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San Francisco Youth Commission urges funding for Vote16, youth housing and civics education
Summary
At a Feb. 26, 2020 Budget and Appropriations Committee hearing, the San Francisco Youth Commission pressed for more Department of Elections funding and classroom civics ahead of a planned Vote16 ballot effort, expanded transitional-age youth housing (a 400-unit goal), and funding for Know Your Rights outreach and transit for students.
On Feb. 26, 2020 the San Francisco Budget and Appropriations Committee heard a presentation from the San Francisco Youth Commission laying out preliminary budget and policy priorities for fiscal years 2020–21 and 2021–22.
"It is a central duty of the Youth Commission to report on the unmet needs of youth in San Francisco every year," Calvin Quick, the commission's legislative affairs officer and District 5 representative, told the committee as he opened the commission's presentation.
Commissioners presented three committee-level priorities: civic engagement (including the Vote16 campaign), transformative justice (including Know Your Rights outreach and expanded young adult court capacity), and housing and land use (focused on transitional-age youth, or TAY). Ariana Nasiri, chair of the civic engagement committee, said Vote16 seeks to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in local elections and that the campaign’s success “depends solely on the fortification of education infrastructure” so newly enfranchised youth will be prepared to vote.
Nasiri told…
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