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Preston, Mahmood joust over police funding, housing in contentious debate

Bilal Mahmood, an entrepreneur and District 5 supervisor candidate, repeatedly picked fights with incumbent Dean Preston at a Wednesday night debate, scolding the incumbent for saying he would defund the police, and for criticizing national policies around police funding. “You are sending a message to police officers that their work is ‘pointless’ and that is why we are unable to hire staff and we are unable to arrest fentanyl dealers today,” Mahmood said. Preston shot back. “If you want a politician who is just going to, every budget season, write a blank check to this police department of $50 million to $100 million extra, with no accountability on how that’s being spent — if you want that kind of person — maybe he’s [sitting] to my right.”  “He is,” Mahmood agreed “So you’re a rubber stamp for police budgets?” Preston said incredulously at the UC […]

Karl The Fog October 3, 2024

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Fire strikes S.F. public housing known for squatters, mismanagement

A one-alarm fire broke out on Missouri Street in the Potrero Hill public housing complex on Monday evening, according to the San Francisco Fire Department, which posted video of firefighters on the roof of an apartment, flames shooting through the ceiling.Lt. Mariano Elias, a department spokesperson, said the building was empty and that there were no injuries. The call “came in shortly after 7 p.m.,” he said, and firefighters saw “fire blowing out the windows” at the three-story building. “Upon arrival, all three floors of the housing were on fire. It was blowing through the roof.”Eight department vehicles were on scene, and smoke and ash filled the air as firefighters began removing charred wood from the newly blackened building — before tonight, the building was already scorched in a past fire. A fire at Missouri Street and Turner Terrace on […]

Karl The Fog October 1, 2024

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S.F. Housing Authority moves to replace troubled firm managing public housing

The Eugene Burger Management Corporation, a scandal-ridden private firm that has overseen two of San Francisco public housing complexes since 2022, may not have a long future in the city. A representative from the company typically provides a update on the Potrero Hill and Sunnydale public housing sites before the San Francisco Housing Authority Board of Commissioners each month. But at today’s meeting, Housing Authority CEO Tonia Lediju gave a brief announcement that the agency would be issuing a request for proposal for property management at those locations. Lediju provided little additional information. The expected update from Eugene Burger Management about happenings at the sites did not occur. “As it relates to Sunnydale and Potrero, we are going to be putting out our RFP, request for proposal, for property management,” Lediju said. “And we just wanted to advise you of that.” The commissioners […]

Karl The Fog September 27, 2024

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District 5 candidates on how they will speed up housing

Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.San Francisco has a new mandate from the state of California to build 82,000 new homes by 2031, with more than half of those to be affordable to low- and moderate-income households. We’re not on track to meet this goal, and one of the big arguments in San Francisco’s housing debate — particularly as campaigning heats up in District 5 — has been over who is to blame for our slow housing […]

Karl The Fog September 18, 2024

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New Reparations Ideas Include Senior Housing, Legal Assistance and a ‘Black Card’ for Local Discounts

Just over a week after the U.S. Supreme Court gutted affirmative action in college admissions, San Francisco took a major step in the other direction by advancing a plan to repair historical harms by the government against Black people. After dozens of meetings over two years, the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee  released its final recommendations to the Board of Supervisors and Mayor London Breed on Friday. Beyond policy ideas in a December 2022 draft report such as $5 million cash payments to qualifying Black San Franciscans, the committee added dozens of new recommendations such as the creation of a “Black card” program offering free access to city services and discounts at businesses. The proposal would also further shake up politics, adding two Board of Supervisors appointees to the Police Commission, including someone who has been incarcerated. The […]

Karl The Fog August 20, 2024

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