We recommend voting for Matt Dorsey for Supervisor, District 6.

We endorsed Dorsey when he first ran in 2022, and he has spent the four years since passing laws to help people get off drugs and into treatment. Before joining the Board he spent 14 years in the City Attorney's office, where he worked on the nine-year legal fight for marriage equality and the lawsuit that saved City College from closure, and later served as SFPD's communications director.

It was my own journey in recovery from addiction that moved me to ask — first Mayor London Breed, and then District 6 voters — for a role on the Board of Supervisors.

Matt DorseySupervisor, District 6

Why vote for Matt Dorsey?

1. Recovery first

Supervisor Dorsey has done more to redirect San Francisco's drug policy toward treatment and recovery than any of his colleagues. His Recovery First ordinance passed the Board unanimously and was signed by Mayor Lurie in May 2025, making long-term remission the official goal of the city's drug programs.

This July, his Drug-Free Housing ordinance passed the Board 7-4, which requires the city to prioritize drug-free options in permanent supportive housing. That's a big change in city policy: today just 42 of the city's roughly 8,500 supportive housing units are drug-free, even though the Health Department reports that 26% of the city's fatal overdoses happened inside supportive housing in 2024, more than died on the street. People in recovery shouldn't be forced to live among drug and alcohol abuse just because they need housing assistance.

He also co-sponsored the RESET Center, which gives people arrested for public drug use an alternative to an ER visit or jail, both connecting people with recovery resources and saving taxpayers money. Dorsey calls it the most important policy shift since the fentanyl crisis began.

2. A fully staffed police force

Dorsey has relentlessly focused on solving SFPD's staffing shortage. The department's own November 2025 staffing analysis counts 1,565 sworn officers against the 2,257 it says the city needs, a gap of 692. His two ballot attempts to close it, in March and November 2024, both failed. He hasn't let up. This year the crisis has finally started to reverse: SFPD received 3,375 applications in 2025, up 40% from the year before, and posted its first net gain in officers since 2020. His second-term plan is a three-year push to full staffing, with civilianized desk jobs putting more sworn officers back on patrol.

3. Safer streets

Dorsey championed bringing speed cameras to San Francisco, and the results came fast: at camera locations, speeding by 10+ mph is down 79% a year after the March 2025 launch, roughly 40,000 fewer speeding drivers a day, and he has introduced a resolution urging the state to let the program expand. He also co-sponsored doubling fines for sideshows.

4. Build more housing

Dorsey voted for Mayor Lurie's Family Zoning Plan, has consistently supported building more homes in every neighborhood, and supports office-to-housing conversions downtown. And we appreciate his economic literacy: he says too-high inclusionary requirements (effectively taxes on new homes to fund subsidized homes) have made projects go "from penciling out to being thrown out."

Where Matt Dorsey stands

On other issues

Downtown recovery: As the downtown supervisor, he backs Vacant to Vibrant, Downtown First Thursdays, and tax and permitting changes to refill offices and storefronts. He wants to get office vacancy under 20% by 2030, down from a record 36.9% in late 2024. And his West SoMa Entertainment Zone ordinance, which passed in December 2025 and launched this July, lets bars and restaurants across a wide stretch of SoMa sell drinks to go.

Mental health: He supports expanding conservatorship tools and wants San Francisco to work with neighboring counties on regional mental health treatment centers, because streets and jails are the two worst places to leave someone in crisis.