Building the City We Actually Need

Vacant lots and crumbling infrastructure don't build themselves. Across San Francisco, empty and blighted parcels sit unused while the need for housing grows, and the Housing Trust Fund Renewal is built to turn that around.

The proposition funds the direct work of converting vacant and blighted lots into real, occupied homes, rather than leaving them as eyesores or missed opportunities in neighborhoods that need housing now. But building homes is only part of the job. New housing depends on the infrastructure underneath it, and this measure replaces the fund's former grant program for specific neighborhood improvements with broader authority to spend on affordable-housing-related infrastructure, roads, sewers, and utilities, so that growth doesn't outpace a neighborhood's ability to support it.

That means new homes get built near the transit, jobs, and services people already rely on every day, instead of being disconnected from the systems that make a neighborhood livable. It's a practical, infrastructure-first approach: not just adding units, but making sure the streets, pipes, and connections underneath them can actually support the families who'll call them home.

This is what it takes to build the city San Francisco actually needs — not just more housing, but housing that works, in neighborhoods built to support it.