DOZENS OF ADVOCATES for the unhoused showed up to the San Francisco Commission Streamlining Task Force meeting Wednesday to speak out against a plan to eliminate several committees related to homelessness. 

“Many of these bodies were created over time with a ton of input,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness during public comment. “A lot of social change has come out of them, like a lot of oversight and accountability that, frankly, would not be there if it wasn’t for these bodies’ existence,” she said. 

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.