SF Politics In-Fighting Over Affordable Housing at City Hall Escalates With New Lawsuit; Meanwhile Newsom's Office Launches Unprecedented Review of SF Policy A housing nonprofit aligned with Mayor London Breed, the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition, has now filed suit in what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep a competing charter amendment about affordable housing off the November ballot.
SF Politics Breed Demands Apology From Sup. Walton Over N-Word Use Toward Sheriff's Cadet; Walton Says He Might Sue Instead The war of words over an n-word incident five weeks ago escalated dramatically Monday, with Mayor Breed saying Shamann Walton should apologize to a sheriff’s cadet, and a hardly contrite Walton threatening “he may take legal action.”
SF Politics State AG Refuses DA Jenkins’s Request To Take Breed’s Brother's Case, Plus Case Involving DA's Husband's Family New DA Brooke Jenkins’s request to hand resentencing of London Breed’s brother to the state attorney general has been denied, and same goes for a case involving Jenkins’s husband’s cousin.
SF Politics Breed Vetoes Fourplex Legislation, Says It Would ‘Set Back Housing Production’ Single-family zoning in San Francisco lives on, for now at least, as Mayor Breed vetoes Sup. Rafael Mandelman’s fourplex legislation, saying it would "make it even less likely for new housing to be built."
SF Politics New SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Says She'll Get Tougher on Repeat Offenders, But Still Be Progressive Newly installed SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will have her work cut out for her managing a transitional DA's Office, being perceived as tougher on crime than her predecessor, and also sticking to progressive ideals about incarceration. But she is starting to explain how she'll do that.
SF News Mayor London Breed Has COVID, Will Be Sidelined For SF Pride Festivities Mayor London Breed has tested positive for COVID, like nearly every elected official in the last couple of months, and this means she will be quarantining on Pride Weekend.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Makes First Post-Recall Remarks, Carefully Avoids Spiking Football In the wake of Tuesday’s recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, London Breed struck a conciliatory “Now is a time for healing” note, and served word salad designed to appeal to both sides.
SF News Breed Got Her Compromise With SF Pride, Small Number of SFPD Officers Will March in Uniform in Parade SF Pride relented and Mayor London Breed and the SFPD were able to reach an acceptable compromise Thursday about the banning of police uniforms in the Pride Parade — just in time for the Pride Flag raising at City Hall.
SF Politics Breed's Pick for D6 Supervisor Is Matt Dorsey, Longtime Politico, Advisor to City Attorney, PR Guy for the Cops Mayor London Breed is set today to swear in her appointment to the Board of Supervisors to fill the District 6 seat vacated by Matt Haney, and it's another Matt who has been roaming the halls of City Hall for a couple of decades.
SF Politics SF's Department of Homelessness May Finally Get an Oversight Commission A city department with an increasingly massive budget has no commission providing oversight or holding it to account. The SF Board of Supervisors may be about to change that.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Endorses Matt Haney in AD-17 Race, Which Of Course, Because She Would Get to Appoint His Replacement Two weeks out from the AD-17 special election for the state Assembly, Mayor London Breed has endorsed Supervisor Matt Haney over David Campos — no surprise considering that Haney’s exit from the Board of Supervisors would award Breed the chance for a hand-picked replacement.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
SF Politics Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Ends With a Whimper, Supervisors Wonder If It Didn’t Make Things Worse The much publicized Tenderloin emergency declaration will fizzle out Thursday, and the Board of Supervisors spent four hours debating its effectiveness Tuesday, concluding it merely pushed the urban blight to other parts of the city.
SF News San Francisco to Sponsor Event Series Later This Month to 'Celebrate' Everyone Returning to Their Downtown Offices A program of outdoor festivities at multiple locations around downtown SF is being planned for the last week of March, and city officials really hope that someone is there to attend them.
SF Politics Breed Goes on ‘Meet the Press’ as Small Potatoes, Off-Year School Board Recall Still Making National Headlines SF’s low-turnout, off-year local school board race is still generating national coverage as a revolt against the “woke left,” and Mayor London Breed hit ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday to ride that narrative.
Bay Area Sports SF Mayor London Breed Remembers Playing In Her Middle School Band For the 49ers and Meeting Joe Montana As the San Francisco 49ers head into the big NFC Championship weekend, Mayor London Breed is talking about her fandom starting back in the 80s in elementary and middle school — and about the time she met Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott.
SF News Violent Crime Rose In SF In 2021, But Burglaries Declined From 2020 San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss 2021 crime statistics in the city, and while violent crime is up from 2020, other types of crime decreased.
SF News The ‘Linkage Center’ at the Heart of Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration Has Opened An office building at U.N. Plaza is now the treatment services headquarters of Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Emergency Declaration, which opened today with hopes of addressing the opioid and overdose situation in the TL.
SF Politics London Breed Goes on Kara Swisher’s NYT Podcast, Slams Boudin and Supervisors: ‘They Are Not Black People’ The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she "would remove the Board of Supervisors" and critique that they’re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.
SF News SF City Officials Won't Order Any New COVID Restrictions; Private Healthcare Networks Need to Do More Testing A morning press briefing by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and other city officials didn't bode well given the massive surge in new COVID cases. But in a reversal from earlier, less-dramatic case surges, no new restrictions on business activities are being ordered.
SF News Supervisors Give Breed Her Tenderloin Emergency Declaration in Late-Night 12:30 a.m. Christmas Eve Vote London Breed got her Tenderloin ‘State of Emergency’ declaration approved by the Board of Supervisors, in a contentious ten-and-a-half hour meeting that stretched into the early hours of Christmas Eve.
Arts & Entertainment Mayor London Breed Has a Cameo in ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Keep an eye out for SF mayor London Breed making a brief appearance near the end of ‘The Matrix Resurrections,’ and yes, she is wearing goth black leather and high-fashion sunglasses.
SF Politics DA Boudin, Unsurprisingly, Not a Fan of Breed’s Proposed Tenderloin Crime Crackdown It’s not a shocker that progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin has come out against mayor Breed’s plan to stack the Tenderloin with more law enforcement, but board president Shamann Walton is opposing it too, which could derail the mayor's plan.
SF News Breed Declares ‘State of Emergency’ in the Tenderloin Over ‘Nasty Streets’ An unusual declaration of emergency in the Tenderloin over opiate use may win praise for adding more cops and treatment options, but Breed might get pushback for the enhanced surveillance, and who knows
SF Politics Breed Announces Another Tenderloin Crime Crackdown; This Time She Must Be Serious Because She Said ‘Bulls**t’ The mayor of SF announced Tuesday her intention to stack the Tenderloin with more cops, with “more aggressive with law enforcement” to end “all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”
