“I’m feeling very grateful to all the community members and civil rights leaders who spoke up and successfully persuaded the board of supervisors to change course here,” Dean Preston, a supervisor who opposed the deadly robot policy in the first vote, said in an interview.

SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.

Protesters gathered outside City Hall Monday morning to let officials know "the fight against SFPD's killer robots doesn't end here."

“If this Board of Supervisors adopts a policy that gives the green light to the San Francisco Police Department to use robots to kill people, I would certainly hope that there will be a very active conversation with my office and advocates about the possibility of overturning that kind of decision at the ballot,” Preston said Monday morning at a rally on the steps of City Hall. “But let’s hope we don’t get there.”

Earlier this month, San Francisco residents voted to approve “Proposition M,” a local measure aimed at addressing the housing crisis by levying a tax on landlords of multi-unit buildings who have allowed rooms to sit vacant for an extended period of time. Proposition M’s tax, advocates hope, will disincentivize large landlords from leaving units unfilled, while the revenue it brings in will go towards homelessness prevention and affordable housing.

The Tenderloin Center is slated to close in less than a month, but a majority of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday that keeping it open until a replacement is ready would be better than not having it at all.

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston introduced a resolution Tuesday calling on the state to turn the parking lot at a California Department of Motor Vehicles field office in the city into a 100% affordable housing site.

Amid persistent concerns about city contracting practices and corruption, San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston proposed Tuesday that the board’s budget and legislative analyst audit how certain departments dish out lucrative contracts for public works projects.

Prop M in San Francisco is a proposed tax aimed at property owners who leave available rental units vacant for more than six months.

Preston said the lack of objectivity and transparency around the use of the letters made the practice ripe for abuse. He argued that Breed would have required all her appointees to sign the letters if she only intended to use them in extreme cases, as Elsbernd stated, such as when a commissioner abandoned their post or behaved inappropriately.

When community advocates are organized, and a district supervisor works with them, the result can be good news, even in difficult circumstances.

On Tuesday, San Francisco Supervisors Dean Preston and Hillary Ronen introduced legislation that would would decriminalize use and possession of psilocybin mushrooms and other entheogenic plants such as mescaline.

This November you will vote on which November will be the time you vote on who will be San Francisco's mayor, as the Board of Supervisors approves Sup. Dean Preston’s ballot measure to move the SF mayoral election to presidential election years.

“San Francisco is coming together to stop pandemic-fueled displacement,” Preston said in a statement. “We know the work is far from over, but the deal reached today will mean thousands of households won’t have to live in fear of eviction.”

Two San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday proposed legislation to fund a three-month pilot program providing free public transit to boost San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ridership, which plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The legislation, authored by supervisors Dean Preston and Matt Haney, would provide one-time funding for the program and aims to incentivize using public transit over vehicles as residents get back to work.

Supervisor Preston says the voters in San Francisco made Social Housing a reality in November by passing Proposition I.

The incoming supervisor has yet to move into his second-floor office in City Hall or solidify his staff. But he’s already making plans to meet with residents and elected officials to try to jump-start his key proposals. Those plans include opening a homeless shelter in District Five, creating 10,000 units of affordable housing in 10 years, and eventually making Muni free for all.

More than a dozen activists gathered in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle today as “Our Revolution,” a political organization founded by Bernie Sanders, announced its endorsement for Dean Preston for Supervisor in District 5.