the federal and state government having not been able to backfill and actually cut back some low-income housing,” said Fernando Martí, former co-director at the Council of Community Housing Organizations, who now teaches housing politics at the University of San Francisco. “Affordable housing is dependent on the public’s investment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers behind the public bank effort say it would offer low-cost financing for affordable housing development, small business loans and green infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers passed \u003ca href=\"https://trackbill.com/bill/california-assembly-bill-857-public-banks/1697845/\">Assembly Bill 857\u003c/a> in 2019, enabling local governments to charter public banks. In April 2022, San Francisco launched a working group made up of community leaders, bankers, financial experts and small-business owners to study the idea. The following year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960406/san-francisco-green-lights-nations-first-public-bank\">San Francisco supervisors gave a green light\u003c/a> for the city to begin designing the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has since crafted a business plan with The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) approval “top of mind,” according to lead organizer Misha Steier. Next, the city has to pass an ordinance that would create the publicly owned financial corporation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/241022-Prop36-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/241022-Prop36-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/241022-Prop36-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/241022-Prop36-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Booksmith owner Christin Evans speaks during a rally against Proposition 36 at the Upper Haight bookstore, Booksmith, in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a business plan. And now we need the seed funding,” said Martí, who was on the working group. A ballot measure is one way proponents are exploring generating initial capital, but specifics remain unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small business supporters on the working group said a municipal bank would provide an alternative to corporate lenders who tend to favor mid-sized and large-scale businesses, and protect mom and pop shops from fraudulent loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen examples of small businesses along Haight Street that have gotten caught up in predatory lending. There’s a ton of advertisements towards small businesses; we get it all the time,” said Christin Evans, who owns a bookstore along Haight Street and has been working with the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition. “Most banks are not catering to small business needs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also on the hook to pass rezoning legislation by January 2026 and build nearly 82,000 housing units by 2031. Failing to meet these goals could result in loss of funding, or the state could step in to approve local development plans.[aside postID=news_12057616 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250826_SFHARMREDUCTION00437_TV-KQED-1.jpg']Nearly 46,600 of those units must be affordable to very low- to moderate-income residents, meaning a single person making up to about $68,550 to $130,600, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2025.pdf\">according to 2025 state income limits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans, who also served as vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission, said her initial support for the public bank stemmed from her advocacy for more affordable and subsidized housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a real lack of capital and dollars for greatly expanding affordable housing,” Evans said. “So we’re in a very difficult situation where our affordable housing crisis continues to worsen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are currently battling over Mayor Daniel Lurie’s rezoning plan, which would increase density along transit corridors and is expected to increase zoning capacity to make room for 36,000 new housing units on the city’s north and west sides, two regions that have historically resisted new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sf-family-zoning-plan#faqs\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a> is not tied to any specific projects, but would allow developers and homeowners to build more housing in certain areas where supporters say it’s most needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Martí and others say that zoning changes alone won’t solve the city’s housing crunch. Thousands of projects have received city approval, yet developers are struggling to find financing to get construction off the ground, and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the city’s economic recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We see the cost of living rising, and when it comes to affordable housing, zoning is just one part of it. What’s really missing is the financing piece,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who has advocated for the public bank since before her election in 2024. “Not even market-rate housing developers are breaking ground on projects because there’s just not a market for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said her office is also exploring a legislative proposal through the Board of Supervisors that could later bring the public bank before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if we want to decouple our ability to build housing from market conditions, we really need a public financing option like a public bank, that could, through no-cost loans, help bridge crucial financing,” Fielder said.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters passed Proposition C in 2018, creating a tax on the city’s wealthiest tech companies to fund homeless services and affordable housing. However, the city’s most recent budget, passed this year, moved some funding that had been set aside for permanent housing to building out the city’s temporary shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the political will from our prior mayor and our current mayor is that they’ve been unwilling to spend that [Proposition C] money on housing,” Evans said. “Instead, they’ve focused on things like zoning alone, which basically creates the capacity for some future housing that may or may not appear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The public bank model proponents are pushing for in San Francisco is similar to a statewide state-owned bank in North Dakota, currently the only public bank in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Coupal, president of the anti-tax Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said the North Dakota example is intriguing. But if San Francisco is planning any tax increase in order to fund a public bank locally, “we would oppose it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poll released Monday, conducted for the coalition by Underpin, a progressive political strategy firm, also found nearly 69% of voters would support the public bank if it invests in renewable energy, affordable housing and other public projects. The survey was based upon a representative sample of 541 San Franciscans, with a margin of error of 4.4%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This poll is really powerful in showing that a lot of people have heard about a public bank and they see the need for it,” Fielder said. “We’re at a point where Wall Street banks being in charge of our money is clearly not aligned with our values and our interests in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alcatraz Island reopened to visitors on Friday after more than two days of closures during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a>, but some tourists and the businesses that rely on them continued to be frustrated by the back-and-forth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of the shutdown, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058298/at-muir-woods-tourists-heartbroken-over-national-park-closure-during-shutdown\">shuttered several popular National Park Service sites\u003c/a>, including Muir Woods, \u003ca href=\"http://nps.gov\">NPS.gov\u003c/a> noted that Alcatraz would close for one day, Wednesday, due to a “planned project,” then reopen “for its regular schedule on Oct. 2 with all facilities OPEN.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Thursday morning, NPS said \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm\">Alcatraz Island was now “closed due to lapse in federal appropriations.”\u003c/a> The park service offered no timeframe for the closure and said any ticket purchases through the ferry company that operates boat service to the island, Alcatraz City Cruises, would be refunded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday,\u003ca href=\"https://www.cityexperiences.com/san-francisco/city-cruises/alcatraz/tour-options/alcatraz-day-tour/\"> Alcatraz City Cruises’ website said tours to the island had finally resumed at 10:30 a.m.\u003c/a> The company did not respond to KQED’s queries about reopening on Friday, but a message on its website said, “All Alcatraz Tours are operating as scheduled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 10:30 a.m. opening meant the first four boat rides to Alcatraz Island — for which tickets had already been sold — were canceled, resulting in long lines at Pier 33’s Alcatraz Landing ferry dock. Rachel Giblett, visiting San Francisco from Australia, was one of those who discovered this firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12058259 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/20251001_PARKSSHUTDOWN_GC-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists wait around Pier 33 at the Alcatraz Ferry landing on Oct. 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was the second time her group’s Alcatraz tour had been rescheduled this week after they originally bought tickets for Thursday. The tour was pushed to 8:40 a.m. Friday, and they were only notified that the tickets were being moved again around 40 minutes before that, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has now pushed out our time in San Francisco, which means that our future plans are pushed out,” said Giblett, who was concerned about their plans to visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058508/yes-yosemite-is-open-during-the-shutdown-but-with-lots-of-changes-for-visitors\">Yosemite National Park\u003c/a> next. “It’s really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day closure allowed NPS staff to work with the organizations that provide services to and on Alcatraz and finalize plans to keep the island open to the public, said Christine Lehnertz, president and CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.[aside postID=news_12058291 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GGBridgeGetty.jpg']“It just took some time to put in place the agreements that we can continue to do that work,” said Lehnertz, whose nonprofit membership organization supports parks within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>. Considering the need for plans to move from the park to the regional NPS offices to the Department of the Interior, “frankly, it moved pretty quickly,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservancy confirmed Friday that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, the reopened Alcatraz will be “operating as normal” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan for national park closures during the shutdown has meant that while some sites like Muir Woods and Fort Point have been completely closed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">others remain open \u003c/a>but with parking lots blocked, bathrooms locked or staff greatly reduced. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">Advocates had previously expressed alarm \u003c/a>about the Interior Department’s last-minute shutdown contingency planning for national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/n3xqgl7cnjxl9wwd3kodkxkooswrp2ca\">San Francisco received 23.3 million total visitors in 2024, \u003c/a>according to SF Travel. And with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/central-to-visitor-access-stabilizing-1939-alcatraz-island-wharf.htm\">an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year\u003c/a>, Alcatraz remains one of the city’s biggest tourist draws. During the 2018–19 government shutdown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/24/alcatraz-cancelled-shutdown-san-francisco-bay-area-muir-woods/\"> Alcatraz remained open, though night tours were canceled.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A government shutdown is hard on everybody who loves parks,” Lehnertz said. “It limits access for visitors. It certainly creates real hardships for National Park Service staff. And they’re the frontline stewards of these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. 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While Yosemite remains open during the shutdown, extremely reduced staffing means that entry gates are unmanned, with no fees being collected, and visitor centers are locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International visitors have often been outright confused by the idea of a government shutdown itself, David said. “Really, the worst part is just seeing the people coming [from] all around the world and the disappointment they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to advertise San Francisco, the Bay Area, United States, and it’s really hard to do that right now,” he said. “And a lot of them just don’t understand how a country like ours is in such a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on the shutdown and its impact, Australian tourist Giblett said she was “just concerned for the American people, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz stressed that anyone planning to visit a national park during the shutdown should expect to “visit in a way that’s probably a little different than you might have planned” — and to consider themselves “acting park rangers right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors are the people who can help to preserve and protect and steward these parks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those connections to nature and each other are really important — and these disruptions are difficult,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Amanda Hernandez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It just took some time to put in place the agreements that we can continue to do that work,” said Lehnertz, whose nonprofit membership organization supports parks within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/park-status-during-2025-lapse.htm\">Golden Gate National Recreation Area\u003c/a>. Considering the need for plans to move from the park to the regional NPS offices to the Department of the Interior, “frankly, it moved pretty quickly,” Lehnertz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservancy confirmed Friday that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">unlike other national parks\u003c/a>, the reopened Alcatraz will be “operating as normal” during the shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan for national park closures during the shutdown has meant that while some sites like Muir Woods and Fort Point have been completely closed, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058291/san-francisco-national-parks-government-shutdown-bay-area-muir-woods-redwoods-fort-point\">others remain open \u003c/a>but with parking lots blocked, bathrooms locked or staff greatly reduced. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058137/government-shutdown-2025-national-parks-planning-memo\">Advocates had previously expressed alarm \u003c/a>about the Interior Department’s last-minute shutdown contingency planning for national parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sftravel.ent.box.com/s/n3xqgl7cnjxl9wwd3kodkxkooswrp2ca\">San Francisco received 23.3 million total visitors in 2024, \u003c/a>according to SF Travel. And with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/central-to-visitor-access-stabilizing-1939-alcatraz-island-wharf.htm\">an estimated 1.6 million visitors per year\u003c/a>, Alcatraz remains one of the city’s biggest tourist draws. During the 2018–19 government shutdown,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/24/alcatraz-cancelled-shutdown-san-francisco-bay-area-muir-woods/\"> Alcatraz remained open, though night tours were canceled.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A government shutdown is hard on everybody who loves parks,” Lehnertz said. “It limits access for visitors. It certainly creates real hardships for National Park Service staff. And they’re the frontline stewards of these places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055806\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-TRUMPSSIGNAGEORDER-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Lehnertz, president & CEO of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, stands in Muir Woods National Monument on Sept. 12, 2025. The park is home to some of the last remaining stands of old-growth coast redwoods in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And “there’s only so much that we can do as a nonprofit when parks are shuttered,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendan David, owner of local tour company San Francisco Excursions, said local tour companies like his had been overwhelmed over the last few days trying to deal with the swift and often-changing closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures have meant 50% of his tour itinerary — which takes visitors around San Francisco, Muir Woods, Sausalito and Alcatraz — has been off the table for the last several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s affecting us business-wise — like, really bad with cancellations [and] having to give 25% off,” David said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Tour guides offering visits to Yosemite National Park have also reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/yosemite-national-park-shutdown-21081255.php\">cancellations in recent days\u003c/a>. While Yosemite remains open during the shutdown, extremely reduced staffing means that entry gates are unmanned, with no fees being collected, and visitor centers are locked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>International visitors have often been outright confused by the idea of a government shutdown itself, David said. “Really, the worst part is just seeing the people coming [from] all around the world and the disappointment they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re here to advertise San Francisco, the Bay Area, United States, and it’s really hard to do that right now,” he said. “And a lot of them just don’t understand how a country like ours is in such a mess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commenting on the shutdown and its impact, Australian tourist Giblett said she was “just concerned for the American people, really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lehnertz stressed that anyone planning to visit a national park during the shutdown should expect to “visit in a way that’s probably a little different than you might have planned” — and to consider themselves “acting park rangers right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Visitors are the people who can help to preserve and protect and steward these parks,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those connections to nature and each other are really important — and these disruptions are difficult,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Amanda Hernandez contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been four months since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> drivers began receiving a new kind of mail from the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050256/sf-speed-cameras-are-about-to-start-ticketing-theyve-already-helped-officials-say\">speeding tickets\u003c/a>, issued by cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those notices, the agency said, are already having a drastic impact on driver behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In that time, we have seen a major decrease in speeding throughout San Francisco,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-municipal-transportation-agency\">SFMTA \u003c/a>communications director Parisa Safarzadeh wrote via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring, the department set up automated speed cameras at 33 locations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032036/sf-speed-cameras-first-in-state-turn-on-today-heres-where-they-are\">throughout San Francisco’s High Injury Network —\u003c/a> the 12% of streets across the city that account for more than two-thirds of traffic-related severe injuries or fatalities. According to Safarzadeh, an SFMTA study tracking speeds along 15 of the corridors where the cameras have been installed found an average 72% reduction in speeding, based on data captured before and after the cameras went into effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results come as San Francisco looks to reimagine its strategy for curbing traffic deaths after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041243/san-franciscos-streets-still-deadly-advocates-want-lurie-to-do-more\">expiration of its lofty Vision Zero policy in 2024\u003c/a>. Despite the campaign, that year the city saw the highest number of traffic fatalities in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marta Lindsey, the communications director for advocacy group Walk SF, said that the new cameras can be a powerful tool to promote street safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032140\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032140\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-SF-SPEED-CAMERAS-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speed camera on Geary Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Speed cameras are doing exactly what we hoped they would in changing driver behavior,” Lindsey said. “On Fulton Street… there’s a camera now, and you can tell drivers are going slower and they are paying attention and it’s different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of its kind in the state, San Francisco’s speed camera program had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032036/sf-speed-cameras-first-in-state-turn-on-today-heres-where-they-are\">bit of a rocky start \u003c/a>after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039914/just-over-half-sfs-speed-cameras-operational-whats-with-slowdown\">slow and halting rollout\u003c/a> this spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by June, the cameras were up and running. After a 60-day grace period, when the city sent warnings to drivers traveling more than 11 mph above marked speed limits on camera-monitored roads, it started issuing tickets for $50 and up, depending on the driver’s speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer months, SFMTA recorded 260,142 warnings and citations sent to drivers. The actual number of speeding events on those roads during the warning period was higher, Safarzadeh said, but the agency had limited staff resources to manually review the incidents, and its software underwent an update that made the screening process more conservative.[aside postID=news_12055304 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/IMG_5059_qed.jpg']Since July, the agency said it’s issued fewer violations week over week. So far, two-thirds of the vehicles that have received a violation haven’t received a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average vehicle speed across the 15 major streets SFMTA studied also declined by an average of 4 mph, and all now have averages below posted speed limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">645\u003c/a> in 2023, approving the pilot camera program in multiple cities across the state. San Francisco is only able to have 33 camera systems under the legislation, which caps the number of authorized systems by population size, but Lindsey said there are still a number of roads on the city’s “high-injury network” that could benefit from speed monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the camera data also points to just how pervasive — and extreme — speeding in the city is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data is this combination of things for me where I’m like, ‘This is fantastic, this is working,’ and this problem is as big or maybe even worse than we thought it was,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 51,700 of the drivers who have been cited since June were traveling at least 16 miles above posted speed limits — which means they were exceeding 40 mph at 28 of the intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian crosses Folsom Street along Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If someone is hit by a driver going 40 miles an hour, [there’s a] 75% or higher chance that they’re extremely severely injured or they’re dead,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA study, the average speed for issued violations has dropped each month since all of the cameras went into effect. Lindsey is hopeful that this trend will continue, and the cameras’ positive results will inspire local and state leaders to allow more cameras in the pilot cities and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she believes even the current system can slow drivers around the city, not just where they’re being watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s kind of this halo effect that often happens in cities with speed cameras where drivers are slowing down beyond just where the camera is,” Lindsey said. “I think it can become a virtuous cycle with driver behavior, being like, ‘OK, we have to go slower in San Francisco. Everybody’s going slower.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Since July, the agency said it’s issued fewer violations week over week. So far, two-thirds of the vehicles that have received a violation haven’t received a second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average vehicle speed across the 15 major streets SFMTA studied also declined by an average of 4 mph, and all now have averages below posted speed limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB645\">645\u003c/a> in 2023, approving the pilot camera program in multiple cities across the state. San Francisco is only able to have 33 camera systems under the legislation, which caps the number of authorized systems by population size, but Lindsey said there are still a number of roads on the city’s “high-injury network” that could benefit from speed monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the camera data also points to just how pervasive — and extreme — speeding in the city is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data is this combination of things for me where I’m like, ‘This is fantastic, this is working,’ and this problem is as big or maybe even worse than we thought it was,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 51,700 of the drivers who have been cited since June were traveling at least 16 miles above posted speed limits — which means they were exceeding 40 mph at 28 of the intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045965\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045965\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250228-WaterCitiesSF-11-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pedestrian crosses Folsom Street along Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If someone is hit by a driver going 40 miles an hour, [there’s a] 75% or higher chance that they’re extremely severely injured or they’re dead,” Lindsey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA study, the average speed for issued violations has dropped each month since all of the cameras went into effect. Lindsey is hopeful that this trend will continue, and the cameras’ positive results will inspire local and state leaders to allow more cameras in the pilot cities and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she believes even the current system can slow drivers around the city, not just where they’re being watched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s kind of this halo effect that often happens in cities with speed cameras where drivers are slowing down beyond just where the camera is,” Lindsey said. “I think it can become a virtuous cycle with driver behavior, being like, ‘OK, we have to go slower in San Francisco. Everybody’s going slower.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The man accused of fatally shooting an Urban Alchemy street ambassador outside \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s main library last week has been charged with murder, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edmund Bowen, 42, is accused of shooting Joey Alexander, 60, with a shotgun at close range after Alexander asked him not to use drugs in public. Alexander, who had worked for more than two years as an ambassador for the nonprofit contracted by the city to help improve safety and cleanliness on downtown streets, died Tuesday of his injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Urban Alchemy ambassadors work every day to provide safe passage for [the Tenderloin’s students], to make sure that families feel that there is somebody looking out for them as they move about this community,” Jenkins \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/video/1718055?taid=68df37894406150001618cbb&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter\">told reporters on Thursday\u003c/a>. “To have one of those ambassadors who has come back into the community after once serving time in prison and now coming back to give back to the community, be hurt and be tragically killed in this way, of course, is very disheartening and alarming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexander was manning his usual post outside San Francisco’s main library on Larkin Street just before 5 p.m. Friday when he approached Bowen, who was allegedly using drugs on the street, according to the nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alexander asked him not to, Bowen pulled a shotgun out of his bag, said “F— Urban Alchemy” and shot Alexander, an Urban Alchemy spokesperson said. According to the district attorney’s office, Bowen was standing about 20 feet from Alexander when he fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bowen was arrested shortly after the shooting and has remained in custody since. He also faces an assault charge after another nearby worker said they were injured by shrapnel from his shotgun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058454\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058454\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1499\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED.jpg 1499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/URBAN-ALCHEMY-02-KQED-1151x1536.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1499px) 100vw, 1499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleagues said Joey Alexander, left, was a beloved coworker and friend. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Urban Alchemy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alexander was rushed to the hospital, where doctors treated him for multiple days before he died Tuesday, according to Jess Montejano, a spokesperson for the nonprofit. He is at least the third Urban Alchemy employee to be shot on the job. Montejano said he believes Alexander is the first to die from related injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Alexander was a beloved member of our team, and it’s a devastating loss,” Montejano said. “[He] was an exceptional employee, … loved his job, loved giving back and serving the community and doing his work. [He was] just beloved among everyone that worked with him and that knew him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many Urban Alchemy employees, Alexander had lived through some of the same challenging experiences — like homelessness, addiction and incarceration — as the people he aimed to serve, Montejano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/prison-found-new-life-s-f-came-shotgun-blast-21078628.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Alexander had previously spent 23 years in prison. An Oakland resident, Alexander worked for Urban Alchemy as a “street practitioner” for more than two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our entire team really shares a higher purpose of giving back to the community and serving these vulnerable populations because many of them share that same experience that these people in crisis are going through themselves,” Montejano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many street practitioners can connect with people and manage crises situations based on their own life experience, Montejano said the employees, who do not have law enforcement training, are sometimes put in dangerous situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our practitioners serve some of the most tough neighborhoods impacted by addiction, poverty, homelessness and crime in San Francisco,” he said. “They are trained with their lived experience … to bring more peace, safety and cleanliness on the streets. It’s an unfortunate reality that, yes, we do experience hate and sometimes violence in the line of work that we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins said Thursday that the shooting raises concerns about these workers’ safety, and she said the city should ensure police are in a position to “serve as a buffer” to protect them.[aside postID=news_12058145 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20231128-Muni-002-JY_qed.jpg']However, she said, the nonprofit’s model for patrolling the neighborhood is worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people who make [Tenderloin residents] feel safer,” Jenkins said. “And what we do know is that we are over 500 [police] officers short, and so we have to do something as a city to supplement the shortage in police staffing who can also help us maintain our street conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting comes at an inflection point for Urban Alchemy, once heralded for its breakthrough community-centered approach to tackling homelessness and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco first contracted with a predecessor of the nonprofit, Hunters Point Family, then \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/who-we-are/our-people/dr-lena-miller/\">led by Urban Alchemy’s Executive Director\u003c/a>, Dr. Lena Miller, in 2014. At the time, it was tasked with operating and cleaning public toilets throughout the city overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since its founding in 2018, Urban Alchemy’s responsibilities have steadily mounted, from stationing practitioners during daytime hours downtown to dissuade public drug use and clean up streets to operating \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.archive.sf.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Consent-Item-11.1-UA-Safe-Parking-@-Candlestick.pdf\">safe RV parking sites\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5363341&GUID=0F3A493D-A9D0-4090-AED9-B465E2D61842\">homeless shelters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has expanded to nine cities in six states, and received \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odRmLmrPEz8\">praise from former Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and community activists in the Tenderloin. A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Stanford-Data-Press-Release.pdf\">Stanford University study\u003c/a> found that when its practitioners are present on street corners, crime dropped significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also struggled to live up to its lofty mission in recent years. Friday’s tragic incident comes as the nonprofit has faced backlash for overspending, management struggles and employee misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Urban Alchemy lost contracts with Bay Area Rapid Transit to provide bathroom and elevator attendants at San Francisco stations and in August, the city placed it on a nonprofit “watch list,” citing serious fiscal or programmatic concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. San Francisco plans to expand a program pairing shelter beds at the Adante Hotel on Geary Street in Lower Nob Hill with access to addiction treatment, to intervene in the city’s drug crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/urban-alchemy-gave-800k-in-bump-to-shelter-staff-21055295.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a> that the organization gave staff pay raises that overspent its contract to operate a shelter in Lower Nob Hill by about $800,000, despite warnings not to by city analysts. The nonprofit disputed the claim, saying it requested $800,000 in budget increases after being asked to run a larger operation but overspent by only $336,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last month, Austin, Texas, opted not to renew contracts with the company to operate emergency centers after finding it misrepresented client exit data,\u003ca href=\"https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/city-end-contracts-urban-alchemy-three-years-21051321.php\"> according to the \u003cem>Austin American-Statesman.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city controller in Los Angeles, another of Urban Alchemy’s outposts, launched an investigation into the organization after a video circulated of an employee spraying water toward an unhoused person as they scrambled to collect their things on a sidewalk in the Skid Row neighborhood, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-23/after-worker-sprays-water-near-unhoused-person-l-a-city-controller-launches-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported. Urban Alchemy denounced the incident at the time and said that it had fired the involved employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last February, a man who had lived at a homeless encampment in Sausalito managed by Urban Alchemy \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Filed-Scan-Arthur-Bruce-v-Urban-Alchemy-et-al.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging that an employee assaulted him after raising concerns that the nonprofit’s staff had engaged in dealing methamphetamine and sexually exploited unhoused residents. Urban Alchemy said it is seeking to have the suit dismissed and noted the court has already dismissed multiple of the initial complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montejano said the nonprofit’s “community-based” safety models are proven and data-driven. He said he doesn’t expect Alexander’s death to mean any change in the way it operates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doubling down on the mission and the model, and we’re making sure that Mr. Alexander’s death isn’t in vain,” he told KQED. “We always train our employees to be safe; we are not the police. But we’re going to continue to work on our mission, our model that we know is effective, and providing safety, cleanliness and connections to care and support, and housing in some instances, for the communities that we serve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, she said, the nonprofit’s model for patrolling the neighborhood is worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people who make [Tenderloin residents] feel safer,” Jenkins said. “And what we do know is that we are over 500 [police] officers short, and so we have to do something as a city to supplement the shortage in police staffing who can also help us maintain our street conditions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting comes at an inflection point for Urban Alchemy, once heralded for its breakthrough community-centered approach to tackling homelessness and drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco first contracted with a predecessor of the nonprofit, Hunters Point Family, then \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/who-we-are/our-people/dr-lena-miller/\">led by Urban Alchemy’s Executive Director\u003c/a>, Dr. Lena Miller, in 2014. 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A 2024 \u003ca href=\"https://urban-alchemy.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Stanford-Data-Press-Release.pdf\">Stanford University study\u003c/a> found that when its practitioners are present on street corners, crime dropped significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s also struggled to live up to its lofty mission in recent years. Friday’s tragic incident comes as the nonprofit has faced backlash for overspending, management struggles and employee misconduct allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, Urban Alchemy lost contracts with Bay Area Rapid Transit to provide bathroom and elevator attendants at San Francisco stations and in August, the city placed it on a nonprofit “watch list,” citing serious fiscal or programmatic concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036369\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/019_KQED_EmbarcaderoNavigationCenter_01302020_7872_qed-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dormitory at the Embarcadero SAFE Navigation Center at the corner of Embarcadero and Beale Street in San Francisco on Jan. 30, 2020. San Francisco plans to expand a program pairing shelter beds at the Adante Hotel on Geary Street in Lower Nob Hill with access to addiction treatment, to intervene in the city’s drug crisis. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In September, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/urban-alchemy-gave-800k-in-bump-to-shelter-staff-21055295.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/em>reported\u003c/a> that the organization gave staff pay raises that overspent its contract to operate a shelter in Lower Nob Hill by about $800,000, despite warnings not to by city analysts. The nonprofit disputed the claim, saying it requested $800,000 in budget increases after being asked to run a larger operation but overspent by only $336,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of last month, Austin, Texas, opted not to renew contracts with the company to operate emergency centers after finding it misrepresented client exit data,\u003ca href=\"https://www.statesman.com/news/local/article/city-end-contracts-urban-alchemy-three-years-21051321.php\"> according to the \u003cem>Austin American-Statesman.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the city controller in Los Angeles, another of Urban Alchemy’s outposts, launched an investigation into the organization after a video circulated of an employee spraying water toward an unhoused person as they scrambled to collect their things on a sidewalk in the Skid Row neighborhood, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-23/after-worker-sprays-water-near-unhoused-person-l-a-city-controller-launches-investigation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">\u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported. Urban Alchemy denounced the incident at the time and said that it had fired the involved employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last February, a man who had lived at a homeless encampment in Sausalito managed by Urban Alchemy \u003ca href=\"https://wraphome.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Filed-Scan-Arthur-Bruce-v-Urban-Alchemy-et-al.pdf\">filed a lawsuit\u003c/a> alleging that an employee assaulted him after raising concerns that the nonprofit’s staff had engaged in dealing methamphetamine and sexually exploited unhoused residents. Urban Alchemy said it is seeking to have the suit dismissed and noted the court has already dismissed multiple of the initial complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montejano said the nonprofit’s “community-based” safety models are proven and data-driven. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris\u003c/a> is coming home to the Bay Area — on her book tour, that is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former vice president, who also served as U.S. senator, state attorney general and San Francisco district attorney, will appear on stage at the Masonic Auditorium for two back-to-back events on Sunday. She’s promoting her new book, \u003ca href=\"https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/107-days-kamala-harris/1147932213\">\u003cem>107 Days\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which chronicles her truncated, unsuccessful presidential campaign last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’s popularity in the Democratic Party has waned since her loss — even in her home state of California. A \u003ca href=\"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ph594n5\">recent poll \u003c/a>found nearly two-thirds of state voters do not think she should run for president again. And earlier this summer, Harris \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030198/prewrite-kamala-harris-enters-california-governor-race-upending-democratic-landscape\">decided against running for governor\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in San Francisco, where her political career began, she is likely to be welcomed by an enthusiastic, nostalgic crowd, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11999777/vice-president-kamala-harris-makes-fundraising-stop-in-san-francisco-amid-protests\">as she was during her campaign last year.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the world of Kamala and I’ve known her and have supported her for more than 20 years,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco. “I think she’s fantastic. She would have been a really good president, and I’m still sad that she lost to this horrific human being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12039671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12039671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-SFDowntown-03-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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Gavin Newsom — politicians she could face in a 2028 presidential primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in vintage Harris style — she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/kamala-harris-book-tour-critiques-candidate-00586107\">often been criticized for being overly cautious in her politics\u003c/a> — the book is circumspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was somewhat salty at points,” said Melanie Mason, Politico’s senior California politics reporter, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057779/aoc-and-schwarzenegger-take-their-stances-on-prop-50\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a>. But, she added, “This is not a tell-all. It is a tell-all-ish … it still feels like she is holding back.”[aside postID=news_12057638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg']Mason noted that while Harris makes some digs, she stops short of anything too controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We focus a lot on these jabs or sharp elbows she throws at fellow Democrats. But the thing that doesn’t get wrapped up in these excerpts is like, she’ll make one or two comments about Josh Shapiro, but it’s after like five pages of saying all these nice things about Josh,” Mason said. “If she wanted to really burn it all down, she wouldn’t have included all the nice stuff. And I think that that shows she still has that reflex of saying the kind of politically correct thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of Harris’s allies and fans, who are expected to pack the Masonic Auditorium on Sunday, it makes sense for her to look back to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Orange County Rep. 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"content": "\u003cp>After the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058294/its-going-to-be-painful-day-one-of-government-shutdown-hits-the-bay-area\">federal government shutdown\u003c/a> took effect this week, some San Francisco residents and businesses were devastated by reports that the city’s Fleet Week air show, which has become synonymous with the Blue Angels, could lack its star performers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But next weekend’s highly-anticipated performance will go on regardless — thanks to Canadian captains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Fleet Week organizers have yet to formally cancel the Blue Angels’ appearance, the Navy said in a statement earlier this week that unless the shutdown is quickly quashed, which Democratic representatives say isn’t likely, military personnel will not be able to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of whether U.S. officers, aircraft carriers and ships are able to travel to San Francisco to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Fleet Week, though, people who flock to the city’s northern neighborhoods to watch impressive flight formations and thrilling low-to-the-ground fly-bys from military crews each October won’t be left without a show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canada’s Snowbirds, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s demonstration team, are set to appear in the event for the first time since 2017, among “many other performers,” according to Fleet Week’s communications director David Cruise. Ships are also still confirmed to visit from Canada and Colombia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697029\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11697029\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33070_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_08-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Jackson Buttler, 4; Wyatt Buttler, 3; and Kai Super, 4, play with toy Blue Angel jets as a little girl looks on during the Fleet Week air show at the Marina Green. \u003ccite>(Anne Wernikoff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco Fleet Week is as much a civic tradition as a military one — honoring all those who are called to serve, from our military to first responders and everyone involved in civic service,” Cruise said via email Tuesday. “No matter the circumstances, San Francisco Fleet Week will continue to stand as a tribute to service, resilience, and community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navy said Tuesday if a deal is reached quickly, it could salvage military participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our Sailors and Marines look forward to participating in the unparalleled training and outreach events Fleet Week provides,” the branch of the armed forces said in a statement, adding that officers would be disappointed if they have to sit out the event. “Our hope is for a swift decision on a funding bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with no end to the deadlock in sight, many of the week’s highly anticipated activities — \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/11/fleet-week-2024-party-with-sailors/\">and visitors\u003c/a> — will be sorely missed.[aside postID=news_12058298 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251001-NATIONAL-PARKS-SHUTDOWN-MD-08-KQED.jpg']Throughout the seven-day event, some city clubs offer military personnel free entry, and bars host huge parties attended by both city dwellers and tourists hoping for a run-in with a pack of seamen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sailors about!” one Reddit user \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/AskSF/comments/xr8ike/fleet_week_yay_or_nay/\">said of the weeklong affair\u003c/a>. “Every bar is packed with sailors for three days. Long live Fleet Week!” another chimed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington’s Bar and Grill, an Irish pub in the Financial District, is promoting a Friday block party to celebrate Fleet Week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“North Beach especially, and parts of the Marina, you just get roving packs of sailors out on shore leave to have a good time,” said Ben Bleiman, who owns Harrington’s and has worked in San Francisco’s entertainment spaces for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the weekend is often one of the highest-grossing for local bars and restaurants, and anchors their sales for the month of October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walk around the North Beach and Marina or other areas during Fleet Week, it feels like Chicago in the summer where people are just overflowing out of the restaurants and bars and walking down the street going from location to location,” he said. “It is one of the biggest party weekends of the year, one of the biggest social weekends of the year. And in some areas, it’s definitely the biggest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11697045\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-800x525.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-1020x670.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-1200x788.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-1180x775.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-960x631.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-240x158.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33073_10052018_AW_FleetWeek_11-qut-520x342.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Navy Blue Angel jets fly over the San Francisco Bay. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sailors and Marines also often make stops at local \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/fleet-week-us-marines-volunteer-san-francisco-marin-food-bank-north-beach-ahead-weekend-events/15412845/\">charities\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dvidshub.net/image/7460314/blue-angels-balboa-high-school-fleet-week-2022#:~:text=Navy%20Talent%20Acquisition%20Group%20Golden%20Gate%20SAN,in%20San%20Francisco%2C%20California%2C%20Oct%207%2C%202022\">schools\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those events will likely be canceled, or lack their VIP guests, but Bleiman said Fleet Week will go on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having done this for 20 years, I think it’s obvious that the sailors are a portion of the [event], but really it’s the entire vibe that brings everyone out,” Bleiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie said Tuesday that the city was monitoring the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have not gotten word, but we’re in touch with our allies and friends in D.C. and trying to understand what’s going on there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California elected officials reacted with concern on Tuesday to President \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Donald Trump\u003c/a>’s threat to send troops to Democratic strongholds like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and other major cities to fight what the commander-in-chief called a “war from within.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to a highly unusual gathering of top U.S. military officials in Virginia, Trump called on generals to defend the country against an internal invasion. He suggested using Democratic-led cities as “training grounds” for the National Guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s comments quickly drew condemnation from Democratic leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Scott Wiener, as well as immigration advocates across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Training the military to ‘quell civil disturbances’ is another step toward authoritarianism,” Wiener posted on social media platform X. “Linking it to ‘the enemy from within’ is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable. He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s remarks come amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054322/judge-rules-trump-violated-law-by-sending-troops-to-los-angeles\">an ongoing court battle over his decision\u003c/a> to deploy the National Guard and military to Los Angeles in June in the wake of protests against raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A federal judge later ruled that deployment violated federal law, and the Trump administration has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010450\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-SFUSD-BREED-STATE-PRESSER-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks at a press event in front of the SFUSD offices in San Francisco on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He has repeatedly targeted cities with sanctuary policies, which prohibit local law enforcement from aiding ICE. Federal officers can still carry out immigration enforcement in these cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, Trump called out San Francisco as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/trump-san-francisco-troops-20883072.php\">cities he’d like to “clean up”\u003c/a> by sending in the National Guard. This week, the president said he would deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to protect immigration enforcement officials. The city of Portland and the state of Oregon have since sued the Trump administration to stop the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president’s speech on Tuesday, however, was the first time Trump publicly alluded to cities such as San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles as war zones, according to the \u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>, and directed military officials to be “a major part” in fighting on the ground.[aside postID=news_12057742 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GettyImages-2236329361-2000x1333.jpg']“San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They’re very unsafe places,” Trump said. “We’re gonna straighten them out one by one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An operation is currently underway in Memphis, Tennessee, where 219 officers have been “special deputized,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1973000379185938582\">post on X\u003c/a> from Attorney General Pamela Bondi. Nine arrests were made on Monday, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked by reporters for a response at a press conference on Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said crime rates are falling and general welfare in the city is rebounding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crime in San Francisco is down 30%, it’s down 40% in our financial district, and we are continuing to drive those numbers down,” Lurie said. “People are feeling better here in San Francisco. And that’s what I can control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">avoided uttering Trump’s name\u003c/a> and repeatedly said he can only focus on San Francisco, not what happens in Washington, D.C. The mayor’s approach has marked a stark contrast to that of other Democratic leaders, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054630/in-picking-a-fight-with-trump-newsom-gambles-on-his-own-political-future\">like Newsom\u003c/a>, who has staked out a position as a leader of the Trump resistance movement and sought opportunities to spar with the president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This speech should terrify anyone who cares about our country. Declaring war on our nation’s cities and using our troops as political pawns is what dictators do,” Newsom posted on X on Tuesday. “This man cares about nothing but his own ego and power.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Trump, known for his off-the-cuff remarks, has previously made threats that don’t transpire and his comments on Tuesday were met with lackluster applause from military leaders. But arrests by ICE outside San Francisco’s immigration court have increased this year already and his comments on Tuesday appear to mark an escalation in his fight against Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigration advocates across the state said the president’s words amplify fear in communities and should be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Far from making our neighborhoods safer, the militarization of our streets brought fear, violence and separation of families,” said Masih Fouladi, executive director of the California Immigration Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fouladi pointed to events such as the National Guard rolling military vehicles through MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in July in a dramatic show of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The deployment led to the detention and deportation of permanent residents … including family members of military veterans. This is not public safety. It is state-sponsored violence and harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local leaders in Los Angeles, including Mayor Karen Bass, fired back at the president at the time, saying local police were capable of keeping peace in protests and that federal law enforcement was overreaching and stirring fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Localities and the state should not take this passively,” Fouladi said. “They should be thinking proactively about how to prepare so that if what happened in L.A. happens in our region, that we protect those who are going to be most vulnerable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a Sunday in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, a prize wheel promising zany items invited passersby to try their luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out on an afternoon walk, Matt Melnicki took a spin. The wheel landed on a picture of a skull and crossbones surrounded by jelly beans, meaning he had to eat a mystery flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melnicki guessed a red jelly bean was either cappuccino or liver and onion. He took a bite and grimaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It … doesn’t taste like coffee,” Melnicki said, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wheel of fortune and a host of other activities, including whimsical petitions — “Abolish the raven vs. crow distinction” and art supplies for drawing on strangers’ faces, seemed fantastically varied, but fit the name of the station’s organizers: Creative Mutual Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00490_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Mitchell (left) sits with his friend at a Creative Mutual Aid tabling session at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. Creative Mutual Aid, a group of Sara Rubenstein and Joe Mitchell, aims to bring mutual aid to San Francisco parks, whether it’s through free trinkets or providing household items. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mutual aid, an idea that gained traction during the pandemic, is defined broadly as people caring for one another by building “new social relations that are more survivable” than those traditionally provided (or not) by the government, according to some researchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conventional examples of mutual aid include online crowdfunding to help people cover emergency bills or neighbors sharing food or skills with one another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Creative Mutual Aid, a volunteer-led collective, also provides this kind of grassroots support to the community. At their pop-ups, there’s a “Free Mall” — usually a blanket laid out with donated items, such as canned food, used books and clothes. They also provide free fentanyl test strips in a heart-shaped tin.[aside postID=news_12055649 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250905-JackieKeliiaa-01-BL_qed.jpg']“You can give something to someone who’s spending, you know, more nights under the stars than they’d like to,” said Joe Mitchell, an organizer with Creative Mutual Aid. “Give them some toilet paper, give somebody some water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, dial their hotline at 252-697-8379 (“MYSTERY”). You’ll hear Sara Rubenstein’s voice saying, “You’ve reached the gifts request hotline. Please make your request, and our links in the chain will fulfill it,” — with the “links” being their community of volunteers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These requests run from the artistic to the absurd, Rubenstein, another organizer, said. One early request was for a painting of a sunset, fulfilled by a community member who created a watercolor for the caller. Someone once requested a blueprint for a time machine. Another there requested a scented bar of soap — an item Rubenstein calls “small acts of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be anything as deep as something helping somebody out of a really depressed state, or it can be something funny — like the other day we got a request for unusual Rice Krispies treats,” Rubenstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once someone texted the line and asked for some words of wisdom. Rubenstein texted back a passage from Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of sufferings arise all those works of art in which a single individual lives himself for an hour or so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00048_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wagon houses Creative Mutual Aid’s, “Free Mall” full of trinkets, condoms, and fentanyl testing strips at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. Creative Mutual Aid, a group of Sara Rubenstein and Joe Mitchell, aims to bring mutual aid to San Francisco parks, whether it’s through free trinkets or providing household items. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The response: “Beautiful. I feel my precious fleeting foams arising already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Creative Mutual Aid launched informally around last spring. Rubenstein had recently made the switch from a career as a preschool educator to working at a nonprofit, and she missed the creativity and playfulness of working with children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to figure out how to engage with the public in a way that was natural to me and was my giving self,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, she and Mitchell decided to set up a table of art supplies in Golden Gate Park. At first, only children showed up, but they soon dragged adults along with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubenstein and Mitchell started doing the pop-ups nearly every week, on Sundays from noon to 6 p.m. at public parks in San Francisco.[aside postID=news_12052092 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-25-BL_qed.jpg']The collective mainly does art, but they mentioned needs that might not be met by governments or nonprofits, citing examples like raising money for rent to prevent sudden eviction, or paying emergency medical bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They try to address serious and immediate needs, too. Rubenstein remembered a man named Stanley who approached her on the street. She said he needed a dress shirt and shoes for a job interview he had coming up, and a mobility scooter. Through the Creative Mutual Aid network, they were able to crowdsource what he needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Except for the scooter,” Rubenstein said, undeterred. “That’s still on the list!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the group’s theatrical flair, Mitchell wears chainmail on his head during tabling, and Rubenstein has some wrapped around her hands. Mitchell thinks the attire is an appropriate metaphor for what the group tries to provide, connecting the medieval-themed accessories to the current political atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, let’s face it. These are dark ages. And we want to be a light,” Mitchell said. “ Neighbors have to be around for each other, supporting each other — without needing anything in return.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group is supported through donations, volunteers and self-funding. While most interactions are positive, some aren’t, and there are times when hardly anyone shows up at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday in the Castro was particularly slow. Toward the end of their shift, a man named Teddy stopped by with his partner, David, spun the wheel and got a temporary tattoo of a skull from Rubenstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250831-CREATIVEMUTUALAID00374_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Rubenstein makes bubbles at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco on Aug. 31, 2025. 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