San Francisco, CA
Fifth & Mission podcast: Understanding San Francisco’s chaotic, controversial redistricting process
The chaotic effort continues amid protests and accusations of political bias and racism.
The duty power tasked with drawing San Francisco’s new supervisor districts has missed its deadline, and it is not clear how the method — marked by protests and outbursts at public conferences — will play out.
On this episode of the Fifth & Mission podcast, reporter J.D. Morris joins host Cecilia Lei to type out the advanced and controversial story of drawing a brand new map, which has drawn accusations of political bias and racism.
Photograph above: Neighborhood members wait to talk to the Redistricting Job Drive, which is redrawing San Francisco’s supervisorial district boundaries.