Miabelle Salzano

(KRON) — With Election Day one week away, San Francisco Mayor London Breed talked with KRON4 about several propositions she supports and why. Among them, Proposition C, which would change the city’s tax policy to allow one-time transfer tax exemption for owners of properties converted from commercial to residential use. Opponents of Prop C say that the city could lose up to $50 million in taxes over the next 30 years and that large companies that would take advantage of the new policy don’t need a tax break. Breed said that the city needs to diversify its downtown mixing business, commercial and residential space. “The ability to insert housing with business and office and even dorm room space, and other things that attract people to the downtown area, and make downtown more of a neighborhood is exactly what we’re trying to accomplish with Proposition C,” Breed said. Proposition C would impact about 5 million square feet in downtown San Francisco. Proposition F would deny drug addicts’ access to city public assistance benefits, if they refused treatment. Opponents say coercing people into treatment doesn’t work. Mayor Breed said it’s time to take action against the city’s fentanyl crisis. “We need to take a harder stance and not be an enabler,” Breed said of fentanyl use. “We need to make it easier for treatment, and to provide as many treatment options as we can, and to not continue to go down this path of handing out resources and not trying to use those resources as a way to get people the help and the support that they need.” Proposition E would give the San Francisco Police Department a lot more power and less oversight. Opponents say Prop E would chip away at the police reforms made over the years. Mayor Breed said the reforms have gone too far and have not adjusted to the new challenges the city faces now. “We need to make sure that our officers have all the tools they need to be successful at combatting crime in San Francisco,” Breed said.