We Demand A Real Community Plan

State Senator Scott Wiener and Mayor Daniel Lurie are fast-tracking a developer-driven upzoning that will worsen San Francisco’s affordability crisis. Instead of building the 70,000+ already-approved homes or converting vacant Downtown offices, they are targeting intact neighborhood commercial districts and rent-controlled housing — without affordability requirements or tenant and small business protections. Public land that could be used for affordable housing is being earmarked for luxury development.

Upzoning can be a useful tool — but only when it’s part of a larger community plan that grows neighborhoods without displacement. Blanket upzoning without affordability guarantees repeats the mistakes of the “Redevelopment Era,” when San Francisco agencies cleared large parts of the Western Addition and Japantown, displacing thousands and erasing thriving cultures. Those top-down policies, done in the name of “progress,” left lasting scars.

The last thing San Francisco needs is more Trump-style deregulation policies that will deepen inequality in a region already facing one of the nation’s worst income divides. San Franciscans deserve a real plan that prioritizes production, preservation, and protection — not giveaways to the real estate industry.

This blanket upzoning legislation can be amended — but only if we demand it. We are calling on the Mayor and Board of Supervisors to pause this rushed deregulation and commit to a real community planning process that delivers the housing our families and workers actually need.