#gavin-newsom-aides

#gavin-newsom-aides

The policy will give city staff and police more clarity on how to handle people living on the streets and in RVs, and keep public spaces accessible.

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez for refusing what her lawyers called 'the dangerous politicization of science,' Newsom to help modernize California's public health system. He also gave a job to Debra Houry, the agency's former chief science and medical officer, who had resigned in protest hours after Monarez's firing.

First, a bit of history. Just months after being elected mayor of San Francisco in 2004, Newsom unveiled a plan he said would clear city streets of homeless people in 10 years. Fourteen years later, while running for governor, Newsom declared that homelessness in San Francisco had never been worse. He said eradicating homelessness would be a high priority and promised to appoint a homeless czar who could cut through red tape and intergovernmental friction to get the job done.

"I am disappointed," said Heather Hood, who helms the nonprofit housing provider Enterprise Community Partners' Northern California work.