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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Promising Future for PrEP\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1987, San Francisco reported roughly 5,000 new HIV cases per year. In recent years, that figure has fallen below 200 and is trending downward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health experts attribute that drop in large part to the development of preventative treatments like PrEP. The medication most commonly comes in pill form and is taken daily or before sexual activity to reduce transmission risk. Postexposure prophylaxis, known as PEP, is taken in the hours after sexual activity for the same purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration approved PrEP in 2012. In the years since, San Francisco has seen a 67% decline in new HIV diagnoses, according to Susan Buchbinder, director of Bridge HIV, an HIV prevention research unit within the San Francisco Department of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gave PrEP an A rating, which means that there’s really substantial evidence that it makes a dramatic difference in prevention of HIV acquisition,” Buchbinder said. “So it should be covered for everyone, free of charge. That’s not always the case, but it should be the case. And it really would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An injectable version of PrEP requires a shot every two months, and a dosage that lasts six months is currently under FDA review. The proposed legislation would require healthcare providers to offer an option for oral medication and different injection cycles.\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>“What we want to do is not only ensure that insurance providers in California cover this critical preventative care that can help us eliminate HIV transmissions,” Haney said. “But also that we cover these new forms of medication that will be even more effective because they cover people for longer periods of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buchbinder believes the six-month version of PrEP will be enticing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that an every-six-month injectable will appeal to some people and could really make a difference in increasing the number of people who are on PrEP because, for some people, taking a daily pill isn’t very practical,” Buchbinder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working Toward Zero HIV Transmissions Eradicating HIV in the United States has been a goal for many since the epidemic first broke out. In 2019, President Donald Trump set a deadline to end the disease within a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years,” Trump said during his State of the Union address.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Transgender youth are also barred from bathrooms and sports teams that do not align with their biological sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">several anti-transgender and “anti-woke”\u003c/a> orders signed by Trump that have received backlash from state officials and residents who feel that the directives malign public schools and expose transgender youth to harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s most recent order instructs the U.S. Attorney General to partner with state attorneys general and local district attorneys to identify K–12 teachers who continue to advocate for transgender recognition and inclusive policies. Wiener and other city officials said they would resist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco public schools are at the forefront of celebrating diversity among our students and affirming the rights of all our students, regardless of their identity, background or life experience,” said Maria Su, superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District. “We have never shied away from leading the charge in San Francisco when it comes to making sure our classrooms and schools are vibrant and welcoming spaces for our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said the district is committed to protecting its teachers and students and that faculty will continue educating students in an inclusive manner. 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He said San Francisco will continue to recognize the transgender community and their right to gender-affirming health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump has spent the first two weeks of his presidency sowing hate and division,” Chiu said during the press conference. “Trans people have been and will always be vital members of our communities and our families. No executive order will ever change that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minda Murphy, who is the parent of a nonbinary student in San Francisco, said Trump’s narrative about exploitative teachers and harmful gender ideologies is not only false but detrimental to transgender youth. Supportive schools and educators are vital to a child’s well-being, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Donald Trump has chosen to target these children, including my wonderful child, with executive orders filled with ignorance, misinformation, bigotry and hatred,” Murphy said. “As a result of these executive orders, President Trump will be killing children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021521 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1158696624.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Trump’s directive, schools will also be required to teach a “patriotic” curriculum that celebrates United States history and the country’s founding principles. Nicholas Hite, an attorney at the nonprofit Lambda Legal, said the federal government has no jurisdiction over what educators teach their students, especially when it comes to revisionist versions of the country’s legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hite added that while public schools do receive some funding from the federal government, Trump’s administration has no legal authority to place restrictions or stipulations on money that’s already been earmarked for specific purposes, such as books or buses. He said courts that correctly apply the law will consider the order unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators and attorneys are preparing to challenge the order if federal agencies move to enforce it. 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He said he wouldn’t speak for the assembly but that the agreement between the legislature and governor has “a lot of support in the assembly to make sure that we’re stepping up for California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002023\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002023\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg\" alt=\"A white man wearing glasses and a business suit stands by a microphone inside a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/042924_State-Capitol-Session-MG_CM_25-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. 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Federal judges have temporarily blocked both executive actions, and the Office of Management and Budget rescinded the call for a blanket pause of federal payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the special session bills would allot up to $25 million — one to the department directly “to mitigate the impacts of actions taken by the federal government,” while the other would fund grants or contracts for organizations providing legal services to individuals, including for immigration-related cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (R-East Nicholas) \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article299441784.html\">told reporters\u003c/a> after the vote was called off on Thursday that Republicans had planned to propose amendments to the bills that would ensure funds couldn’t be used to prevent deportations of people convicted of felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shutting down today’s vote is a big victory for Republicans,” he said in a statement, adding that the state should be focused on funding recovery efforts for the recent wildfires instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, the legislature passed a $2.5 billion relief package to support emergency response to the Palisades and Eaton fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is asking a state commission to delay a hearing on whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022208/why-a-push-to-make-san-franciscos-north-beach-a-historic-district-has-housing-advocates-worried\">designate North Beach as a historic district\u003c/a> after pushback from housing advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Historical Resources Commission was scheduled to hear the petition from the Northeast San Francisco Conservancy on Feb. 7. On Monday, however, Lurie sent a letter to the commission urging it to delay, and the item no longer appears on its agenda. Lurie, along with commission members, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office recently learned of this proposal,” Lurie’s letter to the commission reads. “I am respectfully requesting that the commission delay their action on this nomination to allow my office to undertake this due diligence and seek additional feedback from impacted property owners, merchants and tenants in this neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition requests a historic district designation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022208/why-a-push-to-make-san-franciscos-north-beach-a-historic-district-has-housing-advocates-worried\">roughly a dozen blocks of\u003c/a> North Beach, including beloved sites such as Washington Square Park, Saint Francis of Assisi Church and City Lights Bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, housing advocates are concerned that such a designation would exempt the neighborhood from certain state laws and make it nearly impossible to build new housing on the more than 600 sites included in the proposed district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment window looks out above Columbus Cafe on Green Street in North Beach, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. A San Francisco neighborhood group wants to designate North Beach as a historic district, but pro-housing groups are raising their red flags, saying that this move is merely a maneuver to block more housing from being built in this neighborhood. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely appreciative that the mayor got involved,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco), a vocal opponent of the proposal. “This proposed historic district, which encompasses essentially all of North Beach, is abusive and is designed to stop new housing. So, the mayor gets it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighborhood groups across California, including those in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/housing-nimby-historic-baywood-18450990.php\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sgvtribune.com/2024/08/17/former-montebello-seminary-deemed-eligible-for-historic-registry-in-spite-of-owners-opposition/?clearUserState=true\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27JKQs1hRzI&t=5712s&ab_channel=CityofSanDiegoPublicHearings\">San Diego\u003c/a>, have used similar tactics to exempt themselves from local and state laws requiring them to plan for their share of the \u003ca href=\"https://statewide-housing-plan-cahcd.hub.arcgis.com/\">2.5 million new homes\u003c/a> the state wants cities to make room for by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power to designate a place as “historic” lies solely in the hands of the State Historical Resources Commission and does not require input from city leaders. Anyone who can afford to pay architectural experts and historians to write up a report can submit a nomination to the state office, which hears proposals once a quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022208 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02163-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obvious that this dense and compact neighborhood epitomizes the heart and soul and spirit that is North Beach,” said Katherine Petrin, the architectural historian and planner who prepared the nomination for North Beach. “The bottom line is that this nomination deserves to be heard and approved now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former county Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who for a decade represented the district that includes North Beach, was outspoken during his tenure about preserving the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003700/aaron-peskin-wants-to-lead-san-franciscos-journey-to-recovery\">historical character\u003c/a> of certain San Francisco neighborhoods and was behind an effort last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980661/sf-supervisors-vote-on-overturning-breed-veto-peskins-housing-density-law\">restrict housing density on the city’s northeast waterfront\u003c/a>. He was not directly involved in the North Beach petition, but his wife, Nancy Shanahan, is the president of the Northeast San Francisco Conservancy, which requested the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, however, termed out of office. And Danny Sauter, a community organizer from North Beach with endorsements from pro-housing heavy hitters including Wiener, San Francisco YIMBY Action and the Housing Action Coalition, won his seat in November. Sauter did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear where Lurie’s request leaves the petition, but proponents have vowed to keep it alive. The next commission hearing is May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want it to get back on the agenda,” said Woody LaBounty, president of the preservationist organization SF Heritage and a supporter of the historic district nomination. “We don’t want the classic thing of ‘something needs to be studied more,’ but it just gets killed instead. It’s been decades of work to get here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition requests a historic district designation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022208/why-a-push-to-make-san-franciscos-north-beach-a-historic-district-has-housing-advocates-worried\">roughly a dozen blocks of\u003c/a> North Beach, including beloved sites such as Washington Square Park, Saint Francis of Assisi Church and City Lights Bookstore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, housing advocates are concerned that such a designation would exempt the neighborhood from certain state laws and make it nearly impossible to build new housing on the more than 600 sites included in the proposed district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022236\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment window looks out above Columbus Cafe on Green Street in North Beach, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. A San Francisco neighborhood group wants to designate North Beach as a historic district, but pro-housing groups are raising their red flags, saying that this move is merely a maneuver to block more housing from being built in this neighborhood. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am extremely appreciative that the mayor got involved,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco), a vocal opponent of the proposal. “This proposed historic district, which encompasses essentially all of North Beach, is abusive and is designed to stop new housing. So, the mayor gets it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other neighborhood groups across California, including those in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/housing-nimby-historic-baywood-18450990.php\">San Mateo\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sgvtribune.com/2024/08/17/former-montebello-seminary-deemed-eligible-for-historic-registry-in-spite-of-owners-opposition/?clearUserState=true\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27JKQs1hRzI&t=5712s&ab_channel=CityofSanDiegoPublicHearings\">San Diego\u003c/a>, have used similar tactics to exempt themselves from local and state laws requiring them to plan for their share of the \u003ca href=\"https://statewide-housing-plan-cahcd.hub.arcgis.com/\">2.5 million new homes\u003c/a> the state wants cities to make room for by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The power to designate a place as “historic” lies solely in the hands of the State Historical Resources Commission and does not require input from city leaders. Anyone who can afford to pay architectural experts and historians to write up a report can submit a nomination to the state office, which hears proposals once a quarter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s obvious that this dense and compact neighborhood epitomizes the heart and soul and spirit that is North Beach,” said Katherine Petrin, the architectural historian and planner who prepared the nomination for North Beach. “The bottom line is that this nomination deserves to be heard and approved now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former county Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who for a decade represented the district that includes North Beach, was outspoken during his tenure about preserving the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003700/aaron-peskin-wants-to-lead-san-franciscos-journey-to-recovery\">historical character\u003c/a> of certain San Francisco neighborhoods and was behind an effort last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980661/sf-supervisors-vote-on-overturning-breed-veto-peskins-housing-density-law\">restrict housing density on the city’s northeast waterfront\u003c/a>. He was not directly involved in the North Beach petition, but his wife, Nancy Shanahan, is the president of the Northeast San Francisco Conservancy, which requested the nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, however, termed out of office. And Danny Sauter, a community organizer from North Beach with endorsements from pro-housing heavy hitters including Wiener, San Francisco YIMBY Action and the Housing Action Coalition, won his seat in November. Sauter did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t immediately clear where Lurie’s request leaves the petition, but proponents have vowed to keep it alive. The next commission hearing is May 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want it to get back on the agenda,” said Woody LaBounty, president of the preservationist organization SF Heritage and a supporter of the historic district nomination. “We don’t want the classic thing of ‘something needs to be studied more,’ but it just gets killed instead. It’s been decades of work to get here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As climate disasters grow more frequent and costlier, a bill introduced Monday by two California state senators in the wake of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023814/california-approves-2-5-billion-fire-relief-plan-ahead-of-trumps-pacific-palisades-visit\">devastating Los Angeles fires\u003c/a> seeks to make the industry driving climate change start to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 222, by Sens. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco) and Sasha Renée Pérez (D–Pasadena), would allow people who’ve suffered losses in climate disasters to seek damages in court from fossil fuel companies that have done business in California and accuses them of suppressing climate science for decades. It would also allow insurance companies to seek damages from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim, Wiener said, is to allow insurers to recoup losses from climate disasters without having to rely solely on raising rates. “So that those increased costs that insurance companies are facing aren’t only passed along to policyholders,” Wiener said, “but that the fossil fuel companies are also helping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers and governments generally bear the expense of climate disasters. Fossil fuel giants such as ExxonMobil, meanwhile, have been accused of casting doubt on the effects of human-caused climate change despite having internal research that showed otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an industry that has known that its product was fueling climate change and was going to lead to these disasters,” Wiener said at a Monday press conference. “They sat on that science, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/01/12/1148376084/exxon-climate-predictions-were-accurate-decades-ago-still-it-sowed-doubt%5d\">they suppressed it\u003c/a>. And then the fossil fuel industry for decades has played a huge role in incapacitating government policymakers from taking the steps that need to be taken to transition away from fossil fuels and towards a clean energy economy.”\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>The third aspect of the bill is that it opens the possibility that the California FAIR plan, the state’s insurer of last resort, could also sue for damages. The bill calls for an evaluation of whether it makes financial sense for the FAIR plan to do so. If it does, the state’s insurer of last resort will be required to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAIR plan, which will be especially strained by its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021019/la-fires-threaten-california-insurance-market-stability-housing-costs\">financial exposure in the area of the Palisades Fire\u003c/a>, is in danger of running out of money. If it does, California policyholders will be chipping in to replenish it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oil industry should be part of that solution as well,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a number of lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry currently in courts, but they have been so far typically brought by state officials, including officials from Hawaii suing over increased fire risk. Allowing citizens and businesses to seek damages would be a new step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023129 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240116-OaklandHillsHouseFire-30-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gives consumers a fair shot at getting true accountability for these crises. To improve insurance affordability and availability, we must make fossil fuel companies pay their fair share,” said Consumer Federation of California executive director Robert Herrell, who supports the bill. “This will help level the playing field between consumers and the raw exercise of corporate power that they’re facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While insurance companies are accustomed to being able to sue utility companies whose equipment causes wildfires, such as the more than $10 billion PG&E paid to settle claims from the Camp Fire that destroyed Paradise, they have yet to go after fossil fuel companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies, including State Farm, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/us-news/climate-environment/the-two-big-insurers-still-betting-on-fossil-fuels-fa31bb15\">many billions of dollars\u003c/a> invested in fossil fuels (collectively, an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/environmental/insurers-still-have-over-half-a-trillion-invested-in-fossil-fuels-458310.aspx\">half a trillion\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fossil fuel industry is slamming the proposed bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a shame that Sen. Scott Wiener and Sen. Sasha Renée Pérez see the Los Angeles fires as nothing more than a political opportunity. We need real solutions to help victims in the wake of this tragedy, not theatrics,” Western States Petroleum Association CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day, consumers, including Sen. Wiener, rely on and choose to use gasoline-powered cars and purchase products made from fossil fuels. Our economy depends on oil and gas even as California looks to reduce its carbon footprint,” Reheis-Boyd said. “The vulnerabilities in the existing oil and gas infrastructure must be addressed. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:50 a.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that would mandate safety testing for companies that develop the largest generative AI models has passed the state Assembly by a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">vote of 41 to 16\u003c/a>. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But critics, including Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, continue to raise objections as the bill makes its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been an enormous amount of work and collaboration and working with people who like the bill and people who don’t like the bill,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>. “I’m really, really proud of our coalition and grateful to my colleagues for understanding that, when it comes to technology, innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive. They complement each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill would enact safeguards to prevent AI from being used to conduct cyberattacks on critical infrastructure or develop chemical, nuclear or biological weapons. After passing the assembly and getting another stamp of approval from the senate, the bill goes to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has spent the last year in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000892/ai-safety-testing-bill-heads-for-a-floor-vote-in-sacramento-taking-heavy-fire-from-silicon-valley\">pitched battle\u003c/a> with some of the most prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who warned the measure could stifle the growth of the technology in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Pelosi — also spoke out in an effort to kill the bill. Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. Worse, by making it harder for developers to release open AI models, it will hamper researchers’ ability to study cutting-edge AI and spot problems, and therefore will make AI less safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked why California lawmakers have pursued dozens of AI bills focused on discrete issues, compared to the European Union and the state of Colorado, which opted for comprehensive legislation, Wiener said, “California’s system is different than these other jurisdictions. We don’t tend to pick a subject matter and do ten different issues combined. We introduce individual bills. We work very hard to harmonize them,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the pros and cons of this approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But doing it this way does allow us to take a more methodical approach, in terms of not having to solve everything all at once, but addressing specific issues.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Even Wiener’s longtime ally, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1828467847720509652\">open letter\u003c/a> that “more work needs to be done to bring together industry, government, and community stakeholders before moving forward with a legislative solution that doesn’t add unnecessary bureaucracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101906876/nancy-pelosi-explains-the-art-of-power\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on Thursday, Pelosi criticized the bill again.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“California is the home, the birthplace of AI. In our view. It has the knowledge, the technological knowledge, it has the entrepreneurship, and it has the responsibility to do the right thing, not to pass a bill that does not do the job because it is as well-intentioned as it is ill-informed.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She also pushed back against the idea that she was speaking out against Wiener’s bill because he might face Pelosi’s daughter in a run for her seat once she leaves office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t know what they’re talking about,” she said about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/newsletters/california-playbook/2024/08/19/ai-pelosi-house-seat-00174542\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which first reported the story. “I don’t want California going down a bad path on something this serious and has nothing to do with elections.\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">”\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 has also attracted high-profile supporters, including Elon Musk, who on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1828205685386936567?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1828205685386936567%7Ctwgr%5Eefeda0f975043ebdda2707011f803c34424e4ba0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F08%2F26%2Felon-musk-openai-scott-wiener-sb1046%2F\">posted on social media site X,\u003c/a> “This is a tough call and will make some people upset, but, all things considered, I think California should probably pass the SB 1047 AI safety bill. For over 20 years, I have been an advocate for AI regulation, just as we regulate any product/technology that is a potential risk to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener acknowledged his unlikely ally. “Elon Musk is not a fan of me, and I’m not a fan of Elon Musk,” Wiener said. “But even people who have very strong disagreements can still find common ground. And, in this area, Elon and I have common ground. He has long, long been an advocate for AI safety. And so this position is very consistent with his long history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. The bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\">massive budget deficit\u003c/a>. “My experience with Gov. Newsom is he gives bills a fair shake and he listens to arguments. He speaks to people who support and people who oppose, and he makes an informed choice. And I’m confident he will do that here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will stifle innovation by discouraging big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic was the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SB 1047 establishes clear, predictable, common sense legal standards for the developers of the biggest, most powerful AI systems to efficiently build in safety across the AI ecosystem startups build on,” wrote Nathan Calvin, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, however, sounded another alarm, including Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\">post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people on \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\">X\u003c/a>. “SB 1047 will stifle open source AI and hinder AI innovation,” Ng wrote KQED. “It makes a fundamental mistake of trying to regulate AI technology rather than address harmful applications. 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"content": "\u003cp>Remember when, in March of 2023, more than a thousand technology leaders and researchers warned that generative AI could pose “profound risks to society and humanity”? Two months later, some of the industry’s biggest backers promised international leaders they’d be game to build necessary safeguards. A similar pledge was made last month at the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some prominent figures in the AI industry, including many who have raised safety concerns, are dismissing those worries as science fiction as they pitch an open battle against \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047\">SB 1047\u003c/a>, a bill that would mandate safety testing for developers of the largest AI models. That measure is on the state Assembly floor for a vote after passing through the Assembly Appropriations Committee along party lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of AI have warned that SB 1047 could stifle the growth of the technology in California. And they’ve rallied three Silicon Valley Congress members — Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Ro Khanna and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi — to aid their efforts to kill the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The view of many of us in Congress is that SB 1047 is well-intentioned but ill informed,” Pelosi wrote in an \u003ca href=\"https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-statement-opposition-california-senate-bill-1047\">open letter\u003c/a> published last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re simply requiring these labs to perform the safety testing that they have repeatedly and publicly committed to perform,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976097/california-lawmakers-take-on-ai-regulation-with-a-host-of-bills\"> introduced\u003c/a> the bill and is expected to run to fill Pelosi’s seat once she retires, possibly against her daughter Christine Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he amended the measure to reflect counsel from leaders in the AI space, including safety groups, academics, startups and developers like Amazon-backed Anthropic. A key amendment is that the bill no longer allows California’s attorney general to sue AI companies for negligent safety practices before a catastrophic event has occurred. Also, the original text, which would have established a division within the California Department of Technology “to ensure continuous oversight and enforcement,” is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who heads the Senate Budget Committee, told KQED the changes were made in large part to improve the bill’s chances with lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom, given that California is facing a\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985932/newsoms-solution-to-a-45-billion-budget-deficit\"> massive budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he added, “I’m not interested in passing a symbolic bill. I would not agree to amendments that would make it weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Anthropic warned in an open letter addressed to Wiener that it could not support the bill unless it was amended to “respect the evolving nature of risk reduction practices while minimizing rigid, ambiguous, or burdensome rules.” Anthropic is the first major generative AI developer to publicly signal a willingness to work with Wiener on SB 1047.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"ai\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microsoft told KQED it has not taken a position on the bill. Robyn Hines, senior director of state government affairs, wrote that the company would prefer federal legislation but “will continue to work with Senator Wiener and others on legislation that will help harness AI’s full potential and advance sensible safety and security protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, Wiener’s measure has received public criticism from respected industry voices like Andrew Ng, the Stanford professor and former Google executive who detailed his concerns in a\u003ca href=\"https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-252/\"> post\u003c/a> viewed by more than 1 million people\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/andrewyng/status/1798753608974139779?s=61\"> on X\u003c/a>, the social media app formerly known as Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m glad that we’re exploring paths to the make the bill less bad because a bad bill is better than a very bad bill, but I feel that fundamentally, by regulating hypothetical risks of the technology rather than concrete risks of actual applications, I don’t think this bill will make AI safer,” Ng told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1047 would only affect companies building the next generation of AI systems that cost more than $100 million to train. However, critics like Ng, who is the managing general partner of AI Funds, argue the mere threat of legal action from the state attorney general will discourage big tech companies from sharing open-source software with smaller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here in Silicon Valley, do we want startups spending money to write code and build products for people? Or do we want those startups hiring lawyers and hiring auditors and hiring consultants to clarify legal ambiguity to guard against purely hypothetical risks?” Ng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a substantial faction of the AI community, though, that is concerned about hypothetical risks. In an\u003ca href=\"https://safesecureai.org/experts\"> open letter\u003c/a>, four prominent tech policy thinkers praised SB 1047. “Relative to the scale of risks we are facing, this is a remarkably light-touch piece of legislation,” they wrote.[aside label=\"Technology Coverage\" tag=\"technology\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of really eminent scientists who are worried and are taking these risks seriously,” said Nathan Calvin, senior policy counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund, the lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety, which is one of SB 1047’s co-sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People don’t need to believe the “AI-terminator-wakes-up-and-kills-everyone scenarios are plausible in order to support this bill,” Calvin said, adding that generative AI is capable of relatively banal catastrophic impacts, like enabling hackers and foreign states to take down critical infrastructure or designing and deploying bio-weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Wiener’s bill say opponents are asking Californians to trust Silicon Valley to self-regulate despite a demonstrated history of failing to do so, especially in regard to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844163/proposition-24-californians-say-yes-to-expanding-on-nations-toughest-data-privacy-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data privacy\u003c/a> and monitoring hate speech on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702239/why-its-so-hard-to-scrub-hate-speech-off-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Innovation and safety are not mutually exclusive,” Wiener said. “We can do both, and the public wants us to do both. 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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11994004/after-trump-shooting-california-republicans-hope-to-turn-down-the-burner-at-convention\">attempted assassination\u003c/a> of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend has awakened national memories of violence across the political spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several Bay Area leaders, the shooting served as a reminder that threats they receive — which, by several accounts, have escalated in recent years — are real and dangerous. Political rhetoric is increasingly divisive and violent, and research shows members of marginalized groups are disproportionately targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the assassination attempt stirred painful memories of the city’s most notorious act of political violence: the 1978 shootings of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by a former colleague in City Hall. More recently, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967595/david-depape-found-guilty-in-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack\">attacked\u003c/a> in the family’s Pacific Heights home by a man who was allegedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991336/jury-finds-man-who-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-guilty-in-state-trial\">radicalized by conspiracy theories\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. As soon as I got elected, I no longer felt safe in the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, a member of Berkeley’s City Council who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">pushed for permanent supportive housin\u003c/a>g at People’s Park resigned over “harassment, stalking, and threats” that he said took a toll on his personal and family life. Rigel Robinson wrote in a column published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the job and associated backlash left him in a “perpetual state of stress and exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that says 'Save people's park' is hung between trees, next to a tent, in a park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mounting instances of threats and political violence are especially concerning in an increasingly tense election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans “say that political violence would be acceptable in at least some circumstances,” according to Shirin Sinnar, a legal scholar on political violence at Stanford Law. [aside postID=news_11994004 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/RNC2024-1020x680.jpg']Political violence has escalated across the political spectrum, she said, “but right-wing attacks [are] actually more frequent and far more deadly in terms of lives lost in recent years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said the nature of the threats he receives from right-wing actors is more violent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get criticized by both extremes on the left and the right, and I get sometimes harshly criticized. But the death threats I receive, it’s only one side — it’s from the extreme right,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He warned against “both-sidesing” the blame for increasing violent rhetoric following Trump’s assassination attempt, recalling that after the attack on Paul Pelosi, Republicans and Democrats did not exactly come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the people on the right are being so aggressive and self-righteous about the [Trump] attack, falsely claiming that Democrats somehow instigated this violence — which I think is very untrue,” Wiener told KQED. “These are some of the same people who made fun of Paul Pelosi for being brutalized almost to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/agonzalez\">Alex Gonzalez\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/slewis\">Sukey Lewis\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It brought back memories, and it really hits home that these threats of violence are not that far away,” Jeffrey Kwong, the president of the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club, said of the shooting at Trump’s rally on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kwong said that many can still recall the horrific back-to-back assassinations of Moscone and Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, by former Supervisor Dan White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950275\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg\" alt='A white man and a Black man hold candles with another white man to the side and a sign above and behind them that says \"In Memoriam George Moscone Harvey Milk\"' width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/GettyImages-685195553-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners hold a candlelight vigil for Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk after they were assassinated at San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978. \u003ccite>(Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We still have a lot of members that remember that night, recollect the emotional outpouring of people — thousands walking from Castro to City Hall with flowers and candles,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener knows the dangers of political violence on a personal level. He had his home \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934374/state-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">searched\u003c/a> following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, who is gay, wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1600210494068965376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1600210494068965376%7Ctwgr%5E75f71bdef0f608a6e03cbb40c5d7b50ccb5751cf%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11934374%2Fstate-sen-scott-wiener-target-of-another-death-threat\">post\u003c/a> on X at the time that the threats came after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and conservative political activist Charlie Kirk posted “homophobic lies” about him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The San Francisco bomb dog is very familiar with my home because I’ve received bomb threats at my home,” he told KQED. Political violence “is very real, and San Francisco is very impacted by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995861\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Scott_Wiener_20111118_1473_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener had his home searched following bomb threats in 2022, which he said were related to his policy work for the LGBTQ+ community. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, technology entrepreneur Garry Tan wished death upon seven members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in an apparently alcohol-fueled rant on X. The Y Combinator CEO said, “Die slow motherf—ers,” an allusion to Young Thug lyrics he directed at seven of the board’s progressive members. After Tan’s posts, some of the supervisors he named received letters that said: “Garry Tan is right! I wish a slow and painful death for you and your loved ones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Supervisor Connie Chan, one of the officials targeted by Tan, said such violent rhetoric needs to be taken seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to really draw the line when it comes to threats of violence and violent acts. We have to denounce it immediately,” she said. “Things like this have happened in the past in American history, and yet we haven’t learned from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan has since deleted the post and publicly apologized, but Chan and others said his close ties with the city’s moderate political wing — Tan is a board member of the powerful political action committee GrowSF and a major donor to the Democratic Party and moderate causes — contributes to the normalizing of such threatening language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240409-SF-LIBRARY-RALLY-MD-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan speaks at a rally in front of Main Library in San Francisco, calling for greater safety measures at the city’s public libraries on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are not holding people accountable when they make threats of violence against elected officials,” Chan told KQED. “We downplay it, and we normalize it, and that’s not acceptable if you’re a Democrat or a Republican.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, who was also named in Tan’s online rant, noted that “no one returned his money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see Democrats here making statements about the violence against Trump and his supporters at the rally this weekend, and yet we have many local leaders and candidates for office who were completely silent when we had tech CEO Garry Tan calling for the death of supervisors followed by direct mailings calling for the death of supervisors and our families,” Preston told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple studies show that harassment and violence directed at \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlc.org/post/2021/11/10/new-report-harassment-threats-and-violence-directed-at-local-elected-officials-rising-at-an-alarming-rate/\">local officials is increasing\u003c/a> across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2021 study from the National League of Cities, people who identify as LGBTQ+, people of color, women and nonbinary people or other marginalized groups are “disproportionately targeted, and perpetrators of harassment, threats and violence capitalize on the identities of public officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938303/its-gotten-worse-oakland-city-council-member-carroll-fife-faces-racist-violent-threats\">threats against her\u003c/a> and other public officials have felt like they are ramping up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11995869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11995869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/010_KQED_CarrollFife_10312022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife decided to publicize multiple racist, threatening voicemails she’s received in a series of posts on X in January. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a series of posts on X in January, Fife, who is Black, shared several voicemails containing horrific and violent threats that were made against her. More recently, she has been accosted outside of City Hall by people donning Trump and MAGA gear, photos and videos shared with KQED show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are getting more and more aggressive and it’s concerning. People think MAGA is outside of the liberal Bay Area, and it’s absolutely not,” Fife told KQED. “We have people in Oakland who are doing the exact same thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch City Councilmember Tamisha Torres-Walker, an Afro-Latina woman, said harassment got so bad she started paying for private security out of pocket to follow her at large events. She has since stopped, she said, because the cost was unsustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At one point, I felt unsafe going to City Council meetings because I have been confronted by an angry mob,” she said. “I have never been afraid; I used to walk and run in my neighborhood before I was on council. 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Rigel Robinson wrote in a column published in \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/09/opinion-why-i-am-stepping-down-from-the-berkeley-city-council\">\u003cem>Berkeleyside\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that the job and associated backlash left him in a “perpetual state of stress and exhaustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A sign that says 'Save people's park' is hung between trees, next to a tent, in a park.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley in 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The mounting instances of threats and political violence are especially concerning in an increasingly tense election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public opinion polls show that a growing number of Americans “say that political violence would be acceptable in at least some circumstances,” according to Shirin Sinnar, a legal scholar on political violence at Stanford Law. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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There are times when you have to take a deep breath, hit the reset button and start over again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wahab issued a statement saying the needs the bill addressed, including efficiency, agency consolidation and improved governance, are still urgent. “Riders deserve that, and stakeholders need to prioritize these efforts to save public transit,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, dubbed the Connect Bay Area Act, would authorize a November 2026 vote on a multicounty tax measure to raise as much as $1.5 billion a year to help pay for train, bus and ferry operations and for initiatives to help better integrate the 27 agencies that deliver those services. The bill would also pay for some street and highway work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he remains committed to crafting a plan that will allow transit agencies to head off major deficits and deep service cuts and promised to bring a new measure to the Legislature early next year. Work on a new proposal will begin immediately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — I can’t guarantee it — but my hope is that by late 2024 we’ll at least have a structure in place so we can be optimistic about 2025 and give the (transit) operators that same optimism” that financial help is on the way, Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill has been seen as crucial to ensuring that BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain and other agencies aren’t forced to slash service because of catastrophic deficits they’re facing in the next few years. The shortfalls are due mostly to the loss of ridership and fare revenue thanks to the pandemic and continuing shifts in work and commute patterns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was also seen as a vehicle to pay for making transit more frequent, reliable and affordable across the region. It would do that not only by helping agencies purchase more vehicles, but by integrating fares and schedules among agencies and requiring large employers to subsidize all-you-can-ride transit passes for their workers.[aside postID=\"news_11985190,news_11985965\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill, which is just as complex as its 10,000-word length implies, drew resistance from many quarters. Progressive transportation advocates said they’d oppose the measure if it allowed funding for highway expansion projects. Officials with some transit operators, like Caltrain, didn’t like a provision that would require a study of how to consolidate at least some of the region’s 27 agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a falling out about what kind of taxes or fees the bill should allow. The proposal offered several alternatives: a half-cent sales tax, a parcel tax on property owners, a payroll tax to be paid by employers, or a future vehicle registration surcharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But business groups, including the Bay Area Council, said they’d oppose a payroll tax. Some bill supporters were cool to the idea of a sales tax, a levy that would fall most heavily on lower-income residents in an already heavily taxed region. Bill sponsors rejected a proposal from progressive transit advocates to consider a regional income tax on higher-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most significant disagreements centered on the issue of “return to source,” or how much money raised in each Bay Area county would be available to use there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill provided that tax proceeds would be funneled through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. It guaranteed that during the proposed tax measure’s first five years, at least 70% of revenue generated in a county would be invested in projects and programs that benefited that county. That percentage would rise to 90% after the initial five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials came out against the measure, saying that the initial 70% allocation was too low and that funds should come back directly to the county without the MTC’s involvement. Officials in the South Bay said they were also concerned that a new sales tax would interfere with several existing sales taxes that support transit operations in the county and are being used to help pay for the $12.7 billion BART extension through downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That dispute came to a head last Friday when the bill made it to the State Senate floor. Sen. 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But he says that creates an opportunity to better communicate the benefits a transit tax measure could deliver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said advocates could do that “by spending time over the next six months developing a clear service vision of the transit network that we’re trying to create. We’ve talked about policies like integrated fares and integrated service, but actually having a … map of service improvements across the region, really I think can help make it more real” for voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART’s deficit in the fiscal year starting July 1, 2026, is currently projected at $385 million, with annual shortfalls of $350 million or more continuing into the foreseeable future. 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"content": "\u003cp>Decades after San Francisco bulldozed thousands of homes in the name of redevelopment, a state bill could boost efforts to repair that damage and make it easier for displaced families to regain a foothold in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push comes as San Francisco faces a state-mandated obligation to produce nearly 46,000 units for very low, low and moderate-income households in the next eight years. Supporters of the bill say it could make a dent in an area that many Bay Area housing and racial justice advocates assert is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But success isn’t guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some West Coast cities have seen mixed results from their efforts to remedy similar urban infrastructure projects during the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who authored \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB593\">Senate Bill 593\u003c/a>. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco)\"]‘San Francisco went through a very ugly period where in the name of ‘urban renewal,’ the city bulldozed and destroyed thousands and thousands of homes, primarily in Black, Japanese and Filipino neighborhoods.’[/pullquote] The bill aims to fund the production of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units that were destroyed during the mid-century redevelopment era in San Francisco’s Western Addition, Fillmore, Japantown and SoMa neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a horrific situation and San Francisco has a legal responsibility to replace the homes that were destroyed when redevelopment ended a decade ago,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 cleared the California Legislature on Wednesday and is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. The bill would allow residual property tax dollars to remain in the city’s Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, rather than be redistributed to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure could then issue bonds to construct or add 5,800 units of replacement housing that were never rebuilt after redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there are between 500–900 units in the city’s own pipeline for affordable housing construction that could benefit from the new financing structure. The city will also solicit projects and developers that could maximize the number of new affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11960806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes at Freedom West, a housing cooperative, seen from the interior courtyard in the Fillmore District on Sept. 11, 2023. The property will be redeveloped in what is referred to as ‘Freedom West 2.0,’ with new buildings for current residents and community facilities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a number of housing projects in the works that could seek funding if they are approved. Among them is Freedom West cooperative in the Western Addition, which is currently working on a renovation and expansion project with the developer MacFarlane Partners to replace 382 co-op units and add 133 affordable homes to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattie Scott is a longtime resident of the Western Addition and president of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative in San Francisco, which supports Wiener’s bill. She remembers growing up in the neighborhood before redevelopment cleared it out to make way for new expressways and shopping centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just wonderful being a teenager to have that experience with so much diversity,” Scott told KQED of the variety of businesses and restaurants near the Western Addition in the early 1960s. “Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mattie Scott, president, Freedom West Housing Cooperative\"]‘Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.’[/pullquote] When the U.S. federal government began implementing the National Housing Act of 1949, San Francisco’s Western Addition and Japantown were among the first areas selected for redevelopment in the name of addressing so-called “urban blight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make way for a widened Geary Boulevard, the government bulldozed thousands of homes in the area that were predominantly owned and lived in by Black, Filipino, Japanese and some Jewish residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, San Franciscans like Scott who remember the vibrant neighborhoods that were destroyed say the urgency to rebuild the lost homes is long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They called it urban renewal, but I call it urban removal,” Scott said. “All of a sudden, you just see your neighborhood just demolished, you know, homes demolished, Victorian houses demolished, whole communities. Grocery stores down the block where you go to eat with your family were no longer there. To me, as a young person, it was very devastating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families in nearby Japantown have passed on similar stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The community had just returned from concentration camps during World War II, and a lot of businesses and homes had already been lost. Then redevelopment happened, so it was this one-two punch that really devastated Japantown,” said Jeremy Chan, a board member with the Japantown Task Force. “The creation of the Geary Expressway created this physical barrier that divided Japantown from our African American neighbors in the Fillmore, and we’re still struggling to repair and rebuild those connections to this day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11960803 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-16-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Chan (left) and Glynis Nakahara stand in a residential area of Japantown in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back then, the city promised to rebuild homes and give preference to families who had to flee. But it’s largely failed to follow through with promises to rebuild those homes, and only a small fraction of people have used their opportunity to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were forced to leave Japantown and then they were later unable to return either because they were priced out or because they ended up being disqualified for the certificates of preference they received,” Chan explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Redressing redevelopment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To address the displacement redevelopment caused, San Francisco and other cities have given preference for affordable housing to people who lost their homes and to their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1960s, San Francisco has distributed 6,957 “\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">certificates of preference\u003c/a>” to residents and descendants of residents who lost homes due to redevelopment, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The certificates provide \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/dashboard-certificate-preference-eligible-waitlist-opportunities#how-to-use-the-dashboard\">priority for certain housing units\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But out of the nearly 7,000 certificates of preference issued by the city, less than 1,500 of those have been utilized as of Aug. 18, city data shows. [aside postID=news_11957757 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1408881472-for-wp-1020x760.jpg'] Those who do want to use their certificate often face long wait lists. There are approximately 115,000 applicants wait-listed for the 28,500 public housing units eligible for the certificates, according to the mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to those 28,500 units, the city is also listing 1,274 home-ownership and rental units that certificate holders can apply for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Sept. 7, there were nine below-market-rate homeownership units available for certificate holders, and one rental unit available, according to data from the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 would increase the production of units that are eligible for the certificates and aims to prevent further displacement for families who are currently in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has actually, for a while, had this commitment to restore the units that were demolished during urban renewal, and this bill would provide some of the funding that’s required to help restore that,” said Sujata Srivastava, housing and planning director at the local public policy nonprofit, SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Japantown Peace Plaza in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But many families who were displaced during that era have left, establishing lives, businesses and communities elsewhere, as affordable housing in San Francisco has lagged to meet a growing demand. When homes and businesses were destroyed, trust also eroded between the city and the communities it forced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is an argument for thinking more expansively about what it might look like if you were really trying to help, especially Black and African American households that were displaced from redevelopment,” Srivastava said. “How do you actually think about correcting those harms?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of SB 593 don’t expect the bill to lead to a wave of migration back to San Francisco by families who were displaced decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is a hope that it can mitigate the housing crisis and acknowledge the ways that crisis falls disproportionately on communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rethinking Reparations\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California’s Reparations Task Force \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ch22-ca-reparations.pdf\">recommends giving preference to affordable housing, also known as “right to return” policies, for displaced African Americans (PDF)\u003c/a> as one of several ways to address lingering effects of racism and slavery on African Americans and broader society today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Predominantly white neighborhoods are that way for a clear reason: the history of racist housing policies,” said Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis, chair of the Geography Department at UC Berkeley and a member of California’s Reparations Task Force. “The only antidote to that is to create a justice-oriented housing policy. The first step is to give community members who were dispossessed a right to return.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín\"]‘We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced. This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.’[/pullquote] Lewis pointed to places like Evanston, Illinois, which in 2021 became the first U.S. city to issue reparations for slavery through housing grants to Black residents. He said the effort was well-intended, but more limited in scale and scope than what he and other racial justice advocates want to see in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, other cities are putting forward policies that tie reparations to housing, but with different mechanisms for getting there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, the city of Berkeley adopted a \u003ca href=\"https://records.cityofberkeley.info/PublicAccess/api/Document/AR5OmrYC8r7A%C3%89N2HFiUv4RJEsSIWGVj4VrP3fd706J0hSXkyL2DAt1mrdqsXUoz6OGtf13qdxu%C3%89asqGqDxGiyGc%3D/\">housing preference policy (PDF)\u003c/a> that prioritizes affordable housing for current and former Berkeley residents, along with their descendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s plan would prioritize people who were displaced because of BART construction, foreclosure anytime after 2005, or no-fault evictions and other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We must face and rectify the wrongs of our City’s past and do right by those who were displaced,” Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said in a press release after the policy was announced. “This policy will prioritize housing for those who have faced injustices, and restore the diversity of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some are skeptical of the idea. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The bill aims to fund the production of nearly 6,000 affordable housing units that were destroyed during the mid-century redevelopment era in San Francisco’s Western Addition, Fillmore, Japantown and SoMa neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just a horrific situation and San Francisco has a legal responsibility to replace the homes that were destroyed when redevelopment ended a decade ago,” Wiener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 593 cleared the California Legislature on Wednesday and is now awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature. The bill would allow residual property tax dollars to remain in the city’s Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, rather than be redistributed to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure could then issue bonds to construct or add 5,800 units of replacement housing that were never rebuilt after redevelopment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there are between 500–900 units in the city’s own pipeline for affordable housing construction that could benefit from the new financing structure. The city will also solicit projects and developers that could maximize the number of new affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11960806 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-014-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homes at Freedom West, a housing cooperative, seen from the interior courtyard in the Fillmore District on Sept. 11, 2023. The property will be redeveloped in what is referred to as ‘Freedom West 2.0,’ with new buildings for current residents and community facilities. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are a number of housing projects in the works that could seek funding if they are approved. Among them is Freedom West cooperative in the Western Addition, which is currently working on a renovation and expansion project with the developer MacFarlane Partners to replace 382 co-op units and add 133 affordable homes to the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattie Scott is a longtime resident of the Western Addition and president of the Freedom West Housing Cooperative in San Francisco, which supports Wiener’s bill. She remembers growing up in the neighborhood before redevelopment cleared it out to make way for new expressways and shopping centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was just wonderful being a teenager to have that experience with so much diversity,” Scott told KQED of the variety of businesses and restaurants near the Western Addition in the early 1960s. “Fillmore was the Harlem of the West at that time. You couldn’t wait to get to Fillmore Street with your families on any given day. There were Italian meat markets, Jewish delis and Japanese restaurants.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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