The mayor of San Francisco, who is up for reëlection next year, is channelling the public’s anger over crime and homelessness.
Is California headed for a right-wing backlash? This question has hovered over the state’s politics for years now, as the public’s frustration with homelessness and property crime has escalated. To date, the evidence has been decidedly mixed.
Breed’s plan demonizes the “service resistant” homeless population that so often becomes the center of any conversation about homelessness in California. These people, the story goes, refuse all government assistance and shelter, and choose instead to take advantage of a liberal city’s lax enforcement laws to openly use drugs and cause public disturbances. In reality, such people make up a small minority of the homeless population.
Haney said that Breed’s proposal was “shockingly unserious for a city facing a horrific and deadly public-health-and-public-safety drug crisis.” He also pointed out what should be obvious to anyone who knows anything about basic economics: “Taking away limited assistance from people who may be sick with an addiction or simply unable to make an appointment and putting them on the sidewalk again will lead to even worse chaos on our streets.
Breed, I imagine, knows all this. We can guess that her motivation for such a silly policy likely comes, instead, from her electoral ambitions. Breed is up for reëlection in 2024, and as Joe Eskenazi of, a San Francisco news site, pointed out last Tuesday, her main challenger, Daniel Lurie, a forty-six-year-old philanthropist and an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, will likely try to compete with her for the moderate vote.
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