We welcome input on this project. But let me be clear: I do not welcome the racist, classist, exclusionary idea that essential workers & their families, Black and brown people, or families who've experienced homelessness don’t belong in the Sunset. 1/10 https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sunset-district-affordable-housing-discussion-flooded-with-scare-tactics-and-hysteria/

Poverty is not a crime.

100% affordable homes for families are not “slums”

And the greatest threat to our neighborhood character isn’t a building, it’s the hateful rhetoric being used right now to smear the families who would live in it. 2/10 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Slum-charges-fly-in-fracas-over-affordable-15880321.php

If you’re concerned about homelessness, you should support affordable housing for our unhoused neighbors. If you’re concerned about behavioral health, you should support social services. This project has both. 3/10 https://www.tndc.org/property/2550-irving

If you’re concerned about neighborhood character, it isn’t just the height of our buildings, it's also about our character, the character of the people who live here. Our character is in how we treat one another, and whether we reach across divisions or inflame them. 4/10

The idea certain people should be excluded from our neighborhood isn’t a new one. Racial covenants and redlining determined who could live in the Sunset — those who were white, and had wealth — racism and classism that continued well into the 1940s, and is still echoed today 5/10

I don’t believe the character of our neighborhood is, can be, or should be one of exclusion, fearmongering, and bigotry.

If we want to protect our neighborhood character, let’s start by condemning this rhetoric whenever we see it. 6/10

The Sunset has lost more affordable housing than it's built for decades.

This isn’t just a statistic, it’s the stories of thousands of our neighbors being displaced. 7/10

I ran for Supervisor because I want the Sunset to be affordable for families, to be a place where our children can afford to live when they grow up.

I promised to bring more affordable housing to our neighborhood.

I am going to keep that promise. 8/10

It takes winning a lottery to access an affordable housing unit in San Francisco, a process 5,000 Sunset residents know because they've applied.

And any of our neighbors who win that lottery will still be displaced from D4 because we haven't built any affordable units. 9/10

This project's a step towards changing that. Shirley Chisholm Village is another.

Step by step, we must protect, expand, & invest in affordable housing in D4.

The alternative is exclusion and displacement, and I refuse to believe that's the character of our neighborhood. 10/10