By Heather Knight : sfchronicle – excerpt
Three years ago, Supervisor Matt Haney trounced Sonja Trauss, co-founder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing everywhere, to win his seat representing District Six at San Francisco’s City Hall…
In a debate, Haney questioned Trauss’ insistence that solving the city’s dire housing crisis meant forcing every neighborhood to take on more housing units. He said he’d focus on his district, which includes the Tenderloin and South of Market, not harangue others.
“I am not going to pick fights on the other side of the city,” he said. “I’m actually going to fight for all of you, the residents of District Six.”
But now Haney has changed his housing tune, and for good reason. He’s making an open secret official. He’s running for state Assembly to replace David Chiu, widely expected to be named imminently by Mayor London Breed as city attorney. Chiu would take over from Dennis Herrera following his appointment to helm the Public Utilities Commission…(more)
Big money will follow that decision no doubt as Haney goes to work fighting David Campos for the position. Now it is up to David Campos to speak on the subject to see where he will go on the bills. Will he support them or the ballot initiative to overthrow the state overreach? https://www.communitiesforchoice.org/