San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today will join with community members to raise the transgender flag at City Hall in honor of the beginning of Trans Awareness Month. Mayor Breed will be joined by Senator Scott Wiener, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, the Office of Transgender Initiatives, and trans community leaders. Following the flag raising, Mayor Breed and others will provide remarks at the Trans Awareness Month kick-off celebration, outlining San Francisco’s major accomplishments on trans policies and programs to date.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today announced the opening of 20 new beds at the Civic Center Navigation Center, which brings the total number of Navigation Center beds at Civic Center to 113. The new beds will be used to address homelessness in the area, with a particular emphasis for people at the cross-section of homelessness, mental illness, and substance use disorder.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, Supervisor Matt Haney, and community leaders today celebrated the grand reopening of 96 units of affordable housing at Ellis Gardens, a former public housing property that was originally built in 1970. The building at 350 Ellis St. in the Tenderloin is one of 28 sites previously owned by the San Francisco Housing Authority that were renovated under the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

San Francisco, CA — This evening, Mayor London Breed issued a proclamation declaring a local emergency to provide mutual aid in response to the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County. The fire has burned more than 30,000 acres to date, leading to the evacuation of almost 200,000 people and threatening hundreds of structures. Due to the Kincade Fire, Governor Newsom declared a state of emergency on October 25. As of today, there are over 3,000 local, state and federal personnel, including first responders, assisting with the Kincade Fire alone.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), and Family and Child Empowerment Services San Francisco (FACES SF) will host a job fair and hiring event today in Visitacion Valley to bring employment opportunities and resources to a neighborhood with one of the highest unemployment rates in the City. The Visitacion Valley Job Fair and Hiring Event takes place today from 10:00am until 2:00pm at The Village located at 1099 Sunnydale Avenue.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman today released the final report and recommendations from the Methamphetamine Task Force that they launched in February this year. The Task Force was co-chaired by Supervisor Mandelman and Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the Department of Public Health.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin joined community leaders and City officials today for a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of construction on the second phase of the Jefferson Streetscape Improvements Project, which will enhance pedestrian safety and beautify the popular Fisherman’s Wharf corridor.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today announced a long-awaited plan to achieve San Francisco’s longstanding priority of closing the Hall of Justice to make way for a future consolidated Justice Campus. This plan means that San Francisco will be moving all incarcerated people out of the seismically unsafe Bryant Street wing of the building no later than July 2021, to coincide with the previously announced administrative exit.

San Francisco, CA — “On the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, we remember those who lost their lives in San Francisco and the Bay Area, and we honor the valiant efforts of the first responders and neighborhood volunteers who came together to respond to the disaster. At 5:04pm this evening—the exact time of the Loma Prieta earthquake—we will conduct a ceremony to commemorate this momentous event in our city’s history.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Vallie Brown today announced the City of San Francisco has officially adopted a list of twenty-two states with which it will no longer do business because of their severe anti-choice policies. In July, the Board of Supervisors passed Supervisor Brown’s ordinance to ban city-funded travel and contracting to limit San Francisco’s ties to states that have anti-choice and restrictive abortion laws. Of the twenty‑two states on the list, nine were already on the City’s banned list due to anti-LGBT laws.