San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced she has appointed a bisexual woman to lead the city s homeless department.
Shireen McSpadden will become director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing beginning May 1, according to a news release. McSpadden currently serves as the executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, which serves over 70,000 seniors, adults with disabilities, caregivers, and veterans every year.
Joining McSpadden in HSH leadership will be Noelle Simmons, currently a deputy director at the Human Services Agency, and Cynthia Nagendra, currently the executive director at the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, the release stated. Simmons, who has led the Economic Support and Self-Sufficiency Division at the Human Services Agency for the last six years, will serve as the chief deputy at HSH. Nagendra, a nationally recognized expert on homelessness, will lead long range planning efforts for the departme
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Like Other Black Women Mayors, Boston s Janey Sees Life Experience As A Tool
Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey flanked by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and San Francisco mayor London Breed.
Photographs by Getty Images, illustration by Emily Judem/GBH News
Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey, now serving the remaining seven months of former Mayor Marty Walsh s term while running for a full term herself, has joined a small but growing group of Black women leading U.S. cities.
Among the nation’s 50 largest municipalities, which includes Boston, several Black women serve as chief executives. Two mayors – Lori Lightfoot of Chicago and London Breed of San Francisco – will take part in an MIT-sponsored conversation on equitable cities April 8.
Mayor Breed Taps New Director of Department of Homelessness As Crisis Continues Spiraling
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
McSpadden is expected to assume the role on May 1, as the Examiner first reported. The position has been technically vacant for over a year, since the departure of the founding head of the department, Jeff Kositsky. Kositsky moved over to a new role about two weeks before pandemic lockdowns began last March, taking over the city s Healthy Streets Operation Center a collaboration with the police department to address the growing encampment problem, which, as we all know, only grew larger in the last year.
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington have been reprieved in San Francisco.
The city’s school board voted unanimously Tuesday night to reverse a cancel culture decision made months earlier to remove names deemed to be connected to racism, slavery, or oppression from 44 schools in the area, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The San Francisco Board of Education said it wanted to avoid frivolous litigation from a current lawsuit.
The various school names honored former presidents like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere and author Robert Louis Stevenson.
The name of contemporary U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also was going to be axed from a school over an issue involving a damaged Confederate flag she allegedly replaced outside of City Hall while she was San Francisco s mayor in the 1980s.
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