Airbnb co-founder donates $25 million to S.F., Bay Area homelessness programs
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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia says he plans to donate $25 million to two organizations working to combat homelessess in San Francisco and the Bay Area, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday.Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP via Getty Images 2019
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has donated $25 million to help two organizations combat homelessness and help people suffering economically from the pandemic, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday.
The large donation, the second from the short-term home rental company in recent weeks, comes as the call grows for the city’s millionaires and billionaires, many enriched by recent initial public offerings, to help San Francisco as it struggles to fight off and recover from the coronavirus crisis. Both organizations are set to receive $12.5 million.
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Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is staying out of the fraught selection process to fill her Senate seat.
A senior Harris aide told the
Washington Examiner that the California Democrat has discussed the soon-to-be-vacant seat with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is due to appoint her successor, but insists that the selection is up to him. She believes that it is a decision for Gov. Newsom to make. She has communicated that, and she thinks he is going to make the decision that s best for the state, but she does believe it s his decision, this aide said.
Newsom has bemoaned “the stress of having to choose between a lot of friends, to choose between quality candidates and the fact that whoever you pick, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be upset,” and pointed to a full-throttle lobbying effort that kicked up as soon as President-elect Joe Biden tapped Harris as his running mate.
San Francisco administers first COVID-19 vaccine to health care workers Indo-Asian News Service
San Francisco: San Francisco Mayor London Breed has announced that the city has administered the first Covid-19 vaccines to frontline health care workers.
The first vaccines administered at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is part of the initial 12,675 vaccine doses that San Francisco is receiving from the state and federal governments, Xinhua reported.
Antonio Gomez was the first person to receive a Covid-19 vaccine in San Francisco. He is Medical Director of Critical Care Services at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where he has treated the most critically ill Covid-19 patients. Gomez has been on staff at the hospital since 2002, the announcement said Tuesday.