Quotes by London Breed - Page 2

Early care and education helps children build the skills they need for success in kindergarten and can help close the achievement gap.
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Achievement
Gap
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Walking the streets of San Francisco can be a frightening, demoralizing, even an unhealthy experience for residents and tourists alike.
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Demoralizing
Residents
San Francisco
Streets
Tourists
Unhealthy
Alike
Francisco
San
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We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.
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San Francisco
Coordinated
Francisco
San
Sheltered
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I ask people to not attribute what I've done - my success and how hard I've worked - to not reduce that or attribute that to someone else.
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Attribute
Reduce
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When I was growing up in San Francisco, one of the experiences that changed my life was my first paid internship - a summer job at The Family School.
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San Francisco
Life Family My Life
Francisco
San
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I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.
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Drinking
East
Housing
Mayonnaise
Public Housing
Recycling
Western
Addition
Month
Per
Plaza
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There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets.
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Addiction
Compassionate
Mental Health
Safe
Streets
Particularly
Mental
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San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.
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Fighting
Public Safety
Resources
Safe
San Francisco
Standing
Francisco
Record
Mayor
Neighborhoods
San
Standing Up
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The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.
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Homelessness
Housing
Voters
Affecting
Solving
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We can't keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.
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Teacher
Affordable
Affordable Housing
Crucial
Housing
Failed
Failed Policies
Limiting
Policies
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Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Francisco
San
Struggling
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Access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable, and ensure that every child who grows up here can thrive.
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Equitable
Grows
San Francisco
Thrive
Efforts
Ensure
Francisco
Important Part
San
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I want to make sure we are spending wisely and using our resources effectively to address the issues facing San Francisco, while reaching residents throughout our entire City.
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Reaching
Residents
Resources
San Francisco
Spending
Address
Effectively
Facing
Francisco
San
Throughout
Wisely
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By providing every student with a quality education, and the materials they need for class and to do their homework, we can help students from all backgrounds learn and thrive.
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Education
Quality
Backgrounds
Class
Homework
Materials
Providing
Quality Education
Thrive
Every
Student
Help
Learn
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We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.
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Common
Creative
Focus
Newcomers
Share
Solutions
Welcome
Work Focus Together
Common Values
Innovate
San
Work Together
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Our streets should be inviting and safe so anyone can feel comfortable choosing to ride a bike, walk, or take transit, and so it is clear which space is for which mode of travel.
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Space
Travel
Bike
Clear
Comfortable
Inviting
Safe
Streets
Anyone
Choosing
Walk
Mode
Ride
Transit
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I grew up in a San Francisco very different from what many have experienced: a place called Plaza East, notoriously one of the most dangerous public housing developments in the City.
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Housing
Public Housing
San Francisco
Developments
Francisco
Plaza
San
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Every student should be able to start the school year with the supplies they need, and shouldn't feel left out if their family is unable to afford a new backpack, notebooks, and pencils.
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Pencils
Supplies
Backpack
Notebooks
Unable
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Our young people need safe, permanent housing, so they can focus on their education or job, live healthy lives, and pursue their interests - without fear of where they'll sleep at night.
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Housing
Permanent
Pursue
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Far too many LGBTQ individuals are the victims of violence and hatred, and we must all fight together to ensure that no one is erased or marginalized because of how they identify or who they love.
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Hatred
Marginalized
Ensure
Erased
Identify
Victims
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In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it is leading the way on gay marriage, immigrants rights, or combating climate change.
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Climate Change
Gay Marriage
Immigrants
Progressivism
San Francisco
Strive
Beacon
Francisco
San
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Too many people are suffering from severe behavioral health and substance use issues on our streets, which puts a strain on our hospitals and our criminal justice system instead of treating the root cause.
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Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Hospitals
Severe
Strain
Streets
Substance
Behavioral
Criminal
Puts
Root
Too Many People
Treating
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In my sophomore year of high school, I watched my friend Loretta leave in a U-Haul headed for Oakland. She and her mom had been tenants in a nearby apartment, forced out by rent they couldn't afford anymore.
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Apartment
Oakland
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Forced
Headed
My Friend
Nearby
Rent
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We need to improve our public transportation and invest in physical infrastructure changes so that people can safely choose alternatives to driving like walking, riding a bike or even, yes, electric scooters.
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Alternatives
Bike
Electric
Infrastructure
Riding
Transportation
Invest
Safely
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Costly jail calls and high commissary fees have forced families to choose between paying their bills and talking to their loved ones who are serving time, adding further costs to an already difficult situation.
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Bills
Fees
Jail
Loved Ones
Serving
Adding
Calls
Costly
Forced
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Some consider bicycling an 'alternative' mode of transportation, but it should not be considered alternative. It should be an easy choice for getting around in our City, and we need to do more to make that a reality.
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Transportation
Alternative
Mode
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We need more housing in San Francisco, plain and simple, and we especially need more affordable housing for our low-income households, seniors, teachers, formerly homeless people, veterans, and middle-income residents.
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Affordable
Affordable Housing
Homeless
Low Income
Residents
San Francisco
Francisco
Households
Plain
San
Seniors
Veterans
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Businesses have played an important role in advancing nondiscrimination protections across the county because they have recognized that inclusion is the right thing to do and fairness and equality are good for business.
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Advancing
County
Fairness
Inclusion
Right Thing
Important Role
Recognized
The Right Thing
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People coming out of jail need a path back into society: access to a job, a place to live, supportive services. We've seen what happens without it: they commit more crimes and return to jail, which is worse for everyone.
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Commit
Jail
Supportive
Crimes
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I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.
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Housing
San Francisco
Me People Will
Francisco
San
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If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.
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Faster
Housing
Solutions
Construct
Significant Changes
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As a kid growing up in public housing, I didn't always get show up at the first day of school with a new backpack full of supplies. Having the school supplies I needed would have made me feel more prepared and ready to learn.
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Housing
Public Housing
Supplies
Always Me Day
Backpack
Me Day New
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Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need to support policies that address our twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness at the state-level.
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Homelessness
Housing
San Francisco
Up And Down
West Coast
Twin
Francisco
San
Troubles
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We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we're providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.
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Exit
Homelessness
Housing
Levels
Multiple
Providing
San Francisco
Home People Care
Francisco
Home Care People
Permanently
San
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When I was in college, the bell tolled for us. Just as my grandmother, the woman who had cared for me all my life, started needing me to care for her, we were told our home was being torn down, and we would need to find another place to live.
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Torn
Life Home Me
All My Life
Bell
Cared
Needing
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With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.
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Addiction
Illness
Mental Illness
San Francisco
Streets
Supportive
Endures
Forced
Francisco
San
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We have so much work to do to meet the challenges of people living on our streets. But every day we are out there doing the work, finding solutions not only to help those living on our streets, but to prevent more people from ending up there in the future.
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Solutions
Streets
Ending
More People
Prevent
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Improving our transportation infrastructure reduces car trips, helps us reach our carbon emission reduction goals, is healthier for our residents, and saves lives. Too often in the past we have been slow to make these common sense improvements to our streets.
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Car
Carbon
Common
Common Sense
Improving
Infrastructure
Reduction
Residents
Streets
Transportation
Emission
Healthier
Helps
Reach
Slow
Saves
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Both San Francisco and New York are taking bold, sweeping action to reduce emissions, make our infrastructure more resilient and improve the health of our people. We are also leading the charge against those who continue to deny the existence of climate change.
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Climate Change
Deny
Emissions
Infrastructure
Resilient
San Francisco
Bold
Charge
Francisco
Our People
Reduce
San
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If there was a street synonymous with San Francisco, it's Market Street. It is the everyday backbone of the City, with hundreds of thousands of people traveling along it on foot, bike, bus, or streetcar. It's where we gather to celebrate our victories and protest injustices.
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Bike
Celebrate
San Francisco
Foot
Francisco
Gather
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Injustices
San
Streetcar
Synonymous
Thousands Of People
Victories
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Young people experiencing homelessness often have a difficult time accessing services, including shelter, medical care, and employment. This is due to the stigma of their housing situation, lack of knowledge of available resources, and a lack of services targeted to young people.
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Employment
Homelessness
Housing
Medical Care
Shelter
Stigma
Due
Difficult Time
Targeted
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Children who attend high-quality early care and education programs before kindergarten perform better on assessments of reading and math skills and socio-emotional development. However, since early care and education programs are so expensive, low-income families face significant barriers.
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Barriers
Expensive
High Quality
Low Income
Math
Attend
Education Programs
Programs
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While it's absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.
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Affordable
Affordable Housing
Housing
Low Income
Opening
Pay
Residents
Talking
Build
Absolutely
Teachers
Hundreds
Nurses
Rent
Sites
Struggling
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Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.
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Alone
Addiction
Combination
Conditions
Difficult
Homelessness
Illness
Mental Illness
Streets
Time Day People
Alone Time Day
Creates
Downward
Every Day
Experienced
Facing
Mental
Same Time
Spiral
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As a child, I walked with my friends to Rosa Parks Elementary and then to Ben Franklin Middle School. I rode Muni to Galileo High School. And thanks to amazing teachers who believed in me and supported me along the way, I was able to matriculate to another public school: the University of California at Davis.
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Middle School
Parks
Public School
Rosa
Thanks
Davis
Ben
Elementary
Galileo
Rode
University Of California
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