San Francisco supervisor candidate Bilal Mahmood said he believes The City can’t legally declare a state of emergency — following a record number of fatal overdoses — due to constraints written into the city charter.
Service providers have seen a recent increase in the number of unhoused migrant families seeking shelter in San Francisco, and say that the city’s temporary housing system is straining, and often failing, to receive them. Local homeless advocates are calling on City Hall to meet the need.
Supervisor Dean Preston’s page is just one among prominent San Francisco leaders where anonymous editors go to war over the truth — or, at least, which version of the truth to present.