Today, the California Department of Housing and Community Development issued a review of San Francisco’s housing policies. This review evaluates our long-standing policies and processes that have contributed to our lengthy approval timelines and high construction costs and mandates the City to do better by passing key legislation and reforms. …

As we work to build back our police staffing by increasing recruitment and retention efforts, we need to be creative in getting more police presence on our streets. My latest proposal will increase footbeats in our neighborhoods by improving our Reserve Police Officer program. Traditionally, our Reserve Police Officers has…

Fentanyl has hit San Francisco — like cities across this country — and it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. More people are getting addicted, and tragically more people are dying. We are offering services and enforcing our laws to shut down open-air drug markets. But we need to do…

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. …