Newsflash

The day after HANC met last month to dicuss concerns over City College's financial and accreditation future, the private ACCJC accrediting commisson for community and junior colleges announced that it had reaffirmed CCSF's accreditation for 7 years.

Every few years, when the neglect of the needs of homeless San Franciscans produces obvious civic distress, desperate politicians avoid blame by placing some “common sense” measure on the ballot to “get tough” with homeless people: “Care Not Cash” in 2002 and “Sit Lie” in 2010 were measures that promised to end homelessness by “getting tough” with homeless people. Both have clearly failed,

This year it’s Proposition Q, making illegal tenting illegal again!

This truly “Trumpian” solution must be rejected, simply to break our local politicians’ bad habits.

Tenting is already illegal in San Francisco. This proposition is unnecessary.

There are two other measures on this year’s ballot, Props J* and S that will provide resources needed to address the unmet needs of our homeless neighbors and will actually remove homeless people from the street by providing homes for them.

Vote No on Q

If you really want to get homeless people off the street,

Vote Yes on J* and S.

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council

By Tes Welborn, HANC Board

Once again, Haight area residents voted the HANC Slate, showing that HANC does speak for the Haight! And, again it was clear how progressive the Haight votes compared to the city as a whole [we have more work to do].

The HANC Slate said YES on City College, Affordable Housing, Electing our Elected Officials, Youth Voting, Public Advocate, Senior Dignity Fund, splitting appointments for MTA, an oversight commission for city Housing and Economic Development, non-citizen voting for School Board and preserving industrial and arts spaces.

The HANC Slate said NO on Lennar office development, realtor propositions P & U, making tents illegal again, and micromanaging the police department.

As we look back, in order to look forward, it feels good to know our neighborhood still stands tall for people power.

Any current HANC member wishing to serve as officer or board member may place their name in nomination for 2017.

All officers and board positions are now open. A list of positions and current Board members can be found here.

Nominations can also be made in person at the September and October meetings on the second Thursday of the month. Nominating Committee recommendations will be made in the October Voice and the election will be held at the November meeting.  

The Officers and Board of HANC meet on the third Thursday of each month.

Nominations can be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..