Under Dean’s leadership, District 5 has seen a 21% reduction in street homelessness. Dean believes everyone deserves a safe place to call home and nobody should be sleeping on our streets, especially while over 40,000 homes sit vacant in our city every night. Dean’s legislative work has stopped thousands of evictions, preventing homelessness. He’s expanded shelter and supportive housing opportunities to make sure people have a roof over their heads, and the mental health and addiction services and treatment they need to stay housed and thrive. 

• Piloted San Francisco's homeless hotel program in D5

• Created a permanent 58-room drop in family shelter, the only one of its kind in the City  

• Secured Gotham Hotel to provide 114 units of supportive housing to unhoused people

• Strongly backed Prop C to tax the largest corporations to create services and housing for homeless people, resulting in a significant drop in youth homelessness in the Haight

• Prevented over 20k households from homelessness because of Dean’s right to counsel law and the rent relief won through Dean’s 2020 ballot measure, Prop I

• Reduced street homelessness by 21% by fast-tracking people into housing.

• Filled over 300 vacant supportive housing units, moving people from the street to housing