Mission Local: Meet the District 10 candidates: What is your No. 1 priority?
To start off, this week, Mission Local asked each of the three front-running candidates: What is your No. 1 priority?
Here’s how they responded.
Theo Ellington
- Job: Executive director, Ruth Williams Bayview Opera House
- Age: 37
- Residency: Renter, third-generation Bayview-Hunters Point resident
- Transportation: Driving, public transit, walking
- Education: Bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame de Namur University, master’s degree from University of San Francisco
- Languages: English
Housing, at every income level, without displacement.
District 10 has 20,000 homes in the pipeline at Pier 70, Power Station, India Basin, the Shipyard, Candlestick, and Schlage Lock. We also have Third Street, a transit corridor in desperate need of more housing.
My grandfather bought a home in Bayview on a laborer’s salary. My mother raised us on $18,000 a year. That San Francisco disappears if we don’t build more housing that working-class families can afford.
Endorsed by: San Francisco Democratic Party, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, State Treasurer Fiona Ma, Congressman Kevin Mullin, Former Mayor London Breed, State Senator Scott Wiener, Congresswoman Lateefah Simon, Former Mayor Willie Brown, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, read more here.
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