Upon his election,Haney was the youngest member of the commission and one of the only members of an urban school board in California under the age of 35.[8] Prior to his election,he served two years on San Francisco Unified School District’s Public Education Enrichment Fund Community Advisory Committee and Restorative Justice Committee.[6]
Haney,Sandra Lee Fewer,and Shamann Walton authored a resolution that required the district's food vendor to disclose the origin of their food products. It passed with a unanimous vote in May 2016.[13]
Haney introduced a resolution calling for the end of the current all-choice-based student-assignment system.[17]
President Barack Obama endorsed Haney during his re-election campaign in 2016. It was one of the 150 endorsements he made the weekend prior to the 2016 United States elections. Haney was previously a volunteer for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign but had not sought the endorsement.[18]
Haney was elected Supervisor for District 6 on November 6,2018,receiving 14,249 first preference votes (56.24 percent of all valid votes).[19] (San Francisco has ranked choice voting.) After allocation of preferences from eliminated candidates in San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system,Haney received 63.12 percent of final-round votes,compared to 36.88 percent for runner-up Christine Johnson,a former planning commissioner.[20][21] Haney was sworn in at the Board of Supervisors' January 8,2019,meeting,replacing Jane Kim,who was ineligible to run for re-election after two four-year terms.
A "progressive" majority was created upon his and Gordon Mar's election to the board.[22]
Per the law,Haney resigned as supervisor before being sworn into the Legislature for the state Assembly's 17th district on May 3,2022.[4] Mayor London Breed appointed Matt Dorsey to fill Haney's spot as supervisor.[23]
Housing
Haney's views in housing shifted during his time on the Board of Supervisors,becoming increasingly supportive of additional housing and regulatory streamlining for housing construction.[24] During the 2018 campaign for Supervisor,Haney ran against a leader of the YIMBY movement and questioned the need for every neighborhood to build housing,stating "I'm not going to pick fights on the other side of the city."[25] Haney initially opposed state bill SB 35,which streamlined housing production in cities that were falling short of state-mandated minimums,but later came to support the bill.[26] In 2021,Haney supported state action to ensure cities allow the construction of more housing,and supported a local bill to legalize fourplexes on lots zoned for single-family homes.[25]
In October 2021,Haney supported the construction of a 495-unit apartment complex on a parking lot next to a BART station,but was the proposal was voted down 7-4 by his colleagues.[27] That same month,Haney voted against the construction of 316 micro-homes in Tenderloin,13.5% of which would have been designated as affordable housing.[28]
Business
In 2020,Haney authored the nation’s first ‘Overpaid CEO Tax’(Proposition L). The tax charges companies in San Francisco a 0.1% surcharge on their annual business taxes if their top executives earn more than 100 times more than their ‘typical local worker’.[29] The measure is one of the first in the country to address growing income inequality between workers and CEOs in the United States. This Proposition was passed during the 2020 elections with 65.18%.[30]
Haney introduced Proposition B,which amends San Francisco’s Charter to form the Department of Sanitation and Streets by splitting it from the San Francisco Department of Public Works,in 2020. It would also create the Sanitation and Streets Commission and a Public Works Commission to provide oversight to the departments. The Board of Supervisors placed it on the ballot with a 7 to 4 vote. Proposition B passed in the November 2020 elections with 200,251 votes or 60.87%.[32]
Healthcare
Haney supported opening a safe injection site in his district by the Tenderloin district.[33] Haney represented the Tenderloin and SoMa,two districts within the city most impacted by fatal drug overdoses.[34]
Haney ran for the California State Assembly to serve the remainder of the term of David Chiu, who vacated the seat upon his appointment as City Attorney of San Francisco.[35] Haney and former supervisor David Campos garnered the most votes in the special primary on February 15, 2022, but neither had more than 50% of the vote (Haney's 36.44% to Campos's 35.67%). Both candidates thus advanced to a runoff in a special general election on April 19, 2022.[36] According to the Wall Street Journal, the election centered on the issue of "Which candidate wants to build more housing."[24] Haney won the runoff with 62% of the vote, and was sworn in on May 3, 2022.
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