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TO WORKING PEOPLE, AARON PESKIN IS SAN FRANCISCO’S STRONGEST CHAMPION

ISSUES
AARON PESKIN
LONDON BREED
DANIEL LURIE
MARK FARRELL
Do they oppose the plan that will overrun our neighborhoods with luxury towers while demolishing rent-controlled buildings and displacing legacy small businesses?
Supports housing where it makes sense, not luxury housing towers that displace residents and small businesses.
Proposed this plan for luxury development without affordability safeguards.
Supports the plan.
Supports the plan and is supported by developers who would make billions from it.
Do they support expanding and strengthening rent control so working people can stay in San Francisco?

YES – Peskin’s plan would extend rent control to 89,000 additional households.

Agreed to sign a watered down version of Peskin’s legislation.

Opposes.

Strongly Opposes.

Do they support rooting out the corruption that keeps City Hall from doing its job?
Consistent champion of stronger citizen oversight. Wrote Proposition C for an Inspector General to combat corruption.
Administration awash in corruption scandals involving her close associates and appointees. Does not support corruption-fighting measure.
Does not support corruption-fighting measure.
Received what was at the time the largest ethics fine in SF history. Faces allegations of multiple campaign finance violations in his current race. Does not support corruption fighting measure.
Do they consistently support union policy initiatives, contract fights, and organizing drives?
One of San Francisco’s fiercest and most formidable fighters for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions. Strongly endorsed by unions representing working families.
A mixed record of supporting unions when it serves her immediate political interests, and abandoning them when it doesn’t.
Limited labor support.
Opposed to most union policy initiatives on the Board of Supervisors and as Mayor. Now supported by the Deputy Sheriff’s Union and some building construction unions.
Do they support children, youth and families?
Committed and effective advocate to make our city more affordable for working families — co-sponsored groundbreaking measure for new funds for childcare and early childhood education.
Mixed record including refusing to spend the childcare funds.
Helped fund clinic where low-income children found treatment.
Wrote “poison pill” measure to stop the “Baby Prop. C” fund for childcare and early childhood education.
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  • “Live TV mayoral debate shows sharp contrast between Peskin and the others,” 48Hills, September 12, 2024 [Link]
Supports housing affordable for low- and middle income families
  • “San Francisco Developers Have Mixed Feelings About Peskin’s Middle Income Housing Plan,” KQED, July 11, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor Breed and President Peskin Introduce Housing Bond for the March Ballot,” City and County of San Francisco, September 12, 2024 [Link]
  • “Supervisor Aaron Peskin’s Housing Record,” San Francisco Board of Supervisors, April 2024  [Link]
  • “2019 Affordable Housing General Obligation Bond,” City and County of San Francisco, 2019 [Link]
  • “SF supervisors seek to stop illegal home demolition,” Curbed, December 12, 2018 [Link]
  • “Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin Introduce Resolution to Authorize $75 Million in Funding to Convert At-Risk Buildings to Affordable Housing,” San Francisco Mayor’s Office, December 12, 2024  [Link]
  • “Breed blocks affordable housing project in District 5 for ‘petty politics’,” Mission Local, January 18, 2024 [Link]
  • “Breed won’t support affordable housing in gentrified Hayes Valley,” 48Hills, October 29, 2023 [Link]
  • “Mayor Breed is sabotaging her own $300M affordable-housing bond,” Mission Local, February 19, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor Breed Taps New Federal Program to Deliver 3,700 New Homes, City and County of San Francisco, July 18, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor Breed and President Peskin Introduce Housing Bond for the March Ballot,” City and County of San Francisco, September 12, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor London Breed Celebrates the Grand Opening of New 100% Affordable Housing Project in San Francisco’s Excelsior District,” City and County of San Francisco, September 5, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor London Breed Celebrates the Grand Opening of New 200 New ‘Missing Middle’ Homes in South of Market Neighborhood,” City and County of San Francisco, August 8, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Aaron Peskin Introduce Resolution to Authorize $75 Million in Funding to Convert At-Risk Buildings to Affordable Housing,” San Francisco Mayor’s Office, December 12, 2024  [Link]
  • “Daniel Lurie is selling a housing miracle to voters. The reality is messier,” The San Francisco Standard, September 24, 2024 [ Link]
  • “SF’s first mayoral debate: Digs and call-outs aside, all stuck to their scripts,” Mission Local, June 13, 2024 [Link]
  • “Here’s how S.F.’s mayoral candidates want to tackle the city’s notorious housing crisis,” The San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 2024 [Link]
  • “San Francisco Board President Aaron Peskin Introduces First-in-the-Nation Local Ban on Rent Price Fixing, Calls Out RealPage Rent Crisis,” San Francisco Board of Supervisors, July 16, 2024 [Link]
  • “SF bans automated software accused of price-fixing housing rents,” The San Francisco Examiner, July 30, 2024 [Link]
  • Campaign Finance Dashboards – November 5, 2024, San Francisco Ethics Commission [Link]
  • “See how they run: Mayor Breed’s 2024 election financing,” Mission Local, August 9, 2024 [Link]
  • “Breed getting crushed in fundraising in tough reelection fight,” The San Francisco Standard, February 5, 2024 [Link]
  • “Billionaire mother of SF mayoral candidate spends $1M on her son’s race,” SFGATE, January 30, 2024 [Link]
  • “Daniel Lurie’s mother spends $1 million to help him win San Francisco mayor’s race,” The San Francisco Standard, January 30, 2024 [Link]
  • “Dan’s dollars: Lurie drops $1.3M more into his own mayoral campaign,” Mission Local, August 30, 2024 [Link]
  • “Mark Farrell says you can trust his campaign finances. A surprise trip to his office left me wondering, San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 2024 [Link]
  • “Republican rent-control foe gives $500K to Mark Farrell ballot-measure committee,” Mission Local, July 8, 2024 [Link]
  • “Supes fear mayor’s housing law could imperil rent-controlled units,” Mission Local, October 3, 2022 [Link]
  • “Mayor’s Office missing as supes discuss mayor’s proposed housing policies, 48Hills, September 28, 2024 [Link]
  • “Live TV mayoral debate shows sharp contrast between Peskin and the others,” 48Hills, September 12, 2024 [Link]

Where Do the Major Candidates Stand on Rent Control and Protecting Working Families and Small Businesses from Displacement?

Rent Control and Housing
Working Families Issues
LABOR HOUSEHOLDS AND WORKING FAMILIES:
THIS IS WHAT’S ON YOUR BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER:
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Rent Control: the chance to protect more San Franciscans from rent hikes we can’t afford

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Building more housing that’s affordable for low- and middle-income families

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Fighting displacement – or making it worse

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Standing against landlord and developer control of City Hall

Paid for by San Francisco Working Families Voter Guide Supporting Aaron Peskin for Mayor,
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1. UNITE HERE TIP State & Local Fund: $300,000

2. Service Employees International Union Local 1021 Candidate PAC: $238,000

3. National Union of Healthcare Workers Candidate Committee: $175,000
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