While it’s impossible to say how much Haney’s dogged housing messaging contributed to his victory — compared to his massive fundraising advantage or low turnout overall — his central campaign theme can’t be ignored in San Francisco politics.
A housing project under construction at 65 Ocean Ave. in the Excelsior district in February. With Matt Haney’s recent victory in the Assembly District 17 race, politicians’ perspectives on housing development is becoming an important new litmus test.
With housing being one of the only issue areas where the two progressive-identified candidates had substantive differences, the campaign turned increasingly negative. As the race wore on, the candidates traded jabs on Twitter and in their mailers, culminating in a televisionBut amid all of the sparring, the rejected development at 469 Stevenson St.
Haney, by contrast, was rewarded for dramatically shifting his stance on housing — a move that drew the ire of fellow progressives, who accused him of selling out to real estate interests.
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