Willie Lewis Brown Jr. is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004,the first African American to hold that office.
Richard Duane Hongisto was a businessman,politician,sheriff,and police chief of San Francisco,California,and Cleveland,Ohio.
Arthur Christ Agnos is an American politician. He served as the 39th mayor of San Francisco,California from 1988 to 1992 and as the Regional Head of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 2001.
Union Square is a 2.6-acre (1.1-hectare) public plaza bordered by Geary,Powell,Post,and Stockton Streets in downtown San Francisco,California. "Union Square" also refers to the central shopping,hotel,and theater district that surrounds the plaza for several blocks. The area got its name because it was once used for Thomas Starr King rallies and support for the Union Army during the American Civil War,earning its designation as a California Historical Landmark. Despite its declining profile,Union Square in San Francisco is still a major retail hub for the city.
Jeffrey Gordon Adachi was an American attorney,pension reform advocate,and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019.
The Coalition on Homelessness is an American homeless advocacy and social justice organization that focuses on creating long-term solutions to homelessness,poverty,and housing issues in San Francisco,California. Founded in 1987,the group also founded the newspaper Street Sheet and the Community Housing Partnership. It is based on Turk Street in the Tenderloin district.
Susan Leal is an American water utility consultant and the co-author of the book Running Out of Water. Formerly,she was the General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission,San Francisco Treasurer,and a San Francisco supervisor.
The San Francisco Police Department began operations on August 13,1849 during the California Gold Rush in San Francisco,California,under the command of Captain Malachi Fallon.
David Onek was the former executive director of the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law. He formerly served as Senior Fellow and founding Executive Director at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He is also the host of the Criminal Justice Conversations Podcast. In 2011,Onek ran unsuccessfully for District Attorney of San Francisco.
Mark E. Farrell is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th Mayor of San Francisco from January 23 to July 11,2018. Before his appointment as mayor,he served on the Board of Supervisors for nearly two terms,representing District 2.
Rose Lan Pak was a political activist in San Francisco,California,noted for her influence on city politics and power in the Chinatown community. Pak served as a consultant for the San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce and organizer of the Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco.
Edwin Mah Lee was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco from 2011 until his death in 2017.
The San Francisco Independent was the largest non-daily newspaper in the United States. It helped to popularize the free newspaper as a business model at the beginning of the 21st century,and also rescued one of the city's two major daily newspaper,the afternoon / evening San Francisco Examiner. The efforts of the Fang Family through its purchase to keep it from being shut down a century and a half later by the descendent Hearst Communications media empire,after they bought the longtime morning competitor,the San Francisco Chronicle with its De Young family ownership in 2000 from the remaining family ownership members.
London Nicole Breed is an American politician who is the 45th mayor of San Francisco,serving since 2018. She was supervisor for District 5 and was president of the Board of Supervisors from 2015 to 2018.
Nathan Ballard is a U.S. Democratic strategist and attorney. He was the communications director for the governor of California,Gavin Newsom,when Newsom was the 42nd mayor of San Francisco. He is a longtime friend and advisor to Newsom. He sat on the board of directors of The Representation Project,Jennifer Siebel Newsom's nonprofit organization. Ballard had close ties with the 43rd mayor of San Francisco,Ed Lee. He was an advisor to Mark Farrell,the 44th mayor of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Bay Area comprises nine northern California counties and contains five of the ten most expensive counties in the United States. Strong economic growth has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs,but coupled with severe restrictions on building new housing units,it has resulted in an extreme housing shortage which has driven rents to extremely high levels. The Sacramento Bee notes that large cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles both attribute their recent increases in homeless people to the housing shortage,with the result that homelessness in California overall has increased by 15% from 2015 to 2017. In September 2019,the Council of Economic Advisers released a report in which they stated that deregulation of the housing markets would reduce homelessness in some of the most constrained markets by estimates of 54% in San Francisco,40 percent in Los Angeles,and 38 percent in San Diego,because rents would fall by 55 percent,41 percent,and 39 percent respectively. In San Francisco,a minimum wage worker would have to work approximately 4.7 full-time jobs to be able to spend less than 30% of their income on renting a two-bedroom apartment.
The 2015 San Francisco mayoral election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Mayor of San Francisco,California. Incumbent Mayor Ed Lee won re-election to a second term in office. All local elections in California are nonpartisan
Civic Center Plaza,also known as Joseph Alioto Piazza,is the 4.53-acre (1.83 ha) plaza immediately east of San Francisco City Hall in Civic Center,San Francisco,in the U.S. state of California. Civic Center Plaza occupies two blocks bounded by McAllister,Larkin,Grove,and Carlton B. Goodlett,divided into a north block and south block by the former alignment of Fulton Street. The block north of Fulton is built over a three-story parking garage;the block south of Fulton lies over a former exhibition space,Brooks Hall.
African Americans in San Francisco,California,composed just under 6% of the city's total population as of 2019 U.S. Census Bureau estimates,down from 13.4% in 1970. There are about 55,000 people of full or partial black ancestry living within the city. The community began with workers and entrepreneurs of the California Gold Rush in the 19th century,and in the early-to-mid 20th century,grew to include migrant workers with origins in the Southern United States,who worked as railroad workers or service people at shipyards. In the mid-20th century,the African American community in the Fillmore District earned the neighborhood the nickname the "Harlem of the West," referring to New York City's Harlem neighborhood,which is associated with African American culture.
A special election was held for Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on June 5,2018,to fill the remainder of the term of Ed Lee,who had died in office on December 12,2017. Upon Lee's death,London Breed,President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,became Acting Mayor of San Francisco,but a vote of six supervisors replaced Breed with Supervisor Mark Farrell. The mayoral election was held concurrently with the statewide direct primary election. In San Francisco,the election for the eighth district member of the board of supervisors was also on the ballot.
