Unlike seemingly every other mayor in the country, San Francisco’s London Breed was not interested in playing Amazon’s HQ2 game.
“I got enough to worry about,” she said on the latest episode of Recode Decode with Kara Swisher.
Breed’s shortlist of worries includes a homelessness epidemic, mental health care reform, public drug use, streets so dirty she had to convene a “poop patrol,” a shortage of affordable housing for middle-class workers, and policymakers who would be happy to see more housing built so long as it doesn’t cast a shadow on a public park.
But as she approaches the end of her first year in her office, Breed also has a valuable card to play: San Francisco is a city with a low unemployment rate and many skilled workers, so Breed can pressure their prospective Big Tech employers to be part of the solution.
“It wasn’t necessarily a tech company, but I had a company in my office who wanted to expand, and usually most mayors would be really excited…
