#mayorlurie — Public Fediverse posts

Oh good. It's such a sound financial strategy to send people back into the real criminal justice system, isn't it? #FalseEconomies
Sure, we honor their service, but only if it doesn't cost too much. #Hypocrisy

Cuts could send S.F. veterans back to criminal court
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/cuts-sf-veterans-court-counselors/

#MayorLurie #SanFrancisco

@Jgbird
Ah, yes. San Francisco passed an ordinance banning these, with commitments to fund an exchange program for gardening services

Of course, the #Mayor's office has never allocated the funds.

But hey, we can't actually tax those with money, can we, #MayorLurie?

#YesOnPropD #SanFrancisco

@Jgbird
Ah, yes. San Francisco passed an ordinance banning these, with commitments to fund an exchange program for gardening services

Of course, the #Mayor's office has never allocated the funds.

But hey, we can't actually tax those with money, can we, #MayorLurie?

#YesOnPropD #SanFrancisco

@Jgbird
Ah, yes. San Francisco passed an ordinance banning these, with commitments to fund an exchange program for gardening services

Of course, the #Mayor's office has never allocated the funds.

But hey, we can't actually tax those with money, can we, #MayorLurie?

#YesOnPropD #SanFrancisco

@Jgbird
Ah, yes. San Francisco passed an ordinance banning these, with commitments to fund an exchange program for gardening services

Of course, the #Mayor's office has never allocated the funds.

But hey, we can't actually tax those with money, can we, #MayorLurie?

#YesOnPropD #SanFrancisco

"As part of the BUILD Act announcement, Lurie also said city departments had been convened to determine “a more effective source of funding” for affordable housing within three months."

Nothing says good planning and a complete strategy than cutting revenues while waiting for people to dream up a new source of funds.

Plan to halve SF transfer taxes on big deals awaits details | Politics | sfexaminer.com
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/plan-to-halve-sf-transfer-taxes-on-big-deals-awaits-details/article_ebd1015c-0e4d-4bfa-9d54-f11f1b8042a3.html

#SanFrancisco #MayorLurie #AffordableHousing

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices and #housing needed to actually make progress. And I haven't heard ANY of them talk about the problems we need to see solved, and what the barriers are. (Cont)

S.F. jail counts have soared. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jail-cycle-addiction-treatment/

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices and #housing needed to actually make progress. And I haven't heard ANY of them talk about the problems we need to see solved, and what the barriers are. (Cont)

S.F. jail counts have soared. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jail-cycle-addiction-treatment/

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices and #housing needed to actually make progress. And I haven't heard ANY of them talk about the problems we need to see solved, and what the barriers are. (Cont)

S.F. jail counts have soared. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jail-cycle-addiction-treatment/

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices and #housing needed to actually make progress. And I haven't heard ANY of them talk about the problems we need to see solved, and what the barriers are. (Cont)

S.F. jail counts have soared. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jail-cycle-addiction-treatment/

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices and #housing needed to actually make progress. And I haven't heard ANY of them talk about the problems we need to see solved, and what the barriers are. (Cont)

S.F. jail counts have soared. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jail-cycle-addiction-treatment/

So what exactly is #SanFrancisco doing to mange the risks and problems identified here, #MayorLurie?

‘Creepy surveillance’: why some cities are shutting down Flock cameras amid privacy concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/06/flock-cameras-privacy-concerns?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#Flock (ing) to a #SurvellianceState

#MayorLurie - Do you realize you're building #distrust when you support this sort of decision making? This is not good governance.

It may be that the selection criteria staff came up with were incorrect. In that case, revising the decision criteria, clearly identifying what needed to be revised, and why, makes sense. Overruling the criteria that were approved for use? Nope. Or did your senior staff person fail to review the criteria to begin with? Equally Nope

Overruling a recommendation based on the official selection criteria just because one person (or was it 2?) disagrees with the result is #BadGovernance and #BreaksTrust with the people.

I'm spending a lot of time looking at #SanFrancisco's proposed #FamilyZoningPlan. Perhaps that's why reading about Pope Leo XIV's just released Dilexi Te (https://apnews.com/article/vatican-poor-pope-leo-francis-wealth-elite-fb63ece4f0c302c7a321a09da52374ac) brought it to mind.

We have a massive affordable housing problem, with housing unaffordable to most people (based on rent burdens) - and he wrote "“Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”

And I see a zoning plan that allows (incentivizes?) 90' buildings with 4000 sq ft residential units, all less than 9 units so no inclusionary requirement - and hear planning staff talk about how it will help affordability through the inclusionary requirements. Disingenuous is an understatement, but the Planning does answer to #MayorLurie.

Whose brother, a real estate agent for the wealthy, bemoaned a lack of mansions for his clients, living in that bubble.

#housingAffordability

If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading #SupplyAndDemand, that would be nice. The history of housing construction in dense urban environments puts the lie to those justifications. And we already build more housing than forecast demand for the top 10% of incomes in SF (which are high, shall we say).

I remember SF Planning touting the #VancouverModel 15 years ago. How did that turn out for Vanouver? Well, not much affordable housing: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-housing-impossibly-unaffordable-report

So why is the Mayor doubling down on policies that fail in dense urban areas?

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/politics/why-daniel-lurie-bullish-on-sf-upzoning-plan-popularity/article_e633da23-75bf-4b63-b558-3c1f10c3ca76.html

We have long had problems with slumlords in the US.
And we have long had codes related to habitability standards in residential buildings.

What #MayorLurie could do is direct the Dept of Public Health and Dept of building inspection to review these codes, and perhaps even more importantly what the penalties are for non-compliance, and work with the departments and if needed state agencies to make sure that the codes and penalties for violation are a) fit for purpose and b) enforced.

But it's much less controversial to say "oh, these are private properties" - Relying on #propertyrights to abdicate responsibility for health and well-being of SF residents.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/mayor-lurie-makes-marathon-visits-to-s-f-low-income-housing-but-what-can-he-do/

Would that #SFMTA, #MayorLurie and the #SFBOS paid attention to information like this and moved to develop an integrated plan.

What we have is BOS Resolution ( and I appreciate the efforts of #SupervisorMelgar to get it passed) - but I fear the Mayor and SFMTA management don't really get it.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3lwrmcj2zfk2t