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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.

Today I'm announcing that I've hired a new Director of @SF_DPH: Dr. Grant Colfax. Dr. Colfax is one of our own, trained at UCSF, and worked at @SF_DPH as Director of HIV Prevention & Research before joining the Obama White House as Director of National AIDS Policy.

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.