It is only appropriate to bring this back to the top of the feed. 🥳

There’s a new right-turn-only lane on MLK to turn into the Music Concourse. Very smart. Hopefully this means cars going into the garage won’t block traffic going straight, or the 44 bus which is allowed to turn right from the second lane. 🎉

Today we officially gave AI technology to 30,000 city employees, giving them tools to better serve the people of San Francisco. San Francisco is the global home of AI, and now, we’re putting that innovation to work for the people of this city. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is

Reminder - if you’re a developer who wants to make government work better - let’s chat this Thursday: promise-pay-5332344.hs-sites.com/engineering-fo…

New: SF city attorney warned a planning commissioner about voting on projects involving her past employer she continues to get income from. She ignored them. sfstandard.com/2025/07/15/san…

I love this city, and so does every San Franciscan I talk to. Our new Love Our Neighborhoods permit program will make it easier to turn that love into action. It will now be easier to install a little library, paint a mural, or put in a planter box—with the city supporting the

Yesterday, my administration delivered a series of major legislative wins thanks to our partnership with the Board of Supervisors. The Board passed a responsible budget that moves our city forward, including tens of millions to address homelessness. They voted unanimously to cut

San Francisco has high retail vacancies -- why? It's not just COVID recovery and remote work. It's also SF's uniquely strict planning codes, mandatory ground-floor retail in new buildings, and inflexible rules on re-use. But we can fix it, here's how: growsf.org/research/2025-…

Today, with the help of the entire Board of Supervisors, I signed a legislative package that cuts red tape and bring common-sense changes to our permitting system.    Thanks to this first batch of PermitSF legislation:    ➡️If you want to put out tables and chairs on the sidewalk

One reason San Francisco has so many empty storefronts? We require too much ground-floor retail—even when there’s no demand for it. Seattle took the opposite approach: it reduced its retail space by 1.5 million square feet over the past four years, converting it into new

Apple Cinemas is officially open in the Tenderloin! And what better way to celebrate than by watching the new Superman movie with the Boys and Girls Club! We’re thrilled to welcome Apple Cinemas to the neighborhood, bringing wholesome, family-friendly fun for all to enjoy.

Does cutting unnecessary red tape lead to anything? Yes - yes it does. ⁦Danny Sauter 李爾德⁩ and I pushed to eliminate barriers to formula retail on Van Ness and slowly but surely we are seeing movement. sfist.com/2025/07/09/for…

We’ve heard this same story over… and over… and over again in San Francisco. You want to lower housing costs in SF? Cool cool. Build more housing then. The same story, a decade apart:

Since day one, GrowSF has believed the challenges San Francisco faced could be overcome with the love, devotion, and passion of the people who live here. Here is Notion's story about why they chose San Francisco. growsf.org/news/2025-07-2…

At Mach 1.7, Overture outflies Earth’s rotation. So you can have breakfast in London… and fly to New York… for breakfast. And then to San Francisco just in time for breakfast. In fact if you just keep flying west you can keep having breakfast indefinitely.

The power of flipping a few seats in SF this last election. Sauter and Mahmood replaced anti-housing supervisors and this Board doesn’t oppose more housing!!

In 2023, of the 3,008 people who applied to SFPD, 72 were admitted to the academy, and just 40 graduated. Why is it so hard to hire police in San Francisco? Find out why below 👇 growsf.org/research/2025-…

Here's the first of my two essays for Niskanen Center's "party of abundance" series. ⤵️ In the piece, David Schleicher & I argue that big-city YIMBYs should endeavor to forge a cross-issue, party-like faction & drive an urban quality of life agenda. GrowSF is the model. 🧵/24

As GrowSF has shown, there's a lot you can do just w/ shoe-leather, smarts, and committed donors. Their Nov. 2024 online voter guide was visited by 181,000 unique viewers, equal to about 35% of the registered voters in S.F.! /15 growsf.org/impact-report-…

We're building satellites in San Francisco.