The City leaned heavily on Urban Alchemy, an upstart nonprofit whose employees were often formerly incarcerated, to help assuage public concerns about issues such as homelessness and drug dealing that proliferated during the pandemic.
The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee recommended last week extending, by at least one year, The City’s contract that pays Urban Alchemy workers to flood the streets of downtown and The Tenderloin.
“Our approach is engagement, and to promote pro-social behavior, just to talk to people about what’s going on and not to be afraid of people,” Urban Alchemy CEO Lena Miller told supervisors.The City contract calls for Urban Alchemy to deploy 225 community ambassadors to cover 80 block faces within the Tenderloin and Mid-Market areas from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., every day.
Chan scoffed at the notion that The Richmond District, which she represents, “can wait” because “it’s affluent — I strongly disagree with that.” The contract extension is separate from the additional 150 ambassadors that Mayor London Breed announced The City plans to hire in the coming weeks. Data tracked by Urban Alchemy uses somewhat ambiguous terms like “positive interactions,” but shows the extent of its ambassadors’ reach.
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