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Now Lurie has demonstrated that you're never too young have your privilege accentuated by City Hall, and that he is committed to a future in which the well-off continue to be disproportionately represented in San Francisco's halls of power.

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Lurie's Youth Commission appointments are consistent with his policies for grown-ups, which typically prioritize those least in need.

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Only three members of the current Board of Supervisors attended SFUSD, and key Mayoral allies Board President Rafael Mandelman and Stephen Sherrill are both prep school alumni like the Mayor.

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While that spread isn't representative of San Francisco, where 70 percent of school aged children attend public schools, it is very representative of City Hall. Lurie went to elite private schools.

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Last week, Mission Local's Yujie Zhou broke the story that Daniel Lurie had appointed 6 private school children to the Youth Commission, and none who attend public school, resulting in a Youth Commission where only 6 of 17 total commissioners attend public school.

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San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is required to incorporate input from the City's Youth Commission whenever it considers legislation that affects young people and the Commission has been instrumental in the success of policies like the closing of Juvenile Hall and Free Muni for Youth.

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It's clear why Daniel Lurie and his billionaire allies would prefer to live in that future, but ordinary working San Franciscans need to send them a clear message that they are DEF-initely not going to vote away their democratic power.

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The passage of Prop D would inaugurate a new politics in San Francisco, one in which grassroots efforts to do things like raise the minimum wage, tax billionaires, protect renters, and build affordable housing would never see the light of day.

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Lurie's charter amendment would mean that only measures backed by big money interests would ever make it to the ballot, measures like Propositions D,E, and F, which have raised and spent millions of dollars to reach voters in November.

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Historically, San Francisco's citizen initiatives have been a means to enact policies that benefit the working class even when, as now, working class San Francisco is not well-represented in City Hall.

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Proposition D is the most egregious of these. It raises the threshhold for signatures and Board of Supervisor votes necessary to place a measure before voters at the ballot box.

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In reality, his trio of ballot measures this November -- Propositions D, E and F -- would consolidate power in the Mayor's Office and further enhance the political power of the ultrawealthy.

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Here in San Francisco, our first billionaire mayor is mounting a more covert attack on the free exercise of democracy, but one whose consequences could endure for generations. Mayor Daniel Lurie's anti-democracy program is being marketed as "charter reform" to "clean up City Hall."

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Most people are old enough to remember January 6th, 2021, even though the consequences for that insurrection were short-lived. Trump continues to introduce innovative new ways to reduce the voting power of people who don't support him and enhance it for those who do.

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America's first billionaire President has been blatant in his attempts to retain his grip on power by rigging the electoral system in his favor.

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Brooke Jenkins captured the idea well a few years ago when she said the homeless "have to be made uncomfortable." This approach hasn't achieved its desired outcomes yet but City Hall seems hopeful that causing more discomfort will do the trick.

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Removing services dedicated to keeping people alive and replacing them with expensive, temporary, enforced sobriety won't solve any of the city's problems but it will surely cause many people to suffer more than they otherwise would. And maybe that's the point.

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Hospitality House, meanwhile, operates three locations in San Francisco with roughly half that.

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The RESET Center is run jointly by San Francisco's Sheriff and Public Health Departments and a venture-funded company from Arizona called Connections Health Solutions, which provides the operations layer for a cool half a million taxpayer dollars every month.

Lurie's 6th St. ambitions are anchored by the recently opened flagship RESET Center nearby, a forced substance-withdrawal detention center where as many as 25 people at a time who've been arrested for public drug use involuntarily detox for up to 24 hours and then released back onto 6th St.

The 4,200 people it serves annually will be without a trusted and familiar place to get connected to healthcare, employment and housing.

Longtime service provider Hospitality House has fallen victim to the Mayor's plans to "revitalize" 6th Street, and has been ordered to close its 6th St. drop-in center by the end of the year.

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While that may be true of his rhetoric, he remains resolutely on the side of his ultrawealthy peers, using the power of his office and platform to the benefit those making a killing off the city's housing crisis.

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A recent glowing profile of Lurie in the Washington Post notes that "[t]here is nothing us-versus-them about Lurie's rhetoric."

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The truth is that Lurie opposes Prop I because it would block his efforts to give corporate landlords like Blackstone and Donald Trump a tax break.

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Most egregiously, the Mayor opposed Proposition I, a measure that uses money from an existing tax on the sale of high-end real estate to build affordable housing and provide rent relief and eviction defense -- the very things Lurie claimed to support just 24 hours earlier.

The very next day, Lurie released his endorsements for the upcoming November elections. And what a difference a day makes! Lurie's endorsements map identical to those of the conservative PAC GrowSF and there isn't a billionaire-backed candidate or ballot measure the Mayor doesn't support.

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including the working class people who make San Francisco run," as Lurie told the Times.

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Lurie cobbled together a "rent relief" package by bundling a grab-bag of legislation already moving at City Hall into a press release, choking the airwaves with the message that the Mayor is committed to making housing more affordable and ensuring "a recovery that reaches everyone,

On a Thursday in September, the New York Times broke the news that Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared a "Rent Emergency" in San Francisco.

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Similar efforts to block the rollout of new data centers are underway in Richmond and Oakland and have been implemented elsewhere in response to a grassroots movement that has spread across the country in recent months.

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District 10, which includes Bayview Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, Visitacion Valley and Sunnydale, has a long history of resistance to environmental injustice stemming from harmful land uses being sited there.

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Walton's district already features a disproportionate number of such facilities, which were quietly approved under a 2001 law without taking into account the water and power demands of modern data centers or their impact on quality of life for those who live and work nearby.

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Walton said the proposed moratorium would pause the approval of new data centers until protections for "residents, workers, and the environment" can be developed, noting that the moratorium could be extended to 220 days if passed.

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District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton has introduced a 45-day moratorium on approvals of new data centers in San Francisco, co-sponsored by Jackie Fielder and Chyanne Chen.

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The San Francisco Democratic Party is the only Democratic Party institution in California brave enough to openly serve the superrich at the expense the poor.

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in order to join tech oligarchs and the California Republican Party in opposition. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, whose mother is a billionaire, also opposes the tax.

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San Francisco has the nation's highest density of billionaires, and the local Democratic Party is so keen to represent their interests that it took the unprecedented step of breaking from the state Democratic Party, which supports Prop 40,

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PUML @puml.media · 19/09/2026

San Francisco's Democratic Party leadership has officially joined the opposition to California Proposition 40, which would levy a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires so that the state can protect Medi-Cal, public education and food assistance from the looming devastation of Trump's tax cuts.

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Number of days it took Lurie to apologize for his appointments: 2 Number of public school students he is now committing to appoint: 0 Figures cited are the latest as of Sept 2026. Source: Yujie Zhou writing for Mission Local

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PUML @puml.media · 19/09/2026

PUML INDEX: Number of young people who applied to be on San Francisco Youth Commission: 156 Percent of applicants who go to public schools: 55 Percent of school-age San Franciscans who attend public school: 70 Number of Mayoral appointees to youth commission: 6 Number who attend public school: 0

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Hospitality House is being forced to close its 6th St. Center as a result of negotiations with City Hall during this year's budgeting process. Removing services dedicated to keeping people alive will cause many people to suffer more than they otherwise would. And maybe that's the point.

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Such closures and reductions are likely to pile up now that the Mayor has pledged to review every City contract with nonprofit providers of services to homeless people, "with a focus on outcomes and accountability."

Its closure would limit the availability of care and support for the thousands of people each year who rely on the Center to access services like treatment, counselling, help filing paperwork and finding housing, work, and necessities, connections with health clinics and clean, and safe restrooms.

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San Franciscans are rallying around Hospitality House and its 6th Street Drop-in Center, a crucial provider of basic services and amenities for anyone in need. The center has fallen victim to the Mayor's plans to "revitalize" 6th St. and has been ordered to close by the end of the year.

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It's no wonder she was the keynote speaker when conservative think tank The American Enterprise Institute came to town earlier this year.

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What Jenkins is saying openly is that she thinks San Francisco should be keeping more people in jail for longer periods of time, before they've been convicted of a crime, and she regrets that the state Supreme Court has made it harder for prosecutors to prove that is necessary.

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