Protecting Tenants

As a lifelong renter himself, this issue is personal is to Danny. He would be only the 2nd renter on the Board of Supervisors, in a city where tenants comprise more than 60% of residents. We must do more to protect our tenants by closing loopholes, expanding emergency rental assistance, and building more housing.

Here’s what Danny will do as Supervisor:

• Organize neighborhood tenant clinics. Housing law and city bureaucracy is difficult enough for the experts. Renters need help navigating it to know their rights, and this should come from people with expertise in immediate neighborhoods and Districts. Let’s open or expand Neighborhood Clinics across the entire District so help is never far from you. 

• Support seniors with increased Senior Operating Subsidies. This program offers deeply affordable housing for those on for social security. Danny will expand this critical program by making it permanent in the budget and funding it through a new Special Use District that allows additional density if a developer pays into the Senior Operating Subsidy fund. This will give us both more units and more funding for senior housing.

• Fully fund tenant lawyers. Tenants need help to stay in their homes. In 2018, San Francisco voted to provide legal representation for all tenants facing eviction. That program needs to be fully funded to keep our residents where they belong.

• Expand rental assistance during emergencies. The pandemic made it clear: our residents are vulnerable in a crisis. No one should lose their home through no fault of their own. The city must provide bridge loans, rent forgiveness, and other means of support during a disaster.