San Francisco YIMBY's Voter Guide

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.

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 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.

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 is endorsing Gary McCoy 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.

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.

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.

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.