Candidate for
Supervisor; County of San Francisco; District 6

Chris Daly is serving his first term as a San Francisco Supervisor, where his priority issues include housing, homelessness, technology and services for seniors and families. Supervisor Daly represents District 6, which includes rapidly changing neighborhoods such as South of Market, Tenderloin, North Mission, South Beach & Treasure Island. In his first bid for public office, he earned a first place finish and a spot in the runoff with one-third of the general election vote in a field of 17 candidates, and was elected Supervisor with 80.3% of the vote. At 30, Chris Daly is among San Francisco's youngest elected officials.

Supervisor Daly serves as Chair of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor's Health and Human Services Committee, where he is working to address the myriad of health, safety, housing and service needs of the diverse San Francisco community. He is also Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee which oversees labor and business contracts, bonds, and all matters that have fiscal impact.

Supervisor Daly also represents San Franciscans on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, where he fights for cleaner air in Northern California. He is the Board of Supervisors' representative on the Children and Families Commission which allocates funds for early childhood development programs made available through California's Proposition 10, the tobacco tax. Supervisor Daly is also Board's representative on the Association of Bay Area Government, and a member of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority and the Transportation Authority.

Chris Daly moved to San Francisco in 1993 as National Coordinator of Empty the Shelters, a non-profit organization of college students working to end homelessness. In 1995, he co-founded the Mission Agenda, a local nonprofit organization working with low-income in single-room occupancy hotel residents. When fires swept through hotels in the Mission and Tenderloin, he worked with SRO residents to draw attention to their plight, and to force the City government to respond to the needs of SRO residents. The San Francisco Bay Guardian says that Supervisor Daly "can legitimately claim to represent the people who are suffering the worst effects of gentrification."

Chris Daly is also a leader for tenant rights in the fight against displacement. He has served on the steering committee of the San Francisco Tenants Union and helped organize proactive response to evictions facing long-time residents, nonprofits, artists and small businesses. He is a co-founder of the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition, which works to enact sound planning and development policies to preserve the cultural character of San Francisco's Mission district. As a tenant of the historic Redstone Building on, he helped call attention to the displacement of nonprofits and small businesses.

Supervisor Daly studied the history of social movements at Duke University, where he worked with Habitat for Humanity to build low-income housing, and organized students to force the college to invest millions in affordable housing construction and to save union jobs from privatization. He has been an adjunct faculty member at New College of California. In 1989, Chris Daly received the Young Americans' Medal for Service, presented by the United States Congress.