San Francisco Mayor London Breed has vetoed a bill proposed by Board President Aaron Peskin that sought to adjust density limits in a portion of his district, citing it as anti-housing legislation. The move reflects the mayor's commitment to addressing the city's housing shortage by promoting development. Breed's policy to veto any anti-housing legislation is aimed at combating the city's challenges, including poverty, homelessness, and climate change, by ensuring San Francisco leads in housing availability. Jake Price, San Francisco’s community organizer with the HACdotorg, stated, "I think this sends a clear message that if you try to downzone or make it harder to build housing, you can expect the mayor to veto it." This decision has garnered support from various community organizers and housing advocates who view it as a step towards making it easier to build new homes, especially in high-opportunity areas like the Northeast Waterfront. Critics of Peskin's approach argue that down-zoning and blocking new homes in affluent neighborhoods contribute to making San Francisco unaffordable and liken it to turning the city into a museum.
“Breed wrote that the bill, authored by Board President Aaron Peskin, ‘passes off anti-housing policy under the guise of historic protection.’” Peskin and his wife have been NIMBYs in Telegraph for decades in a classic “I got mine” power game. https://t.co/E33gDirM9T
We need more affordable housing now! Sen. Weiner is right: the Board of Supes should uphold Mayor London Breed’s veto of Aaron Peskin’s regressive, anti-housing legislation that limits housing density in his district. Join @SPUR_Urbanist @HACdotorg & @SFyimby and urge the… https://t.co/bZ5fRT3g4c
The Board of Supervisors should uphold the Mayor’s veto of Peskin’s downtown down-zoning. If they don’t, new affordable housing will be effectively banned in these wealthy neighborhoods next to robust public transit & downtown jobs. That’s a terrible vision for San Francisco.
Mayor @LondonBreed was right to veto the downzoning of the Northeast Waterfront. We don't solve our housing shortage by making it harder to build new homes in a high opportunity area. Write a letter today to ask the Supervisors to uphold that veto! https://t.co/tQnCmF4VYd
Aaron Peskin must never be allowed to be mayor of San Francisco. He only wants to build housing in your neighborhood and wants his neighborhood to be a containment zone of antiques. https://t.co/LKOrEswi1d
When you’re actively down-zoning & blocking new homes in wealthy neighborhoods, you’re neither pro-housing nor pro-neighborhood. Rather, you’re pro-making San Francisco into a museum no one can afford. https://t.co/JcvpInbLMu
Aaron Peskin is having a really bad month: * @SFDemsForChange slate won DCCC, ensuring he won't get an endorsement for Mayor * @CommunityNotes called him out as a NIMBY * Breed vetoed his legislation that would downzone the city’s Northern Waterfront Nimby Peskin is losing. https://t.co/UpluGeelan
Supervisors Connie Chan and Aaron Peskin must be members of the SF Young Republicans...they've basically lifted the entire way they talk about our housing woes straight from them...🤷🏽♂️ https://t.co/pEuNArj00k
Kudos to London Breed for calling out anti-housing bills dressed up as faux historic preservation. https://t.co/rKmqglIQhE
Our decades long housing shortage is a contributing factor to ALL our other problems: 1. Cost of housing makes it hard to recruit good public servants 2. It more quickly pushes people into precarious financial footing Proud of Mayor @LondonBreed for vetoing this NIMBY bill https://t.co/lLPaC8BKZ5
A @LondonBreed v @AaronPeskin SF mayoral race would turn substantially on housing. It'd sound like this: https://t.co/DSNi8XGQKG
Damn straight. “I think this sends a clear message that if you try to downzone or make it harder to build housing, you can expect the mayor to veto it,” said Jake Price, San Francisco’s community organizer with the @HACdotorg. https://t.co/1BmRbNezEO
One week after pledging to put the kibosh on "anti-housing" legislation, Mayor Breed is vetoing Aaron Peskin's bill to tweak density limits in a chunk of his district. ✍️ @ggreschler https://t.co/o4IfNjLofM
My policy: I will veto any and all anti-housing legislation. A lack of housing hurts workers, families, and our economy. It drives so many of our challenges: poverty, homelessness, climate change. San Francisco must be a housing leader — a city of yes. https://t.co/V5R558wlzv
Aaron Peskin recently posted photos of himself hanging out with cops and Connie Chan is alleging the Mayor isn’t staffing her district with enough cops. Speaks volumes about how SF’s “progressive” political faction is metabolizing recent election results