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Daniel Lurie
Mayor of San Francisco since 2025 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel Lawrence Lurie[1] (born February 4, 1977) is an American politician and nonprofit leader who is the 46th and current mayor of San Francisco, serving since 2025. He was elected in 2024, having defeated incumbent mayor London Breed.[2] He is the founder and former CEO of Tipping Point Community, a grant-making anti-poverty nonprofit organization.[3]
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Early life
Daniel Lurie was born and raised in San Francisco, the son of Miriam "Mimi" Ruchwarger and Rabbi Brian Lurie.[4][5] Brian was executive director of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco.[6] His parents divorced when he was two.[5] His mother then married Peter E. Haas.[4] Lurie says he spent most of the time growing up in Haas' house.[7] His father later married Caroline Fromm Lurie. Through Haas — the great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss — Lurie is an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune.[8]
Lurie has two brothers, Ari[9] and Alexander, and one sister, Sonia. He attended the Town School for Boys and University High School in San Francisco[10] and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Duke University.[10][11] After college, Lurie joined Bill Bradley's 2000 presidential campaign[10] where he worked as a field organizer in Iowa.[11]
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Career
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In 2001, Lurie moved to New York City to work for the Robin Hood Foundation, founded by Paul Tudor Jones.[10][7] In 2003, he returned to San Francisco where he received his Master of Public Policy from the Goldman School of Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley, in 2005;[10][12] his thesis consisted of a business plan for a charitable foundation based on the Robin Hood model.[10]
After receiving his Master's, Lurie founded Tipping Point Community, which has raised over $500 million in its lifetime from private donors.[13] Other founding members of the board were former football player Ronnie Lott, Katie Schwab Paige (daughter of Charles R. Schwab), and Chris James (founder of activist investment firm Engine No. 1).[10] Tipping Point focuses on education, housing, employment, and family wellness.[10]
Lurie created the Bay Area Host Committee (BAHC)[14] and was named by then-San Francisco mayor Ed Lee to lead the 2016 San Francisco Bay Area Super Bowl Bid Committee. After successfully bringing the Super Bowl to San Francisco, Lurie was able to ensure that 25% of revenue was designated to local non-profits to help fight poverty, making it the most philanthropic Super Bowl in NFL history.[10] On November 16, 2019, Lurie stepped down as CEO of Tipping Point Community after 15 years of leading the organization.[3] In 2023, Lurie co-founded the Civic Joy Fund, with the goal of bringing more art, music, and enthusiasm to San Francisco’s streets.[15]
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Mayoral campaign
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On September 26, 2023, Lurie launched his candidacy for mayor of San Francisco in the 2024 election, challenging incumbent mayor London Breed.[16] Lurie’s campaign was supported by a combination of personal contributions and donations from supporters across the philanthropic and business communities.[17] This included a $1 million contribution to an independent committee from his mother, Mimi Haas.[18] Other donors included Jan Koum (co-founder of WhatsApp) and the biotech investor Oleg Nodelman, who each contributed $250,000 to the committee, which raised about $3.5 million in total by January 2024.[19][20] On November 5, 2024, Lurie was elected Mayor of San Francisco. Incumbent mayor London Breed, who finished as runner-up, conceded the race on November 7.[21]
Daniel Lurie ran as a Democrat focused on restoring public safety, revitalizing San Francisco’s economy, and rebuilding trust in city government.[22][23][24] He campaigned on the need to make San Francisco’s streets safer and cleaner and emphasized breaking the cycle of poverty and homelessness through housing, treatment, and accountability.[25][26][27] Lurie’s campaign often drew contrasts with City Hall insiders, highlighting bureaucratic failures and the need for fresh leadership committed to delivering core services.[28] His campaign raised over $16 million, consisting of a mix of self-financing and broad donor support.[29][30]
In first-choice votes, Daniel Lurie led the field with 26.3%, followed by incumbent Mayor London Breed at 24.4%, Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin at 22.9%, former Supervisor Mark Farrell at 18.5%, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai at 2.9%.[31][32][33] Lurie was the only top candidate who was an outsider to politics, having never held elected office.[32] San Francisco mayoral elections use a ranked-choice voting system where voters rank candidates based on their order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated in successive rounds, with those votes redistributed to the next preferred candidate on each ballot.[34] Lurie maintained the lead through all 14 rounds of counting and ultimately secured victory with 56% of the vote to Breed’s 43%.[35][31][32][36] The final election results were certified on December 3, 2024.[37]
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Mayor of San Francisco
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On January 8, 2025, Lurie was sworn in as the 46th mayor of San Francisco.[38][39] He announced prior to inauguration that he would only take a $1 salary instead of the full $364,582 salary.[40]
According to a San Francisco Chronicle poll released on July 21, 2025, 73% of 961 respondents approved of Lurie's mayorship. Residents praised him for tackling cleanliness and crime while criticizing housing prices and lack of shelters for the homeless.[41]
Policy priorities and actions in office
Since taking office in 2025, Mayor Daniel Lurie has focused on crime, tackling the city's intertwined homelessness and behavioral health crises, and revitalizing San Francisco's economy.[42][43][44][45][46][47] His administration has committed to adding new shelter and treatment beds as part of the "Breaking the Cycle" plan, which aims to reduce visible street homelessness and connect more people to long-term housing and care.[48][49]
Lurie has also prioritized building more affordable housing.[50][51][52] He has championed reforms to streamline housing approvals, remove unnecessary barriers for builders, and lower costs for affordable developments.[53][54] His administration introduced legislation on February 25, 2025, to make it easier to convert empty office buildings into housing and launched an online permitting tracker to increase transparency and speed up project timelines.[55][56] In May 2025, the median home list prices in San Francisco surged 51% compared with a year ago in the downtown ZIP code, a signal that confidence is returning to the city's housing market in response to the Lurie administration's priorities.[57] In the second quarter of 2025, San Francisco's office leasing market showed signs of recovery.[58] According to preliminary data from real estate firm CBRE, the total vacancy rate in the downtown core declined to 35.1%, down from 35.8% the previous quarter—marking the largest quarterly decrease since 2015. Availability also dropped to 37.7%, reflecting an 80-basis-point improvement.[59][60]
Lurie has made public safety a cornerstone of his administration, setting a goal of hiring 425 new police officers, sheriff's deputies, and 911 dispatchers within his first three years to reduce response times and ensure consistent neighborhood patrols to deter crime.[61][62][63] On May 13, 2025, Lurie announced a "Rebuilding the Ranks" initiative is aimed at restoring baseline staffing across public safety agencies and reducing reliance on overtime.[64][65]
Lurie has also committed to making local government more transparent and accountable.[66][67] In February 2025, he launched a new permitting tracker to increase public visibility into city operations.[68] His administration has pledged to review nonprofit contracts to ensure public funds are being used effectively and to shift resources away from underperforming providers.[69]
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Personal life
In 2006,[70] Lurie married Becca Prowda; they have a son and a daughter.[71] He practices transcendental meditation.[7]
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