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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 3h

🕺🏻💃🏽🕺🏻💃🏽 Monday 10/20, we rally at noon ahead of the Land Use hearing (which starts at 1:30pm) …. for Affordable Housing & Tenant Protections !!!

Pass it on !! ….

Flyer for rally on October 20 at noon by the Race & Equity In All Planning Coalition. Text reads: “Join the REP contingent at the rally, before the Land Use Committee Hearing about Mayor Lurie’s dangerous upzoning plan! The City must invest in a real community plan that protects tenants, supports small businesses, and focuses on truly affordable housing for families, seniors and working people.”

Flyer for rally on October 20 at noon. Headline reads, “Rally for Affordable Housing!” And text below “We deserve a plan that: protects tenants and vulnerable populations, meaningfully supports small businesses, and ensures those who build our housing can afford to live in it and above all: guarantees we can build affordable housing for working families, artists and our essential workers”

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 4d

Benioff has always been out of touch & has tilted towards false narratives that serve his own self interest.

Dreamforce gives him a media megaphone which he used in 2018 to demand homeless solutions, in 2023 for more policing and 2025 cronyism.

This isn’t new, this is the Benioff playbook.

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 4d

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Flyer for October 20 rally:

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

If you are wondering what you can do to help… email your supervisors, show up to a rally at City Hall steps on October 20 at Noon.

Give Public Comment at the Land Use committee on 10/20.

And let others know what’s going on.

Amplifying social media helps too. ❤️

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

So what to watch for…. Will the Mayor and the Supervisors embrace amendments to this plan that address their constituents *legit* concerns…. or will we see full arrogance/gaslighting on display?

I have a hunch where this is headed and it’s not looking good 💁‍♀️

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

None of this is a surprise. YIMBY has been celebrating the Nov 2024 election results which put their favored candidate in the mayor’s office and swung the Board of Supervisors rightward. YIMBY advocates are often prominently seated at the mayor’s public events.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Proof of their complicity is that they have failed to push back on state mandates, failed to focus on the real need of affordable unit production, & have sidelined the legit concerns neighbors are articulating about displacement.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

The latest defense that the mayor and some supervisors are using is that their hands are tied… that the state threat of a builder’s remedy is worse.

This of course is a false choice. There should be a community process where neighbors are engaged in area planning.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Historic preservationists also say there are ~1000 “A” historic resources that have not yet been landmarked on the map.

As I understand, the mayor’s plan apparently incentivizes preservation of some historic façades, but not the buildings themselves.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Because of state law, SF cannot mandate that new construction have rent control. So by putting parcels on the map targeted for upzoning, there are legitimate concerns about people being pressured out of their homes to make way for new construction that commands higher rents.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

In *some* neighborhoods included on the mayor’s map, the proposed upzoning appears to have 80-90% of the parcels with multifamily unit rent control housing.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Another legit concern is the fact that the parcels upzoned in the mayor’s proposal have a significant number of rent controlled units.

An example of this is a storefront that has 1-2 floors of housing above it.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

For restaurants in particular, the cost of build out can be $350,000-$1 million because of the necessary hood, floor & hand sinks, bathrooms, etc.

That’s if the building is even equipped with the proper chimney to allow for a food business to install a hood. Most don’t.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Another issue is that the new construction has been largely hostile to small businesses…

An analysis of new buildings revealed that more than 50% have vacancies at the storefront level and 1/3 have what’s called a “cold shell”condition.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

One issue of the housing development in the last Housing Element plan is that while we slightly exceeded our overall housing goal, the units were disproportionately unaffordable and largely out of reach for working class San Franciscans. 4/

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

It’s also true that substantial parts of SF saw disproportionate new construction & there is a reasonable sense this hasn’t been equitable.

However, instead of learning from the lessons of the past decade the mayor’s plan fails to address the issues Eastern Neighborhoods upzoning revealed.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

Scott Wiener & other YIMBY state legislators have put through numerous laws mandating upzoning in the last couple of years…

And the SF’s state-mandated housing targets were substantially increased.

So… the state has *already* substantially upzoned SF.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 5d

This week there were two pretty contentious community meetings about Upzoning. There are the legit concerns people are articulating about Mayor Lurie’s Upzoning plan.

The question is — if and when amendments & an alternative plan is put forward, would the Mayor & all Supes embrace it? 1/

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · 14d

@maxmco.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2025/09/judg...

Judge dismisses S.F. police union suit targeting policy that limits traffic stops

Judge Joseph M. Quinn found "legal defects" in suit attempting to undermine San Francisco's policy limiting minor traffic stops

missionlocal.org

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · Aug 28

We are asking small businesses to put these signs up in their windows… Let me know if I can drop off some signs if you want to help us get them up. Most people don’t know about the mayor’s plan and we have an alliance website with a call to action to speak up. allianceforaffordableneighborhoods.com

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · Jul 25

Trump's ignorant and cruel Executive Order today on homelessness sounds eerily familiar to those of us in San Francisco, where self-described "moderate" politicians have been using nearly identical messaging for years.

Stop acting like Trump and start housing people with the support they need.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · Jul 21

In the long-term, SF and CA needs to meaningfully address the affordable housing crisis. Unfortunately we haven’t seen real leadership from this mayor or governor with a plan to stem the flow of new folks into homelessness. So until that changes, we will continue to see growing numbers.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · Jul 21

… have been exited to the street when they can’t succeed in a crowded congregate shelter setting. It doesn’t make sense to exit people to the street when they really need to be transferred to a higher level of care.

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · Jul 21

Prop C was a game changer for many chronic homeless folks who had lived on San Francisco’s streets for years. But that’s not to say there haven’t been any bumps. The denial of service rates at shelters have been too high. Those with highest acuity…

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Christin Evans @christinevans.bsky.social · Jul 21

One of the fastest growing segments of homeless are seniors on fixed income whose income hasn’t kept up with the rent. We also saw double digit growth in families experiencing homelessness. About 100 families joined the shelter waitlist per HSH’s last report.

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