SFNext: Fixing Our City

Latest Episodes:

Community Policing: Can an Old Idea Be an Answer for San Francisco? Jul 05, 2022

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Calls to improve public safety have covered a spectrum: At one end, moving funds from police to service workers. On the other, beefing up police budgets and getting more officers on the street. But for decades, departments across the country have been working on a strategy called community policing, intended to improve trust in and collaboration between residents and officers. In San Francisco, different neighborhoods have different relationships with the police force. From Chinatown, where officers were embedded in the Ping Yuen apartments, to the Mission, where a local advocate says they do what they can to not call on police, we look at what the SFPD is doing with community policing. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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“Urgent Care” for Preventing Homelessness Jun 28, 2022

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When you get badly hurt or sick, you know where to go. What if you were in danger of losing your housing? San Francisco and Oakland are developing programs to keep people from becoming homeless in the first place, which is cheaper and easier than helping them once they're on the streets. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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Why a Hole in the Ground Is “The Death in the Mission” Jun 21, 2022

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A 2015 apartment building fire at Mission and 22nd streets killed one person and displaced 50. Seven years later, there’s an empty lot, gathering trash and growing weeds. In the middle of a housing crisis. Why has nothing been built in the years since? The answers to that question are painfully emblematic of some of the biggest problems facing San Francisco. In this debut episode, Fixing Our City host Laura Wenus and producer-reporter Cintia Lopez begin their search for solutions. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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Introducing Fixing Our City Jun 07, 2022

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Host Laura Wenus and producer Cintia Lopez are on a quest to find out why one of the wealthiest and best-educated cities in America, one where most people belong to the same political party and subscribe to the same basic values, has so many intractable problems. And more importantly: Can they be fixed? Join us as we find out, one San Francisco story at a time. Coming June 21 from the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFNext project. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod.

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