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Nov 11, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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San Francisco's forgotten epidemic. By the numbers.

613 projected overdose deaths this year.

57 deaths on average every month.

49 in 100,000 overdose death rate. Image
41%+ overdose deaths in District 6.

23% in the Tenderloin.

18% in SOMA. Image
241.8 in 100,000 overdose death rate for Black people.

60.4 in 100,000 overdose death rate for White people.

38.0 in 100,000 overdose death rate for Latin people. Image
73% of overdoses involved Fentanyl.

54% of overdoses involved Methamphetamine.

37% of overdoses involved Cocaine. Image
San Francisco has the highest overdose death rate in California.

61% overdose death rate

43% fentanyl death rate Image
We had two epidemics in San Francisco last year.

We solved one. Let's now solve the other.

cc / great reporting from
@yoohyun_jung

sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/…

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Jun 29, 2023
I visited Tokyo for the first time this month, and was starstruck.

Car free streets, urban canopies, mixed use districts, underground markets, public transit.

To recover our downtown, we need to radically rethink our urban infrastructure. And it all starts with street design.🧵
1 / Car-free streets

So many streets throughout Tokyo were car-free. Pedestrian friendly streets drive foot traffic to small businesses, restaurants, and enable an environment of safety.
2 / Double the sidewalks

In districts with cars, the sidewalks were massive. The ratio of pedestrian : car space was easily 2:1.

When there is more space for people, there is more space for commerce, outdoor dining, and alternative transportation.
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May 6, 2023
A year ago, SF stopped reliably paying its teachers.

A month ago, I decided to investigate why.

Today the @sfchronicle published what I found: 64 software bugs, a $15 million engineering mistake, and 10,410 support tickets that left 5000 staff unpaid. 🧵
sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
First, some history.

2019: SFUSD approved a $9.5M contract with a consultant Infosys to build a new payroll system

2021: Infosys missed their deadline, and got $7M more to finish the project

2022: The new payroll system went live, and 100s of teachers start missing paychecks.
2022: To diagnose and stabilize the problem, SFUSD hired another consultant A&M for $10.8M

2023: To fix the problem, SFUSD added another $5M to the consultants contract.

That's $32M for a payroll system. So how did such an expensive system fail to pay its teachers on time?
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Mar 11, 2023
Why can't SF build housing?

I spent the last couple months trying to answer this question for the @sfchronicle & @SFNext.

What I discovered: 87 permits, 1000 days of meetings, and $500,000 in fines.

This is how bureaucracy is killing housing. 🧵

sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…
Some background. Most cities have two phases of housing development.

First is project approval - where you prepare forms to request permission to build.

Second is building permits - where you apply for permits to build.

The problem: SF does this completely different. (2/15)
In most cities, building permits follow "ministerial approval". This means if a project is code compliant, the permits will be approved in months.

In SF, all permits are "discretionary", meaning any permit can be appealed by... anyone. This delays the process by years. (3/15)
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Jan 17, 2022
9,800 homeless. 5,000 unsheltered.

$1,100,000,000 budget.

Homelessness is not a money problem. It's an ideas problem.

And there are ideas to solve it. (1/7)
bilalmahmood.medium.com/homelessness-i…
Rockford, IL.

A city that struggled with chronic homelessness for 12 years.

In 2015 they took a different approach. They eliminated veteran homelessness in 15 months. And reached functional zero 2 years later.

How did they do it? (2/7)
Step 1: Integrated Command Teams

Break down silos. Create a new public-private task force
- HEMA - focused on homelessness.

The task force sets targets on the number of unhoused : housing units. And has the authority to cut red tape to meet those targets. (3/7)
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Nov 26, 2021
Last week the media covered robberies at high end stores. Few covered the robberies in Chinatown.

Meet Rosita of Long Boat Jewelry. Her business has been in Chinatown for 38 years.

Her store was robbed and $250K worth of merchandise was stolen.

This is her story. (1/4)
This was Rosita’s first robbery in decades. In 3 mins, $250K worth of merchandise was gone.

She had $100K in insurance coverage, but the fine print didn't cover robberies that occur at *night*.

Rosita's insurance company will not cover a cent of her losses. (2/4)
Before the pandemic, Rosita had 7 employees. Now, she can't afford to staff the store.

This robbery was the final straw. After 38 years, she is facing have to close her business for good.

And her neighbors are facing similar thefts. With no repercussions. (3/4)
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Nov 13, 2021
A noodle shop tried to open in San Francisco this year.

$50,000 to pay for the lease, cooking equipment, and furniture.

$3,600 per month to pay for rent plus utilities.

$100,000 in the hole. And it's still not open.

Why?
First, an anonymous caller phoned into 311 and reported the noodle shop owners - Yoko and Clint Tan - were doing work without a permit.

Not true. They had simply disconnected a sink to work on a bathroom tile and light fixture.

An inspector ordered the work to stop.
The Tans filed new permitting. Sending the same information five times.

Every step, they were handed off to different people in the city government with different instructions.

"Nobody could give me a straight answer for anything"
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