San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed and the Department of Public Health (DPH) today announced a new overdose prevention program for single room occupancy hotels (SROs), to be carried out by DPH in partnership with the Harm Reduction Coalition and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. The innovative program is in response to the rising number of overdose deaths in San Francisco, approximately 30 percent of which occur at SROs.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, Supervisor Gordon Mar, and community leaders today celebrated the acquisition and preservation of 3544 Taraval Street, a building with six two-bedroom homes in the Outer Sunset neighborhood. It is the first Small Sites Program (SSP) acquisition in District 4, and one of only three SSP acquisitions on the Westside of San Francisco.

Bay Area, CA — Battle for the Bay, a competition between the mayors of three Bay Area cities to protect and clean the waterfront through increased volunteerism, concluded with record numbers of volunteers, trash picked up and beautification projects completed.

The three cities turned out nearly 6,400 volunteers who picked up more than 200,000 pounds of trash in just one morning.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed, in partnership with Dr. Anton Nigusse Bland, Director of Mental Health Reform, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, today announced the creation of a new real-time inventory to track the availability of behavioral health beds in San Francisco. This inventory is part of Mayor Breed’s behavioral health reform initiative—Heal Our City—to help the approximately 4,000 homeless San Franciscans who have mental illness and substance use disorders.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today joined District 5 Supervisor Vallie Brown, City representatives, and community members to celebrate the completion of the Inner Sunset Streetscape Improvements and Muni Forward Project, which makes the neighborhood safer and more transit friendly. The project focuses on upgrading public transit and other critical infrastructure along Irving St. from Arguello Blvd. to 19th Ave., and along 9th and 10th Avenues between Irving and Judah streets.

San Francisco, CA — On Tuesday, September 17, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) Board of Directors approved the 5^th Street Safety Improvement Project, which will bring much needed pedestrian safety improvements and protected bike lanes to the high-injury 5^th Street corridor.

San Francisco, CA — The Board of Supervisors today voted unanimously to approve Mayor London N. Breed’s legislation to transition private commercial buildings of 50,000 square feet and larger to 100 percent renewable electricity. Almost half of San Francisco’s citywide emissions come from buildings, and half of those emissions come from the commercial sector. San Francisco has already reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 36 percent below 1990 levels.

Bay Area, CA — A two-city mayors’ competition to protect the Bay by volunteering to clean neighborhoods took a turn Monday, as San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joined his city into the fray. The event has been dubbed Battle for the Bay, a friendly volunteer competition to protect the shared Bay by cleaning up coastal areas and neighborhoods.

San Francisco, CA — Mayor London N. Breed today celebrated the addition of 60 new beds at the Division Circle Navigation Center in the Mission, which brings the total number of beds at Division Circle to 186. 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. Mayor Breed and Vallejo Mayor Bob Sampayan today toured the newly expanded Navigation Center, located at 224 South Van Ness Ave.

San Francisco, CA — Today Mayor London N. Breed and Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, in partnership with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD), and community leaders celebrated the grand opening of a job center to provide workforce services in the Oceanview, Merced Heights, and Ingleside (OMI) neighborhoods. The OMI Job Center will provide comprehensive services for jobseekers and employers in one of the most underserved neighborhoods, which is home to a large share of the City’s unemployed residents.