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Madison Alvarado is a reporter based in San Francisco who is interested in California's housing crisis, environmental justice and structural inequities. In addition to her reporting on public housing and rent relief at the Public Press, she has covered issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, housing and city government for San Francisco news site Mission Local.
Service providers have seen a recent increase in the number of unhoused migrant families seeking shelter in San Francisco, and say that the city’s temporary housing system is straining, and often failing, to receive them. Local homeless advocates are calling on City Hall to meet the need.
The San Francisco Department of Elections is reporting these results for the seven local propositions on the March 5 ballot. With 193,000 votes counted, here’s what we know so far.
Proposition D would amend the city’s Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code by expanding the kinds of gifts that city officials are prohibited from accepting. It also expands existing rules to bar people who have tried to influence city officials in the past or who have business with city departments from giving gifts.
Proposition E is a package of policy changes that would allow the San Francisco Police Department to engage in more high-speed chases, permit drone use in pursuits and grant the department the ability to install new security cameras in public spaces and test new surveillance technology on the public with less oversight from independent bodies.
San Francisco started privatizing 29 public housing buildings in the wake of city scandals years ago. Even after $800 million worth of repairs, residents complain about living conditions, combative private management companies and eviction threats.
Data from San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing show that accessing shelter is very difficult for unhoused people in San Francisco due to a lack of available beds and other barriers.
In June, Mayor London Breed agreed to set aside $4 million over two years to set up an Office of Reparations. But that has not happened yet, and pressure is mounting within San Francisco’s Black community to act expeditiously on a months-old plan to redress the effects of decades racism with an array of policy solutions.
Accessing a shelter bed in San Francisco can be difficult. Check out our resource guide that shows pathways to shelter based on age, gender, family status and more.
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee shared its final recommendations to remedy historical and ongoing harms to local Black communities.
The San Francisco Public Library offers a wealth of resources about the history of Black San Franciscans and the struggle for reparations. Check out our compiled list, which includes library recommendations and other resources we have relied on for our reparations reporting.
