The Tenderloin was added to District 5 in 2022. Dean worked in the TL for years as a tenant rights attorney and knows the community well. In the face of significant public health and public safety challenges, the Tenderloin is an amazing working class neighborhood with incredible residents, small businesses and community organizations, and a deep history of activism, art, culture, and diversity. Dean will continue to work with residents to promote community-led positive changes, including block parties, festivals, the Golden Gate Greenway, traffic calming, tree planting, street violence intervention programs, trauma response resources, overdose prevention sites, small business grants, community ambassadors on every block, and other investments in this community.

• Successfully advocated to expand community ambassador coverage and hours in the Tenderloin to help calm street activity.

• Led efforts to create the city’s first overdose prevention plan and advocated for a Tenderloin Wellness Hub to save lives and increase access to treatment.

• Secured $8 million federal grant for TL street safety, open space and community wellness.

• Championed Golden Gate Greenway for safe recreation and open space in the heart of the TL

• Won funding for Halal Food Vouchers in the Tenderloin

• Leading efforts to bring a grocery store to the Tenderloin

• Secured $10 million for SRO elevator repairs

• Funded tree planting making the Tenderloin the first fully tree-stocked neighborhood in San Francisco.

• Broke ground on affordable housing on Jones Street, opened supportive housing on Larkin, and re-opened housing at Ambassador and Ritz hotels

• Brought back the 31 Balboa Muni line