Our platform
Opportunity for Everyone
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Support Housing Now, not Housing First. Build enough shelter capacity to house all San Francisco residents who become homeless.
Expand Homeward Bound program to reunite individuals who’ve come from other cities (and who are now homeless in San Francisco) with their communities.
Reduce funding of harm reduction programs to meet specified emergency/bridge needs.
Enforce laws against public intoxication, drug use, and urban camping. Invest in compulsory treatment programs based on inpatient “campus” model with wraparound services and behavioral standards.
Lower threshold for mental health conservatorships.
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Double the size of SFPD to 3,500 sworn officers to achieve parity with police-per-capita numbers in London, Paris, and other Western European cities.
Launch competitive Police for America program to recruit and train high-quality candidates to and for SFPD. In exchange for a five-year commitment and successful completion of a pre-academy training program during college, SFPD will pay off recruits’ undergraduate student loans.
Give the mayor sole authority to hire and fire the police chief.
Disband the Police Commission and replace it with a standards-enforcing, not policy-making, body.
Support challenges to lenient judges at the ballot box.
Support efforts to repeal Propositions 47 and 57, which make it more difficult to prosecute criminals.
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“KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid.” Complexity, opacity, and bloat lead to corruption, waste, and a two-tiered system.
Cut the number of commissions by at least two thirds and transfer authority back to the mayor.
Add between two and four at-large seats to the Board of Supervisors.
Mandate independent audits under the City Charter.
Ban add-backs from the municipal budget.
Enforce the firewall between City contractors and elected officials.
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Support market-based solutions to reduce the cost of housing and make it possible for the young and the working class to make San Francisco their home.
Eliminate height restrictions along major Muni Light Rail and BART corridors.
Eliminate discretionary review of new residential developments that meet specified criteria (“by-right permitting”).
Mandate Planning Commission decisions on all new residential developments within one year of completed application.
Allow increased residential development on commercial-zoned parcels, as well as industrial and production, distribution, and repair districts.
Pass a Standard Environmental Requirements Ordinance to dramatically increase the number of new residential developments categorically exempt under CEQA.
Incentivize office-to-residence conversions and revitalize downtown with university partnerships.
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Civic education, not political indoctrination. Bring back 8th grade algebra.
Preserve merit-based admissions to Lowell High School.
Empower teachers and administrators to enforce high behavioral and academic standards.
Encourage charter school innovation with the Portfolio Model.
Make school choice available to all San Francisco families by reallocating SFUSD’s budget to fund vouchers, in an amount at or above the level of current per-pupil spending and redeemable at any school within San Francisco, for every K-12 student in the city.
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Build the Southern Crossing.
Implement alternating skip-stop service for high-traffic Muni bus routes.
Implement the M-Market Plan.
Lower parking costs, increase parking capacity, generate revenue, create walkable corridors, and increase foot traffic to local business by removing street-level parking spots and converting abundant, unused lots into City-owned and -operated parking structures and/or requiring transit corridor high-rise developments (see “Housing,” below) to include parking garages on floors above street level.
Fight extortionary practices by eliminating discretionary review of new business applications that meet specified criteria (“by-right permitting”).
Concentrate all permitting and approvals for new small businesses in a single application and mandate approval within 90 days of completed submission.
Repeal Proposition C (2018), a poorly designed tax increase that caused multiple large employers to flee the city.