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Diana Josefsson strolled down Geary Boulevard on a recent Monday morning with a box of donuts for the block’s newest residents.
The neighborly gesture was an olive branch. Josefsson was welcoming staff and future clients at the opening day of a new drop-in mental health stabilization center at 822 Geary. It’s the city’s latest effort to address street-level homelessness and crack down on drug-related challenges — issues locals say have been concentrated in the Tenderloin neighborhood for too long.
“We really hope that this is successful for the city in addressing some of the problems which have been pretty horrific since the pandemic,” said Josefsson, who lives around the corner from the new facility in a Lower Nob Hill apartment, where she’s witnessed the neighborhood’s ups and downs…