Kelley Cutler

Mayor Lurie’s approach to homelessness… Campaign promise: add 1500 shelter beds Reality: # of Shelter beds (DATE CLOSED) 85 rooms - Adante Hotel (3/26) 96 rooms - Monarch Hotel (3/26) 68 Mission Cabins (10/25) 35 RVs - Candlestick RV park (3/25) 89 rooms - Cova Hotel (2/25)

❗️New EO posted this morning could have enormous impact on nonprofit organizations. The EO, entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity”: · Requires every federal grantee or contractor to agree it is compliant with “anti-discrimination” laws and does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate “anti-discrimination” laws. · Requires agencies and the Attorney General to take appropriate action to advance “anti-DEI” in the private sector. · Requires the Attorney General and agencies to provide recommendations for enforcing “anti-DEI” and end DEI in the private sector. · Requires a report by the Attorney General and agencies to identify up to 9 potential investigations of corporations, large nonprofits or associations, or foundations with assets of $500 million or more or state and local bar and medical associations and higher education institutions with endowments of $1 billion or more. · Requires guidance for all education agencies and higher education institutions that receive federal funds or federal student loan assistance. Beyond the EOs, there is a lot of associated activity in federal agencies: - All federal agencies are directed to quickly shut-down all DEI programs. - All federal workers related to DEI initiatives on paid administrative leave by 5pm today. - Any mention of DEI or LGBTQ+ people is being scrubbed on all agency websites and other internal and external communications. We’re updating our chart often - check back regularly. councilofnonprofits.org/file…

Sunset Fire nailed it

In most cases, the word “homeless” is a lie. It’s usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness.

1/🧵Fact: US doctors reduced #opioid prescribing far more quickly than they increased opioid prescribing in the first place It's almost never reported by the media. Let's see the data, then talk about what happened..

While reporting on a sanitation sweep this morning, LAPD officers handcuffed and searched me, confiscated my belongings and put me in the back of a patrol car for about 45 mins. They said they were going to take me "to the station" but a sergeant let me go w/o any charges.@LATACO

This morning the NYT published an op-Ed by local SF billionaire Michael Moritz bashing Mayoral candidate @AaronPeskin. Moritz has donated >$3M to Peskin’s challenger Mark Farrell. It is so full of lies and misinformation you have to wonder how it got by the editorial board. $$$$

New data shows San Francisco discards 90% of homeless people's belongings it stores after sweeps including wheelchairs, walkers, bicycles, and 100s of bags that often contain medication, IDs, and survival supplies.

Neighborhoods all over SF are seeing homeless camp complaints spike after the city launched aggressive sweeps in the wake of the Grants Pass SCOTUS decision. sfstandard.com/2024/08/23/sa…

Samual an autistic child that can replicate bird calls, this is his school performance 📹 diabetic4one teapaw.org/visualfeastwang/status…

I just received this text from Cassy in Grants Pass: Well, it happened, and it’s horrible. A big gravel lot in the industrial section of Grants Pass is fenced in. It has 2 porta potties, a hand washing station, and 1 dumpster. There is no shade or way to get away from the elements, but they have a security camera. There is no potable water. They can stay for 96 hours, then set up camp somewhere else for at least a day and come back. For the first time, we had to move people there yesterday. I have never seen so many homeless people cry in one day.   Grants Pass actually got worse.

💁‍♀️This Mayor is not a serious person. When called out the futiliy & brutality of her sweeps she ACTUALLY wrote this: “Some want us to do nothing, to let people remain in tents...” No, actually, advocates want you to do something.👇 Let’s recap shall we? sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom practicing what he preaches by helping clean up a homeless encampment. He recently signed an executive order directing state agencies to sweep camps. Services are being offered to homeless. Enablement culture is over.

A must read from @christinevans‼️ Poverty and homelessness is a physically and mentally punishing condition. Homeless sweeps cause trauma, distress, and drive people into isolation. Add in the toxic drug crisis and this is a recipe for disaster. sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/…

Many San Franciscans called for more aggressive homeless sweeps, but now they’re here, we saw their brutality and futility. Executive Editor Jon Steinberg invited me to write this Opinion for the SF Standard 👇 sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/…

This story opens with Castillo explicitly rejecting an offer of shelter. Our teams always lead with services, often making multiple offers of shelter before taking any enforcement action. Allowing people to camp in public rights of way is not safe or humane for anyone involved.

Exclusive: Mayor London Breed issued an executive order Thursday directing all city workers to offer homeless people trips out of the city before providing any other services such as housing or shelter, The Standard has learned. sfstandard.com/2024/08/01/ma…

During a very aggressive sweep, a police officer was heard telling a homeless person that the mayor and Gov. Gavin Newsom say homeless encampments are "no more."