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Ed Lee started out as an affordable housing advocate. I'm not sure what happened to him along the way. Did he get more conservative as he got older? Did the cit
by jdavis703 9y ago
Ed Lee started out as an affordable housing advocate. I'm not sure what happened to him along the way. Did he get more conservative as he got older? Did the city's runaway growth outdo him?
As for getting on board the YIMBY movement, Fast Co writes that the new mayor "grew up with her grandmother in the city’s housing projects and public housing has been an important part and particular focus of her political career. "
A quick skim of voting records also appears that she supports development: https://sfgov.legistar.com/PersonDetail.aspx?ID=92842&GUID=4062CB2D-6026-4732-8E15-CD52FB7529AE&Search= https://sfgov.legistar.com/PersonDetail.aspx?ID=92842&GUID=4....
- yonran 9y agoEd Lee advocated for the right housing policies. As mayor, he created the Affordable Housing Trust Fund after California ended Redevelopment and created several efforts to increase the housing supply, including the Public Land for Housing program (http://sf-planning.org/public-land-housing-formerly-public-sites-portfolio http://sf-planning.org/public-land-housing-formerly-public-s...) and the executive directive to streamline construction permits (http://sfmayor.org/article/executive-directive-17-02 http://sfmayor.org/article/executive-directive-17-02). On housing, my only criticism of Lee is that he was too slow to recognize the affordability issue.
- ucaetano 9y ago> Ed Lee started out as an affordable housing advocate. The best pro-affordable housing policy is plenty of market-rate construction.
- lacker 9y agoThe affordable housing movement changed. It used to be people who wanted housing to be cheaper. Now it is people who want housing to be more expensive. They just kept the same name out of inertia.
- xster 9y agoThanks for the voting records link!