Daniel Lurie

Oversees the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, which administers the Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund

A San Francisco board committee has recommended approval of all five retroactive Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund grants, together $18.5 million. The awards are project-based rental subsidies, not construction gap financing: they fund ongoing rent support for extremely low-income households, seniors, and people with disabilities across the five developments.

Updated 2 hours ago

Promoted PermitSF as a business-friendly reform

A 50,000-square-foot space at San Francisco's City Center that has sat empty since Best Buy left in 2017 will reopen November 5 as T&T Supermarket. The Taiwanese Canadian chain's second Bay Area store will be its first US location with a café, serving black sesame and ube lattes alongside Portuguese egg tarts.

Updated Yesterday

Outlined Fleet Week safety and transportation plans, including geofencing for robotaxis

San Francisco will keep Waymo's self-driving cars out of the waterfront during Fleet Week, October 9-11. The geofenced zone bars pickups and drop-offs in the Marina, near Fisherman's Wharf, and along much of the Embarcadero, with no autonomous vehicle service in the Presidio.

Updated Yesterday

Moratorium awaits his signature

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to stop approving new data centers for 45 days. The moratorium, which awaits Mayor Daniel Lurie's signature, could stretch to 22 months while the Planning Department studies how AI infrastructure affects energy, water, and air quality.

Updated Yesterday

Unveiled privacy protections for public safety cameras

The San Francisco Police Department has deployed BriefCam, an AI video analysis platform developed by an Israeli tech firm. Israeli authorities used the same tool to monitor Palestinians in East Jerusalem. The $198,000, three-year contract, funded by federal grants, supports the department's Real Time Crime Center.

Updated 2 days ago

Withdrew endorsement of Yekutiel on Oct 1

Manny Yekutiel was the front-runner for San Francisco's District 8 supervisor seat, backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie and the city's Democratic Party. On October 1, after a second on-the-record groping allegation, he suspended his campaign and apologized for "any boundaries that I crossed."

Updated 6 days ago

Pushing Proposition F to expand commissioner removal powers

San Francisco supervisors voted to suspend Commissioner William Palmer, president of the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, after a city watchdog found he used his public position for personal benefit. The same motion filed formal misconduct charges, which go to an ethics hearing before returning to the board for a final decision.

Updated Sep 30

Resolution heading to his desk for signature

Parivar Bay Area opened during a Diwali celebration in October 2025 to serve trans immigrants from South Asia and the Global South. Nine months later, funding ran out, programming halted, and the organization lost its downtown San Francisco space.

Updated Sep 30

Defends the policy as necessary to address vehicular homelessness

San Francisco's two-hour parking limit on large vehicles, built to clear RVs used as homes, is towing people who never slept in them. Kyle Richards' camper van was towed twice in August, costing him more than $1,600. City complaint records show at least 28 housed vehicle owners told officials they were hit by the rule between November 2025 and July 2026.

Updated Sep 30

Announced new Flock data policies September 2026

San Francisco police will now delete license plate data from Flock's platform 30 days after capture, down from 12 months. Mayor Daniel Lurie imposed the change administratively, along with rules requiring every search to cite an open investigation and monthly internal audits.

Updated Sep 29

Launched Rebuilding the Ranks initiative

San Francisco's burglary and robbery detectives are being pulled off their cases to staff parades, protests, and tech conferences. The police department, short about 500 officers, has moved Investigations Bureau inspectors onto a "platoon schedule" that covers special events.

Updated Sep 28

In office since January 2025; sealed first major labor deal

San Francisco's two largest city unions ratified Daniel Lurie's early labor deal, locking in 12% raises from 2027 to 2031 for about 17,000 workers. The deal covers 24,000 workers across 10 unions and guarantees no layoffs through June 30, 2029.

Updated Sep 26

Commissioned the renaming working group

San Francisco's renaming working group has narrowed the choice to replace César Chavez Street to two finalists: "Las Campesinas" (female farmworkers) and "Sí, Se Puede" (Yes, you can), a rallying cry coined by United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta. The committee will make a final recommendation next week, followed by legislation, a public hearing, and a Board of Supervisors vote.

Updated Sep 25

In office; launched and extended the plaza cleanup strategy

On Sept. 24, the city released a public dashboard tracking conditions at the 16th and 24th Street BART plazas. It shows ambassadors have collected 1,390 needles and reversed 15 overdoses since January, but 911 calls for drug activity have not fallen consistently.

Updated Sep 25

Has not commented on the legislation; decision on signing or vetoing pending

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to require private street-cleaning contractors to match the wages the city pays its own employees. The Clean Streets and Fair Pay Act targets the 'street ambassador' industry that expanded rapidly as the city outsourced cleanup of visible drug use and homelessness.

Updated Sep 23

Active mayor

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on September 21 that raises penalties for participating in sideshows, the illegal street stunt events that have disrupted Bay Area intersections for years. The law, Assembly Bill 1588, was authored by San Francisco Assemblymember Catherine Stefani and sponsored by Mayor Daniel Lurie.

Updated Sep 21

Courting retailers to fill downtown storefronts

Uniqlo closed its three-story Powell Street flagship in March 2021, a visible casualty of downtown San Francisco's pandemic-era retail collapse. Five years later, it's coming back. The Japanese retailer plans to open a two-floor, 20,315-square-foot store at 801 Market Street on October 9.

Updated Sep 19

Did not fund the Prop D legal services program in his budget

San Franciscans voted in June 2022 to guarantee free lawyers to domestic violence survivors. More than four years later, the city still hadn't funded the promised legal services. Now the state is stepping in with $1.5 million to pay for it.

Updated Sep 17

Incumbent mayor overseeing budget cuts

Six years after FBI agents arrested San Francisco's Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru, the agency the city expanded to prevent the next scandal is shrinking. Lurie's budget cuts reduced the Ethics Commission's operating funds by 10.1% and eliminated two staff positions.

Updated Sep 17

In office since January 2025

Six members of San Francisco's Youth Commission just took their seats. All six were appointed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, and all six attend private schools — the first mayoral slate with no public school student since at least the 2016-17 term.

Updated Sep 16

Championing PermitSF; board trimmed his $33M extension request to $22M

The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on Sept. 15 to extend OpenGov's contract for three years at $22 million, with Jackie Fielder the lone no vote. The deal trims the mayor's five-year, $33 million request and cuts the total contract from $38 million to $28 million.

Updated Sep 16

Declared rent emergency September 10, 2026

Mayor Daniel Lurie declared a rent emergency Sept. 10 as one-bedroom rents hit $4,300 a month, up $1,000 in a year. His $30 million package caps banked rent increases and capital improvement charges at 10% a year, blocks evictions for tenants owing under one month's fair market rent, and raises Ellis Act relocation payments by 25%.

Updated Sep 15

Credited by Lindgren for restoring business confidence

Shelley Lindgren's new restaurant, Lucania, has city and state filings on record in San Francisco's Ferry Building. The city registered the business in August; the state liquor license went active September 3.

Updated Sep 10

Led a failed effort to revive the Dogpatch project

Steph Curry bought a Dogpatch industrial building in May 2024, planning to replace it with a five-story headquarters for his eight businesses. This week he sold the property for about $11 million, the final act of a plan that collapsed in a fight with the carpenters' union.

Updated Sep 9

In office since January 2025

San Francisco's jails are emptying. In March 2025, more than 1,300 people were locked up, pushing the county past its 1,236-bed capacity for the first time since 2003. By September 2026, the population had fallen to its lowest level since the pandemic.

Updated Sep 8

In office; his moderate bloc would grow if Ellington wins

San Francisco caps direct donations to supervisor candidates at $500. Chris Larsen gave 1,000 times that, dropping $500,000 into a political action committee backing Theo Ellington's District 10 campaign.

Updated Sep 6

Leading the wharf redevelopment push

A 97-year-old restaurant that anchored Fisherman's Wharf is now a public plaza with picnic tables, Bay-facing benches, and a beer garden. Mayor Daniel Lurie cut the ribbon Wednesday, calling the space "a new reason to return" to San Francisco's most tourist-heavy neighborhood.

Updated Sep 6

Said Lowell did the right thing; plans to follow up with the school

Lowell High School's baseball team ran San Francisco's most dominant program last season, beating its closest rival by nine league games. The district is forcing the team to forfeit three games next spring and has removed its entire coaching staff.

Updated Sep 4

Street-tree ordinance passed first reading 7-4; awaiting final passage

San Francisco supervisors voted 7-4 on Sept. 1 to pass the first reading of Mayor Daniel Lurie's street-tree ordinance. The measure lets developers of smaller projects pay a $2,590 fee instead of planting trees, and it ends independent review of trees the city calls hazardous.

Updated Sep 4

Publicly criticized PG&E response as 'unacceptable'; demanded answers on cause and rate-impact concerns

San Francisco is the kind of city that feels unstoppable—until the lights go out. On Saturday, a substation fire near 8th and Mission helped trigger a blackout that spread across neighborhoods and knocked out traffic signals. Restoration took more than two days and sparked political backlash and raised questions about whether a modern city can tolerate single-point failures in critical infrastructure.

Updated May 16