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Matt Haney
Official portrait, 2020
Member of the California State Assembly
from the 17th district
Assumed office
May 3, 2022
Preceded byDavid Chiu
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
from the 6th district
In office
January 8, 2019 – May 3, 2022
Preceded byJane Kim
Succeeded byMatt Dorsey
Personal details
Born
Matthew Craig Haney

(1982-04-17) April 17, 1982 (age 42)
Santa Cruz County, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Stanford University (MA, JD)
National University of Ireland (LLM)
WebsiteState Assembly website

Matthew Craig Haney (born April 17, 1982) is an American politician from San Francisco currently serving as a member of the California State Assembly from the 17th district, covering the eastern portion of the city. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, Haney had represented District 6 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Education from 2013 to 2019.

In 2022, Haney won a special election to the California State Assembly to succeed David Chiu, who became City Attorney of San Francisco. He placed first in the primary election and defeated former supervisor David Campos, a fellow Democrat, in a runoff.[1][2] He was sworn in on May 3, 2022.[3]

Early life and education[edit]

Haney was born in Santa Cruz County, California,[4] raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended public schools in Albany, California.[5] His mother, Kris Calvin, served on the South Pasadena School Board.[6]

He has a Bachelor of Arts in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley, and an LL.M in human rights from the National University of Ireland, where he was a Senator George Mitchell Scholar.[7] He has a Master of Arts in 2010 from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a JD in 2010 from Stanford Law School.[8] Haney worked at both the Stanford Design School and at the JFK School of Law, and Sociology at Palo Alto University, where he taught education law.[9] Haney taught Education Law at the JFK School of Law in addition to teaching Sociology at Palo Alto University and served as a Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the Stanford Design School.[8]

Early career[edit]

After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2005, Haney was a legislative aide for long-time California State Senator Joe Simitian.[7] He was the Executive Director of the UC Student Association.[7]

Haney is the former National Policy Director for The Dream Corps.[10] In 2015, he co-founded #cut50, an Oakland-based national nonprofit designed to end mass incarceration, with Van Jones and Jessica Jackson.[9][11]

San Francisco School Board (2012–2019)[edit]

In April 2012, Haney announced his candidacy for the San Francisco Board of Education election for one of four open seats.[6] He was elected in the November 2012 San Francisco general election, placing fourth behind three incumbents. Haney replaced Norman Yee, who forwent re-election to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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.[7] 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.[5]

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.[12]

While serving as president of the school board, Haney proposed on Twitter that George Washington High School should be renamed to honor poet Maya Angelou, an alumna of the school. He cited objections to George Washington's role as a slaveowner.[13] He also proposed removing but not painting over the Life of Washington mural by Victor Arnautoff inside of the school. He cited his objection to its depiction of slavery and dead Native Americans.[14] Haney and Commissioner Stevon Cook co-authored a resolution in 2018 to establish a panel to examine which schools to rename.[15]

Haney introduced a resolution calling for the end of the current all-choice-based student-assignment system.[16]

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 out the endorsement.[17]

San Francisco Supervisor (2019–2022)[edit]

In September 2017, Haney filed to run in the 2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election to represent District 6.[10]

Haney was elected Supervisor for District 6 on November 6, 2018, receiving 14,249 first preference votes (56.24 percent of all valid votes).[18] (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.[19][20] 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.[21]

Per the law, Haney resigned as supervisor before being sworn into the Legislature for the state Assembly's 17th district on May 3, 2022.[3] Mayor London Breed appointed Matt Dorsey to fill Haney's spot as supervisor.[22]

Housing[edit]

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.[23] 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."[24] 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.[25] 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.[24]

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.[26] 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.[27]

Business[edit]

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’.[28] 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%.[29]

Haney wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing a No vote on 2020 California Proposition 22.[30] The proposition would have granted app-based transportation and delivery companies like DoorDash, Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy companies an exception to Assembly Bill 5 by classifying their drivers as "independent contractors".

New Department of Sanitation[edit]

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%.[31]

Healthcare[edit]

Haney supported opening a safe injection site in his district by the Tenderloin district.[32] Haney represents the Tenderloin and SoMa, two districts most impacted by fatal drug overdoses within the city.[33]

California State Assembly (2022–)[edit]

Election[edit]

Main article: 2022 California's 17th State Assembly district special election

Haney ran to serve for the remainder of David Chiu's term, who vacated the seat upon his appointment to City Attorney of San Francisco.[34] Haney and former supervisor David Campos garnered the most votes in the primary election on February 15, 2022, but neither had more than 50% of the vote (Haney's 36.44% to Campos's 35.67%). Therefore, both candidates headed to the runoff election on April 19, 2022.[35] According to the Wall Street Journal, the election centered on the issue of "Which candidate wants to build more housing."[23] Haney won the runoff with 62% of the vote, and was sworn in on May 3, 2022.

Haney is a member of the California Legislative Progressive Caucus.[36]

Personal life[edit]

Haney has a brother and a sister. His sister, Erin Haney, is senior counsel for #cut50, a nonprofit he co-founded.[37]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "April 19, 2022 Election Results - Summary | Department of Elections". sfelections.sfgov.org. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  2. ^ Garofoli, Joe; Picon, Andres (April 20, 2022). "Supervisor Matt Haney wins special election for Assembly District 17 seat". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Moench, Mallory; Morris, J. D. (April 20, 2022). "With S.F. Supervisor Matt Haney headed to the California Assembly, what's next for District 6?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  4. ^ "Matthew Craig Haney, Born 04/17/1982 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved March 18, 2024.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Rookie San Francisco Board of Education member Matt Haney prepares to face daunting tasks". The San Francisco Examiner. December 18, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Thomas, Luke (April 13, 2012). "Matt Haney Declares Candidacy for School Board". Fog City Journal. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Matt Haney (d.school fellow 2013-2014)". The Whiteboard. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "Supervisor Matt Haney - Overview | Board of Supervisors". Sfbos.org. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b SF BoS 2019.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b Swan, Rachel; Fracassa, Dominic (September 20, 2017). "In SF's District Six race, Haney is in while Angulo is out". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  11. ^ Canon, Gabrielle (November 29, 2019). "Jessica Jackson, a single mom from California, took on the prison system — and changed her life". USA Today. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  12. ^ Barba, Michael (May 26, 2016). "SFUSD wants its food suppliers to fork over meal sources". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  13. ^ Andrews, Travis M. (September 9, 2016). "No 'slave owners': San Francisco school board chief threatened after call to rename George Washington H.S." Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  14. ^ Tucker, Jill; Wu, Gwendolyn (April 8, 2019). "Offensive or important? Debate flares anew over SF school mural depicting slavery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  15. ^ Knight, Heather (January 12, 2021). "Effort to rename S.F. schools could have been history lesson, but it placed politics over learning". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  16. ^ "Two S.F. School Board Members to Introduce Resolution to End 'Lottery' System". KQED. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  17. ^ Barba, Michael (November 7, 2016). "President Obama endorses SF school board candidate". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  18. ^ SF Elections 2018a.
  19. ^ SF Elections 2018b.
  20. ^ Thadani, Trisha (November 28, 2018). "SF declares supervisor race winners: Stefani, Mar, Haney, Mandelman, Walton". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  21. ^ "After SF Progressives Win Big, a Shift in Dynamics at City Hall". KQED. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  22. ^ Bollag, Sophia (May 9, 2022). "Who is Matt Dorsey? What we know about Mayor Breed's new appointee to the S.F. Board of Supervisors". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 15, 2022.
  23. ^ Jump up to: a b Mai-Duc, Christine (April 19, 2022). "Yimby Movement Goes Mainstream in Response to High Housing Costs". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  24. ^ Jump up to: a b Knight, Heather (September 29, 2021). "Matt Haney plans to run for state Assembly. He'll push housing policies he didn't always agree with". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
  25. ^ Gaus, Annie (November 18, 2021). "Matt Haney, District 6 Supervisor, On Why He's Running". San Francisco Standard. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
  26. ^ Bote, Joshua (October 27, 2021). "SF Mayor Breed blasts supes over parking lot housing vote". SFGATE. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  27. ^ Dineen, J. K. (October 6, 2021). "S.F. supes say no to 316 micro-homes in Tenderloin over fear they would become 'tech dorms'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  28. ^ "San Francisco passes 'Overpaid Executive Tax'". NBC News. November 5, 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  29. ^ Sault, Laurence Du (November 4, 2020). "San Francisco voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets income gap". CalMatters. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  30. ^ Haney, Matt (September 15, 2020). "Vote no on Prop. 22 to protect drivers and customers". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  31. ^ "Voters backing Prop. B, which creates a new sanitation department". The San Francisco Examiner. November 4, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  32. ^ Thadani, Trisha (November 16, 2021). "S.F. working to open supervised drug use site by spring, possibly in building near the Tenderloin". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  33. ^ Thadani, Trisha (October 14, 2021). "S.F. Mayor Breed is facing pressure to declare the overdose crisis a health emergency. Would it help?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  34. ^ "Matt Haney, David Campos Lead Crowded Field In State Assembly Special Election". February 15, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  35. ^ Graf, Carly (February 17, 2022). "S.F. Assembly race: Haney, Campos head to runoff". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  36. ^ "Legislative Progressive Caucus". assembly.ca.gov. California State Assembly. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  37. ^ Fracassa, Dominic (November 21, 2018). "With a few votes left to count in SF election, leaders remain the leaders". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.

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