San Francisco YIMBY's Voter Guide

SF YIMBY se enorgullece de respaldar a Scott Wiener en su histórica candidatura al Congreso. El movimiento YIMBY no estaría ni cerca de donde está hoy si no fuera por el trabajo y la influencia de Scott Wiener. En sus nueve años como senador estatal, ha trabajado incansablemente en leyes de gran impacto que han impulsado el movimiento YIMBY en todo el país e inspirado a incontables otros legisladores en todo el país. No tenemos duda de que puede tener el mismo impacto en el Congreso.

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.

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.

SF YIMBY y su subcapítulo del Distrito 2, Northern Neighbors, respaldan con orgullo a Stephen Sherrill para Supervisor de la Ciudad de San Francisco, Distrito 2. Durante su tiempo en el cargo, el supervisor Sherrill ha demostrado un enfoque orientado a resultados que refleja las prioridades de su distrito. Nos ha alentado su historial a favor de la vivienda, incluido su voto y firme apoyo al Plan de Zonificación Familiar, y su disposición a ayudar a impulsar proyectos clave que agregan viviendas, como 3333 y 3700 California Street.

El supervisor Alan Wong asumió el cargo el 1 de diciembre de 2025. En su poco tiempo en la Junta hasta ahora, ya ha sido un defensor de la vivienda. Alan votó a favor de aprobar el Plan de Zonificación Familiar, demostrando firmemente su apoyo a nuestra causa: que necesitamos más viviendas en Sunset y en toda la ciudad. Alan también apoya eliminar las tarifas innecesarias de permisos y desarrollo, agilizar los procesos de aprobación demasiado complejos y prolongados, y ofrecer créditos y exenciones para construir nuevas Unidades de Vivienda Accesoria en la ciudad. Aunque nos preocupan las posturas NIMBY sobre proyectos clave de vivienda en su área, consideramos que sigue siendo la mejor opción para Sunset en esta elección.

SF YIMBY apoya a Gary McCoy debido a su trayectoria de compromiso con el YIMBYismo y su gran potencial como miembro de la Junta de Supervisores. McCoy ha sido un aliado público en nuestra lucha por más vivienda durante una década y se enfoca firmemente, en sus objetivos de política pública, en medidas que facilitan la construcción de viviendas de todo tipo. Su visión, junto con su habilidad política, ayudará a San Francisco a construir más de las viviendas que necesitamos desesperadamente.

Joaquín Torres se postula sin oposición para otro mandato como Tasador-Registrador, y SF YIMBY se complace en apoyarlo nuevamente. Aunque la función principal de esta oficina —tasar de manera justa los aproximadamente $350 mil millones en propiedades sujetas a impuestos de la ciudad y mantener registros públicos— no es una herramienta de uso del suelo, Torres ha forjado una larga trayectoria como un funcionario confiable a favor de la vivienda.

SF YIMBY se enorgullece de apoyar a Sara Barz para la Junta de BART del Distrito 8. Sara tiene años de experiencia en transporte y apoya más viviendas en el Área de la Bahía. Es cofundadora de Seamless Bay Area, una organización dedicada a integrar más las tarifas de transporte público en toda la región. Su experiencia técnica ha permitido los pagos móviles para el transporte público en todo el mundo. La vivienda necesita transporte y el transporte necesita viviendas densas. Sara tiene la visión para apoyar a BART y la vivienda tanto a corto como a largo plazo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.