Will he run again in 2014 for the state assembly . The incumbent, if reelected, may be real estat replaced by an apd supervisor for half the next term. I find that unacceptable in our democracy. If elected i support to collaborate, negotiate, and execute really great projects, while simultaneously investing in our infrastructure, and to keep each othernl safe, housed, and fed. I support investing the pension fund of Public Service employees to income housing, to stabilize our communities, and make us more safe by Housing First responders in the city. I support creating tenant cooperatives for middle income san franciscans. It has worked to make tenants rent payments become mortgage payments. Citys property tax revenues and stabilize our neighborhoods. I support replicating the Community Based and privately funded north beach citizens, in neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. Budget for homeless without any additional burden on taxpayers. Such attention at the board of supervisors, wh
Special, the artists, the students, the young families, the seniors on fixed income, working people and every day people of all strides are having a harder and harder time surviving much less thriving in our city. One of the reasons is that our Economic Development policies are currently much too focused on the big business interest. We need to reorient our citys Development Policies to focus on the 80 percent of the economy which is our Small Businesses or mom and pop shops. San francisco needs to develop more Affordable Housing. The association of bay government says that they need 18,000 new units of housing and we are nowhere close to that. Prop c, something that i encourage you to vote for, but lets go back to the ballot in the years to come and pass an Affordable Housing bond something that San Francisco has not done in close to two decades. We need to improve our Public Schools in San Francisco if we are going to be a family and childfriendly city. Prop 13 has starved our school
Hello ladies and gentlemen of district five my name is london ried and i am asking for your vote for the district of supervisors. I grew up on the same street that all live on, ride our bikes, walk in the parks, shop and eat and take our kids to school. For the last ten years, i have been the executive director of the African American art complex, a 34,000 art space where the kids have program in the arts where local artists come together and different San Francisco communities form and strengthen our common bond. I grew up in plaza east public housing. It was a tough place back then, as a number of places in the district still are. The economic and family circumstances for everyone were pretty dire. I saw family and friends lost to the streets, to prison and death including two of my siblings, i saw terrible poverty, crime, drugs, hopelessness and violence and joblessness but that was not all that we had. Those people that i grew up have something else, a fighting experience resilienc
District still are. The economic and family circumstances for everyone were pretty dire. I saw family and friends lost to the streets, to prison and death including two of my siblings, i saw terrible poverty, crime, drugs, hopelessness and violence and joblessness but that was not all that we had. Those people that i grew up have something else, a fighting experience resilience, those people found it in themselves to help their neighbors family and friends however they could. We relied upon each other and out of the crisis we created a great community. This is the spirit of San Francisco. And that is why i am so thrilled to be able to speak to you today and now, because so many of you watching are my family, my friends, people who form the same communities that raised me up from difficult beginnings into the woman i am today. I can think of no more important calling than to use the skills and my energy to give back to all of you in any way that i can. That is what has led me through so
To help their neighbors family and friends however they could. We relied upon each other and out of the crisis we created a great community. This is the spirit of San Francisco. And that is why i am so thrilled to be able to speak to you today and now, because so many of you watching are my family, my friends, people who form the same communities that raised me up from difficult beginnings into the woman i am today. I can think of no more important calling than to use the skills and my energy to give back to all of you in any way that i can. That is what has led me through so many of my lifes endeavors volunteering in the majors office as a teenager, and serving on the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency commission sxh the Fire Commission and just recently getting my masters in public administration. I will tackle the tough problems head on. I will find Real Solutions to the lack of Affordable Housing and redesign our Job Training Program to give the right skills to the Unemployed Peopl