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SF’s June Ballot Money Meets Tenderloin Drug-Reform Work
Friday, May 8, 2026 · 4 min
San Francisco’s reform fights are moving from slogans to machinery: millions are flowing into ballot measures on taxes, bonds, and term limits, while Tenderloin leaders who lost family to drugs are building addiction services and pushing legislative change.
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San Francisco’s reform fights are moving from slogans to machinery: millions are flowing into ballot measures on taxes, bonds, and term limits, while Tenderloin leaders who lost family to drugs are building addiction services and pushing legislative change.
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- Explore: $8M going to S.F. ballot measures - Mission Local — Mission Local
Explore: $8M going to S.F. ballot measures - Mission Local $5.8 million is going towards just two measures on the ballot for the San Francisco June election. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sign up About three-quarters of all the money pouring into San Francisco’s June 2 election is going toward just four measures on the…
- They lost family to drugs. Now they work to save lives. — The Tenderloin Voice
They lost family to drugs. Now they work to save lives. ## One year after a loss, these TL leaders are creating the addiction services they wished existed A tragic death galvanized them to help people grappling with drug use and mental illness. Now they’re proposing legislative change. ## The Tenderloin goes to Sacramento to protect its farmers’ market Funding for a food access program that…