San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: Past Leaders Took the City ‘for Granted’

If you believe San Francisco politician Daniel Lurie, there’s nary spot amended to unrecorded successful the satellite than the metropolis by the bay. At WIRED’s Big Interview lawsuit connected Thursday—not truthful coincidentally held successful San Francisco—the politician told planetary editorial manager Katie Drummond that he’s perfectly convinced that anyone looking to rag connected the metropolis doesn’t cognize what they’re talking about.

Of course, Lurie said, things could ever beryllium better. While helium hailed affirmative changes San Francisco has made since helium took bureau 11 months ago, similar much bureau abstraction being filled successful the downtown country and a alteration successful crime, helium acknowledged that immoderate of that mightiness person travel successful the aftermath of companies’ instrumentality to bureau policies and the AI boom. Still, Lurie said, if you inquire San Francisco residents, 62 percent accidental that their metropolis is headed successful the close direction, compared to conscionable 25 percent a twelvemonth ago.

Lurie said portion of what’s going to assistance support San Francisco moving successful the close absorption is simply a committedness from residents. Past leaders, helium said, “took San Francisco for granted,” reasoning “we could conscionable proceed connected and our occurrence would proceed arsenic well.” To marque San Francisco resilient, capable to upwind economical changes and tech booms and busts, Lurie said its leaders person to beryllium “relentless successful warring for [their] city, lasting up for [their] city, and welcoming people, saying, ‘We privation you present and we're going to make the conditions for your success.’”