Neighborhoods United SF

Join residents opposing SF's excessive height increase proposals! These plans could worsen housing issues, strain infrastructure, and threaten established neighborhoods. Act now! neighborhoodsunitedsf.org

Nooo! All the fraudsters and thieves will leave the state. Think of the lost tax revenue that scammers were once happy to contribute.

YIMBY isn’t about housing but about deregulation. We have been YIMBYING for 10 years, and housing is only more expensive.

@the_transit_guy It’s the land, not the structure, that has the value.

This 1400 SF home in Palo Alto where the ceiling has collapsed is on the market for $3.2 Million. But there's no housing crisis, guys.

@SelenaC10705 Left without comment.

D4’s worst nightmare, Joel Engardio, is at it again, name calling and labeling to divide San Franciscans. Stir emotion, dodge real concerns. SF is inclusive. People respect different views. What they don’t respect? Lies, manipulation, and gaslighting to silence and misrepresent the people. No one is against responsible housing. People are against reckless buildings that ignore safety, traffic, emergency access, and infrastructure, all so developers and lobbyists can maximize profits at people's expense. The Paris talk? A distraction. The real vision is the 50 story towers in D4. The Millennium Tower is the model. Joel Engardio and his lobbyists have to numb D4 before their operation. Joel Engardio, stop attacking residents to silence D4 and force compliance. Address the concerns. Build with infrastructure first. Better transit and improve infrastructure. We’re stuck at square one because the public’s valid concerns keep getting ignored by his nonstop name calling and gaslighting. We see through it. Joel Engardio and the monster behind him don't care about SF.

@lihanlihan @JoelEngardio

You found Joel Engardio's castle, purchased with Grow SF tithing. We hope you brought him fresh dirt for his crypt. We love Paris. And as you know, San Francisco is the Paris of the West. What we are trying to prevent is it becoming the Dubai of the West, as Joel’s policies would enable, despite his ranting about it being like Paris.

This photo of reporter Han Li in Paris is San Francisco NIMBY’s worst nightmare. I think those 7 story apartment buildings with ground floor amenities next to a park would look quite nice in the Sunset :) Read more about Paris in the Sunset: engardio.com/blog/paris

Millions are spent on turning regular people like teachers or their allies into NIMBYs. It’s reflected here, on Reddit, and on other social media. People like @maxdubler and Jane Natoli’s jobs exist specifically for that branding and dichotomy of YIMBY/NIMBY. These people do not act in good faith but to advance deregulation. It’s YIMBY Inc. NIMBY Inc does not exist.

@NeighborhoodsSF @DanielLurie @nedsegal @DannySauter @bilalmahmood @alankennywong @scsherrill @mattdorsey I made the mistake of looking at r/SanFrancisco a couple of days ago, and the yimby energy there is overwhelming. People were ranting about how the teacher strike was purely caused by nimbys, somehow… I don’t know to what extent this is astroturfing, but I definitely suspect it.

Abundance is trickle-down economics, and that philosophy is at the root of the affordability crisis. YIMBY is exactly the Abundance agenda. The philosophy is profoundly wrong. We have been consistent and correct. YIMBY is a series of Astroturf groups using straw arguments and changing goalposts for deregulation for profit, not to build housing for people.

Why does the same house cost more in San Francisco than in Kentucky with the same vacancy rates?

The Presidio: This Agenda Has No Stopping Point If Senator Wiener is willing to strip San Francisco of local control today, what happens tomorrow? Nancy Pelosi fought to protect the Presidio as a national park, shielded from private development. Under Wiener’s worldview, nothing is untouchable. If state law can erase neighborhood planning, federal law can erase protected land. What San Franciscans Must Do Right Now San Francisco is awake, and this movement is growing locally and statewide. 1. Fight in the Courts A rezoning this massive cannot bypass CEQA or due process. A Supplemental EIR is required: •Contact Neighborhoods United SF to help support this effort 2. Vote at the Ballot Box If City Hall will not defend neighborhoods, voters will. Local ballot measure coming next. 3. Push Back on Next RHNA Cycle Insist our elected officials defend our city and prevent the next cycle of unrealistic RHNA mandates that lead to another round of upzoning. See NUSF letter to governing body. 4. Elect Leaders Who Will Resist, Not Surrender Support real leaders, not YIMBY loyalists, who are stepping up across the city for 2026. A Final Word This upzoning was unnecessary, unchecked, and counterproductive. It is the direct result of laws written by Senator Scott Wiener and enforced by officials who chose alignment over accountability. But thanks to your work, the city is no longer asleep. This is the moment. This is the line. And this is the fight that will determine what San Francisco is allowed to be, and who it is allowed to be for. Stand up. Push back. Defend our neighborhoods. Because if we don’t fight for our city, no one else will. Over 3,000 residents sent emails urging the City to revise the upzoning plan to make it reasonable and less impactful to our existing neighborhoods. Their voices were ignored. The next round of housing mandates is being planned now, but this time, we're aware and engaged.

Neighborhoods United SF Advocating for Community-Centered Housing Solutions  Billionaires are Buying our Skyline  A proposed 25-story Marina Safeway project is the direct result of state laws authored by Senator Wiener and YIMBY lobbyists to override local zoning and neighborhood planning. San Francisco’s Neighborhoods vs. Wiener’s Agenda Before anything else, thank you. To everyone who showed up at hearings, wrote letters, called elected officials, shared information with neighbors, and stood shoulder to shoulder throughout this fight, your work has transformed what was once a quiet policy debate into a citywide movement. Because of you, San Francisco is more united, more informed, and more determined than ever to defend our neighborhoods and our voice in how this city grows. And that unity could not be more important, because on December 8, 2025, the Board of Supervisors voted 6–4 (with Supervisor Wong absent but publicly stating he would vote yes) to pass Mayor Lurie’s so-called “Family Zoning Plan”, a rezoning written behind closed doors and pushed by Senator Scott Wiener, his YIMBY lobbyists, and developer allies. With that vote, San Francisco crossed a line. Who Stood With San Franciscans Supervisors Connie Chan (D1), Jackie Fielder (D9), Shamann Walton (D10), and Chyanne Chen (D11) All showed courage and independence. The Marina Safeway project vindicates their warnings. Who Chose Lobbyist's Agenda Over San Francisco Stephen Sherrill (D2), Danny Sauter (D3), Alan Wong (D4), Bilal Mahmood (D5), Matt Dorsey (D6), Myrna Melgar (D7), and Rafael Mandelman (D8) Every supervisor who voted for this upzoning is supported by Senator Scott Wiener. That is not accidental. And neither are the consequences. NOTE: We should all be concerned about the increased influence of well-funded political groups in our local elections. @GrowSF, a billionaire-funded organization, has already begun running attack ads against supervisors who opposed the upzoning plan in an effort to shape future elections. Voters should pay close attention to which candidates and policies this group is funding and promoting. Their agenda is clear, deregulation that benefits developers, not neighborhoods or affordability. Lobbyists Ruled the Day Mayor Lurie's upzoning didn’t just “comply” with state law, it went further. It increased base heights, expanded density, and rezoned single-family neighborhoods into multifamily and commercial districts, creating sweeping new entitlements that go well beyond what the state required. It won't make housing more affordable, it makes land more expensive. This is where our elected leaders should have stood up, but they did not. The Marina Safeway: Proof, Not a Prediction Supervisor Sherrill now claims the 25-story Marina Safeway tower would not have happened under the Family Zoning Plan. That is simply false. This project is enabled by state density bonus laws authored and championed by Senator Wiener. The Mayor’s plan could not stop it. In some cases, the Family Zoning Plan actually makes these state density projects more onerous. The Marina Safeway isn’t a hypothetical warning. It’s a harbinger of what the YIMBY deregulation agenda delivers. If it can happen in the Marina, it can happen anywhere. A Stunning Misallocation of Priorities At a time when San Francisco desperately needs downtown recovery, City Hall chose instead to sign a demolition plan for thriving neighborhoods. Rather than: • Helping deliver the 70,000+ approved housing units already in the pipeline • Clearing barriers so developers could get shovels in the ground • Revitalizing underused commercial cores They did something else entirely. They used magic math to: • Rezone more than half the city • Create paper capacity for 800,000 additional units • Nearly double San Francisco’s housing footprint • And then assure residents, “Nothing will actually be built.” That contradiction alone tells you everything.

@jakeonrails @nedsegal @laura_waxee @FitzTheReporter @SFjkdineen San Francisco doesn’t build housing. Developers do. Penalizing a city for developers not building is ludicrous. We have a large pipeline of development waiting to happen.

@NeighborhoodsSF @nedsegal @laura_waxee @FitzTheReporter @SFjkdineen The project would not qualify for the ministerial approval under state law if SF had been building adequate amounts of housing. This is ultimately on the failed policies we've had for decades now, and the self-imposed shortage we created.

In today’s episode of - the kid who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. No, Scott. You and your YIMBY tech and real estate-funded lobby are 100% responsible for the “cartoonish” Marina Safeway project and any other out-of-scale, out-of-proportion project because of state density bonuses, not because a retired supervisor voted for more density that did not include more height. Here, you disingenuously blame instead of honestly admitting the truth. Enormous towers are possible at this site and others because of you and YIMBY. Now, you are facing pushback from your endorsed set of supervisors - @bilalmahmood, @mattdorsey, @scsherrill, @DannySauter, @alankennywong, Myrna Melgar, @RafaelMandelman, legislators, and the mayor who have turned into NIMBYs themselves while you are trying to take your deception to Washington. You can’t have it both ways. A monster project at the Marina Safeway site is possible under the current zoning or under the changed zoning in @DanielLurie’s upzoning plan (Family Zoning Plan). We have warned about this kind of outcome for years, while you and YIMBY have only doubled down. Don’t try to blame a retired supervisor of a single district when this project and many others to follow are all on you.

In today’s episode of - The dog catching the car: One correction, Randy. The mayor’s upzoning plan would not have prevented this project because they are using state laws that will still exist under the “Family Zoning Plan” whether it passes or not. This project exists because of @scott_wiener and his YIMBY allies in Sacramento and here in San Francisco. Allies who are YIMBYs like @NNeighborsD2, former lead organizer @scsherrill, who now calls the YIMBY plan “cartoonish,” when the policies for which he has championed entirely enabled this mega project. Or @DanielLurie, who is now suddenly flipped to a NIMBY and against the Marina Safeway project. We have consistently fought to push back on the “state” and YIMBY deregulation, while our politicians, like the Mayor, and YIMBYs like @bilalmahmood, @mattdorsey, @DannySauter, and others on the Board of Supervisors, have been fighting for projects like this. An example - These YIMBY supervisors recently voted down a resolution in opposition to more state control through SB 79 sponsored by Connie Chan. Why? Folks, this is what deregulation looks like. This is what @GrowSF, YIMBY, and everyone aligned with them wanted. Remember, the “state” is Scott Wiener, who has put ALL of this in motion. If you don’t like this project, take it up with him.

@LaCapitalista4 @carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie 7-4.

@carlatcole @GrowSF @DanielLurie Probably it will be unanimous - any supe who thinks it's a done deal won't want to be seen opposing the mayor.

SF Board of Supervisors —owned by @GrowSF —votes TODAY on @DanielLurie Rich Family UpZoning Plan ‼️ Pay attention to who votes to destroy the west side 👀

@agarwal It will be great when they are upzoned to oblivion. Right, Sachin?

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So, in other words, rezoning will not lead to lower costs for housing. The premise behind @DanielLurie’s “Family Zoning Plan” is false.

@Brazy_2021 @DanielLurie @nedsegal @mattdorsey @bilalmahmood @scsherrill @SFjkdineen @DannySauter We aren’t fighting new housing. You are mistaken. Scott Wiener is seeking harm upon people.

@NeighborhoodsSF @DanielLurie @nedsegal @mattdorsey @bilalmahmood @scsherrill @SFjkdineen @DannySauter Building new housing will not hurt people. I hope Scott Weiner wins 🤙🏽

Scott Wiener is a wholly owned subsidiary of real estate developers and the tech industry. Here he is attacking Connie Chan because she is standing up for tenants and rent control, in other words, San Franciscans. The real estate industry and tech companies dislike any constraints on their ability to extract as much money from the public as possible. Here, Wiener shows his cards once again. Real estate and tech donors are his true constituency. Wiener’s Abundance Network philosophy essentially promotes failed trickle-down economics, which is to double down on what has made housing more expensive. His bills do nothing to incentivize and fuel pure speculation, as they turn the keys to development and our cities over to developers. The goal of developers is not to make housing affordable or cheaper, it’s to make as much money as possible. Despite years of housing bills in Sacramento purportedly aimed at making housing more affordable, in reality, his legislation has had the opposite effect, making housing more expensive and preventing from it getting built. Scott Wiener is a fraud on nearly every level. Unfortunately, he has been able to cultivate a willing cadre of equally hollow and store-bought politicians. He has pushed the right-wing libertarian Abundance philosophy with them in exchange for his donor support. Because of their own philosophies, which prefer capital over people, it’s not difficult to line them up. The irony is that Wiener uses the right-wing attacks on him as a shield and diversion from his lobbyist-driven agenda. He poses as a defender of those who are the most harmed by Washington and Trump. Sadly, his agenda outside of the cultural issues aligns more with JD Vance than with San Franciscans. Supervisor Chan stands for San Franciscans, while Weiner and members of our board of supervisors stand for the same interests as Wiener and YIMBY, starting with Supervisors Dorsey, Sauter, Mahood, Sherrill, and extending to Melgar and, unfortunately, Mandelman. The Upzoning plan is a redevelopment plan. It sets the stage to actively “hurt people” despite some amendments with easy workarounds. While Connie Chan stands with the people, Scott Wiener stands with special interests and billionaires. It doesn’t have to be this way.

@thekc23 @DanielLurie @nedsegal @mattdorsey @bilalmahmood @scsherrill @SFjkdineen @DannySauter It is what the YIMBY lobby wants. This exercise is about not just rent control but the general philosophy of deregulation of everything, not just land use.

@NeighborhoodsSF @DanielLurie @nedsegal @mattdorsey @bilalmahmood @scsherrill @SFjkdineen @DannySauter They are trying to eliminate rent control and he is upset people see it for what it is. Thank you Connie Chan!