Thread by @LondonBreed

San Francisco is the City that Knows How. The innovation capital of the world. The national leader on countless progressive causes. The place where Maya Angelou rang cable bells and a girl went from public housing to the Mayor's office. #SFSOTC

For too long, our city has been subject to a drumbeat of negative attention, some of it deserved. We haven't built enough housing, we face a homelessness crisis, and people continue to suffer from mental health & addiction issues. The question is: what do we do next?

I refuse to accept that we should we hang our heads, concede our problems are too great, and the soul of our city is lost. I’m frustrated, just as you are. But I’m also motivated. Because there's no problem we can’t solve together.

It's time we hold our heads high once again.

In six months, we've build three navigation centers with 338 beds. We've helped nearly 1,000 people out of homelessness. I've announced my plan to add 1,000 shelter beds by 2020 and we're declaring a shelter crisis so we can get them built now.

In the next four years, I want to create enough shelter beds, step-up housing, homeless housing units and subsidies for every person who is currently unsheltered. That's 4,000 new placements. And let's be clear: every neighborhood must be a part of the solution.

We should pass my windfall proposal: $185 million for 310 new shelter beds, 300 units of master-lease housing, 255 units for formerly homeless seniors and adults, and much more.

Every dollar we take away is one fewer bed. One more person on the street.

Thank you @LarkinStreet, @ECS_SF, @ChinatownCDC, @HamFamSF, @HealthRIGHT360, @JamestownSF, @CHP_SF, and the countless other organizations and community leaders who are united behind this plan.

The problem goes beyond homelessness. People injecting drugs & suffering from mental illness need more than housing. They need help, and we are helping. We've added 50 mental health stabilization beds--I'm adding 100 more this year and pushing to strengthen conservatorship laws.

To bring all our mental health programs together, I'm creating a Director of Mental Health Reform. We need to build up people's lives, not shuffle them from emergency room to emergency room, jail cell to jail cell. The criminal justice system is not a mental health solution.

Today I'm announcing that I've hired a new Director of @SF_DPH: Dr. Grant Colfax. Dr. Colfax is one of our own, trained at UCSF, and worked at @SF_DPH as Director of HIV Prevention & Research before joining the Obama White House as Director of National AIDS Policy.

We're also confronting our other allegedly impossible problem--housing.

I will continue to support and fund Right to Civil Counsel, so every tenant who needs a lawyer can get one. And as we keep people in their homes, we need to build more housing.

A lot more.

If we are going to be a San Francisco for all, we need to be a San Francisco that builds housing for all. That's why we are moving forward a $300 million Affordable Housing Bond so we can continue investing in badly-needed affordable housing. But it's not just about investing.

I'm announcing a Charter Amendment for the November election to make affordable & teacher housing as-of-right in San Francisco.

If affordable housing is proposed within zoning, then build it. Now.

Affordable housing as-of-right because housing affordability is a right. @SFyimby

Since Day 1, I've been out in our neighborhoods. We've doubled the number of beat officers in Mid-Market, added Pit Stops, Big Belly trash cans, & street cleaners, increased enforcement against drug dealers, & expanded homeless outreach. @_HPFamily_ @FixItTeamSF @DowntownStreets

As a former City intern myself, I'm particularly proud to have launched Opportunities for All, so we can get every high school student in San Francisco a paid summer internship. Because unlike the President, in this town we pay people when they go to work.

I will work with Supervisor @AaronPeskin on a measure that will charge our ride-hail companies to help relieve congestion on our streets. @walksf

We'll continue to lead on so many issues: clean power, addressing questions about testing in the Shipyard, creating a safe & functional transportation system, pedestrian safety, protected bike lanes, and support our trans & immigrant communities in the face of continued attacks.

When you see @SFPublicWorks out cleaning the streets, when you see @SFPD officers walking the beat in your neighborhood, when you see the @SF_HSH homeless outreach team and @SF_DPH health workers helping folks, when see a new bike lane, I hope you feel the difference. @sfbike

We are working to turn the tide, and I want every San Franciscan to feel it. When I took office I believed we could solve these issues together. And I still believe.

I hope you believe with me, that you hold your head high and take pride in what we can do together! #SFSOTC