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Daniel Lurie
2025 - Present
2029
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Daniel Lurie is the Mayor of San Francisco in California. He assumed office on January 8, 2025. His current term ends on January 8, 2029.
Lurie was born in San Francisco, California in 1977.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1999 and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.[2] In 2005, he founded Tipping Point, a nonprofit with a mission to "build community to advance the most promising poverty-fighting solutions."[3] He stayed with Tipping Point until he launched his bid for mayor in September 2023.[4]
Lurie is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune through his mother, who married former Levi's chief executive officer Peter Haas.[5] Haas died in 2005.[6] Lurie said during his campaign, "I don’t owe anybody anything except you, the taxpayers and the residents." He pledged to take one dollar of the position's $383,000 salary.[5]
Before founding Tipping Point, Lurie worked for Bill Bradley's (D) 2000 presidential campaign and for the nonprofit Robin Hood in New York, New York, which said it "elevates New Yorkers out of poverty by funding, supporting, and connecting high-impact community organizations, partnering with government, and advocating for what works so that New York City can be an engine of upward mobility for all."[4][7]
Lurie had not held political office before winning the 2024 mayoral election. He was the city's first political newcomer to become mayor since 1911.[1] He defeated incumbent London Breed and ten other candidates, leading all 14 rounds of ranked choice voting. While mayoral elections in San Francisco are officially nonpartisan, Lurie is reportedly affiliated with the Democratic Party.[8][9]
In his first months in office, many of Lurie's efforts were aimed at homelessness, fentanyl, and public safety. Lurie's first proposed law after taking office was an emergency ordinance allowing the mayor's office to seek private donations to help address homelessness and fentanyl.[10] He also announced a new police task force dedicated to improving safety at the city's business and tourism center, saying, "This hospitality zone task force will make downtown safe and kick-start our economy."[11]
Biography
Daniel Lurie was born in San Francisco, California. Lurie's career experience includes working as a nonprofit executive. He earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1999 and a graduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005.[12]
Elections
2024
See also: Mayoral election in San Francisco, California (2024)
General election
General election for Mayor of San Francisco
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Daniel Lurie in round 14 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.
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Total votes: 390,184 |
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Daniel Lurie completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Lurie's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I founded and served as CEO of one of the largest and most innovative poverty fighting organizations because the system was failing those in need. I challenged the system to bring accountability and show how to get big things done in San Francisco.
I’ve built affordable housing on-time and under-budget with good-paying union labor, helped house nearly 40,000 people and prevent many more from becoming homeless, and I’ve built dignified shelter beds at a fraction of the time and cost that it takes City Hall.
I have a record of holding organizations accountable to spend resources effectively and achieve results on early childhood health, keeping people in their homes, living wage jobs, and helping students go to college.
I am the only candidate that will shake up an ineffective and corrupt system that blocks progress on public safety, the drug crisis, homelessness, housing and economic recovery. Together, we can tackle our city’s biggest challenges and bring San Francisco back better than ever.- Public Safety: Public safety will be my top priority every day, not just in an election year. Both the police and Sheriff’s Departments face significant staffing shortages that create dangerous conditions on our streets. While many city leaders claim to prioritize public safety, their rhetoric doesn’t match their results. I have robust plans that have been praised by both law enforcement and behavioral health experts to address the multi-faceted crisis on our streets. We cannot fix our downtown and struggling economy until our streets are safe and clean.
- Drug and Mental Health Crisis: When I’m mayor, no one will be allowed to—nor will they need to—sleep on our streets. To address the mental health and drug crisis on our streets I will shift to a co-responder model and embed mental health professionals with police units. Not every call requires a response from someone with a badge and a gun. This will benefit law enforcement morale and improve recruitment, as well as shift existing police resources back to foot patrol and neighborhood beats. Coupled with creating 24/7 Crisis Centers where people experiencing crisis can be brought and navigated to services and creating more treatment and shelter beds through my “Home Run” plan, we’ll reverse the tragic situation on our streets.
- Government Reform: Anti-corruption and accountability measures need to be a priority of the next mayor. Through my City Hall Accountability Plan, I will restructure the bureaucracy by centralizing contract management, end corrupt pay-to-play permitting, and streamline construction management.
City Hall insiders have spent years building and exploiting a broken system. Our city deserves better and replacing one insider with another is not going to change things for the better.
Far too often, we’ve seen elected officials use loopholes, accept questionable donations, or engage in conflicts of interest, which only deepens the mistrust between residents and City Hall. As mayor, I will close the slush fund loophole, require greater transparency in campaign finance, and ensure that those who violate ethics rules face serious consequences. It’s not enough to talk about values—we need to enforce them.
By fully funding the San Francisco Ethics Commission and giving it the resources to audit, investigate, and hold wrongdoers accountable, we can begin to rebuild that trust. Ethical leadership isn’t just about following the rules—it’s about leading by example, ensuring the public feels confident that their government is working for them, not for insider interests.
Tipping Point spearheaded the construction of a first-of-its-kind affordable housing building on Bryant Street, completing the project on time and under budget while employing good-paying union labor. In response to the devastating North Bay Fires, I mobilized efforts to collect donations and distribute funds to community-based organizations, including organizing a sold-out relief concert at AT&T Park that raised over $17 million for victims.
As a lifelong Democrat and San Franciscan, I am running for mayor to turn around the city I love. I have dedicated my career to improving the lives of people throughout San Francisco. Tipping Point has raised more than $500 million, delivering measurable results in early childhood education, employment, housing, and education. My accountable leadership has facilitated innovative projects that helped house 40,000 people and prevent countless others from falling into homelessness.
Civic & Public Safety Leaders:
Former SF Mayor and Police Chief Frank Jordan
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, the First Surgeon General of CA
Vicki Hennesy, Former Sheriff of SF
Paul Yep, Commander, SFPD (Ret.)
Robert Yick, Captain, SFPD (Ret.)
Pat Gallagher, Past SF Travel Board Chair
Mabel Teng, Former Assessor-Recorder & Former SF Board of Supervisors
Organizations:
GrowSF
LiUNA! Local 261
UFCW 648
Restaurants & Small Businesses:
Amanda Michael, Owner, Jane The Bakery
Michael & Lindsay Tusk, Owner, Quince and Cotogna
Gilbert Pilgrim, Owner, Zuni Café
Mousa Shamieh, Owner, UpForDayz Coffee
Our government has been hijacked to serve political agendas rather than the city’s best interests. The result is many years of record budgets wasted because of corruption and political greed. If we’re going to turn our City around — and I promise you we will — we can’t let creative solutions continue to die slow bureaucratic deaths.
My City Hall Accountability Plan will address the root cause of our problems, which is the outdated, ineffective, and corrupt City Hall system. In order to fix City Hall, I am going to restructure it. That will allow us to finally deliver results on clean and safe streets, shelter beds instead of encampments, ending corruption, supporting small businesses, and more.
This plan to fix the foundation of our government will make our city safe and clean, and stomp out corruption.
There are three pillars:
(1) Centralize contract management and oversight. A specialized unit of experts will oversee the $5 billion of taxpayer money that goes out the door each year. This will take contracting out of departments so they stop functioning as independent and unaccountable fiefdoms.
(2) Reform the broken permitting process and the Department of Building Inspection. This will bring transparency and end the need to hire “permit expediters”, the corrupt pay-to-play process that exists in SF.
(3) Streamline construction management. With centralized planning and coordination we will avoid debacles like the Nightmare on Taraval Street and the $1.7 million toilet.
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SF.gov, "Daniel Lurie," accessed February 10, 2025
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 1, 2024
- ↑ Tipping Point, "Mission + Values," accessed February 10, 2025
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Linkedin, "Daniel Lurie," accessed February 10, 2025
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 New York Times, "San Francisco’s New Mayor Is Rich. Is That a Good Thing?" February 6, 2025
- ↑ New York Times, "Peter Haas, 86, Executive During Levi Strauss Heyday, Dies," December 6, 2005
- ↑ RobinHood.org, "About," accessed February 10, 2025
- ↑ New York Times, "San Francisco Gets a New Mayor and an Emergency Plan for the Fentanyl Scourge," January 8, 2025
- ↑ Axios, "Voter guide: Meet SF's leading mayoral candidates," August 28, 2024
- ↑ ABC7 News, "San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie introduces new fentanyl ordinance," January 15, 2025
- ↑ San Francisco Examiner, "Mayor unveils police ‘hospitality zone’ task force," February 6, 2025
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 1, 2024
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