San Francisco City Insider

San Francisco City Insider

By San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather KnightNewsGovernment
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San Francisco City Insider episodes

  • An Epidemic of Untreated Mental Illness
    San Francisco is compelling far fewer mentally ill people into mandated treatment. Columnist Heather Knight and City Hall reporter Dominic Fracassa discuss the rise in clearly untreated mental illness on the city's sidewalks. 
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    18 min
  • Treating San Francisco Homelessness Like a Real Emergency
    If San Francisco experienced a major fire or earthquake and thousands of residents were suddenly homeless, would the city form task forces and appoint an expert to study the problem? Kara Zordel, CEO of Community Assessment and Treatment Services, says it's time we treat homelessness like a real emergency too.
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    36 min
  • Into the Weeds with SF's Cannabis Czar
    As director of San Francisco's cannabis office, it's former prosecutor Marisa Rodriguez's job to grow the city's legal pot economy. One of her top priorities? Ensuring victims of the War on Drugs get the first chance to benefit as business-owners now that cannabis is legal in California.
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    48 min
  • What Does London Lack That SF Has in Abundance? Misery on the Streets
    In talking to friends and colleagues who’ve done their own recent traveling, it’s clear to columnist Heather Knight that many cities around the world and the U.S. maintain a better quality of life for residents of all income levels, as well as create a better experience for visitors.
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    19 min
  • Breaking Down the Budget
    How does a city with a $12 billion budget still have so many problems? City Hall reporters Dominic Fracassa and Trisha Thadani break down how the $12 billion budget isn't actually as much as it seems.
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    15 min
  • The Fight Over the Embarcadero Navigation Center
    Everyone agrees San Francisco must address its homelessness problem, but the fierce debate over the Embarcadero navigation center highlights how hard that is to do. Trisha Thadani and Dominic Fracassa on the city's struggle.
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    18 min
  • Poverty and Financial Justice in San Francisco
    For the past two years, San Francisco's Financial Justice Project has been working to eliminate government fees and fines that are particularly painful, and in some cases, ruinous, to the city's poorest. Anne Stuhldreher, who leads the project, sat down with Chronicle reporter Dominic Fracassa to talk about her team's accomplishments and how to keep the government from enriching itself on the backs of its most vulnerable.
    For more on the project: https://sftreasurer.org/financialjustice.
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    35 min
  • Making Sense of the Affordable Housing Mess
    The mayor and a few members of the Board of Supervisors are battling over the best way to build more affordable and teacher housing. Both sides have proposals for the November ballot. We try to untangle the issues.
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    19 min
  • Taxing Wealthy Companies to Solve SF's Problems
    Should San Francisco raise taxes on prosperous companies to help pay for the city's most gripping problems? Between a tax on IPO's, Uber and Lyft and exorbitantly paid CEO's voters will have plenty of options to choose from in November. We break down the three business tax proposals headed to November's ballot, focusing on the most recent one that would raise money for a new mental health care system.
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    17 min

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