Autumn Hope Looijen for District 5 Supervisor: the ONLY candidate with a track record of solving SF's problems
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I'm Autumn Hope Looijen (loy-in), and I'm running for Supervisor in District 5.

I'm the candidate with the best track record of getting things done.

I co-founded the school board recall that was thought impossible... but won every neighborhood in the city, catalyzing change nationwide.

I ran the campaign to bring algebra back, and now 8th graders are back in algebra class this fall.

Now the school district in headed in the right direction, but our City is still in crisis.

And our current Supervisor Dean Preston can't fix it.

He stood by the school board leader who made anti-Asian tweets and sued our schools for $87 million
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And instead of protecting the 810 people who died of drug overdoses last year, Dean does not believe in arresting the drug dealers who prey on them. He blames capitalism instead of taking responsibility for fixing the suffering on our streets.

My Fenta-NIL plan is a practical solution to address our drug crisis. Shut down the drug markets, enforce the rules against public drug use, and compel users into medication-assisted treatment. (I'm the only candidate willing to compel treatment.)

We need a Supervisor who will focus on practical solutions for the people of San Francisco, and get things done.

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Priorities

End drug markets

My Fenta-NIL plan will arrest dealers, compel users into treatment, and restore police presence on our streets.
Homelessness

I will reform Prop C within my first 100 days to increase funding for homeless shelters so no one is forced to sleep on our streets.
Help our neighborhoods

Keep groceries and pharmacy services in the Fillmore, and support community gathering spaces like Proxy in Hayes Valley.
Small businesses

Our small businesses are the lifeblood of our neighborhood downtowns, and they should feel taken care of.

They need streamlined city processes and clean safe streets.

When unsafe conditions force the Tenderloin's grocery store to close, we should be fighting to bring back a grocery store for working class families who live there.

And when we have graffiti problems so bad that the graffiti returns before the paint is dry, we should paint over the graffiti for them & enforce our laws, instead of fining small businesses for a problem they didn't cause.
Fillmore Safeway

The Fillmore needs our help. They are losing their Safeway, leaving the neighborhood with no grocery store, pharmacy, or bank.

Dean's proposed solution is bananas. Instead of forcing grocers to stay open (which doesn't work), we should be making it attractive for grocery stores to stay in SF.

Apart from Dean, I am the only candidate who attended the community meetings about the Safeway.

The Fillmore Safeway is scheduled to close in January, right as the new Supervisor is sworn in. Any serious candidate should be ready to hit the ground running and get our neighbors help.
Public Safety

Every neighborhood deserves clean safe streets.

Every neighborhood should be safe enough for your kids to run down to the corner store, or take the bus to school without worry.

Every neighborhood should have the community policing we all want, in partnership with social workers and community ambassadors and mental health workers -- because our police are experts at fighting crime, not handling mental health issues.

Whether you live in NoPa or the Tenderloin, we should make sure YOUR neighborhood is clean and safe for you.

Quick policy positions

  • Housing
    We need to streamline our laws and regulations. It takes an average of 740 days to get a building permit here -- but it's only 185 days in San Jose.

  • Corruption and waste
    Track results so we can cut programs that don't work. Every dollar we waste is a dollar that we can redirect to help someone.
  • Small businesses
    Streamlined city processes and clean safe streets so our businesses can thrive.
  • Public Safety
    Whether you live in NoPa or the Tenderloin, we should make sure YOUR neighborhood is clean and safe for you.
  • Fillmore Safeway
    The Fillmore Safeway is scheduled to close in January, right as the new Supervisor is sworn in. I attended the community meetings to help keep groceries and pharmacy services in the Fillmore.
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Meet Autumn

I grew up in Kirkland, WA, the daughter of a public school teacher. I knocked doors for clean water for two Seattle summers, and cooked gado gado with my Indonesian grandmother, who'd survived internment camps as a young woman in WWII. I edited the Caltech student newspaper and co-authored a book on pranks.

At the dawn of the internet, I worked at Netscape, where we used 30,000 volunteers from all over the world to organize the web. Our open-source data was used for Google's initial crawl, and our project was the inspiration for Wikipedia.

In Dec 2020, I moved to Lower Haight with my partner Siva and our kids.

I launched the school board recall with Siva, and we took our movement from literally zero (we knew about six people in SF) to a landslide that won every neighborhood in the City.

Most recently, I ran a campaign to bring algebra back to middle school. My community worked with the school district, the city, and the people of San Francisco to bring algebra back -- and it worked. This fall, for the first time in a decade, our 8th graders will be learning algebra.

PS -- this is my favorite poem about politics.

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