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Dean Preston's True Housing Record
Dean Preston's True Housing Record

About

The authors of this website are housing justice advocates who reviewed public voting records and consulted with Supervisor Preston’s Office to compile and produce this report: Hope Williams, Misha Steier, and Harlo Pippenger.

Methodology

We counted “homes approved” as votes that add units of housing where they did not exist previously. This includes votes to finance construction of housing units, acquire new sites for housing, authorize the creation of new affordable housing, acquire private hotels for supportive housing, and others. If the same units were approved in multiple votes by Preston, we counted the units only once in our “homes approved” or “affordable homes approved” totals.

We counted “funds approved” as votes that directed funds to affordable housing, whether or not the funding created new housing units. This includes approval of state and federal grants to support housing development, funds for operating agreements for permanent supportive housing, funds for pandemic-related rent relief, and other housing investments. We note that most market rate housing projects, while they come before the Planning Commission and other city bodies, do not come before the Board of Supervisors for approval. The total number of market-rate housing projects during this time period is far greater than what is on this report, which compiles the housing-related votes taken by Supervisor Preston during his tenure.

This report compiles Preston’s voting record from December 2019 through August 2023.

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Please contact us with any corrections. We want this website to be as accurate as possible. Please send any corrections to deanshousingrecord@gmail.com.