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11/8/2018 Oakland Voters Appear to Favor State's First Vacant Property Tax, Richmond Poised to Defeat Similar Measure | The California Report | … <br />https://www.kqed.org/news/11702378/oakland-voters-appear-to-favor-states-first-vacant-property-tax-richmond-poised-to-defeat-similar-measure 7/11 <br />Proposition E posters appeared all over the city, including on the side of beat-up vans like this one. (Chloe Veltman/KQED) <br />"San Francisco voters have clearly spoken and said that keeping artists in our <br />city and keeping our neighborhoods unique and special are important <br />investments for public dollars," said San Francisco's director of cultural affairs, <br />Tom DeCaigny. <br />The cash injection will support a number of existing and new initiatives. These <br />include providing operating support to nonprofit arts groups of all budget sizes, <br />increasing funding to the city's cultural equity endowment, and allocating <br />funding for the first time to the city's cultural districts. <br />"I am incredibly excited to finally have funding for the Compton <br />Transgender Cultural District," said Honey Mahogany, a San Francisco drag <br />performer, queer rights activist and executive director of the district, one of a