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The problem goes beyond homelessness. People injecting drugs & suffering from mental illness need more than housing. They need help, and we are helping. We've added 50 mental health stabilization beds--I'm adding 100 more this year and pushing to strengthen conservatorship laws.
To bring all our mental health programs together, I'm creating a Director of Mental Health Reform. We need to build up people's lives, not shuffle them from emergency room to emergency room, jail cell to jail cell. The criminal justice system is not a mental health solution.
We're also confronting our other allegedly impossible problem--housing. I will continue to support and fund Right to Civil Counsel, so every tenant who needs a lawyer can get one. And as we keep people in their homes, we need to build more housing. A lot more.
If we are going to be a San Francisco for all, we need to be a San Francisco that builds housing for all. That's why we are moving forward a $300 million Affordable Housing Bond so we can continue investing in badly-needed affordable housing. But it's not just about investing.
I'm announcing a Charter Amendment for the November election to make affordable & teacher housing as-of-right in San Francisco.
If affordable housing is proposed within zoning, then build it. Now.
Affordable housing as-of-right because housing affordability is a right. @SFyimby
Since Day 1, I've been out in our neighborhoods. We've doubled the number of beat officers in Mid-Market, added Pit Stops, Big Belly trash cans, & street cleaners, increased enforcement against drug dealers, & expanded homeless outreach. @_HPFamily_ @FixItTeamSF @DowntownStreets
As a former City intern myself, I'm particularly proud to have launched Opportunities for All, so we can get every high school student in San Francisco a paid summer internship. Because unlike the President, in this town we pay people when they go to work.
I will work with Supervisor @AaronPeskin on a measure that will charge our ride-hail companies to help relieve congestion on our streets. @walksf
We'll continue to lead on so many issues: clean power, addressing questions about testing in the Shipyard, creating a safe & functional transportation system, pedestrian safety, protected bike lanes, and support our trans & immigrant communities in the face of continued attacks.
When you see @SFPublicWorks out cleaning the streets, when you see @SFPD officers walking the beat in your neighborhood, when you see the @SF_HSH homeless outreach team and @SF_DPH health workers helping folks, when see a new bike lane, I hope you feel the difference. @sfbike
We are working to turn the tide, and I want every San Franciscan to feel it. When I took office I believed we could solve these issues together. And I still believe.
I hope you believe with me, that you hold your head high and take pride in what we can do together! #SFSOTC
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