2026 General Election

SF YIMBY is proud to endorse Scott Wiener in his historic Congressional bid. The YIMBY movement would not be anywhere near where it is today if not for the work and influence of Scott Wiener. In his nine years as a State Senator, he has worked tirelessly on impactful legislation that has ignited the YIMBY movement nationwide and inspired countless other legislators throughout the country. We have no doubt he can have the same impact in Congress.

Highlights of his long legislative record include:

SB 35: one of his first bills, removed needless roadblocks and sped up the production thousands of affordable homes across California and over 3,400 in just San Francisco alone.

SB 828: reformed state planning law and actually provided a real path to require San Francisco to produce the homes it desperately needs

SB 423: permanently codified SB 35 and added provisions to make it stronger

SB 79: his most recent achievement, legalized multi-family housing near major transit hubs throughout the state

Scott has been unwavering in his commitment to building more housing, even when it was politically difficult. He has been the YIMBY movement's most important champion in elected office, and we stand with the leader who has stood with us from the beginning. As the YIMBY movement goes nationwide, we can't think of a better champion to represent us in Washington.

SF YIMBY and its District 2 subchapter Northern Neighbors proudly endorses Stephen Sherrill for San Francisco City Supervisor, District 2.

Over his time in office, Supervisor Sherrill has demonstrated a results-oriented approach that reflects the priorities of his district. We have been encouraged by his pro-housing record, including his vote and vocal support for the Family Zoning Plan, and his willingness to help advance key projects that add homes such as 3333 and 3700 California Street. These actions show a clear understanding that addressing the housing shortage is essential to maintaining the vitality of District 2 and the City as a whole.

Equally important, Supervisor Sherrill has been consistently accessible and engaged with community organizations, including ours. While we have not always agreed with every position he has taken, his proactive engagement with us on issues that he knows we care about, stands out. 

SF YIMBY endorses Alan Wong for San Francisco City Supervisor, District 4. Supervisor Alan Wong took office on December 1, 2025. In his short time on the Board so far, he has already been a pro-housing champion. Alan voted to approve the Family Zoning Plan, strongly demonstrating his support for our cause - that we need more homes in the Sunset and across the city. Alan also supports removing unnecessary permitting and development fees, streamlining the overly complex and lengthy approval processes, and offering credits and waivers for constructing new Accessory Dwelling Units in the city. Though we have developed concerns over NIMBY stances on key housing projects in his area, we feel he is still the best choice for the Sunset in this election.

SF YIMBY endorsed Matt Dorsey in the previous election and he has shown himself to be a major leader on housing in the Board of Supervisors ever since. He has backed the Family Zoning Plan, the 6th Cycle Housing Element, upzoning in Central SoMa and Mission Bay, and fee and inclusionary reductions for adaptive reuse and office-to-residential conversions. He has voted to reject every housing appeal that has come before the Board during his term, and used his seat to support state-level bills like SB 35 and SB 79.

Looking forward, Supervisor Dorsey is excited about the advancement of state bill AB 2074, which would streamline high-rise residential construction near regional transit hubs. He would like to work on local analogues to the fee transparency and predictability reforms that YIMBY has pushed at the state level and further streamline ADU approvals. On the state's 25,000-unit rezoning mandate, he would like to continue to upzone transit-rich corridors like The Hub, Van Ness, and Market Street, while ensuring that west-side neighborhoods finally carry their fair share. SF YIMBY endorses Matt Dorsey to continue to champion the housing legislations and reforms that the city needs.

SF YIMBY is endorsing Gary McCoy in the top slot due to his history of commitment to YIMBYism and his strong potential as a member of the Board of Supervisors. McCoy has been a public ally in our fight for more housing for a decade, and has a great focus in his policy goals toward things that make housing of all kinds easier to build. His vision along with his political savvy will help San Francisco build more of the housing we desperately need.

SF YIMBY is endorsing Manny Yekutiel in the 2nd rank on your ballot because of Yekutiel’s strong housing vision. While we believe McCoy has the policy chops and the experience to get our top endorsement, Yekutiel’s loud and proud support for building more housing earns him the number 2 spot on a YIMBY ballot.

SF YIMBY endorses Theo Ellington for District 10 supervisor. We support the commitments he made in his SF YIMBY questionnaire: six-story single-stair buildings, more homes near transit, objective by-right approvals, project shot clocks, and consequences when review deadlines are missed.

We agree with Theo that housing and a modern industrial economy are not an either/or. SF YIMBY estimates that about 11,000 District 10 parcels carry a special exemption from SB 79’s transit-oriented housing rules, most under a "low-resource" exemption, making it harder and more expensive to build much needed homes. Theo has committed to begin a community and economic-development planning process within his first 30 days. SF YIMBY will track whether that process produces real outcomes and homes.

Joaquin Torres is running unopposed for another term as Assessor-Recorder, and SF YIMBY is happy to endorse him again. While this office's core job — fairly assessing the city's roughly $350 billion in taxable property and maintaining public records — isn't a land-use lever, Torres has built a long track record as a reliable pro-housing official.

For 12 years, as President of the SF Housing Authority Commission, Torres led the rehabilitation of over 3,400 units of public housing with roughly $1 billion in improvements, ultimately transferring that housing to affordable-housing operators who could run it better, and grew the number of families served by 20% to over 16,500 households. He stepped down from that role in 2025 after stabilizing what had long been a troubled agency, and his successor inherited a much stronger foundation because of it. Torres has also served on SPUR's executive board, supporting the kind of urbanist research and advocacy that aligns with our own priorities.

SF YIMBY is proud to endorse Sara Barz for Bart Board District 8. Sara has years of experience in transportation and supports more housing in the Bay Area. She is a co-founder of Seamless Bay Area, an organization dedicated to making transit fares more integrated across the region. Her technical experience has enabled mobile payments for public transportation around the world. Housing needs transportation and transportation needs dense housing. Sara has the vision to support BART and housing in both the nearterm and longterm. She supports building more housing near BART stations (transit oriented development) which would help both BART’s ridership recovery and address our housing crisis. As part of her long-term vision, she supports planning for more rail transit on the West side of San Francisco, enabling more connectivity in an area recently upzoned by the City. SF YIMBY endorses Sara as someone with the technical knowledge to fill the role and as someone who understands the need for better housing and public transportation in the Bay Area.

Proposition A is a collection of various technical fixes to the City’s charter. For the planned merger of the Department of Building Inspections and the Planning Department to be successful, the Building Inspection Commission (which oversees the Department of Building Inspection) will need to be updated as well. SF YIMBY endorses Proposition A because it gives the Board the flexibility to make those updates instead of requiring yet another ballot measure.

Prop C raises the city's annual contribution to the Housing Trust Fund, which pays for subsidized housing construction, preservation, and downpayment assistance. The contribution climbs from about $51M today to $125M a year by the late 2020s, tied to growth in general fund revenue or property values, whichever is faster. The best thing about the Housing Trust Fund is that it doesn't tax new homes out of existence, but instead aligns the revenue incentives of the city to promote new growth. The measure also lets the Board pause or trim contributions in bad budget years, so it isn't a blank check. SF YIMBY is proud to endorse the single most consequential affordable housing-supply fix on this November’s ballot.

Prop D raises the signature threshold to qualify a citizen initiative from 2% of registered voters to 8%, still lower than most peer cities, and ends the practice of a Mayor or a four-vote Board minority putting something directly on the ballot over a Board majority's objection.

This isn't abstract governance trivia for YIMBYs. San Francisco's rock-bottom signature threshold is exactly how a small, well-funded opposition group can lock in an anti-housing rule that the elected Board can never fix without another citywide vote. Raising the bar to put something on the ballot, and making it require an actual Board majority to route around normal legislating, cuts down on that vector for freezing bad housing and zoning policy into the Charter. Shorter ballots, more accountable lawmaking.

Prop E centralizes city purchasing rules under the City Administrator instead of leaving them scattered across a hundred-plus code sections that nobody owns and nobody can fix. It's the same dysfunction that gave the city its infamous $1.7M toilet, and it's also the dysfunction that slows down every park, playground, and public infrastructure project the city needs, including the public realm work adjacent to housing growth. When a 2024 reform simplified small-project purchasing, Rec and Park renewed the Bernal Heights Playground for $1.3M in about a year, instead of the years and multiples of the cost that comparable projects took under the old rules. Housing supply doesn't happen in a vacuum — it needs functioning city infrastructure processes around it, and Prop E is a real fix.

The city's mazelike permitting process for housing persists as a perennial contributor to our housing shortage. Mayor Daniel Lurie seeks to simplify housing approvals as part of his PermitSF campaign, by combining the Planning Department with the Department of Building Inspections. Unifying these two important departments will create a new optimized pathway to build more housing. Enacting this reform requires voters to pass Proposition F, which cleans up the City Charter so Mayor Lurie and future mayors can streamline and reorganize city departments. SF YIMBY endorses a vote of YES to fix a long-broken system that worsens our housing shortage.

In the 2024 General Election, San Franciscans voted to create a large, permanent, oceanfront park where the Great Highway once was, to make a more liveable and enjoyable city for all of us to call home. Since April 12, 2025, the 2-mile oceanfront park has been used every day of the year, averaging 4,900 daily visits (3,800 on weekdays, 7,200 on weekend days and holidays). Former Supervisor Mar has publicly changed his opinion in favor of the park, having seen the impact firsthand. SF YIMBY is proud to continue to support this park and endorses voting NO to closing the park and bringing back the highway.

Prop H is a 15-year parcel tax to close Muni's post-pandemic operating deficit, which the SFMTA puts at $300M+ a year once pandemic era one-time relief funding runs out. Most homeowners pay about $129/year; a rent-controlled tenant can be charged at most $65/year. It sunsets after 15 years, is independently reviewed for efficiency and efficacy, and the Board can amend or repeal it by majority vote if SFMTA doesn't deliver.

Transit and housing supply are the same fight. Every unit of housing in this city only works if people can actually get around. SF YIMBY is proud to support this measure.

Proposition I is built on the fundamentally mistaken idea that we can fund housing by taxing housing. Across the country, transfer taxes demonstrably cut housing production and reduce mobility, and San Francisco is at risk of locking the city into a tax that will harm housing production over the long term.

While spending more on subsidized affordable housing and social housing are worthy goals, the transfer taxes which fund Prop I will reduce the overall housing supply and drive up rents. San Francisco has the highest property transfer taxes in the state (California’s base rate is 0.11% vs San Francisco’s up to 6%), adding roughly $30,000 to the cost of every new home according to a 2020 report from the city controller. While this proposition marginally reduces the transfer tax,it simultaneously removes the ability to make additional reductions to get it down to zero. Proposition I ties the hands of the Board of Supervisors so that they have only the power to raise the rate in the future — never allowing them to lower it without going to the ballot. This makes no sense when the city controller has said that the tax should be eliminated entirely. Taxing housing in order to build housing is self-defeating.

Proposition I proponents argue that it will lead to more housing, specifically mixed-income social housing, and a reliable stream of revenue to build it, all while reducing one of the costs frequently cited by developers as a barrier to building new housing. While SF YIMBY supports these goals, we don’t believe that the measure can deliver on those promises.

Despite claims that San Francisco will get new housing if this measure passes, we are also concerned that nothing in Prop I actually creates a fund dedicated to new construction. At the discretion of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, all of the revenue could be spent to fund the acquisition, renovation, leasing, preservation, or operation of existing buildings, as well as related debt. Prop I may improve the accessibility and/or condition of existing housing, but nothing guarantees these funds will create new homes.

Proposition I contains genuinely good ambitions: funding for affordable and social housing and a partial transfer-tax break on the first sale of new multifamily buildings. We took those benefits seriously and want to champion them in ways that will actually get housing built. But Prop I instead guarantees that a flawed tax will live on, without guaranteeing that new homes will get built.

Luckily there are other affordable housing funding measures on the ballot this year, and we look forward to continuing to work with other affordable and social housing advocates on ways to fund these important social goods.

The Regional Transit Measure is the regional Connect Bay Area sales tax across five counties, funding Muni, BART, Caltrain, and the smaller regional operators. The regional nature of the BART necessitates a financial backstop that has united 3 county governments in this effort. BART has already cut over a billion dollars in costs since 2019 and without new revenue, it may face a 63% cut in train hours, three lines instead of five, 9pm closures, and fare hikes of up to 50% starting in 2027, followed by station closures and mass layoffs. A regional economy this large cannot function with a gutted BART, and a modest, sunsetting sales tax is a far better outcome than losing the system.