OUR TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW has to be solving homelessness. We can't just abandon people to live on our streets, especially people who are sick or mentally ill. It’s not right for them, and it’s not right for our neighborhoods, residents and small businesses. District 6 is bearing the brunt of this crisis, and it is completely unacceptable.  

As Supervisor, I'll be laser focused on tackling homelessness, and that means getting mentally ill people into care, people experiencing addiction into treatment, and people living on our streets into Navigation Centers and permanent housing. And we need stronger protections and innovative solutions so that individuals and families don't become homeless to begin with.  Every elected official and city department needs to do their part to solve our city's biggest crisis. The indifference and inaction from our city is shocking and must end immediately.

Here’s what I’ll do:

• Build additional navigation centers that address the homelessness crisis here in District 6.  

• Expand homelessness outreach to make sure that we are being both proactive and accountabie. The police shouldn’t be the only ones providing frontline responses to homelessness and mental illness.  

• Ensure additional long term mental health beds and drug treatment, and the accountability within the system so that we stop letting people slip through the cracks and back out onto the street.

• Enhance services at our shelters to transition them to the navigation center model, working to make sure there pathways to stability for people who enter our shelters, not a revolving door back onto the street.  

• Improve responsiveness and results from 311 and government services.