District 9 supervisorial candidates all agreed small businesses need more help from City Hall. They all proposed different strategies.
Welcome back to our “Meet the Candidates” series, where we ask the District 9 supervisorial hopefuls in the November 2024 election one question each week. Candidates are asked to answer questions on policy, ideology and more in 100 words or fewer.
I’ll explore innovative solutions for revitalizing large, vacant facilities to support new and existing businesses. We’ll open Mercados for vendors to rent affordable spaces to sell their wares. Incubators for local startups and resources for a wide range of entrepreneurs will all help foster an inclusive, vibrant District 9.I believe in by-right small business permitting where if your space is up to code you should not be beholden to a broken and opaque City Hall permitting process.
We share the belief that our city’s band-aid approaches to big issues that affect small businesses have failed, and that we need long-term, proven solutions. I founded the San Francisco Public Bank Coalition to increase access to low-to-no-cost capital for small businesses and would work towards realizing a public bank as Supervisor. I’ve championed and supported more enforcement of the commercial vacancy tax, so that corporate landlords cannot continue to let storefronts sit empty.
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