Dean believes that every person deserves a home. An unmatched affordable housing champion, Dean worked for years as a tenants rights attorney working to keep people from being evicted. He has fought consistently at the Board of Supervisors for more housing – especially affordable housing to close our city’s affordability gap. Most recently, he convinced the State to build hundreds of units of 100% affordable housing on the Fell Street DMV lot.

• Voted for 30,000 homes —86% affordable

• Got 2,037 units of housing approved in District 5 across 14 sites – 81% affordable

• Wrote and passed tax on sellers of mega-mansions and skyscrapers that’s raised over $300 million for social housing and rent relief

• Led the acquisition of sites for affordable housing and broke ground on hundreds of units of affordable housing units in D5  

• Convinced the State to develop affordable housing at the Fell Street DMV site

• Championed Empty Homes Tax to fill vacant units