By Eleni Balakrishnan : missionlocal – excerpt
After two years of praise and acknowledgement for their strong pandemic response, community organizers are suddenly feeling like the mayor’s new budget has pulled the rug out from under them.
In the midst of a new surge, the mayor’s budget cuts all funding for Covid-19 response work provided by community hubs, which focus on providing testing and vaccines for neighborhoods and communities heavily impacted by the pandemic and in need of resources.
Community leaders who run the centers in neighborhoods like the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Lakeview-Outer Mission, were surprised in a Zoom call last week to hear that they would lose their funding at the end of the month…(more)
Unbelievable.