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GrowSF is the #1 voter guide in San Francisco, trusted by hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans. You deserve a city that works.

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Our November voter guide is live!

The ballot is long and confusing, and there’s a lot on the line for San Francisco. We sent questionnaires to every candidate and researched each ballot measure in depth.

Read our guide before you vote: https://t.co/WeD2znJ4BG

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Our November voter guide is live!

The ballot is long and confusing, and there’s a lot on the line for San Francisco. We sent questionnaires to every candidate and researched each ballot measure in depth.

Read our guide before you vote: https://t.co/WeD2znJ4BG

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Scott Wiener was named California’s most effective state senator for a reason: he gets things done.

He fast-tracked 3,000 new homes, fought to save Muni and BART, cracked down on stolen goods, and protected trans rights.

Vote Scott Wiener for Congress.

[Sachin Agarwal @agarwal]

Manny’s plan to build new subway lines is crazy, but I love that he’s thinking big and wants San Francisco to build.

That’s unlike most of our supervisors, who just get in the way and stop things.

https://t.co/byDhwwIXmw

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Connie Chan has quiet quit the Board of Supervisors.

She left every active board committee to campaign full-time, leaving District 1 without a supervisor focused on San Francisco.

Chan should serve the district she was elected to represent, or resign.

https://t.co/eluS3G7PM1

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

GrowSF and the SF Democratic Party agree: it’s time to put students first.

Tim Tung, Phil Kim, and Autumn Brown Garibay will continue the work to improve student outcomes and get our public schools back on track.

Vote for all three this November!

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

The choice for District 8 Supervisor is clear. GrowSF-endorsed candidate Manny Yekutiel has earned the sole endorsement of the San Francisco Democratic Party.

Manny will fight for more housing, safer neighborhoods, and a City government that delivers. Vote Manny!

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

GrowSF endorses Theo Ellington for District 10 Supervisor. He has spent 15 years working on the district’s toughest problems, from housing and jobs to homelessness.

“I’m not running to study these problems. I’m running to solve them.”

— Theo Ellington, GrowSF questionnaire

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Calle 24 spent nearly eight years blocking Cinderella Bakery, a Jewish-owned SF legacy business, because it was Russian rather than Latino.

That is not cultural preservation. It is a shakedown, and City Hall should end the special rules that enabled it.

https://t.co/XZhMrqxrWQ

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Manny has spent a decade investing in District 8: operating a small business, organizing street festivals and night markets, and cleaning up neighborhood streets.

He wants to build 10,000 homes, fully staff SFPD, and fill every vacant storefront. We endorse Manny for Supervisor.

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

We’re proud to endorse Phil Kim, Autumn Brown Garibay, and Tim Tung for the San Francisco Board of Education.

Each brings needed experience: Kim in the classroom and on the Board, Brown Garibay helping SFUSD families navigate services, and Tung in budgets, audits, and SFUSD leadership.

They are the best candidates to keep SFUSD financially stable and make student outcomes the measure of every decision.

https://t.co/nPauKaLCd6

[Sachin Agarwal @agarwal]

When we started @GrowSF, we were shocked by how little polling there was in San Francisco.

How are elected officials supposed to know what people actually want? How do you pass good policy or win campaigns around the things voters care about?

Without real data, you end up listening to the vocal minority who show up to every meeting and make the most noise.

So polling became a core principle of @GrowSF: ask voters what they think, make the results public, and use that information to make government work for them.

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Housing remains a defining concern: 81% of voters call the cost of housing and rent a serious problem. They support allowing 6–8 story apartment buildings near BART by 87%, along major commercial and transit corridors by 74%, and in the Sunset and Richmond by 77%.

Voters also want a safer city. 79% agree that more neighborhood police patrols prevent crime, 83% support safe vehicle pursuits of theft suspects, and 72% support police using drones and cameras after a 911 call.

They want practical responses to homelessness and drugs, too. 74% support requiring treatment for people experiencing homelessness who are struggling with addiction, while 64% prefer sending people arrested for public drug use to sobering centers rather than jail.

Voters also expect reliable basic services: 78% prioritize more frequent and reliable transit, and 70% prioritize safer streets for pedestrians. Nearly half say visible street trash improved over the past year, and 54% now say San Francisco is headed in the right direction.

https://t.co/vS4hzosffZ

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Years of GrowSF polling show a consistent mandate from San Francisco voters: build more housing, improve public safety, and deliver cleaner streets.

We built a new website to highlight everything we’ve learned in one place.

https://t.co/y3hJxNPyAU

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Today we launched GrowUSA, a federal committee supporting Scott Wiener for Congress.

Scott has passed major housing laws and secured critical funding for Bay Area transit. San Francisco needs his record of delivering results in Washington.

https://t.co/ivyO6KRIXA

[Solve SF @solve_sf]

One of the powers of 311 is it is a dataset of issues that lets the city determine hotspots, develop strategies, and track progress.

It goes way beyond just responding to individual reports of issues.

Without it the city actually has way less data on all these issues.

[Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂 @bilalmahmood]

✅ Campaign Promise

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

Supervisor Mahmood promised to get the long-stalled Divisadero car wash turned into housing.

Now 203 homes are set to break ground after his legislation cut roughly $4 million in costs and helped make construction possible.

[Bilal Mahmood 馬百樂 @bilalmahmood]

Major news: SF's most infamous empty car wash will finally start to become housing this year.

The empty car wash on 400 Divis has become a symbol of San Francisco's stalled housing pipeline. So it's no accident that this same project will be one of the first housing projects to break ground in District 5 in my first term, due to the city's concerted action.

Since taking office, we've partnered with the developer to write legislation that fixed technicalities in our building code and save housing projects like the one on 400 Divis millions of dollars in potential costs. We've worked alongside the Mayor's office and OEWD to reduce impact fees further to get to financial feasibility.

That this project is on track to now break ground this year is a direct result of those efforts.

A longtime source of blight on Divisadero is about to become a beacon of economic activity, and home to hundreds of new residents. And we're just getting started. More major housing updates in the months ahead.

https://t.co/rHdAHPcGBk

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

What our July poll of 662 SF voters found:

• 54% say the city is on the right track, the highest we have measured
• Worry about property crime fell 18 points in a year, though 37% still call it a serious problem
• Housing costs are now the top concern, tied with homelessness at 81%
• 72% back police drones and cameras

The city is making progress, but there is a lot more work ahead.

https://t.co/jT3hI7u8e7

[GrowSF @GrowSF]

SFUSD opened Mission Bay School, its first new campus in 11 years, giving neighborhood families a long-awaited public school.

The 80,000-square-foot campus will serve 400+ students, host a citywide STEM hub, and train teachers from across SFUSD.

https://t.co/NhZJdAdtU6