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Posted Date: 03/17/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced the doubling of loan amounts for San Francisco’s Down Payment Assistance Loan Program (DALP), a homeownership program that provides financial assistance to...
Posted Date: 03/13/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee announced that the City has selected six startup companies to participate in a new “Entrepreneurship-in-Residence” program, a voluntary, sixteen-week collaboration to...
Posted Date: 03/12/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee issued the following statement on the five-alarm fire at Fourth Street near China Basin Street in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood Tuesday afternoon:“On behalf of the...
Posted Date: 03/06/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement on the Joint Report, a report updating the City’s Five-Year Financial Plan jointly issued by the Mayor’s Budget Office, Controller...
Posted Date: 03/06/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee joined by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and other City agencies announced a data-driven action plan and map...
Posted Date: 02/28/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today launched Platform to Employment (P2E), a new pilot workforce development program that provides a pathway to employment for long-term unemployed workers. In San Francisco,...
Posted Date: 02/27/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee, Board President David Chiu, Supervisor David Campos, Supervisor Scott Wiener and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) today announced an unprecedented $6.8...
Posted Date: 02/26/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement regarding LGBT rights in Arizona and Uganda:“I stand with the Board of Supervisors to urge Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to veto the State...
Posted Date: 02/24/2014
Today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and State Senator Mark Leno joined State and local leaders, including Assemblymember Phil Ting and Supervisors David Chiu and David Campos along with tenant advocates, labor...
Posted Date: 02/19/2014
Mayor Edwin M. Lee today issued the following statement regarding Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s legislation to immediately help communities affected by the devastating dry conditions and...