District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney's resolution calling upon San Francisco Mayor London Breed to declare a state of emergency around the city's drug overdose crisis passed the Board of Supervisors unanimously October 26.
Haney represents District 6, which includes the overdose hotspots of the Tenderloin and South of Market. (He is also running for the state Assembly seat that will soon be vacated when Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu becomes San Francisco city attorney.) He introduced a resolution in September urging the mayoral action, as the Bay Area Reporter reported at the time, in order to pave the way for the city to authorize, fund, and implement safe consumption sites.