McGoldrick Casts Deciding Vote Against Mission Housing Activists

“When we met with him he just wasn’t making sense to us,” said Nick Pagoulatos of MAC. “We are deeply disappointed with McGoldrick considering he has been such a progressive supervisor. We know the supervisors understand these issues, but when power and money get involved we seem to lose.”

McGoldrick, who has sat on the Board’s Land Use Committee since his election in 2000, has generally been pro-tenant and pro-housing. In 2001 he authored legislation which restricted tenancy-in-common agreements to curb Ellis Act evictions. “It is astonishing that the self-proclaimed ‘hero’ of affordable housing would vote against this appeal,” said Randy Shaw, Executive Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and Editor of BeyondChron. “He has taken hypocrisy to a whole new level.”

In a February 2006 column in the Richmond Review, McGoldrick wrote that “protecting tenant's rights, creating home-ownership opportunities for low- to middle-income families, and creating supportive housing for vulnerable populations like the homeless and mentally ill are critical to San Francisco's socioeconomic fabric. Luxury condominiums are not solutions since most are unattainable for working class families. The only solution is to create new affordable housing.”

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