London Breed
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40 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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How's things? Well, freedom is fast approaching right now, so... It's almost like I dropped thousands of pounds.
Yes.
Oh. Oh, yes. Pull out those phones, because you guys are going to see a different mayor breed.
Well, it has been a rough ride, but I'm really excited about where we are now as a city. This city has been more fun than it has been in a long time. More fun, you said? More fun. We have closed down streets to have night markets, first Thursdays, events, entertainment zones. Because we need some joy. This city has been a place of, no, you can't do fun things. And we turned it into a city of yes.
We have helped over 20,000 people exit homelessness. We have had a significant decline in our crime rate and one of the lowest homicide rate since the 1960s. I mean, this is the work that we're doing, but we also know there's more to be done. It's a major city.
Cities have challenges, but we are finally in a place where we build the capacity, we change the laws, we made the hard decisions, and I just believe that the best is yet to come. The biggest thing that we do struggle with is the perception. So we need people to come to San Francisco, or people who live here, to tell their own story of San Francisco.
You didn't take a Waymo where you didn't have anybody to talk to?
Well, it's interesting. They become a tourist attraction in our city. But you just said people do a lot of communication, but not conversation. So I don't know if I'm going to take away Mo.
I want somebody to talk to.
I'm going to say this with a lot of pride. There was over $20 million spent on my race to unseat me.
I don't know where the money came from, but there was a lot of money. I think that things were not happening as quickly as people wanted to see them happen. And that is something I take full responsibility for because this government and how bureaucracy works, it is not designed to make things move quickly.
I think I do mean a lot of the board of supervisors. And now this new mayor is getting a good board. I'm just so mad about it. People say, oh my goodness, your response to the pandemic was amazing. And yeah, it's because we cut bureaucracy. We had emergency authority to make decisions without the bull crap that gets in the way of trying to make things move.
And then we go back to, you know, a post pandemic world after we come out of that, we needed to be able to act quickly, dealing with the rise in fentanyl overdose deaths and the emptying of our shelter beds and the need to build more houses. We had all these things we needed to do and could not move fast enough.
And the good news is we worked very hard to build our capacity to make the necessary changes to use technology and to really help combat these issues and think about it. our crime rates have consistently been dropping. I mean, even car break-ins are lower than 10,000, and this is a major city. It hasn't been that low since 2015.
Things happen in all major cities.
But don't you think of San Francisco as a major city? Okay, Steven. You better watch out what restaurant you eat in. Somebody might put something in your food.
And they were dying elsewhere. Listen, let me just say this. We shut down early. We made really hard decisions. It was not easy. And the people of San Francisco really came together to try and save lives. I was really proud of how people went grocery shopping for folks. Folks showed up to work in the hospitals. And people sacrificed to make that happen. And so I'm very proud of that.
But a lot of people did leave. And they were talking a lot of crap when they were leaving San Francisco. But you know what? Many of those people are back. Because this is $34 billion in venture capitalist investment of the top 20 AI, artificial intelligence companies in the world. Eight are right here in San Francisco. Five million square feet of office lease sign.
In San Francisco, 70% of the new office space is by new companies and AI. People are coming back to San Francisco because they know this is where they're going to be successful despite what people try to say about the city. It is still where people want to be.
But it has less than a million people, so I totally understand that.
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