Words matter. These are the best London Breed Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As someone who grew up in public housing, I’ve known these conditions.
No family should feel they need to leave San Francisco to find a great public education.
In my sophomore year of high school, I watched my friend Loretta leave in a U-Haul headed for Oakland. She and her mom had been tenants in a nearby apartment, forced out by rent they couldn’t afford anymore.
I’m a fact-based leader.
Despite my work, I know some in politics will never support me. I see them distort my record.
The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.
We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.
All of our students should feel safe and supported when they go to school.
We can’t keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.
No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.
I’ve lived in poverty.
San Francisco is a place that stands up for our LGBTQ communities.
While it’s absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.
Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.
San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.
As a young girl growing up in poverty, I know firsthand how much a paycheck from a summer job can make a difference.
In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.
In San Francisco, our businesses, healthcare services, workforce, and housing will always be Open to All.
Youth should have access to paid internships or jobs year-round, so they can keep developing important skills and earning income.
Our own bureaucracy should not and cannot get in the way of our efforts to get people sheltered.
San Francisco is a City for everyone and our government needs to work for all of our residents.
By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.
I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.
If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it’s Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It’s where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.
If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.
Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.
We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.
Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.
Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.
Building and preserving housing, along with keeping people housed, are critical to making our city more affordable for all.
We have so much work to do to meet the challenges of people living on our streets. But every day we are out there doing the work, finding solutions not only to help those living on our streets, but to prevent more people from ending up there in the future.
Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.
Homelessness isn’t just an issue in San Francisco. It’s an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need to support policies that address our twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness at the state-level.
San Francisco deserves to be a great bicycling city where every day is Bike to Work Day.
In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it is leading the way on gay marriage, immigrants rights, or combating climate change.
I want to make sure we are spending wisely and using our resources effectively to address the issues facing San Francisco, while reaching residents throughout our entire City.
Our young people need safe, permanent housing, so they can focus on their education or job, live healthy lives, and pursue their interests – without fear of where they’ll sleep at night.
Some consider bicycling an ‘alternative’ mode of transportation, but it should not be considered alternative. It should be an easy choice for getting around in our City, and we need to do more to make that a reality.
Our wisest long-term investment is not in the dirty polluting fossil fuels from the past, but in the clean energy of the future.
We are committed to delivering a safe, equitable, and reliable transportation system.
When I was growing up in San Francisco, one of the experiences that changed my life was my first paid internship – a summer job at The Family School.
Burdensome fees have made it harder for people to exit the criminal justice system.
Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.
San Francisco is a beacon of hope for LGBTQ people around the world.
In San Francisco, our diversity is our strength.
When I was in college, the bell tolled for us. Just as my grandmother, the woman who had cared for me all my life, started needing me to care for her, we were told our home was being torn down, and we would need to find another place to live.
Improving our transportation infrastructure reduces car trips, helps us reach our carbon emission reduction goals, is healthier for our residents, and saves lives. Too often in the past we have been slow to make these common sense improvements to our streets.
Technology is rapidly changing our transportation systems, and if we craft smart regulations, these changes can be for the better.
We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.
Child care should be convenient, affordable, and available in every neighborhood.
