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Re: Hayes Valley Street Closure
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The Walgreens sign is coming down and with it we bear witness to the consequences of the defund police movement, a loss to the community to access essentials, and job losses. 💔💔💔
More disheartening are the narratives that have been told = denial in the saddest form.
We share this snapshot of the scene at Civic Center today because our stomachs churned at the site of tent city and limp bodies 12 feet from a children's playground.
It's a new year San Francisco - WE MUST take a stand and demand CHANGE - this is simply unacceptable.
"From September to September, 2021 to 2022, there was 108,000 overdose deaths in the United States. And if you compare that to 2002 -there were 17,000 overdose deaths in the entire United States....
there's at least 17 million people in the United States struggling with drug
It's a sad state in San Francisco WHEN essential businesses like a Walgreens cannot contend with lawlessness and the mayhem that accompanies it. Think of the impact these blows have on small business and then ask yourself what is City government doing on this front?
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"This is...far worse than any scene that I've seen in years -
it's block after block
it's garbage piles & ⛺️⛺️⛺️
it's astounding...
imagine ...there's about 30 people - they all have friends that come eat, party & never throw anything in the garbage"
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"I don't know what exactly the mayor does or what she's done - I don't see any real progress on any front."
Listen to the full episode here
Topics include: San Francisco's fentanyl crisis, Steven & Jessica, Mayor London Breed, SFPD, & DA Brooke Jenkins.
"It's rougher than I remember seeing it
...a lot of slumped bodies...
there's a very strong voice advocating for the people on the streets, and it's pretty obvious that that voice is a lot more powerful than any other voice in the city."
🎧full episode ->
Re: Julie Pitta
1) we have never heard of her before the sign stealing scandal
2) never had an interaction with her
3) we're blocked from reading her posts on X
so, why the heck is she emailing us about the Phoenix Project?
For 3 years we have been organizing, pushing the boundaries, and asking the tough questions as participants in the San Francisco civic process here at Hayes Valley Safe.
We're tremendously disappointed with what we have seen and continue to experience.
Moving forward we're not
"The idea that a committee of presumably serious people would come back with a number of 5 million per person per payout is so extraordinarily off the mark.... I beg to ask: how this ever happened?
...it's so mind boggling"
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"a lot of sweetheart deals...
properties that were tax credits ... instead of accepting responsibility for poor contracting - they're actually putting it on the tenants.. to get renter's insurance ...
shoddy construction ...look at the history"
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Hayes Valley neighbors are troubled by today's attack on an Asian woman in broad daylight in front of Live Fit Gym on Gough Street. Accountability is paramount to public safety. As citizens we have to ask, “why is this behavior acceptable and tolerated?”
We walked by the Linkage Center today.
It is unbelievable what our City has allowed to be deemed acceptable.
One steadfast question remains:
what is the end game?
We're really disappointed to hear the accounts w/ the row of car breakins on Octavia yesterday-via feedback by neighbors.
More deets to follow.
As advocates for Hayes Valley Proper it's truly disheartening to see how fairness has been turned on its head for law abiding citizens.
"It's very complicated-
So if you're going to do this, do it in such a way where you are looking at it as a lens of equity...
-in national politics.. they treat California as an ATM to go raise cash and then ignore us in the national conversation"
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more on the NIMBY perspective of the country club •
re: Parcel K/Proxy:
"Jen (the president) stated ..build the affordable housing on the parcels...further down Octavia Boulevard...
they want to renege on HVNA's commitment ...
the cast and characters that are driving the
Pulse check 🌡️
what's your thought on repealing Prop 47?
Is it time to advocate for this?
Since our recent tweet about rampant 🚗 break-ins this is the 🌶️ topic.
Constructive points welcome.
"These are lofty numbers... how can they be taken seriously?
People look to San Francisco...as being ...an ATM machine.
Redevelopment was supposed ...to correct the injustice...
...a spigot was opened & allowed people to use...city funds"
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"We were stonewalled... our only option was to go through the Sunshine Ordinance task force and do a disclosure request...
there's this veil w/ nonprofits, because they're working so closely with gov.
....this is the dynamic of what we're facing here"
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Update on the encampment at Page and Gough
Neighbors have planter boxes installed. Encampments move over on to Gough.
Note: planter box installations have been privately funded by neighbors. Please get in touch with us if you are able to help
SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESS IN SAN FRANCISCO
The survival of San Francisco Small Businesses is on the line while they face many economic uncertainties and experience their representation diminishing at the policy table. Over and over again their voice has
In a span of 5 minutes and one block of Hayes Valley: multiple homeless: one of which has been ranting for 3.5 hours and has been on our streets for over a decade, the other urinating within feet of a eateries, the other was belligerent.
Peak dining time in Hayes Valley. Table side and street challenges like this are real among businesses in our neighborhood. Before this we witnessed the patient staff at Chez Maman guide an undressed woman along the sidewalk.
#notpeachy
Our flyers go up and they take them down.
Can't call it a true "community board" with censorship being exercised by the country club.
For info and updates ->
Some good news re: Hayes Valley Fire
City has ushered in security.
We are so elated to see this.
It should be mandatory City protocol to provide security to citizens around construction locations. It would be a good use of City funds.
Who do we need to get on the horn to make
It's incredible how City leadership has let drug usage run rampant in Our City. This impacts ALL OF US day in and day out ... AND this problem has been persisting for way too long.
Now people are making statements in many ways.
This evolution of a crisis is what is inhumane.
Hayes Valley Public Safety 📢
This early am not 1, but 4 neighbors on Ivy at Octavia had their tires slashed.
It's literally a free for all out here folks.
Our Open Letter is open for comment re: the encampment fire that occurred last week in Hayes Valley. We encourage you to comment in support of our effort here
Thank you.
🆘This incident should not be swept under the rug.
@TheMarinaTimes
The fact that it comes to this just demonstrates how worse off we are today. Since when is taking one's property OK?
Supervisors are simply out of touch with their constituents; our representation is on a rapid decline.
Unbelievable.
Happening in Hayes Valley:
Censorship on a bulletin board that has the title
"community board"
Country Club members/leaders taking down our flyers.
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How ironic that they call Parcel K/proxy the living room of Hayes Valley ...and don't want to share even a bulletin board.
Increasing concern of ⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️⛺️
on Octavia Blvd.
@SF311
@SFPDNorthern
We need resources directed to this area to ensure public safety for all. Neighbors are getting increasingly unnerved and anxious about the situation. Knives have been spotted and ongoing screaming.
We're not all surprised by today's Poll Results by San Franciscans.
We need bold ideas not ideologies.
We need debates not echo chambers.
We need accountability and results not skewed data to further uphold failed policies.
We've got a lot of work to do. Together we can.
District 5 is awesome.
What would make it better is a supervisor that is amazingly supportive of the working class and who is a huge proponent of family, small business and transit first.
Any ideas?
"What I see in many meetings that I attend now... the public is giving over its ownership of an issue and expecting and sometimes scapegoating a dept for doing the job...and when they don't do the job ...they don't hold them accountable."
Full episode
Starting at approx. 3:30 am --- Michael went on a rant that went on for hours.
When neighbors question the City about this we're labeled as the uncompassionate ones.
Allowing this man to continue to live on the street and refuse services is mind boggling and defies logic.
Hayes Valley Reality:
Michael has been on our streets for over a decade.
He rants 4 hours on end day & night. There are a host of issues & reasons why many neighbors don't understand why he hasn't been housed in all this time or provided the many services he needs.
#thisistaxing
Day 3 of the Walgreens closure debate.
Imagine if there had been this much attention a year ago when crime was📈...where would we be now?
How did we get to a place where store theft is a nothing 🍔 when it was happening in real time?
Now it's a🌶️ of a subject?
Unreal.
had a pleasant exchange with lovely couple who live in Berkeley --- when they heard we're from San Francisco ...they said "oh we don't go there anymore"
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responded "totally understand --- BUT we're here fighting the fight" ✌️
"That video is embarrassing & it tells us something about the context of the place that we're living in.
The city agencies/politicians that are jumping to make this look bad ...reverse that🪞...everyone has had a role in how this came about."
full ep➡️
Since solving these problems for San Franciscans is not a top priority for our leadership...we'd love to hear how these issues will be resolved for the tourists from Europe that our mayor is pitching to have come over.
Will they get a $ back guarantee if they aren't impressed?
Another day, same problem. Pile of garbage scattered on sidewalk. Homeless drug addict lady living on this block needs to be institutionalized. Where is help?
@HealthRIGHT360
@TheCoalitionSF
BTW
@SF311
please come clean up 👇
@LondonBreed
no tourists would come to filthy city
People experiencing homelessness and addiction want to get off drugs and want housing. But they want those things on their own terms. Which usually means the addiction continues. In perpetuity.
@realtalksrocks
There's an open-air drug market in the Tenderloin & more residents died of drug ODs than COVID, yet Chesa has done almost nothing to address the drug-dealing crisis.
We won't be able to get SF back w/ Chesa in office – drug dealers must be held accountable.
#YesonH
#RecallChesa
Spin warning:
Re: Walgreens closure- we'll hear a myriad of arguments suggesting closure was part of a closure plan, etc. - that doesn't minimize the fact that crime ran rapid in this store equating to employee risks, lack of law enforcement, limited inventory,
Re: Safeway
It's interesting how things roll in our District 5...
12:12 Mayor announces the Safeway SAVE
1:21 Supervisor announces "following pressure from neighborhood leaders and our office, and on the eve of a vote my office’s resolution demanding Safeway reconsider and
@bettersoma
broad 🖌️ here:
Same story w/ homeless in Hayes Valley: they're either from another town or been on streets for years. This speaks volumes about a broken system & why San Francisco is flailing w/ the 'housing first campaign' in the face of a drug crisis that we're not tackling.
What's happening with our tax dollars is insanely ridiculous.
We have a mayor calling on the Feds to help a mess that she aided in creating.
We need a new mayor.
Undeniably this neighborhood is plagued with homeless and public safety issues that need addressing; we also know what's happening here is NOT an isolated case and that this issue is rampant across San Francisco.
If only leaders could admit when they are wrong and roll up their sleeves to work with people to change the course...instead they get more radical and double down on failed antics. That's the the current day predictableness -which is what makes SF politics/leadership such a 🤨😱
Considering the amount of $$$ we've tossed at this issue - questioning our ROI is way overdue.
There's plenty of us asking...
who has in fact reaped the benefits of all the 🌊💰 that has been circulating amidst the street crisis?
The irony:
capitalism being referenced as the
Kids have to be escorted through open drug scenes and encampments in San Francisco. It’s not fair, not equitable, and says a lot about where we are in our homeless and drug policies. Thank you,
@war24182236
, for the video. The world needs to know.
When homeless man asked for food he was given water and a bag of nuts. With all the $ being being spent on the homeless issue one would think he would be offered a sandwich or full-fledged meal🤔
Bernal Heights (94110) hit by arson Saturday, Dec 31.
Several cars parked on the street and one parked in a residential driveway were torched.
Stay vigilant, neighbors!
We live in a City where some double down on one person in government - blame him/her for being the obstacle.
Nope -- it's the whole body of government … starting with the top position.
Beyond ridiculous...
while we get 'the why' --- it's symbolic of an epic failure by city leadership to solve the crisis in our streets. Just another 🩹
Here in Hayes Valley neighbors are fronting the tab on planter boxes for areas plagued with encampments as well.
It goes
Can't help but wonder if the same synergy applied for ceasefire declarations was applied to public safety, constituent representation, small business issues, public transportation infrastructure -- where would we be?
Maybe all the time we San Franciscans invest in trying to
"She's (Ronen)giving... a promise- when this comes to her neighborhood- it's going to be same setup of wealthier neighborhoods.
This is theater.
She needs to write a MOU .
If not ... you're using a neighborhood to be a cultural lab.."
Full episode ➡️
@DionLimTV
Unfortunately this is a common scene in our neighborhood. Unfortunately we are also at wits end in terms of options. You can scroll through our posts where we try (because much like you we believe casting a light on this reality is a necessity) to call attention to this crisis.
"The anti-cop & divisive vitriol - is tired at this point.
It's kind of despicable behavior at this point, considering the fact that if they don't like Republicans so much and they don't like their own Democrats so much, who do they like?"
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@MeredithWDodson
For some of us who are just following along this was shocking. Zero accountability, zero guts. Hiding behind a diagram and playing victim? This is lower than low.
Kudos to all who are standing up and speaking up.
This kind of a smear campaign against neighbors is shameful.
"East Octavia - Page to Oak this am. Thanks for your efforts, good intentions, support -"
"Clear sidewalk looks great & inviting for a pedestrian. Sending positive vibes it stays that way. Teamwork pays off. Challenge will be if it stays that way."
Neighbors in Hayes Valley
..."a firestorm of a public reaction by special interest groups...that are going under the guise of community ....
it was the perfect storm...
it's interesting how both Mayor Breed and Supervisor Preston which generally never get on the same page ...
is this about community
abt last night's meeting:
The human element of the 85+ attendees was indiscernible- the fact that our communities/streets have been rocked (& continue) by guns/crimes - wasn't the underlining current at all...instead we got same ol' tips on how to not leave valuables in our 🚗
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"What's wrong with this process:
SFPD is using a non profit to fulfill their role organizing and engaging the community...
don't need a non profit to take over my right to advocate as a community member"
full episode ->
@bettersoma
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re: corruption
"Head honchos are audited or indicted for corruption but the agency is never audited?
the reality is with the corruption and the level of Mishigas that goes on -that's Yiddish for nonsense, how is there not any type of Agency audits?
In the real
This happened in the early am today.
3 blocks were hit:
Grove at Buchanan and Webster, Ivy at Buchanan and Webster, and Hayes St at Laguna and Buchanan.