{"id":73511,"date":"2025-11-28T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73511\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:48:38","slug":"baltimore-can-take-a-page-from-san-francisco-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73511\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore can take a page from San Francisco mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great column by Torrey Snow (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/11\/26\/torrey-snow-homeless-housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What a federal shift on housing policy means for Maryland<\/a>,\u201d Nov. 26), and it coincidentally came on the heels of my reading of an article in the New York Times about how San Francisco is addressing the homelessness issue.<\/p>\n<p>One would have to applaud the initiative of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, in a city with a quarter of a million more people than Baltimore. I grew up in Baltimore City (Northeast), and my whole career has been city-based. Mayor Lurie\u2019s approach is a refreshing class study in organization and imagination. My beloved city used to have both \u2014 dollar home lotteries, Harborplace, Flower Mart, hockey under a dome, a clean and safe downtown business district, etc. I would reckon that any urban city administration that would have the competency to tackle homelessness, as Mayor Lurie has displayed thus far, would also have a head start toward what it takes to initiate and manage all the other quality of life issues that come into play in running a city. We can only hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Craten, Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>Add your voice: Respond to this piece or other Sun content by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/opinion\/bal-letter-submission-ngux-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">submitting your own letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A great column by Torrey Snow (\u201cWhat a federal shift on housing policy means for Maryland,\u201d Nov. 26),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[22676,969,16444,4415,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-73511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-baltimore","tag-homeless","tag-lurie","tag-mayor","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}