London Breed Archives - Page 16 of 17

Streets of San Francisco

June 15, 2019 6:42 amJune 18, 2019 8:20 am

On the streets of San Francisco, human excrement is piling up to an all-time high, with 28,084 turd alerts in 2018, five times beyond the level in 2011, and 6,676 sightings by April 2019. If this reeking mess leaves tourists...

SF Mayor Delivers First State of the City Address

January 30, 2019 1:58 pmJanuary 30, 2019 4:32 pm

London Breed delivered her first State of the City address today before a raucous and supportive crowd at the new home for the SF Gay Men’s Chorus. Drawing strongly on her personal story and bundling it with her identity—as she...

DOT Approves $619 Million for San Francisco Project

December 12, 2018 3:47 pmDecember 12, 2018 3:51 pm

In an effort to revamp its famous Market Street, the city of San Francisco has received a $15 million grant from the federal government to start a major construction project in the downtown corridor. The allotted amount comes after the Department...

London Breed Proposes New Housing Legislation

September 20, 2018 6:45 amSeptember 19, 2018 7:36 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has introduced legislation in an effort to keep more than 3,400 proposed housing units—of which nearly 500 of them are permanently affordable—from turning into another example of the city’s forgotten development region. With its demanding...

Mayor London Breed Implements Workforce Diversity Plan

September 19, 2018 7:43 pm

Issuing an executive directive, Mayor London Breed has called upon heads at the San Francisco Department of Human Resources to implement policies “ensuring a diverse, fair, and inclusive” city workplace. Breed has announced this several-step strategy one day before a...

Safe Injection For San Francisco

September 10, 2018 7:45 amSeptember 8, 2018 10:05 am

Amid a slew of bills that have been layering the Governor’s desk these past few weeks, one of the most contentious is AB 186. Narrowly passing the assembly by a 42-30 vote with 8 abstentions, Assembly Bill 186 creates a...

New Mayor London Breed Vows to Clean Up Filthy SF Streets

July 15, 2018 11:30 amJuly 21, 2018 3:15 pm

The day after her July 11 upbeat inauguration speech, San Francisco Mayor London Breed vowed to get “aggressive” about fixing up the city’s streets, which are awash with homeless encampments and drug addicts’ used needles. Breed, San Francisco’s first black...