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Sophie Hahn, Kate Harrison, and Adena Ishii speak to the public on July 17, 2024. Credit: Kelly Sullivan Berkeley’s three candidates for mayor — District 5 Councilmember Sophie Hahn, former District 4 Councilmember Kate Harrison and education and nonprofit consultant Adena Ishii — took questions on housing, race, policing, business and the environment at a […]

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Mayor Breed says ‘aggressive’ sweep of S.F. homeless camps in August

Mayor London Breed said on Thursday that the city will launch a “very aggressive” crackdown on homeless encampments next month across San Francisco. The mayor’s comments — made during an election debate hosted by the firefighter’s union — come about three weeks after the Supreme Court granted cities broad power to evict unhoused people from […]

City Council

5-year program to be presented to city council as solution to homeless ban on sleeping outdoors | #citycouncil

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville organization plans to propose a 5-year program to the Jacksonville City Council to address a new ban that will prevent unhoused people from sleeping outdoors overnight. St. Augustine enacted an ordinance in 2007 that prohibited camping outdoors from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. MORE: Florida homeless to be banned from […]

Alaska

In reversal, Alaska House includes $4M for Anchorage homeless shelter in budget draft | #alaska | #politics

People rest on cots, set up as an emergency cold weather shelter in the former Solid Waste Services administration building, in Anchorage, Alaska, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Anchorage scrambled Tuesday, Nov. 14, to come up with more temporary housing for the homeless after back-to-back snowstorms that dumped more than 3 feet of snow on the […]

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Palm Beach County mayor hosts symposium to address housing and homelessness

Mayors and officials from across Palm Beach County are coming together to address the issues of affordable housing and homelessness.Palm Beach County Mayor Maria Sachs held the 1st Mayors’ Symposium Monday to brainstorm solutions.Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25 “All of us coming together and talking candidly about whether we have […]

City Council

City delays demolition decision of ‘unsafe’ downtown structure | #citycouncil

A decade after downtown real estate “developer” Tom Flanagan purchased what he said was a deteriorating downtown Gilbert Building already “in poor condition,” city of Beaumont officials agreed that an additional five days was not enough time to address the state of the historic property that burned to rubble two weeks prior to the June […]

Mayor

Karen Bass is mayor of the city of the eternal future

The mayor of Los Angeles was exhausted. It was just after 8 p.m. on a relatively ordinary Thursday in November, meaning Karen Bass had talked virtually with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), dropped in on an elder turning 100, met with a group of nonprofit leaders in Inglewood, participated in Metro’s Executive Management Committee and brought […]

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The criminal justice system in SF is badly broken, and the mayor’s budget doesn’t help

The Board of Supes Budget and Appropriations Committee heard from various parts of the criminal justice system Friday, and we learned several things: There will be no Sheriff’s Department civilian oversight for the next two years at least. The courts, the jails, and Public Defender’s Office are understaffed, and the sheriff has no clear plan […]

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Mayors of Los Angeles and San Francisco diverge on homelessness, crime

SAN FRANCISCO — Karen Bass and London Breed each made history when they were elected, shattering glass ceilings in their respective cities as the first female mayor of Los Angeles and first Black woman to lead San Francisco. They share many other similarities as powerful Democrats leading California’s marquee cities: a promise to reduce homelessness; plans […]