Blog - Dean Preston

Last week, Mayor Daniel Lurie broke his silence about the City’s rapidly rising rents, nearly halfway through his term and only after the median rent shot up 36% since he took office.

We just turned in signatures to send the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act to the ballot!

For years, corporate interests have dominated the media landscape in San Francisco.

People are tired of hearing elected leaders tell us there’s nothing they can do about masked gunmen tear-gassing protesters, executing observers, and kidnapping children.

Massive development projects are planned for two Safeway lots in San Francisco: one in the Fillmore and one in the Marina.

Composite Photo: Brownstone / Google Earth San Francisco City Hall seems eager to embrace the latest tech start up in the housing arena: sleeping pods.

You wouldn’t know it from corporate media, but there’s a mobilized, determined movement protecting San Francisco from a deepening crisis under a rising authoritarian government.

Attribution: "Daniel Lurie Headshot" by Hayden Blaz/ Cropped from original; “Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore / Cropped from original.

Photo credit: Mission Local SF Mayor Daniel Lurie’s allies have celebrated his “strategy” of silence over calling out Trump’s attacks on immigrants and dissenters, but it’s obvious that strategy has failed as Trump ramps up his plans for creating chaos in…

The only community ambassador program run by the City is about to be shut down.

On June 6, the Trump administration escalated its war on immigrant communities by launching militarized ICE raids in Los Angeles.

SF YIMBY is now mobilizing to abolish developer fees in and around Hayes Valley which fund the development of affordable housing.

If you think San Francisco housing policy is working, or that Costa Hawkins is about affordability, some landlords got a 1980s “new construction” apartment with a $3,368 rent sticker to sell you.

San Francisco voters made their vision clear in 2018: a future where our homeless neighbors are supported by permanent solutions rooted in compassion and evidence.

If you live in San Francisco, or any major city, you’ve heard it before: “Just build more housing.”

If it feels like your Muni ride is taking longer, getting more expensive, or disappearing altogether, you’re not imagining it.

Why do we keep making sweeps the centerpiece of our City’s strategy to address homelessness and behavioral health, even when that strategy has proven year after year not to work?

San Francisco could be five years into the boldest social housing program in the nation.

In just three months under Mayor Daniel Lurie’s leadership, San Francisco has seen a 50% spike in overdose deaths, with 192 lives lost in early 2025 alone.

Officers calling in sick to work private security have got even the most conservative supervisors skeptical of police management practices This week’s hearing on police overtime abuse was a turning point.

As the City faces a massive deficit, an explosive audit revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) broke laws and policies related to overtime spending while failing to provide oversight on overtime usage and approvals.