No incumbent mayor has lost a re-election race in San Francisco since 1995. Will London Breed be the first?
London Breed at a groundbreaking of two affordable housing towers in the East Cut on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros.
Much of that will be laid at Breed’s feet, fairly or unfairly, and the “two-edged sword” of incumbency is “reflected in the mayor’s low poll numbers,” Ho said. “This is a long time coming,” said Breed, harkening back to the “gun violence that was happening in our community” that she said motivated her entry into politics. That violence, she added, “forced us to create new tools that never even existed in San Francisco … It was more about prosecution, holding people accountable , but what happens to the wraparound support necessary to help victims?”
The Chinese seniors are a staple of both city — and campaign — side events by officials, and Tuesday’s speeches were punctuated by Cantonese translations: Breed or a city supervisor would speak and, for two or three minutes after, an aide would translate their every word before the next official approached the podium.
Housing too has been a constant: Breed’s inauguration in 2018 was a boon for the ascendant YIMBY movement, who have stood by her side ever since. And she by theirs: She is committed to building housing “at all costs,” she, at the former temporary Transbay Terminal, grabbing one of 11 golden shovels and heaping a symbolic pile of dirt from one side of a mound to another.
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