"Though he was better known before running for his charitable leadership as founder of the poverty-fighting nonprofit Tipping Point, Lurie immediately after getting elected began focusing on crime, homelessness, housing bottlenecks and quality-of-life issues like cleaning the streets. Lurie streamlined housing approvals, re-organized and sped up city safety responses, launched an anti-homelessness campaign and won a 73% approval rating at Thanksgiving among local voters."
"Bass faced some of the same issues when she took over but did little to clean up streets or fill potholes and did not reduce homelessness by much, with tent cities still proliferating almost four years after she was elected in 2022. Most damaging of all, she absented herself during the start of January 2025's Los Angeles County firestorms that killed 12 people and burned more than 7,000 structures in her city alone."
Daniel Lurie, elected mayor of San Francisco after ousting the previous mayor in late 2024, prioritized crime reduction, homelessness, housing bottlenecks and street cleanliness. Lurie streamlined housing approvals, reorganized and sped up city safety responses, launched an anti-homelessness campaign and reached a 73% approval rating at Thanksgiving. Karen Bass, elected Los Angeles mayor in 2022, addressed similar challenges but made limited progress on street repairs and homelessness, with tent cities persisting. Bass faced intense criticism for her absence at the start of January 2025 firestorms and for slow reconstruction, a problem compounded by low insurance payouts. Lurie received criticism for a slow response to a major PG&E outage that left much of San Francisco without power.
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