Mayor Daniel Lurie is fast-tracking a developer-led upzoning plan that would hand over huge giveaways to the real estate industry while putting our neighborhoods, small businesses, and rent-controlled housing at risk. Instead of building the more than 70,000 homes already approved or converting vacant Downtown offices into housing, this plan targets intact communities for demolition and luxury development – without meaningful affordability requirements or protections for tenants and local businesses.

We know what happens when City Hall pursues policies like this without affordability plans, mitigations or stabilization guarantees: longtime residents are displaced, small businesses are shuttered, and cultural communities are erased – just as they were during the Redevelopment Era in the Western Addition, Japantown, and the Fillmore. This proposal is more of the same deregulation and “trickle-down” housing policy that has only deepened San Francisco’s affordability crisis. We deserve better.

That’s why the Alliance for Affordable Neighborhoods is urging the Board of Supervisors to support a real community plan: one that builds already-approved housing with local jobs, landbanks public sites for affordable projects, guarantees affordable “inclusionary” and family-sized homes, and protects existing tenants and small businesses from displacement. Join us by sending an email to your Supervisor today.