Organizing to Protect & Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program

In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I, a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million, with clear support from the Board of Supervisors to fund an innovative municipal social housing program.

Prop I has raised hundreds of millions of dollars since it was passed, but Mayor Breed and now Mayor Lurie have been depositing the revenue into the general fund.

Over 1,000 San Franciscans for Social Housing have signed onto a petition that was started in late 2025 asking Mayor Lurie to dedicate Prop I revenue to the city's Social Housing Program, as intended.

Mayor Lurie ignored our petition, and in Feburary 2025, he responded by introducing a plan to largely repeal Prop I without going back to the voters, who approved it only a few years ago. The Board of Supervisors is now considering the Mayor's plan, and may vote later this year to gut Prop I. June 8, 2026 Update: City Hall put its plans to gut Prop I on hold after overwhelming public outcry.

We are now fighting alongside other housing activists to protect and strengthen Prop I by going back to the voters with a new ballot measure for 2026. If we're successful, the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act will legally mandate that the Mayor spend this tax revenue on affordable and social housing.

Our coalition collected over 20,000 signatures that we turned in on July 2, 2026 to qualify the measure for the ballot in a matter of weeks, and we are now fundraising to pay for the November election campaign's field operations. We hope you'll join us in this fight for social housing in San Francisco, and consider making a donation to the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act campaign.