Alex Padilla U.S. Senator for California

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) joined San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to tour a local affordable housing facility for low-income seniors and highlight federal and local solutions to help address the city’s housing and homelessness challenges. The visit comes as the Trump Administration continues to defund essential federal housing programs and services, including the potential closure of San Francisco’s regional Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) field office.

In addition to discussing the impact of the Trump Administration’s devastating proposed housing assistance cuts, Senator Padilla spotlighted his Housing for All Act, a comprehensive approach to help address the homelessness and affordable housing crises in California and across the nation. The legislation would invest in proven solutions to address affordable housing shortages and provide a historic level of federal funding for both existing programs to reduce homelessness and innovative, locally developed solutions to help vulnerable populations experiencing homelessness.

A one-pager on the Housing for All Act is available here. 

Mayor Lurie also highlighted his plans to expand affordable housing in San Francisco, including his Family Zoning plan to ensure the next generation of San Franciscans can afford to live in the city and his PermitSF effort to speed up the city’s permitting process and build housing more quickly.

“At a time when costs are rising and seniors are being priced out of affordable housing, Donald Trump is attacking Social Security, health care, and now housing. That’s unacceptable,” said Senator Padilla. “I’m fighting not just to stop those cuts, but to bring the full weight of the federal government to help solve California’s housing and homelessness crises through my comprehensive Housing for All Act, a bill to make historic federal investments in the creative solutions that cities and states across the country have already deployed successfully. We know the steps we need to take to make housing more affordable and reduce homelessness — now we need the resources to meet the scale of these crises.”

“Here in San Francisco, we have to meet our housing challenges head-on. We’re doing our part with initiatives like Family Zoning to keep the next generation in the city, and PermitSF to speed up housing approvals and get more homes built faster,” said Mayor Daniel Lurie. “Thank you to Senator Padilla for visiting our city, touring the Dr. George W. Davis Senior Center, and championing solutions like the Housing for All Act to expand affordable housing across California.”

Senator Padilla believes everyone deserves access to affordable and safe housing and recognizes the need to drastically increase the affordable housing stock to address the homelessness crisis facing California and the country, including through his Housing for All Act. Earlier this month, Padilla introduced the bipartisan Housing Unhoused Disabled Veterans Act to ensure veterans experiencing homelessness and receiving disability payments maintain access to crucial housing support. In the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires, Padilla introduced the bipartisan Disaster Housing Reform for American Families Act to expedite, expand, and improve temporary housing available to victims of disasters like wildfires and storms.

Padilla has fought against the Trump Administration’s proposals to cut HUD staff and field offices who help provide crucial housing services. Padilla and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver, II (D-Mo.-05) recently led more than 100 Democrats in the Senate and House in condemning staffing cuts and potential closures of HUD field offices across the country. Earlier this year, Senator Padilla sounded the alarm that these wide-ranging cuts would hamper HUD’s ability to support vulnerable communities and address the housing and homelessness crises.

Video of today’s press conference is available here, and can be downloaded here.

Additional photos from today’s visit are available here.

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