San Franciscans for Social Housing
Organizing to Protect & Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program
Join neighbors calling on City Hall to invest Prop I revenue in social housing, strengthen tenant protections, and pass the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act.
The basics
What's social housing?
Social housing is permanently affordable, publicly owned, mixed-income housing that's designed to stay off the speculative market—giving working San Franciscans stable homes at rents they can actually afford, for generations.
Permanently affordable
Rents tied to what residents can afford—not whatever the market will bear.
Publicly owned
Homes that belong to the public, kept off the speculative market for good.
Mixed-income
Open to working San Franciscans across the income spectrum—not segregated by income.
See how the Affordable Housing Guarantee Act would fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program.
Why this matters
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 a 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.
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.
We need to collect over 15,000 of signatures to qualify the Guarantee Act for the ballot. We hope you'll join us in this fight for social housing in San Francisco, and get involved in the campaign.
More ways to help
Beyond the Guarantee Act campaign and volunteering, here are a few concrete things you can do this week to help.