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San Francisco Secures Over $200 Million in State Funding for Affordable Housing

“These funds come at a critical time in San Francisco,” said Mayor London N. Breed. “They will help us continue to deliver desperately needed affordable housing units for our families, workers, and individuals exiting homelessness as part of our overall strategy of building more housing at all income levels across the entire City. In addition to the State’s critical leadership, I want to thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi and our federal leaders for their incredibly important work to bring this funding to California and San Francisco.”

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3 years ago

February 15, 2022

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Mayor London N. Breed

Funding Supported by American Rescue Plan Act

Mayor London N. Breed announced on February 4 that San Francisco has been awarded more than $200 million in funding from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. This support was provided by the new California Housing Accelerator Fund, which was seeded with a $1.75 billion investment from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

These dollars will provide the final funding necessary for four key affordable housing projects that will build over 400 units of affordable housing for families, formerly homeless individuals, public housing residents, and transitional aged youth. These projects include:

180 Jones St., a 70-unit development for formerly homeless and low-income adults in the Tenderloin.
1801 18th St., a 157-unit affordable family housing project that is a component of San Francisco’s HOPE SF initiative which will provide new replacement units for residents living in public housing in Potrero Hill and additional affordable family housing.
Parcel C3.1, a 138-unit affordable family housing development on Treasure Island.
San Cristina Hotel, a rehabilitation of a 58-unit Single Room Occupancy Hotel on Market Street which will house formerly homeless adults.

These shovel-ready projects are expected to begin construction in the coming months.

“These funds come at a critical time in San Francisco,” said Breed. “They will help us continue to deliver desperately needed affordable housing units for our families, workers, and individuals exiting homelessness as part of our overall strategy of building more housing at all income levels across the entire City. In addition to the State’s critical leadership, I want to thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi and our federal leaders for their incredibly important work to bring this funding to California and San Francisco.”

“Thanks to Democrats’ American Rescue Plan, a life-changing $200 million investment in affordable housing is headed to San Francisco,” said Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives. “With this urgently needed funding, our City will be able to build, rehab, and replace more than 400 affordable housing units, house more low-income San Franciscans struggling through the pandemic and reduce homelessness. Let us salute Mayor London Breed for her dedicated and long-standing leadership in expanding affordable housing opportunities in San Francisco.”

“When we launched the California Housing Accelerator, we had clear objectives – eliminate the backlog of projects standing in long lines for tax credits and bonds, bring affordable housing to communities in need, and reduce the amount of time and money involved in preparing to make these homes available,” said Gustavo Velasquez, director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. “And while more work remains in Tier 2, (the) announcement is an important step toward achieving our affordable housing goals.”

“We are grateful for the Housing Accelerator Fund’s investment in San Francisco,” said Eric Shaw, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. “This funding source has been key to moving our projects forward in a competitive funding environment.”

This report comes from the Mayor’s Office of Communication.

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Oakland Post: Week of June 4 – 10, 2025

The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of June 4-10, 2025

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June 7, 2025

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Remembering George Floyd

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing.

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June 2, 2025

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Mural showing the portrait of George Floyd in Mauerpark in Berlin. To the left of the portrait the lettering "I can't Breathe" was added, on the right side the three hashtags #GeorgeFloyd, #Icantbreathe and #Sayhisname. The mural was completed by Eme Street Art (facebook name) / Eme Free Thinker (signature) on 29 May 2020. (Wikimedia Commons)

By April Ryan
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“The president’s been very clear he has no intentions of pardoning Derek Chauvin, and it’s not a request that we’re looking at,” confirms a senior staffer at the Trump White House. That White House response results from public hope, including from a close Trump ally, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. The timing of Greene’s hopes coincides with the Justice Department’s recent decision to end oversight of local police accused of abuse. It also falls on the fifth anniversary of the police-involved death of George Floyd on May 25th. The death sparked national and worldwide outrage and became a transitional moment politically and culturally, although the outcry for laws on police accountability failed.

The death forced then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to focus on deadly police force and accountability. His efforts while president to pass the George Floyd Justice in policing act failed. The death of George Floyd also put a spotlight on the Black community, forcing then-candidate Biden to choose a Black woman running mate. Kamala Harris ultimately became vice president of the United States alongside Joe Biden. Minnesota State Attorney General Keith Ellison prosecuted the cases against the officers involved in the death of Floyd. He remembers,” Trump was in office when George Floyd was killed, and I would blame Trump for creating a negative environment for police-community relations. Remember, it was him who said when the looting starts, the shooting starts, it was him who got rid of all the consent decrees that were in place by the Obama administration.”

In 2025, Police-involved civilian deaths are up by “about 100 to about 11 hundred,” according to Ellison. Ellison acknowledges that the Floyd case five years ago involved a situation in which due process was denied, and five years later, the president is currently dismissing “due process. “The Minnesota Atty General also says, “Trump is trying to attack constitutional rule, attacking congressional authority and judicial decision-making.” George Floyd was an African-American man killed by police who knocked on his neck and on his back, preventing him from breathing. During those minutes on the ground, Floyd cried out for his late mother several times. Police subdued Floyd for an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.