The mayor joined KTVU to discuss the state of the city.is offering new funding to support small business owners in the city's high crime areas, Mayor Lamar Thorpe announced on Monday.
"We're specifically targeting specific census tracks that see high crime in our community, and we're reinvesting in some of those businesses, particularly towards facade improvement," Thorpe said in an interview with KTVU. "We're all familiar with the old ‘broken-window theory,’ and if we leave some of these old businesses the way they are, some of these old merchants, without the economic investment that they need, they are going to continue to be targets of crime.
As for when businesses will see the cash, city leaders are hoping it can be within the next few months.