San Francisco, CA — Today Mayor London N. Breed announced the appointment of Shireen McSpadden as the new Director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH). McSpadden currently serves as the Executive Director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, which serves over 70,000 seniors, adults with disabilities, caregivers and veterans every year. She will start the new position on May 1st.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, the Department of Public Health (DPH), and community partners Excelsior Strong and Latino Task Force, today announced the opening of a new neighborhood COVID-19 vaccine site in the Excelsior District. The Excelsior site, located at 20 Norton Street, bolsters the City’s ongoing efforts to ensure that highly impacted neighborhoods have equitable access to the vaccine. 

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Jeffrey Tumlin, in partnership with the nonprofit Livable City, announced the return of Sunday Streets in 2021 beginning with the Rise Together Season. Sunday Streets in its large-scale format is slated to return in October (location and date to be announced).

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and the Department of Public Health (DPH), announced today that in accordance with state and federal guidance, all people age 50 and over are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. This significant expansion in vaccine eligibility comes as the City approaches an important milestone in its unprecedented vaccination effort: nearly half of people in San Francisco age 16 and over have now received at least one dose of the vaccine. The vaccine is not yet approved by the FDA for children under 16.