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Back to supervisor mapJackie Fielder
District 9 Supervisor
District 9 includes Mission District, Bernal Heights, the Portola, and the Calle 24 Latino Cultural District.
Elected
November 2024
Won by 5,683 votes.
Up for Re-Election
November 2028
Jackie Fielder is the Supervisor for San Francisco's District 9, which includes the Mission, Portola, and Bernal Heights neighborhoods. Before being elected to the Board of Supervisors, Jackie unsuccessfully ran for state senate against Scott Weiner in 2020.
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Policy positions & priorities
Against Market-Rate Homes
Fielder routinely opposes market-rate homebuilding, supporting new construction only if it meets extensive income and rental-rate limits that make projects financially infeasible without large government subsidies. While she claims to support building 46,000 new affordable homes, she advocates for conditions that would effectively block most private development, including opposing projects that don't meet her demands for government-owned and operated social housing models and extensive government control. Only 9% of homes in San Francisco meet these requirements, with the other 91% of San Franciscans living in market-rate homes.
Fielder has indicated she will fight market-rate homes by demanding high percentages of below-market units, expanded regulations on developers, and conversion of existing buildings rather than new construction. Her stance against private development and insistence on government-controlled housing suggests she will continue the pattern of blocking or delaying much-needed housing production in San Francisco.
Shifting Stance on Public Safety
While previously aligned with the "defund the police" movement, Fielder has recently moderated her position on law enforcement. Her current platform carefully avoids previous rhetoric about defunding police, instead emphasizing reforms like redirecting non-emergency calls to unarmed professionals and addressing overtime spending. This shift reflects growing public safety concerns in her district, though her core priorities still include moving resources away from traditional policing toward community-led prevention strategies, expanding youth programs, and increasing victim support services.
Her emphasis on rehabilitation over incarceration and police accountability measures remains consistent with her progressive background, even as she adopts more moderate messaging on law enforcement funding. We sincerely hope that she will be an ally on the Board of Supervisors for making meaningful progress on public safety, instead of engaging in the zero-sum rhetoric war that has consumed San Francisco leadership. We want results and we are eager to see them from Supervisor Fielder.
Repackaging Existing Overdose Policies
One idea explains Jackie's position on how to solve the fentanyl epidemic: people who use fentanyl will choose treatment if there were fewer barriers to getting it. However, in San Francisco, there are no barriers to getting treatment. The city must provide treatment -- it is inscribed in law, and has been since the passage of Prop T in 2008, the Treatment on Demand Act. You can, and by law must always be able to, walk into a clinic and receive drug treatment. San Francisco provides at no cost: residential treatment and residential step down (a temporary drug and alcohol free environment), outpatient treatment, medication treatment, and withdrawal management.
In the last two years, San Francisco has added residential step-down, withdrawal management, and dual diagnosis beds; increased access to medication treatment through expanded program hours and home delivery; expanded contingency management; continued growth of the Office of Coordinated Care; and further increased overdose prevention and response efforts.
So when we read Jackie's plan to address overdoses by providing treatment-on-demand, creating "wellness hubs," and "eliminating barriers to treatment and overdose prevention measures," we have to ask: if you believe these solutions will actually move the needle, what do you think of San Francisco's current initiatives?
Because Jackie calls for duplicating many of the efforts already underway in our city, we believe that Jackie's approach to fentanyl is unfounded and needs provisions that are actually backed up by evidence about what has and what hasn't worked in addressing the drug overdose crisis.
The "wellness hubs" Jackie proposes creating are already part of San Francisco's 2022 Overdose Prevention Plan. Jackie also supports defunding the police, which we believe makes strides in the wrong direction for addressing the fentanyl epidemic on our streets.
Homelessness
Fielder supports a "Housing First" model, which provides a homeless person with permanent housing. Fielder says she plans to streamline the housing placement process, unlock vacant supportive housing units, reform the Coordinated Entry system, and implement emergency cash assistance programs. She emphasizes the need to coordinate among the 100+ organizations addressing homelessness and prioritizes ending student homelessness in partnership with SFUSD.