S.F. Mayor London Breed on How to Prevent an Economic “Doom Loop” … and Her New Budget

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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San Francisco has long been a favorite target of conservative news outlets. But a recent CNN special on the city’s drug and homelessness crises posed the question, “What Happened to San Francisco?” and a New York magazine piece asks: “What is it like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed?” For Mayor London Breed, talk of a San Francisco “doom loop” is premature. Her newly released 14.6 billion budget proposal seeks to tackle many of the city’s thorniest problems. We’ll talk to her about her spending plan, her proposal to revive downtown and burnish the city’s image and she’ll take your questions. Guests: London Breed, mayor, City and County of San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.2	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:59.7	When London Breed became the mayor of San Francisco nearly five years ago, the city was in a very different place.
1:05.8	Tech money was supercharging home prices, commercial real estate, the job market, and the city budget.
1:12.6	Well, then came the pandemic, the deepening of the fentanyl crisis, and the inflation that's
1:17.0	caused the Fed to raise rates pulling easy money out of the tech ecosystem.
1:21.8	One of the most successful, innovative, beautiful cities in the world seems like it's on the
1:26.8	ropes,
1:31.1	riven by inbred politics and a collapse of downtown visitors.
1:35.6	What's Mayor Breed going to do? What can she do? She joins us here in the studio,
1:56.3	and we'll all get a chance to ask her after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. All right, everyone, we are joined live in the studio here by Mayor London Breed. Thank you so much for joining us.
1:57.0	Of course.
2:01.8	So we obviously have some things to talk about, and we know lots of your constituents are listening.
2:04.2	And we want to hear from all of you.
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