Thursday, December 20, 2018
Mayor London N. Breed

Mayor London N. Breed today unveiled a detailed proposal to direct the $181 million in available funding from the City’s recently announced windfall to programs for homelessness, affordable housing, behavioral health, and street cleanliness.

The Mayor’s proposal would support the creation of over 900 new units of affordable housing, preserve and improve over 1,000 units of existing affordable housing, fund the expansion of 300 new spaces in homeless shelters and Navigation Centers, and open 86 behavioral health and substance abuse hospital beds.

“Opportunities like this are rare, which is why it is so important that we make responsible investments that will make an immediate impact in helping our homeless population into shelter, creating new affordable housing for our low-income residents, and keeping our streets clean,” said Mayor Breed. “The voters have been very clear that this is their top priority. The majority of the total windfall money is already being distributed to important programs like transportation and schools. I think we should take advantage of this chance to address the housing and homelessness crisis we see every day.”

Thursday, October 11, 2018
South of Market street safety projects

Mayor London Breed is telling The City’s transportation agency to hurry up on two major streetscape projects.

A long-awaited bike lane on Townsend Street near Caltrain and the controversial Sixth Street Pedestrian Safety Project will be expedited at the Breed’s direction, The Mayor’s Office told the San Francisco Examiner on Wednesday.

“I have been personally reviewing Vision Zero projects on our high-injury corridors to determine which projects can be implemented more quickly, because we cannot wait any longer to ensure the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists on our streets,” Breed said in a statement.

Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Streamline Housing Production

San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday she’s created a new position, the Director of Housing Delivery, charged with helping the city produce more housing in a timely manner.

The position’s creation comes as Breed has set a goal of cutting the permitting process time after Planning Commission approval in half for large and mid-size housing projects.

The position’s creation comes as Breed has set a goal of cutting the permitting process time after Planning Commission approval in half for large and mid-size housing projects.

Thursday, October 4, 2018
Salesforce Transit Center investigation

Two Bay Area mayors want a second opinion on the cracked steel beams at the Salesforce Transit Center.

Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Thursday jointly called on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission Thursday to “assist in evaluating” the cause of those two cracked beams.

The Transbay Joint Powers Authority, known as the TJPA, is conducting its own analysis, the mayors noted in their joint letter, but the pair said “we believe the only way to ensure” public confidence “is by engaging an outside firm to review and verify any findings,” and for that peer review to be managed by the MTC. 

Saturday, July 7, 2018
Mayor London N. Breed

As she prepares to take over as San Francisco’s mayor Wednesday, London Breed says she is thinking far beyond the partial term she was elected to: In addition to clearing the streets of tent camps and hiring more police officers, she said her first actions in office will lay the foundation for the city’s future.