San Francisco engages thousands of unhoused people in encampments each year by offering shelter and services. The City has made substantial investments in taking a compassionate services-first approach and providing permanent supportive housing, shelter, and services to people experiencing homelessness. We are doing the work and continuing to house and…

San Francisco has undergone a significant expansion of support for early education and childcare in the last year. In April, I provided a one-year update on our Children and Family Recovery Plan. The highlights of that update, which you can read here, included establishing the new San Francisco Department of…

My proposed budget is built on delivering the basics that our residents deserve and our City needs. This includes our need to focus on public safety. While we are closing a massive deficit, it’s critical that we still focus on making San Francisco a safe and just city for all. …

One of the frustrations we all have with government is when it moves too slow. We create all these rules and steps, we create hoops for everyone to jump through to do the most basic thing. And too often our solution to a difficult problem is to add more process…

San Francisco is a city that thrives on creating opportunities. We want our kids growing up here to have access to the world-class jobs we are creating. We want our families to be able to enjoy the incredible parks and open spaces we’ve created. We are where the next big…

As someone who grew up in San Francisco, I know what an amazing City this is to be a kid in. I benefitted from our public schools and the strong community networks that helped lift me out of poverty and set me on the path of going to college. …

The recent passage of our $25 million Police Supplemental was just a step in what we need to do to continue addressing public safety issues in our City, and in particular, challenges we’ve been facing in the Tenderloin. To get that emergency budget funding for police overtime, we had support…

A little less than two months ago, I gave my State of the City and rolled out our Roadmap to Downtown San Francisco’s Future, a strategic effort to face the complexities of our post-pandemic economy. But just as importantly, it is our commitment to the future of San Francisco. As…

Over the last three years, we’ve undergone significant efforts to improve how we support opening and operating a small business in San Francisco. We opened our new Permit Center, which brings all of the permitting agencies for small businesses (as well as for housing construction and special events) into one…