London Breed’s successful 2018 campaign for San Francisco mayor was centered on a set of ambitious proposals to tackle the city’s most urgent problems: expensive housing, widespread homelessness and frequent public drug use. Six years later, as she fights for political survival against several high-profile challengers, Breed has not accomplished the most aspirational ideas put forth in her first mayoral bid. San Francisco met the mayor’s housing production goal just once. Long-term encampments persist. And the city does not have a supervised drug consumption site. Still, Breed says she’s made meaningful progress on her top objectives by slashing barriers to development, building shelter and supportive housing, and more aggressively policing property crime and open-air drug markets. Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/london-breed-mayor-san-francisco-19575536.php Credit: Alyona Uvarova Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2Svdkii — The San Francisco Chronicle delivers the Bay Area’s best journalism every day. Our mission is to tell the story of San Francisco — the city whose people change the world. We will inform, inspire and provoke while being honest, fearless and startlingly original. You can support our newsroom by signing up for a membership at http://SFChronicle.com/subscribe.

• published: 26 Jul 2024
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