Build the Foundations for San Francisco's Future
Invest in the physical and human infrastructure needed to support growth, quality of life, and resilience in the decades ahead.
Housing & Homelessness
Transit Infrastructure
Human Infrastructure
Resilience & Public Safety Infrastructure
Keep San Francisco and California Competitive
Maintain a competitive business climate that attracts investment and expands economic opportunity.
Retail Competitiveness
- Build on recent progress to reduce barriers to operating a retail business in San Francisco, including continued improvements to PermitSF
- Reexamine formula retail policies and conditional use requirements to better support neighborhood-serving businesses and economic vitality
- Identify opportunities to reduce retail build-out and tenant improvement costs by streamlining approvals, increasing flexibility, and examining grants, loans, and other tools to leverage all available funding
Federal Research & Innovation
- Support level federal research funding across agencies to provide stability for local institutions, employers, and research-driven industries and encourage long-term investment in local communities
- Advocate for the timely release of already approved federal research grants to avoid wasting public dollars and halting high-value projects midstream
- Continue engagement around facilities and administrative cost structures to balance transparency with the real, necessary indirect costs of conducting world-class research
Elevate federal research investment as a driver of job creation, entrepreneurship, and global competitiveness
Housing Supply & Downtown Revitalization
- Support federal housing policies that expand housing production, affordability, and homelessness prevention, including the Housing BOOM Act, which strengthens financing tools, rental assistance, and pathways to build and preserve housing at scale
- Advance efforts to convert underutilized commercial and office buildings into housing by supporting the Revitalizing Downtowns and Main Streets Act, which lowers conversion costs and helps bring residents, activity, and investment back to downtowns and neighborhood corridors
- Align housing production and downtown revitalization strategies to reduce vacancies, support retail recovery, and strengthen San Francisco’s long-term economic health
Energize Civic Life, Culture, and Community Vibrancy
Invest in and enable arts, culture, and civic activity to drive tourism, economic activity, and San Francisco’s global appeal.
Treat arts and culture as economic drivers
- Recognize the support for tourism, foot traffic, and neighborhood vitality that arts and culture bring
- Leverage public-private partnerships to activate streets, plazas, downtown spaces, and commercial corridors
- Tell the story of San Francisco as the special place it is, built by and for people from all backgrounds with all kinds of passions
Experimentation and diversification to meet the moment
- Grow the pipeline of opportunities for pop-ups, temporary activations, and new models for arts, culture, and nightlife
- Reduce regulatory friction to make it easier to test, scale, and sustain successful civic and cultural programming
- Allow the next generation of creatives, influencers, and idea makers to afford to flourish in San Francisco as residents, community builders, and small businesses.