“Let’s be the national model for reform, for alternatives and for safety,” LondonBreed said. “We can do it all, and we don’t have to choose.”
Mayor London Breed delivered a message of hope and resilience while addressing concerns about crime, homelessness, mental health and drug addiction in her the State of the City address at the Mission Rock mixed-use development on Wednesday, March 9, 2022.
“This doesn’t happen in a city that’s dying; it happens in a city that is growing and thriving,” Breed said during her annual State of the City Address. At the same time, Breed addressed longstanding concerns about crime, homelessness, mental health and drug addiction.She rejected the notion that public safety could be addressed without police, and noted that the San Francisco Police Department’s staffing is at a “crisis level,” short 540 police officers of what a city-commissioned study claimed is needed.She credited The City’s police department with embracing reform, diversifying its ranks and decreasing its use of force.
The emergency declaration allowed The City to quickly open the Tenderloin Linkage Site, which aims to connect people with myriad social services, like drug addiction treatment, and offer access to basic human necessities, like showers. Breed touted The City’s expansion of shelter and housing for the homeless since 2018, and is on pace to exceed its goal of 1,500 new units of permanent supportive housing. She said she would push legislators to reform mental health laws that limit when a person can be forced into treatment.
Families and working people need housing of all sizes in a variety of neighborhoods, and one way to accomplish that, Breed argued, is for voters to support her proposal to streamline the review process for certain housing projects.
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