My latest column: It just got a little easier to run a small business in SF—it no longer costs hundreds & takes months to put tables outside a cafe. But we need to fight to keep this incremental progress- some supes still think more red tape is the answer. sfchronicle.com/opinion/emilyh…

fake it till you make it?

you might think #SF is meh or it sucks. turns out there's often a not-great reason for why things are the way they are. because of recent reforms, merchants no longer have to get pain in the ass permits and pay fees for outdoor seating. guess what happened next

Building more housing should be the #1 priority for anyone running on an Affordability platform.

Thank you to the 7 members of the Board of Supervisors who understand that for San Francisco to have a bright future we need to zone for & build the homes that are essential for that future.

Spot on. Vote for Senator Scott Wiener if you want to build more housing. Vote for Connie Chan 陳詩敏 if you do not want to build more housing. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/con…

Good news, paying for the bus just got way easier, especially for our out of town guests and tourists

Build more housing, yes in my backyard

With that, Mayor Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉's Family Zoning Plan is now law! San Francisco just took a big step towards allowing for more types of homes to be built again throughout much of the Westside, including the Richmond District: bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n…

No. Rest. Till the damn homes. ARE BUILT! 🏗️🏗️🌇🌇

it’s a simple fact: the only way to durably lower rents for everyone is to build a lot more housing. this has been so successful in pro-housing cities, that market rate rents have fallen below subsidized “affordable” housing

“Looking back, we’re likely to see 2025 as the year California finally got serious about housing.” Alfred Twu

Yes in my backyard, including market rate housing

YIMBY pro-housing policies are one of the most powerful ways to fight back against landlords jacking up your rent

2/ Aaron Peskin has always claimed to be a "progressive" politician but he's primarily a major landlord whose legislative record is mostly anti-housing bureaucracy to keep his rental income high.

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

AB 2011 + State Density Bonus Law for the win. This is one of the commercial corridors upzoned by Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉's Family Zoning Plan. The developer evidently did not like what it offered, opting to proceed under state law instead (despite costly labor requirements).