This hardly seems right-wing. The goal of public-funded drug treatment should be diminishing unsafe public drug usage, not endless indulgence of drug addicts' behaviour.

When do we have testing on politicians that get tax payer money?

63% means SF is fed up with all the fentanyl nonsense.

Providing welfare money to addicts is a cruel trap done with good but naive intentions.

The "Portugal Initiative" which works gives drug addicts three passes to get treatment on their own. After three police interactions drug treatment is mandatory. That was the part of the equation left out by Oregon. SF and LA needs this as well. Without the treatment part nothing else matters really.

Holding criminals accountable, not enabling drug addicts to use public funds to get their high, and giving law enforcement authority to up hold the law isn't conservative or progressive, it's common sense! Which has been lacking in most of California.

Since 2020, cities like San Francisco and Portland have gotten much more dangerous when they passed lots of progressive legislation. I’ve been to these cities many times over the past decade and have witnessed the decline in public safety. It isn't simply an exaggerated talking point by right-wing conservatives from Oklahoma or wherever who have probably never stepped foot inside San Francisco or Portland. It is evident to most people who have spent time in these cities before and after 2020. There is a clear difference.

San Francisco votes trump this election

Born and raised in San Francisco and I saw the streets deteriorating on a regular basis . It wasn't easy packing up and leaving my birthplace and leaving Cali all together one of the most beautiful cities in the West Coast considered to be the Golden State . I really hope they can clean it up , and respect to the Mayor for changing it up !!

Major ups to Ana for explaining what is going on in San Francisco, among many other cities in this country. California has gone too far left, and needs some serious recalibration, as she stated. Expect more of this to come.

I’ve lived in San Francisco for 22 years and have seen the degradation of public safety and increase in lawlessness. I am breathing a sigh of relief that some common sense laws are being passed. It’s time to have moderates lead the city.

the people have spoken

Ana is beginning to see the light.

I've no problem with requiring a drug test & addiction treatment for people receiving welfare. tax payers are paying for their bills, not for them to get high

San Francisco, a city of diverse residents ranging from billionaires to service workers, shares a common sentiment - a growing frustration over paying taxes without seeing significant improvements. We grapple with high rents in a city that, despite its beauty, is marred by the presence of transient criminals and part-time homeless individuals who drain public resources. Each day, we navigate through encampments of stolen goods that have driven our retail businesses to closure, only to go to work and face the relentless cycle of pay, pay, and pay. By month's end, we are left to decide between paying the electric bill or keeping the heater running during the cool nights. Yet, despite these challenges, we rise each morning, ready to work and pay our taxes. We do this because we believe in this city and our right to live here. We are prepared to use our votes and unite to ensure the rights of every individual who works tirelessly to earn an honest living and abide by laws that deter lawlessness. We often speak of equality for all, but for too long, the tax-paying working class has been treated as second-class citizens. Yesterday, we cast our votes to reclaim what we work for every day - our right to a safe and prosperous city.

I’m liberal, but I agree that welfare recipients dealing with drug addiction should get treatment in order to qualify for government assistance. I do think there need to be options -Some treatments are religious, some are scams, and what works for some doesn’t work for others, and it sounds like SF has considered that. I haven’t been to San Francisco in over 20 years, but I thought it was a beautiful city.

We are fed up with the chaos in SF and Oakland.

I lived in DC for 30 years, and sold my home with nowhere to go, beginning of 2022 (during a huge loss of property value) because the crime in DC was out of control. There was an amazing transition from burnt out and boarded up when I moved there to nice condos and townhouses. And then the DC Council and Mayor descended on us with stuff unlimited alcoholic licenses as you want there. And then declared that people could make as much noise as they wanted, and that it was a historic district for African-Americans and that all of the NIMBYs should shut up. And what happened, insanely overrun by drugs and crime, and total disrespect for the people who bought homes and lived there for many years -- told every frickin day they didn't belong there. Racist assaults, and hatred, trash, graffiti on every surface, ATVs and dirt bikes all day all night. And a police force with hands tied behind their backs to do anything. Because they legalized drugs, and told police not to chase, not to pursue criminals. It was all harmless "culture." Meanwhile daily fights and weekly murders and constant robberies, theft and destruction. How was any of that progressive, or embracing African American culture when African Americans are the primary victims of the crime? When drugs and alcohol are abused, and property values plummet? Muriel Bowser did this. The DC City Council did this. I am loosely progressive still as far as helping people, but the nonsense about catching criminals is racist, and that people live in a neighborhood and try to defend their lives and their properties are NIMBYs and gentrifiers who need to get out?!?! 30 years into the toilet -- Muriel Bowser and nearly the entire City Council were responsible, and so were the voters who put in the fake crime-loving, racism screeching "progressives" like Brianne Nadeau. Boot the bums out. Council ignored us. Police stopped responding to 911. Okay, you win -- time to get the heck out of there. Stayed too long because I wanted to believe the "liberals" and "progressives" had the best intentions. Nope. Time to clean house of the poisonous ideas, proven only to lead to death and destruction.

I lived in San Francisco. I left because of I was paying so much to live in the city and I had to watch people shoot up in front of my building and sell drugs all over. The streets were littered with needles, its disgusting.

It isn’t it inhumane just to sit back and watch people die?

I’m liberal in almost every way and an openly gay man and I agree with this, is that bad? To me, it literally just sounds like an effort to actually do something about it for once.

It's unfortunate that common sense wasn't initially applied so that all this mess could have been avoided.

Why would yall think america wants to end a problem (drugs) that they created?

Dealer need long term jail sentence for damages they do to people

Eventually, people get tired of drug addicts, homelessness, and human feces on the ground

A tiny breakout of sanity is seen as "a move to the right"!

I love how it’s been 4 years and just now biden says he will do something about the border

the real silent majority, rich people

There's nothing wrong with conservative values in a democrat run state. But this case isn't even right leaning, its just common sense.

They didn’t make a smooth left turn, they kinda jerked the wheel, and are jerking it back and overcorrecting. Hopefully they’ll figure it out eventually.

Unfortunately sometimes you need to get tough on people in large cities because even though the majority of people are law abiding and peaceful, you’ll have a whole group of people that are not and they need to be dealt with or else people start taking matters into their own hands and that’s gets bloody.

That's what happens when you let overly progressive proposals go unchecked, the same happens with the repubs when they do far right proposals

Need drug screening for members of congress.....

Who knew. People don't like watching someone taking a shit while eating lunch

No sane person would be a landlord in San Francisco.

Anna keeping it real

I am an Independent and while I agree that welfare should not be given to continue to support an individuals drug addiction and further the lack of support for their children. There are limits to this testing. Some people choose marijuana over ANY pharmaceutical, and until it is legalized, I do NOT support testing for welfare recipients. Marijuana should NOT be in the 'drug' category.

I don’t see anything wrong with these new policies. Walking through parts of San Francisco is like walking through a third world country. The city tried being lenient with crime and drug use but it only back fired. They really have to try another tactic and hopefully this one works. That being said fighting crime and drug addiction is only one side of the coin. If they really want to make a lasting difference than they need to make housing affordable and stop the monopoly that the tech industry has on how politics are done in the Bay Area. City government should be answerable to all their constituents, not just the ridiculously wealthy tech workers

I'm a native San Franciscan & lifelong resident and consider myself liberal & open minded. I am strongly considering voting for a republican supervisor for my district in November- Steven Martin Pinto. Mayor Breed is the worst mayor SF has had in my lifetime. The FIRST thing she did when she became mayor was try to have her felon brother's prison sentence for murder commuted. Thank goodness the governor declined. There is so much corruption in SF at every level that's been exposed the past couple of years. Drastic changes are needed!

Whose making the money off this policy??? Pharmaceutical companies sell the drug tests that your tax payer dollars buy. Stockholders dividends go up The insurance scam over treatment centers has been well documented.

Somebody have to start something somewhere…. Can’t keep doing the some things… you get the same results…..Great reporting!!!

Good clean out the trash including progressive policies

Sounds like "Tough on Crime" from the 80s.....gotta love how well that all worked out, right ??

Phil Ochs said it best when he said liberals are 10 degrees to the left of center in good times, and 10 degrees to the right if it affects them personally.

god forbid they put more resources into curing drug addiction and giving people homes.

I’m somewhere in the middle, and from a fly-over state. But I think you would be shocked to see it now. I was working in the bay area on a job that went over, so I stayed in The Tenderloin, and walked to Fisherman’s Wharf Pier 39 and up and down the Wharfs. There’s tents everywhere with the smell of raw sewage, homeless shooting up right in public, and drug deals happening all around me. I was in a fourth floor room, and I saw many fights, they scream all night- screams of the mentally ill, and then by morning, there is garbage everywhere, syringes, needles, packs, and more tents moved, boxes, and packing materials. It took them until 2:30 pm to come through to clean, and by 7:30pm it was starting right back up. The worst, is the zombies, they just stand in place, doubled over, like they’re looking for something. It’s surreal.

When is Anna going to create her own network? Common sense, actually calls out the B.S, I'd watch.

Anna, I don’t know how YOU can look at what has happened to San Francisco and not blame the invasion of mega rich people taking it over and making it impossible for regular people to survive there

Thanks for the common sense :)

Most addicts have given up or feel hopeless to begin with and are really slowly killing themselves. They need hope first and the pennies they get from welfare are not enough to change their situations. Who has the time to save all those people when most people can barely save themselves and their families... and it's never permanent change.

Right - it's ok to change your mind - the times change and we have to adjust accordingly. It's ok to say I was wrong , I tried and it didn't work. How else do you learn

I am a recovering addict with 1,160 days clean. While I was homeless, I hated myself but prayed to JESUS for one more opportunity to live a better life. Right now, I support what San Francisco is doing to help get people off the street. Weather they want to stay on drugs or not, what San Francisco is doing, in my opinion, will help all addicts at least see the opportunity to start loving themselves. Wanting to kill yourself is not what JESUS created the human race to pursue .

The Mayor took way too long to implement these common sense policies. I don't know which is worse, the far-left or the far-right.

“The measure of a society is how it treats its weakest members.” Mahatma Gandhi

Excellent!

I do not not see any common sense in what you think so obviously prudent. You state, confidently, "If [doing away with the transition tax] . . . does in fact incentivize [developers] to do it, then I think it makes a lot of sense." Your statement that immediately follows the foregoing remark is, "I mean you have these buildings that are sitting empty." The fact that the buildings are "sitting empty" is the best argument there is as to why developers (i.e., the owners of the vacant commercial spaces) should not be given a tax incentive to convert their buildings from commercial to residential premises. The owners of these vacant commercial buildings are not collecting rents from them. Why do they need to be "incentiviz[ed]' to convert their commercial buildings into habitable spaces that will result in their yielding income from rentals paid by residential tenants when they currently are not receiving any rental payments because they have no commercial lessees? Real estate developers are not in the business of helping people. They are in the business of making money. Surely you do not think that after the transition tax is waived the developers are going to be guided by their altruistic desire to provide affordable housing for the neediest San Franciscans? The commercial space will be converted into luxury apartments.

Ana is right about the housing tax issue. San Francisco has lots of vacant officec space ready to be converted to housing. 👍

San Francisco hasn't been "progressive" or "far-left" for a very long time. For example, in 2016, they were all for Hillary, and not a high percentage voted for Bernie (not that I'm saying he's "far-left").

Drug screenings aren't cheap. Unless the overlap between addiction and welfare recipients is substantial, they're gonna lose money in the net.

Correction on conservative POV on drug testing, they don't want to give any treatment, but to kick off welfare and criminalize them. That's the difference I hear here.

I really do not care about Progressive policies or Conservative policies. What really matters is results! Drug addicts that go through rehab programs have a relapse rate of 95%. I hope these people will be given the support they need afterwards to stay sober.

I agree with the drug testing for welfare. Im not knocking anyone for using. I dont think the government should be codependent

I don’t live in San Francisco but I do work at SFO and I am glad to see that the citizens now want a change

You guys are so ignorant. This isn’t the first time there have been crackdowns on crime and homelessness in SF. 90s Matrix Program anyone?

Lol go to San Francisco and see for yourself then criticize my district and AOC when you NEVER BEEN HERE lol. Also I agree with San Fran voters

There should be a path to home OWNERSHIP. If all you do is pour more millions into pockets of property owners who made bad business decisions (created over-priced business property over-stock) Then your so-called homeless solution will result in the some getting rich off government intervention ( property owners) and the homeless remaining disenfranchised. There should be a PATH TO HOME OWNERSHIP.

By the way, companies are closing because all business is going online. Theyre using these "problems" as an excuse to close.

Drug screening for those with tax cuts over 200,000 😊😂

You get less than 200 a month in NYC it's not even worth the trouble here

As someone who spent four years studying urban development, including housing policy, I feel no shame in saying these policies will absolutely fail. For one they arguably violate federal precedent unless SF has enough shelter beds for every homeless person in California. Two even assuming the policies are successful they will only be successful in SF which which will cause more of the homeless population in the region to be attracted to SF and provide surrounding cities with an easy excuse to offload their homeless population on SF. Regarding the developer tax incentive that is likely to fail as well simply because there is no incentive for developers to build/remodel for low-income/homeless population, while there is a massive financial incentive to build high-end apartments and condominiums. If there is to be a solution to the housing crisis it will need to come from the national, state, and local levels all working in sync.

You are talking about competence and merit. That has been destroyed in America, starting with the education system. Similarly the idea of testing, and making changes based on real results.

It's the failed policies that have resulted in mass homelessness. Obviously that isn't the homeless drug addicts fault so we shouldn't be taking the incompetency out on the poor. Why would anyone think it is okay to allow officers to review bodycams before writing the report? That's crazy.

Im waiting for a "why I left the left" video from Anna.

well look at Ana being all red-pilled and stuff

Use state money to rebuild this, CA. Your circus, your clowns.

#BackTheBlue

California turning Red??

Guys there's a housing crisis in the city and a homeless crisis because of high housing costs... these proposals....(Except for the drones and police increase) These proposals make sense...

This is scary. Social media rage baiting has ushered in a golden age of conservatism. Petty crime being played on a loop has convinced my peers that crime is out of control, and that they need a gun. It reminds me of when we had 12 years of Regan/Bush.

15% crazy on both sides and the rest of us live in the middle. It was only a matter of time before the ship begins to right itself.

Do the homeless get to vote in SF

mayor breed sounds like a horse at the Kentucky race track, ( Insert what ever horse joke you want here)

Intervention to help fellow human beings and - in turn - the community, I'm all for it! The matter shouldn't be a 'right' or 'left' issue. It's just betterment across the board. As long as it is humane, I'm all for it!

They shouldn’t do cash assistance. Should be cards. Can only be used for bills and food. I don’t live there but it might be worth a shot. See if anything works or not. We have tried to do low to no sentences. It didn’t seem to work. We need to be more in the middle. To fr right and left. I am for it!! I hope some of it works!!!

San Francisco isn't even in the top ten of cities with drug overdoses. Why does she throw that out there? DRUG OVERDOSES ARE GOING UP EVERYWHERE!! Conservative small towns too. Mediocre op ed work.

This is a good start

When you screw up a beautiful city like SF so bad, you are forced to make major changes to attract business and people back to the city.

Holy shit! Another one! Keep it up Anna, and i might just re-subscribe.

Trump gonna win San Francisco..😂😂

"Right Wing pivot": when you say publicly you're against people dying from ODs on the sidewalk and stores being looted. I support you Ana.

Voted against the tax incentive. My problem is they will get a tax break but realistically won’t have affordable housing. Macy’s is closing 120 stores not just in SF.

Ana: You are the best- great ideas and commentary.

I live here. This is not going to help at all. Bet

This, not the ideology, is the appeal of channels like TYT to me. The willingness to challenge the ideas of one's own audience, instead of kowtowing to those who haven't grown out of wanting their own preconceptions reinforced.

So adding a level of accountability is now "conservative"...???

I’ve lived in San Francisco for the last 17 years, nothing about this is conservative, I hate that people are even using that word. Things were so far left, and so relaxed, police, looking the other way, allowing burglaries, car, break-ins, and robberies to happen without any penalty, the fact that we’re finally just going back to normal, and providing a basic level of justice once again, and people are saying this is conservative?! San Francisco has gone from extremely ultra liberal, to just plain liberal.

Able bodied people should work. After one out of wedlock child no more money. Send the massage that it’s your responsibility To provide a living for yourself.

Great take from Anna.

Between the bastions of the far right and far left lies a vast realm known as "common sense".

$700 a month pays my rent, car insurance, health insurance, phone, gas, and electric.