Mayor London Breed on San Francisco's challenges

Four years ago, London Breed, who grew up in poverty in San Francisco, became mayor. Since then, she has been forced to address the city's problems of homelessness and rising property crimes, issues that have frustrated residents and tourists, and which may be making this famously liberal city a little less tolerant. Correspondent John Blackstone talks with Breed about meeting the city's myriad challenges.

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[wolflarson]

So many big cities have allowed tents to occupy public space. Nothing will change until this is resolved.

[hldvoyeur]

As a LEO in Los Angeles, "we working on it, " means we are doing nothing because we don't know what to do. Same in LA.

[gleblerston]

Saw mayor Breed speak at the City Beat Breakfast. I can confirm how out of touch this woman is with what is really going on this city for the common people.

[rrfirefly]

"There's nothing I can do about that" says this mayor about criticism for SF's ineffectual policies. A majority of SF voters disapprove of the job London Breed is doing, according to the San Francisco Examiner. Her approval rating is at 42%. UPDATE: In 2023 she proudly announced the creation of the city's first Drag Laureate which is as ridiculous as you can get. An unimportant thing that she is so proud of. San Francisco needs enlightened leadership to solve its problems, not this lame politician.

[djl]

The story states that over a billion dollars are being spent this year on homelessness, and it further states that they count 8000 homeless. That comes to $125, 000 per homeless person a year! And yet the problem is worsening! What specifically are they spending money on? How many homeless have been provided shelters? How many mental health centers have opened? Where's the accountability for that doesn't money? What a waste of a formerly beautiful city, due to liberal policies.

[buddhistpunksf]

"working on it"?! Breed had six years....she just got to work before election year. A lot of talk with ZERO results. Unfit and directionless. I love my city.

[alfredorivera]

This woman it's a shame, face the real trouble lady !!!

[GKP]

I consider myself as someone who tries to be open-minded. But I think there is a difference between liberal attitudes and lawlessness.

I don't feel safe going out. Motorists drive crazily with impunity. There are so many homeless, drug users and mentally ill people. I love this city but it is exhausting dealing with all these stresses whenever I go out.

[Higgins]

4:17 'I don't think it's fair to use reality and statistical facts to show how much crime has risen in our city.'

[KCNwokoye]

Keep the hope alive and at the same time get tough on crime, build new affordable housing that goes directly to the citizens not to the real estate agents who mark up the prices. Invest in rehabilitation centers for mental health that is voluntary and involuntary. No one should be living in the streets. It is unhealthy and dangerous. Only in America do you see homeless people living on the streets. Here in Europe at least in my city you must enter a home provided by the government, get a job to pay for your boarding and get treatment all at the same time or you will be confined to a mental health facility with strict rules and regulations and sent to jail if you fail to comply. And once you get healthy you will be charged for the money the city spent on you. This is a comprehensive system that I don't know why these cities struggling cannot manage the program. I guess it's the greed for wealth and the politics of it that keeps serious change from happening.

[travelnomad]

Breed turning SF into a ghetto. What a shame!! I love SF and we used to visit a lot in the past but now I'm discouraged, sad, angry for what has become of this beautiful city!!!

[sennataylor]

She’s an incompetent mayor who can’t handle any sort of criticism. San Francisco deserves better.

[bLuEsKii]

Worst and worst everyday!! Working on what?!?!?

[toddsalkowski]

A Billion dollars to solve homelessness??!! Sounds like big business to me that never gets solved, so the money just keeps rolling in!

[grybnyx]

The mayor touts the safety and security that has been brought to that intersection (Turk and Hyde) but she fails to mention that the whole scene has shifted 2 blocks north to Ellis and Hyde. There you will see about 50 Honduran drug dealers standing in clumps on the corners of the intersection, surrounded by addicts and homeless. The city's sanctuary policy prevents the city from charging them with drug crimes, lest they be deported back to Honduras. They were being protected by Chesa Boudin, who prosecuted THREE drug cases in all of 2021, whiles hundreds of people died from drug overdoses in the same year. There is no excuse for the permissiveness that reigns as policy here in San Francisco. A Social Justice Warrior should never have been made district attorney, but it is consistent with the ideology that criminals are simply victims of larger social forces that are unjust and beyond their control, especially if they are Black. Only tough love will alter the trajectory of people's lives, but that is the last thing on the minds of the saints of the non-profit universe here that really determine how the homeless situation will be approached, and it is not done by asking anything of the homeless themselves, there is no carrot and stick approach, that would just "traumatize" the homeless person further (than what society had already done to them). Nothing will change.

[r.d.]

Former Bay Area resident here: I think it is all well and good to focus on sanitization, but rather than spend excessive amounts of water on cleaning streets when virtually all of California has been drought-ridden for most of the last decade, why not invest in more public bathrooms instead? As for reducing poverty, the sad and unavoidable fact is that it is expensive as it is gargantuan and while many people might be sympathetic to the plights of homeless people, it is unlikely that the tech companies throughout the Bay Area will offer competitive salaries to people who don’t own computers or that landlords will lower rents. And the worst part is that Republicans have no more workable solutions than the left, but continue to take Fox News’s money just to use the homeless as talking points against the Democrats.

[bonitazepeda]

No No No you can’t expect tax payers to foot this bill and get their cars broken into every time they park. Give me a break! Please!

[jaydibernardo]

If it's any consolation Seattle is the new 'San Francisco' here in the PNW. Thank you San Fran for showing Seattle how to turn your once beautiful city into a sh*t hole. Couldn't have done it without you! Much ❤ now let's let the homeless rule the streets & make the city unaffordable to anyone making less then six digits yearly. And don't forget to turn up the dial on recycling, we have to make it look like we're doing something now don't we?

[mischa]

So this is your mayor? Now I know why there is a crime spree.

[korenng]

Her values are not a fit to run SF... speech shows!