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
Entrepreneurs from pursuing their dreams. With my experience working with local organization and San Francisco Law Enforcement, i will create an atmosphere of trust and cooperation in the district that will lower street crime and Gang Violence and above all i will help San Francisco to be a leader. We will build bike lanes that will connect the city and reconnect the parks and find new ways to power our city in a way that is better for the planet and for our own wallets. I am not alone in having the vision for the future of San Francisco that i do, im extremely proud of the people and organizations that have endorsed my candidacy because they share the hopes and the dreams, and the passion of the people that i have always depended on. They are far apart from one another on individual issues but they share my belief that working together we can achieve anything. My supporters include, California Attorney general har ris, state senator yen, rashelle, norton, wynn, they gave me their sole
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
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