The San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight has teamed up with SF Yimby on a hit piece published today, totally mischaracterizing my housing record. The Yimby “report” on which the article is based, is not just one-sided, leaving out the thousands of units of housing I have personally voted to support…

This past week, a plan to expand UCSF’s Parnassus campus was the subject of a six-hour committee hearing at the Board of Supervisors, as well as a resolution authored by my office. …

For over a decade, there’s been no new affordable housing created in the Haight Ashbury. Zero. Housing prices have soared, but no new affordable housing. In fact, we’ve lost affordable housing, with tenants being driven out by evictions and conversions to condos and TICs. …

Last week, the Board of Supervisors moved forward with a revised budget that lays out our city’s spending plan for the new two fiscal years. It was my first budget process since taking office in December, and I wanted to share an update. The budget passed by the Budget and…

There are a lot of changes happening locally and on the state level that impact renters in San Francisco. The state Judicial Council recently decided to allow eviction proceedings to resume in California courts after September 1, and a new state bill signed by the Governor has far-reaching impacts. But…

Here’s some big news from this weekend’s California Democratic Party Convention that won’t make the papers: Delegates voted to pass a resolution expressing “the Support of the California Democratic Party in Protecting Renters from No-Fault Evictions and Illegal or Excessive Rent Increases and Support Rent Stabilization.” You read that right…

Earlier this year, three California Assemblymembers — Richard Bloom, David Chiu & Rob Bonta — took Sacramento by surprise, introducing AB 1506 to repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Recent grassroots organizing by tenant groups laid the groundwork for this important legislation. Since 2015, numerous cities have been organizing…

Allowed to remain in power, Donald Trump and his administration will destroy American democracy. Some are still in denial about this, but fewer after his first week in power, which included rabid spreading of “alternative facts,” an unconstitutional Muslim ban, and the elevation of white supremacist Steve Bannon. This is…

As Midtown Park Apartments celebrated its 51st anniversary this year, residents continue to clash with the City over the future of this 139-unit complex in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. The Midtown Tenants Association is leading a rent strike and tensions are high. …