HANC President Tes Welborn received a commendation from Supervisor Dean Preston for her work in providing hot meals for homeless youth. Tes cooks and coordinates community volunteers providing hot meals for the Homeless Youth Alliance, Monday through Friday. She urges others to continue helpting neighbors, finding additional ways to help, and to keep asking, "Why are so many people unhoused?"
Membership Meetings: 2nd Thursdays ~ 7-9pm
Park Branch Library, 1833 Page St, SF, CA 94117 (except August)
HANC Member Meeting - May 2021
One of the better sources of information for Covid-19 from a medical perspective comes from UCSF. Here’s a link to a recent video:
This is the description provided: “In this UCSF Medical Grand Rounds presentation (May 7, 2020), UCSF experts provide an update on the epidemiology and virology for COVID-19, prospects for drugs and vaccines, and the role of biopharmaceutical companies. We also hear a brief report from a UCSF physician who is part of a volunteer group of 21 faculty and nurses working in the Navajo Nation. The session is hosted by UCSF Department of Medicine chair Bob Wachter. ”
The explanatino continues with a description of each section of the video and links to the weekly Covid-19 updates since March 19 (click on "SHOW MORE" at the bottom of the description).
We will try to keep this article on our website updated with the weekly link from UCSF
By Jaime Michaels, HANC Board Member
Almost three weeks after Mayor Breed declared a state of emergency in San Francisco in response to COVID-19 (“virus”), on March 16, six Bay Area counties with a total of 6.7 million residents issued orders aimed to prevent further spread of the virus. The City and County of San Francisco’s order requires residents to “shelter in place” (i.e., stay at home) through April 7 or, if deemed necessary, longer. At the time of issuance, these orders were the strictest measures of their kind in the continental U.S. On March 19, Governor Newsom issued a similar order for the entire state as have other states, counties, and cities around the country. (For more information, see: City and County of San Francisco Order of the Health Officer No. C19-07 at tinyurl.com/waddyqv.)
San Francisco residents are now practically on a total lockdown at home and regular commercial activity has changed dramatically. For homeless individuals, the order effectively exempts them from the shelter in place requirement but urges them to find shelter through the affected period. The order allows residents to leave home to work in certain “essential” businesses and services, and to engage in “essential activities,” including shopping for food, home, and medical items, getting take-out food, caring for pets, visiting banks and gas stations, doing laundry, and exercising outdoors. “High-risk” individuals and those with significant health conditions are urged not to leave home except when seeking or receiving medical care.
By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member
The April issue of the HANC Voice is being distributed door-to-door in our neighborhood because we can't hold our usual neighborhoo0d meeting at the Library but we still want to be in touch with you. . This is the first time in fifty years HANC has not met. We miss our neighbors’ thoughts and opinions on issues of importance to all of us.
We will do door to door distribution of the VOICE until we can all meet again. It’s our way to stay in touch.
This issue will list information of importance to all of us in this period of world-wide challenge. In addition to that information that is aimed at things individuals can do to make their own and others’ lives better, the HANC Board also understands that at this time we must continue to join with others and raise a collective voice to assert policies needed for the most vulnerable among us: tenants with little or no income and our homeless neighbors.
By Richard Ivanhoe, HANC Board Member
We are distributing the April issue of the Haight-Ashbury Voice more widely than usual, and anticipate reaching some who are unfamiliar with HANC. Therefore, we are providing this description.
HANC, the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, is a neighborhood group whose mission is to aid and encourage the people of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood to work through democratic means and in a spirit of neighborliness, mutual respect and goodwill toward the improvement and enrichment of life and living conditions in their neighborhood. Formally, we are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, overseen by a Board of Directors.
HANC’s first meeting took place in October, 1959, and our bylaws were adopted in March, 1960. Our boundaries, per our bylaws, are roughly Arguello to Divisadero, and Fulton to 17th Street. We are a membership organization. Membership is open to anyone who resides or owns property or a business within our boundaries, and to individuals who work, live, or provide a service in the Haight-Ashbury. You can clike the "Join Us" link at the top right of this website to join.
By Christin Evans, HANC Board Member
Yes! Haight Street is open for business. With all the boarded up windows, you may be wondering what's happening with Haight Ashbury's local businesses. Very suddenly (less than 24 hours!), most Haight street businesses received word that we would need to shutter our businesses at least until April 7th and quite possibly longer. Essential businesses including Gus' Haight Street Market and Roberts Hardware would remain open but most retailers were ordered to close by Mayor Breed's emergency executive order in response to the Covid-19 health crisis. Restaurants were told they could offer take out and delivery services but many saw their sales from foot traffic drop ~70%.
By Calvin Welch, HANC Board Member
Turnout in the March Democratic Presidential primary was off the hook, with a whopping overall neighborhood turnout of 72%, with 70% of the voters casting ballots in the North Panhandle precincts, 71% turnout in the progressive voting Flatland precincts and a whopping 75% turnout in the Hill precincts. The turnout vastly exceeded the 2016 Primary vote in which 59% of the voters in the Haight Ashbury cast ballots, with 58% turnout in the North Panhandle, 61% in the Flats and 59% in the Hill precincts. (Charts for voter turnout, Presidential vote, and Props D and E turnout are at the end of this article).
By Tes Welborn, HANC President
On Sunday afternoon, February 23rd, Supervisor Dean Preston and staff hosted a District 5 public meeting about Navigation Centers -- what they are and what they do. The meeting was held at Gateway High School. Other speakers included a young man, Justin, who has benefited from a Navigation Center, Steve Good, director of 5 Keys, the service provider at the Bayview Navigation Center, Christin Evans, from the Prop C campaign, and Jennifer Friedenbach, Coalition on Homelessness. Captain Engler, from Northern Station, and a lieutenant from the Park state were also available for questions.
- FBI Officer Involved Shooting Discussed at February Community Gathering
- Haight Street Art Center's Stanley Mouse Retrospective Through April 5
- HANC Begins Livestream of Monthly Meetings
- February 13 at HANC: Propositions D and E
- Schools and Communities First Initiative
- Note From District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston