Recode Decode: Mayor London Breed

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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San Francisco Mayor London Breed talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at Manny's in the Mission District. In this episode: How does Breed feel about being mayor?; her biggest priority, the homelessness epidemic; how San Francisco has changed since her childhood; mental health reform; the public image of SF; civic irresponsibility and the "poop patrol"; affordable housing, NIMBYs and the Embarcadero homeless shelter; building housing near transit centers; how to remove delays on new construction; Breed’s relationship with the tech community; why she's still uneasy about the voter-approved big business tax, Proposition C; what she wants from Big Tech; the impact of Airbnb, Uber and scooters; could San Francisco go car-less?; how millennials in tech can make a difference; gun control; and does Breed want to run for governor or president? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.
0:02.6	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:05.2	We're making a new show.
0:06.5	Have a nice future.
0:09.0	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:12.5	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:16.9	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:20.6	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:24.9	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:29.2	So make sure you follow Have a nice future wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.0	Hi, I'm Karras Fisher, editor at Large of Reco.
0:38.4	You may know me as someone who left her heart in San Francisco,
0:41.6	along with my Fitbit and three pairs of AirPods.
0:44.2	But in my spare time, I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Reco D-code,
0:47.8	a podcast about power change and the people you need to know.
0:50.6	We're part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:53.2	Today in the red chair, I am honored to have London Breathe, the mayor of San Francisco.
0:58.2	She's been one of those visible local leaders during the coronavirus crisis
1:01.8	because San Francisco seems to be flattening the curve in a way that other cities have not.
1:06.3	We'll talk about why that is, what long-term recovery looks like,
1:09.8	and how the tech community can be part of the solution.
1:12.4	Mayor Breed, who I've interviewed before, welcome back to Reco D-code.
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