In a 7-4 vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors repealed a law prohibiting funding travel or doing business with companies in 30 states that instituted restrictions on LGBT people, abortion, and voting.
Ahsha Safai wrote the reversal proposal, while supervisors Connie Chan, Myrna Melgar, Dean Preston, and Shamann Walton opposed the motion.
“I do think that the intent behind 12X was good and correct, but [...] it’s not achieving the goal we want to achieve,” Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who wrote 12X and now is sponsoring the repeal,Mandelman argued that leaders need to focus on the city of San Francisco's needs and do what is best for the city's population.
San Francisco faces rising construction costs and increasing inflation and interest rates as the city is slow to recover from the pandemic. San Francisco has some of the highest homeless population rates in the state, at 4.5%, according to theSan Francisco Mayor London Breed asked for federal assistance to tackle a rise in drugs, violence, and homelessness in a
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