CLEAN STREETS, CLEAN CITY
Mayor Breed is working every day to clean the City’s streets—not simply to sweep up garbage or dirty needles or to stop illegal dumping, but to change a culture, to redefine our public spaces. She is undoing San Francisco’s reputation for dirty, dangerous streets. She is combatting the sense that it is normal or okay for us to have dodge human excrement in the streets or walk our kids to school passed broken glass and needle caps. “Whoever you are, wherever you are,” the Mayor says, “you should always feel safe in San Francisco: safe to park your car and know it will be in one piece when you return; safe enjoying our parks or walking the streets of our neighborhoods.”
Mayor Breed takes part in the
citywide “Love Our City” cleanup event
Mayor Breed takes one of many unannounced tours of City streets, this time in SOMA, emphasizing the cleanup and public health work to be done
Our Mayor has:
- Amended the City budgetin her second week in office to add $725,000 for more street cleaning and street safetyunder the City’s “Fix-It Team” which cleans streets and adds waste stations, lights, and cameras to key corridors.She even unveiled a first ceremonial trash can.
- Signedher first City budgetwith record investments in quality-of-life needs, including: more SFPD foot patrol officers; $13 million for street cleaning with 44 new neighborhood street cleaners across the city and five new staffed Pit Stop bathrooms; and another $6 million for a dedicated street medicine teamto help people suffering from addiction on the streets.
- Created the “Poop Patrol,”a team of five Public Works employees charged with finding and steam cleaning human and dog wastebefore it ruins someone’s day.
- Directed the SFPD to step up enforcement against drug dealingin the Tenderloin, Mid-Market, and South of Market, so families in these neighborhoods finally feel that they have rights to safe streets.
- Led efforts to transform the Civic Center from a place to avoid to a destination for city life, with a holiday ice rink, new Bi-Rite café, diverse events, and new playgrounds.
- Made multiple unannounced neighborhood walkswith City leaders to demonstrate the quality-of-life improvementsshe expects them to make.
- Helped create the Discover Polk Community Benefit Districtto sweep and wash sidewalks, remove litter and graffiti, add green spaces, and support businesses along Polk Street.
- Fought for safe injection facilitiesfor years, to stop the IV drug use on our streets and help those struggling with addictionget into treatment. Helped opena demonstration facilityin the Tenderloin. Urged the Governor to signa bill enabling safe injection, and continues the effortseven after his veto.
- Been named one of Time Magazine’s 50 Most Influential People in Healthcarefor her work on safe injection.