Platform planks are introduced and updated at our PAC meetings, and adopted at our General Membership meetings (see Calendar for meeting details). When planks are adopted by PAC, they’re considered draft planks. Pending, draft, and adopted planks appear below.

Health Care Justice (adopted)

Health care justice is a queer issue

1. Create statewide single-payer system that includes dental, vision, and mental health care for all ages. This system also includes:

1. 100% coverage for reproductive and sexual health, including abortions, contraceptives and condoms, and PrEP
2. 100% coverage for gender-affirming care
3. 100% long-term survivor coverage, including prescriptions, mental health care, palliative care, and housing
4. Reaffirmation of California's "sensitive care" policies for adolescents consenting to mental and sexual health care without need for parental consent

2. Work toward long-term goal of fully public hospitals and health clinics
3. Require non-binary gender options on all healthcare forms, and cultural competency training for all frontline health workers for trans, non-binary, and queer care
4. Replace police with health workers as mental health first responders
5. Require LGBTQ-centered data collection in healthcare and healthcare delivery studies

Criminal Justice (adopted)

Criminal justice is a queer issue

1. Create a California civilian and victims’ bill of rights
2. Move traffic enforcement from police to transit agencies, and increase accessibility of disputing tickets
3. Divest from policing to invest in social services and community-based crime prevention, limiting policing to addressing violent and invasive crimes, and holding police accountable for solving them
4. Infuse police training with accountability training
5. Transition from police to alternative such as the Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART) for nonviolent 911 response
6. Create and enhance diversion programs for all incarceration-eligible ages
7. Abolish pretext stops, jurisdiction switching, charging children as adults, cash bail, auto-sentencing, private prisons, and capital punishment (including capital punishment for existing sentences)
8. Reform sentencing enhancements, including ending Three Strikes
9. Create racial sentencing disparity oversight
10. Prohibit detention contracting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
11. Reform CBP immunity, including for excessive force and harassment
12. Legalize, tax, and regulate all controlled substances
13. Legalize overdose prevention (or “safe consumption”) sites
14. Legalize, tax, and regulate sex work
15. Oppose candidates for office who accept Police Officers Association (POA) contributions
16. Abolish qualified immunity

Climate Justice (adopted)

Climate justice is a queer issue

1. Complete transition to 100% renewable, affordable energy system. This includes:

1. Converting all methane (natural gas) uses to electricity, and all refrigerant uses to zero-emission alternatives
2. Prohibiting any new permits and winding down existing permits for extraction of fossil fuels
3. Transitioning privately-held power generation to publicly-held

2. Mandate energy- and water-efficient private infrastructure, and initiate large-scale bond financing for public green infrastructure, including dedicated revenue for increasing urban tree canopy
3. Mandate zero waste. Promote recycling and reusing
4. Complete implementation of San Francisco Climate Action Plan, and meet all goals of Chapter 9 of San Francisco Environment Code
5. Find permanent revenue source for San Francisco Department of the Environment
6. Implement free and 100% zero-emission Muni. Promote point-to-point public transportation services
7. Give streets back to public where feasible, through street closures and disincentivizing use of private vehicles
8. Implement charges for private transportation and congestion pricing. Use local funds raised for implementation of San Francisco Climate Action Plan
9. Guarantee accessibility of green spaces to all
10. Maximize social and affordable housing in pedestrian friendly neighborhoods, and create new pedestrian friendly neighborhoods
11. Ensure a just transition for all frontline and vulnerable communities through public investment. These communities include under-resourced groups, communities of color, Native Americans, people with disabilities, children, the elderly, and fossil fuel industry workers. This just transition includes:

1. Engaging with these communities to develop transition plans
2. Providing these communities with resources, training, and high-quality education, including higher education
3. Providing robust financial incentives to businesses i) investing in climate preservation and rehabilitation and ii) hiring workers within these communities

Housing Justice (adopted)

Housing justice is a queer issue. We believe that true affordable housing as proposed below is a basic human right and that profit-seeking and speculation is what is causing our housing crisis

1. Repeal Ellis Act and all no-fault evictions, including nonpayment / nuisance evictions. Replace as necessary with landlord / tenant mediation
2. Repeal Costa-Hawkins Act
3. Require multilingual eviction notices
4. Create statewide universal housing system where affordable housing option exists for everyone

1. Deliver affordable housing first to those residents with most demonstrated need
2. Pair each shelter bed with time-limited, irrevocable guarantee of permanent housing

5. Invest in Small Sites Program (SSP) to preserve and expand affordable and rent-controlled housing

1. Provide funding for SSP through public municipal bank
2. Purchase property via SSP geographically evenly across city and give residents choice of where to live in order to reduce currently more segregated housing stock
3. Include existing tenants in purchase decision so that SSP is aware of any tenant interest in purchasing
4. Change SSP rule on rent control such that rent control is not lost upon SSP purchase
5. Add co-op- and social housing-friendly criteria in criteria to access SSP funds, particularly for applicants applying to live in cooperative housing with shared common living spaces

6. Create option for permanent supportive housing tenants to move into standard subsidized housing
7. Improve conditions in single-room occupancy hotels (SROs)
8. Allocate revenue from Proposition I (2020) to social housing
9. Support efforts to diminish impact of “developer dirty bomb” (“circuit breaker”) in state law associated with Housing Element
10. Support affordable housing bond for county and social housing
11. Reform Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to be accountable to public it serves, through the following:

1. Regular hearings
2. Prioritizing community input with regard to rules of SSP, affordable housing sites identified by city, and landlords
3. Holding landlords accountable
4. Community- (vs. mayor-) appointed staff

12. When housing is being planned / built:

1. Pair mandated density increases with affordability requirements
2. Promote inclusion of multi-occupancy housing in traditionally single-family zones
3. Plan for increasing housing density alongside improvements to public transportation and job access
4. Provide for community / open spaces
5. Require union-built housing for quality controls
6. Preserve existing queer communities and spaces

13. Prioritize support for candidates for office who do not accept developer and real estate contributions

Justice for the Homeless (adopted)

Justice for the homeless is a queer issue. LGBTQ people, BIPOC, disabled people, and immigrants are overrepresented in the homeless population. Poor and working-class people have an inalienable right to the city. Capital should not dictate this. Human concern should be the driver.

Sweeps. San Francisco has a troubled past and present, displacing people from their neighborhoods and city. Sweeps are violent, trauma-inducing, and a part of systemic displacement of the working class from our city.

1. Halt all sweeps immediately
2. Prohibit taking of belongings of people in public space by any city employee
3. Replace institutional first responders with community alternative street responders such as Compassionate Alternative Response Team (CART)
4. Guarantee people who are are forced to live outside with a right to safety, right to take up space, and right to be free from violence and harassment from city departments, officials, and otherwise

Shelter. Shelter, which is temporary by definition, will not solve homelessness. Deeply affordable and accessible housing is the only solution to homelessness.

1. Reinstate the self-referral system for shelter beds, and ensure adequate vacancies to eliminate wait-time access. Pair each shelter bed with a time-limited (30 days), irrevocable guarantee of permanent housing
2. Give shelter residents agency to set and change community rules. Examples of changes include eliminating curfews, expanding shelter and hygiene service access to 24/7, and allowing visitors
3. Employ trained trauma-informed care professionals to staff and manage shelters
4. Ensure adequate hygiene services, including an adequate number of showers
5. Ensure sufficient storage for and access to essential items such as medication
6. Ensure 24/7 access to internet, including in other public spaces like public libraries
7. End homelessness profiteering by companies that are marketing shelter “solutions”
8. Oppose SB 634, which seeks to redefine tiny homes from shelter to housing

From Shelter to Permanent Housing

1. Prioritize permanent housing, not shelter, for investment
2. Give housing referral status to all those seeking housing through the federal Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD)-mandated Coordinated Entry process. Give those with housing referral status a guarantee of permanent housing within 30 days. Eliminate conflicts of interest in the relationship between the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) and the Local Homeless Coordinating Board (LHCB), the federally mandated body that oversees Coordinated Entry
3. Publicize location of permanent housing vacancies and establish process to opt into specific buildings
4. Reinstate the “Housing Ladder” for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) tenants
5. Allow access to scattered site vouchers for PSH tenants
6. Give tenants, including those living in PSH, the right to organize in their current spaces for rent strikes and changes, independent of building management
7. Close the SRO collaboratives. Ban landlord-sponsored tenant organizing
8. Adequately fund PSH building case management and individual intensive case management and support
9. Overhaul PSH provider audits to ensure tenant anonymity in annual surveys (to avoid bias from concerns about landlord retaliation) and reveal meaningful data and trends and surface problematic properties. Work with city controller to ensure that contracts are tied to ongoing maintenance and repairs

Eviction Prevention

1. Provide all tenants facing displacement with legal counsel. Fully implement Proposition F (2018)
2. Improve transfer process to offer alternative housing before eviction occurs
3. Provide direct access to health care (including mental health care) and prescription access navigators

Overdose Prevention

1. Immediately fund and implement overdose prevention sites. Achieve Treatment on Demand to stop delay in accessing inpatient and outpatient drug treatment services
2. Support safe supply and safe use

Public Education. There is a critical need for public education about homelessness, and data transparency related to homelessness.

1. Determine true number of homeless beyond biannual Homeless Point-in-Time count by supplementing this count with shelter waitlist and Coordinated Entry database, and ensure the transparency of this data where appropriate
2. Expand scope of causes of homelessness held by service providers and City, to go beyond that of mental illness and drug / alcohol use, through civic reform and public education campaigning
3. Publicize and make clear available homeless services through public education campaigning

Good Governance (anti-corruption; adopted)

Good governance is a queer issue. A lack of good governance diverts resources from vulnerable communities into the hands of corrupt officials and corporate interests. It decreases the level of service that residents get from their city. In addition, the breakdown of trust for our government entities also inevitably creates anger / division and places marginalized communities at risk of mob violence and scapegoating. We have seen this dynamic play out with the rising vigilante violence against unhoused neighbors. In order for our government to better serve its people, we demand the following:

End abuses of power by the most powerful individuals in our city

1. Fight for a Public Advocate who can investigate whistleblower complaints / programs, resolve complaints from the public regarding city services and programs, and review the administration of city programs on behalf of the people of San Francisco
2. In lieu of a Public Advocate, empower the Controller’s Public Integrity Unit and Ethics Commission with adequate staff, resources, and power to thoroughly vet ethics and whistleblower complaints
3. Ensure that the Controller and Ethics Commission can be elected by the people of San Francisco

End Pay-to-Play politics. Independent wealth should not insulate campaigns from campaign finance oversight!

1. Audit privately-funded campaigns in addition to auditing campaigns that use public financing
2. Expand public financing to all city offices and increase top matching rate to 8:1
3. Apply all existing Independent Expenditure Committee regulations to Slate Mail Organizations
4. End Citizens United!

Encourage oversight and accountability by the people of San Francisco

1. Support attempts to increase transparency in public hearings by prioritizing public access, including supporting call-in access to Board and commission meetings
2. Reform the City’s opaque and impersonal budget process: the Mayor and Board of Supervisors should increase transparency and community engagement before the budget is finalized
3. Adopt reasonable transparency measures for city-funded nonprofits and contractors so the public knows where their money is going
4. Protect local commissioners’ independence to listen to community and provide meaningful oversight to City departments
5. End the use of undated resignation letters
6. End the use of commission appointments as reciprocal political favors

Protect whistleblowers!

1. Consider implementing incentives for whistleblowing to encourage a culture of accountability into city government. Example: federal Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act, passed in 2023, which enables whistleblowers to recover up to 30% of any monetary sanctions imposed by the government based on their whistleblower complaints
2. Expand protected activity under local whistleblower protection scheme to include an employee or contractor’s refusal to participate in activity, policy, or practice that they believe is unlawful or otherwise subject to a whistleblower complaint

Expand the City’s enforcement mechanisms once corruption has been brought to light

1. Support federal / local prosecutors who are willing to prosecute corruption
2. Consider expanding administrative penalties for egregious violations of public trust
3. Explore changes to the City charter to ensure that the most powerful officials in all branches of city government can be removed for official misconduct

Transportation Justice (adopted)

Transportation Justice is a queer issue. Transportation should be:

1. Accessible. Includes affordability; access for seniors, the disabled, and all cultures; connectivity; and availability of information to the public
2. Safe. Prioritizing rider safety on public transit, and pedestrian and cyclist safety citywide
3. Dependable. Includes reliable travel times, and ensuring sustainable modes of transportation are efficient and effective options
4. Sustainable. Decision-makers need to make San Francisco a city centered on public transportation with sufficient funding and informed land use. They need to keep the public informed about the environmental impact of cars, and they need to make public transit, cycling, and walking a priority over all other modes of transportation. They must create a physical environment that orients around public transportation and makes it difficult for vehicles to cause harm

Public Transportation

1. Transit Funding & Fares. Both Muni and BART face structural deficits from decades of divestment and the COVID-19 pandemic. These deficits must be addressed in the short and long term. Current fare enforcement practices are ineffective and inequitable–costing more than is gained, and disproportionately harming those least able to pay.

1. Provide state and federal funding over the short and medium term to prevent the reduction of Muni and BART services
2. Create new dedicated revenue sources for public transit systems, locally and regionally
3. Create a San Francisco Public Bank to provide better local financing options for transit capital projects
4. Make Muni fare-free. Create a unified Bay Area transit system and make it free. Until then:

1. Make Free Muni for All Youth (FMFAY) and Clipper Start programs permanent
2. Expand FMFAY program to include Transitional Age Youth (TAY; 19 - 25 years old)
3. Expand Free Muni days during large civic events and Spare the Air Days
4. Increase organizational partnerships with schools, employers, and venues to provide pre-paid transit cards
5. End targeted fare enforcement on equity routes in marginalized communities
6. Shift resources from transit fare enforcement to parking enforcement

2. Capital Improvement & Transit Routes. Invest to ensure and increase access and dependability.

1. Expand trolleybus network
2. Expand bus rapid transit (BRT) routes on rider-heavy corridors
3. Replace diesel buses with zero-emission buses
4. Enlarge Muni metro stops to allow for 3-car trains citywide
5. Build the second BART transbay tube
6. Build underground Muni / BART routes in the Westside
7. Fully electrify the ferry fleet
8. Ensure all public escalators, elevators, and bathrooms are fully operational
9. Remove divisive infrastructure (e.g., Central Freeway)
10. Reduce flag stops on Muni routes
11. Restore the 28R and 47 bus routes
12. Establish a 29R bus route
13. Make the Bayview shuttle permanent and add additional neighborhood-based shuttles elsewhere
14. Expand school trippers to better serve youth and schools citywide
15. Expand climate-resilient living infrastructure

3. Transit Safety & Traffic Enforcement. Ensure the safety and comfort of all public transit riders. Commit to traffic enforcement and addressing traffic congestion.

1. Expand the Muni Transit Assistance Program and BART ambassadors program, replacing Muni / BART enforcement officers where possible
2. Spread awareness of non-consensual sexual harassment and assault on transit, and enforce applicable laws
3. Ensure that transit venues are secure spaces for community vendors, artists, and organizers
4. Deploy automatic speed enforcement cameras to penalize cars for breaking “focus on the five” laws
5. Allow citizens to report double parking, cars in bus / bike lanes, and other common traffic violations to San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) for enforcement, and give the reporter a portion of the citation revenue
6. Expand residential parking permit zones
7. Implement congestion pricing downtown and in the high-injury network
8. Ban the use of self-driving cars without a human operator in the driver’s seat citywide, including test drives. Ensure corporate owners are held responsible for damages and disruptions caused by self-driving cars

4. Muni Marketing. Independent Campaigns. Muni’s outreach and marketing practices are abysmal, and harm public transit by decreasing public support for Muni and transit funding. Independent campaigns with good ideas exist that can be uplifted.

1. Focus Muni marketing on (underserved) community outreach, proactively organizing support for agency goals (including messaging public transit as a public good and cars as a public harm), and clarifying when and where members of the public do and do not have genuine input opportunity on projects
2. Support the Transit Riders 3530 Campaign (rapid bus service, etc.)
3. Support the Seamless Bay Area Campaign (unification of the Bay Area transit agencies into one)

5. Bike / Scooter Infrastructure

1. Establish a free public bike-sharing program
2. Establish bike lending libraries
3. Create more bike lockers near transit stops
4. Expand bike parking, especially in small business corridors
5. Build scooter parking zones to prevent sidewalk blockage

Pedestrian & Cyclist Safety

1. Accomplish Vision Zero by 2024
2. Build raised crosswalks, remove parking at all bus stops, build bulb-out sidewalk extensions, and expand the number of roundabouts
3. Create more car-free spaces (e.g., Slow Streets, JFK Promenade, etc.) for pedestrians and alternative modes of transportation
4. Ban right turns at red lights citywide, especially in the high-injury network
5. Expand and connect bike route network citywide
6. Build protected bike lanes with concrete barriers (no soft-hit barriers)

Public Education Justice (adopted)

Public education justice is a queer issue. Public schools should be safe for all students and serve as spaces where young people learn about and respect those different from themselves. We believe in campus and school safety rooted in restorative practices, not overpolicing, and call for increased investment in culturally sensitive support staff, school psychologists, and educators who reflect and respect the diversity of their student bodies.

All Levels

1. Support all levels of education to instill and encourage critical thinking
2. Fully condemn the censorship and sabotage of expression supporting human rights
3. Oppose any attempt or implementation of the deportation of our students, faculty, administrators, their families, and community members based on their expressed opinions
4. Fully fund public education in state and local budgets, including funding for:

• Full staffing that pays a living wage with benefits for teachers, librarians, and paraprofessionals
• Modern facilities and modern technology

5. Make administrators and school board members / trustees accountable and available to the public
6. Support Prop 13 reform at the state level
7. Prioritize and provide free, comprehensive, and Trans-inclusive supportive services (including mental health) to students
8. Have zero tolerance for bullying
9. Fully implement gender-neutral restroom policy and safe spaces for trans students
10. Protect and expand ethnic, diversity, and social justice studies
11. Remove racist and homophobic bans on books and curriculum
12. Provide comprehensive sex health education (as age appropriate) that is inclusive of sex-positivity and the LGBTQIA2S community
13. Encourage bargaining for the common good, to build solidarity and tie worker and student needs to the bargaining process
14. Oppose privatization efforts, including charter schools, site closures, selling public land, and contracting out union jobs
15. Fully and consistently implement the California FAIR Education Act

Early Education

1. Provide free and universal access to public pre-kindergarten and childcare
2. Fully fund programs for critical skill development

TK - 12 Public Education

1. Provide equitable access to programming including language and special education pathways, regardless of where a student and their family live in the City
2. Fully fund and meet all legal mandates for special education, and support a staffing model that permits smaller case loads, direct student support minutes, and support for classroom teachers
3. Fully fund wellness centers at TK - 12 campuses across the City
4. Fully fund and expand before- and after-school programs and make them accessible
5. Expand decision-making power to include students
6. Promote active engagement with parents / guardians
7. Provide guidance and resources for college / career pathways
8. End the racist and illegal admissions at Lowell High School
9. End SFUSD’s Student Outcomes Focused Governance, which decreases democratic participation and silences marginalized voices
10. Demand permanent staffing for SFUSD LGBTQ Student Services

College and Secondary Education

1. Remove barriers between high school graduates and higher education
2. Provide free and universal access to public community college
3. Ensure community colleges serve all members of the community
4. Provide free access to public universities and colleges in San Francisco
5. Provide students with free access to public transportation, including Muni, BART, and SamTrans
6. Fully fund basic need resources and programs, including but not limited to food, housing, and healthcare
7. Ensure dedicated support services and mentorship for Transitional Age Youth (TAY) exiting the foster care system, helping them navigate pathways to higher education, vocational training, and stable housing
8. Create a pipeline for skilled labor from City College of San Francisco (CCSF) into City jobs to mitigate an aging workforce (transit mechanics, gardeners, first responders, etc.)
9. Continue to increase support for the dual enrollment program between SFUSD and CCSF

Educators and Staff (including Teachers, Librarians, Paraprofessionals, Administrators, and School Psychologists)

1. Provide livable wages to all educators and staff
2. Define collective bargaining as a process whereby the conditions of learning and teaching are determined
3. Increase diversity and equity among educators and staff (emphasis on special education staff)
4. Provide comprehensive skill development / training to educators
5. Defend academic freedom

Mental & Social Health Support. Federal and state laws (like the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)) require timely evaluations for special education eligibility, which puts pressure on school psychologists to prioritize assessments over other tasks. Many districts have a shortage of school psychologists, which leads to overwhelming evaluation caseloads. Time for direct counseling and prevention work often gets pushed aside. Further, some districts treat school psychologists as gatekeepers to special education services. This limits school psychologist involvement in broader student mental health and system change efforts. A lot of time is spent conducting cognitive and academic testing, writing psychoeducational reports, attending Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings, and meeting compliance deadlines. Opportunities for counseling, collaboration, and prevention often become minimal or optional, despite being in the school psychologist skillset. The following policy positions apply to school psychologists unless otherwise noted.

1. Policy & Funding

1. Increase hiring to reduce caseloads and allow broader services
2. Update job descriptions to include counseling, intervention, and consultation as core duties
3. Reserve time specifically for non-assessment tasks

2. Systems & Practice

1. Integrate role into the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)
2. Use role across all tiers for behavioral and emotional support
3. Train as leaders in prevention and intervention
4. Simplify assessment workflows
5. Delegate clerical tasks to support staff
6. Use screeners and progress monitoring to reduce full evaluations

3. Training & Development

1. Focus on mental health skills
2. Provide ongoing training in counseling, crisis response, and social-emotional learning (SEL)
3. Support peer coaching to strengthen non-assessment duties

4. Leadership & Advocacy

1. Require education of school leaders on the full role of school psychologists

Pending Planks

The PAC is in the process of drafting planks for Privacy Justice and Community Safety (Public Safety) Justice. If you’re interested in helping, please email pac@milkclub.org.