“Being a leader means stepping up when your constituents need help and doing whatever it takes to support them. For me, that included collecting and delivering tens of thousands of masks and gloves to frontline workers and service providers, and working night shifts serving meals in a COVID shelter hotel when we were severely understaffed. In times of crisis, you check your ego at the door, roll up your sleeves, and get to work.” -Matt
AS SCHOOL BOARD PRESIDENT, I visited every public K-12 school in the City. Our city's young people will tell you how much they love it here, but also how hard it can be growing up in the most expensive city in the country. They just want stable and affordable homes for their family and a future in a San Francisco where they can thrive.
Grandstanding and trading blame for our lack of affordable housing isn't going to solve our crisis -- building affordable housing and strengthening tenant protections will. As Supervisor, I’m committed to work tirelessly to find sites, make deals, and bring in funding to actually build the thousands of units of affordable housing my community needs. We can do this, but only if we're willing to move past the toxic infighting and get to work.
Here’s what I will do:
Develop bold goals to build additional housing, especially affordable housing, within D6, and work tirelessly to make it happen.
Use city owned land to build 100% affordable housing and acquire land on which to build.
Upzone and rezone parts of D6 for additional housing and streamline processes for affordable housing construction.
Advocate for an affordable housing bond -- to fund both low income and middle income housing.
Support stronger rent control and tenant protection to prevent exorbitant rent increases and speculation.