In response to the growing crisis of California’s rapidly emptying downtowns and the huge need for new housing statewide, I've introduced AB 1532, the Office to Housing Conversion Act. The bill stops local governments from slowing down or killing office-to-housing conversions by making their approval automatic and imposing strict time limits on all building permits.

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Yes, increasing housing supply does reduce rent.

"Apartment rents fell in every major metropolitan area over the past six months through January, a trend that is poised to continue as the biggest delivery of new apartments in nearly four decades is slated for this year." wsj.com/articles/apart…

NY Times released maps that illustrate in stark terms what we know: the denser the neighborhood. the less the emissions per household.

To fight climate change, we need denser cities, more housing near jobs, biking, walking & transit. It's as critical as anything we can do. "Households in denser neighborhoods close to city centers tend to be responsible for fewer planet-warming greenhouse gases, on average, than households in the rest of the country."

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Yesterday I held a hearing on our Shelter in Place program, which kept over 3,000 people safe during the pandemic, and will transition thousands to permanent housing.

I'll keep saying it: we should bring in more people.

@TrishaThadani @sfchronicle

sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F… The federal and state governments are still reimbursing for the hotel rooms. There are thousands of people still on our streets and sidewalks. Let's bring them inside on a path to end homelessness permanently.

Tonight the Board voted down a 495 unit housing project in my district on a parking lot on Stevenson/6th.
It was approximately 24% affordable with 100+ affordable units, near transit, w ground floor community space, & extensive neighborhood support from residents & leaders. The development included 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 bedroom units. It would have created hundreds of union jobs. The lot is near transit and jobs. Our city has a massively out of balance jobs/housing ratio. We're approving & building office jobs but not housing. It's entirely unsustainable.

Food service workers @UniteHereLocal2 at @SFGiants Oracle Park voted 96.7% to strike over COVID safety protections, health care & hazard pay.

Giants fans should stand w Giants workers, & call on the Giants organization & their food service contractor to support their workers. The workers haven't received a raise in over 3 years.

The conditions at the stadium are dangerous needing stronger protections: 20 concession workers have been infected w COVID since the stadium opened.

Workers are being cut from health care despite working 9 events a month.

In San Francisco, 16 people who are fully vaccinated have been hospitalized and none have died.

This is out of the over 3000 who have been hospitalized overall, meaning vaccinated people are about .5% of those hospitalized. There are absolutely breakthrough cases, and everyone, including vaccinated people have to be careful and vigilant.

But vaccines work. They protect against the virus, and offer very strong protection against severe cases.

Get vaccinated and encourage others to do the same.

Walking the street with Code Tenderloin and UCSF, canvassing the neighborhood, vaccinating people in 5 min or less.

People ask how we are going to reach the remaining people who still need to be vaccinated...this is how. This is our "mobile vaccination" team.

Literally walking the street stopping people asking if they are vaccinated yet and vaccinating them within 5 minutes right there. 👏👏👏

The Mayor's budget proposal eliminates all 36 public toilets deployed during the pandemic, 25 of which are already gone.

It also eliminates the three 24 hr toilets that existed before the pandemic.

That would devastate access to clean, safe, healthy bathrooms. It can't happen. These toilets get over 90,000 uses a month currently, even before we reopen. The uses will only go up as more tourists, visitors and workers come back.

This is a no brainer for keeping our city clean and healthy. It's cruel, a violation of people's human dignity and rights.

Public bathrooms are not the cause of homelessness. I authored a law at beginning of the pandemic requiring dozens of new 24 hour bathrooms, including near encampments.

Why because human dignity, human rights, a pandemic, general public health.

Any suggestion that they themselves cause homelessness is sad and ridiculous.

Last year, we introduced a law to ensure no supportive housing tenant pays more than 30% of their limited income in rent.

Mayor @LondonBreed committed to fund this in her upcoming budget.

A huge victory for our supportive housing tenants, fairness, & justice. @30rightnow Thank you Mayor Breed for your support and commitment. We made this clear it would be a priority. And to all the supportive housing tenants who came together with us to make this happen.

San Francisco has long been a home to startups and innovation. In digital music, biotech, social media, ed tech, software--countless innovative startups have got off the ground here, drawn from and added to the technology ecosystem and talent here, grown and thrived. These startups have been a huge source of jobs & economic growth in our city, and have created technologies and products that have changed the way we interact across the entire globe. It is something that we should be proud of, and our city has benefitted from.

It's been wonderful to see & support so many positive changes in Mission Bay.

Over past 2 years: new parks (w more to come), roads, bike lanes, dozens of new stores on 4th street, some of the city's most vibrant outdoor spaces, multiple affordable housing bldgs, & a new arena. There's lots of awesome new small businesses on the way on 4th street, a preschool, a new K-5 school in a few years, and a lot more.

Very proud to represent this neighborhood and grateful for all the work put into its positive growth.

All the data says that fully vaccinated people **do not** carry the virus and cannot pass it to others.

That is huge.

The CDC Director made that clear today. "During an MSNBC interview with Rachel Maddow on Monday, Walensky said: "Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real-world data"

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With the stimulus & COVID reserve, SF has over billion dollars available to fund urgent priorities.

We still face a longer term structural deficit.

Small biz relief, reserves, transit, schools, homelessness, UBI--many needs.

How would you like to see SF prioritize these funds? This will also be a huge public conversation in the coming months with many hearings at committee, and proposals from the Mayor and Board.

I have my own thoughts, but what are yours?

Especially interested in one time spending priorities and urgent immediate needs.

Contra Costa County is planning to expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility this week to *everyone* 16 and older who lives or works in the county.

It does seem clear, despite repeated deferring to the state, that county health departments can expand eligibility at own discretion. For months now there's been a lot of confusion how much wider counties could expand eligibility beyond what the state allowed for.

Most of the time when we asked if a group/category could be prioritized, our DPH said they couldn't because of the state.

Daily average of COVID doses administered in SF is trending down. Not good.

It's hard to determine why because so little data is being shared.

No public data on total vaccine doses received, % administered, # by provider, demographics. Unacceptable.

data.sfgov.org/stories/s/COVI… I introduced a law being heard tomorrow in committee that will require this data to be shared publicly. It's been weeks since this dashboard went public, yet SFDPH is not including basic information that other Bay Area counties are.

White House is calling out private providers and localities for holding back doses for second doses that are intended as first doses. They want that to stop.

Give people their first dose now, even if that means not holding back 1:1 the second dose. If providers followed this locally, it would free up tens of thousands of doses, which are currently being held back.

My 91 and 92 year old Grandparents are, like so many San Franciscans, struggling to get straightforward information on the vaccine. This is not acceptable, for them or anyone, I'm working to increase & improve transparency, speed, communication. There are no answers right now. Like so many other people, I haven't seen my grandparents in person in nearly a year. The last time was my Grandpa's 92nd birthday.

Where are San Francisco or Bay Area's mass vaccination sites?

SF Department of Public Health says they are "not tasked w widespread distribution across the entire City." Ok, then who is?

Tomorrow I am calling for a public hearing and an actual plan to answer these questions.

https://twitter.com/gavinnewsom/status/1348728865221271553

Incredible and unacceptable how few answers our residents are being given right now. It really does seem that other counties, states, cities have been able to provide a lot more information and clarity, and mass distribution. Our city Health Department should too.

Awful fear mongering against much needed, overdue 100 unit bldg for low income families in the Sunset

These families will come from all over SF, incl Sunset, not just the TL, tho TL families are amazing, wonderful neighbors

We need many more buildings like this all over SF. An organization having "Tenderloin" in its name does not mean that's where residents are from. TNDC develops all over SF.

And any neighborhood would be lucky to have Tenderloin families as neighbors. They will only add to and enrich a community.