\u201cWhen something gets introduced by the mayor\u2019s office,\u201d Melgar said, \u201ca lot of times, folks will be like, \u2018Okay, he\u2019s the mayor. Let\u2019s vote on it.\u2019 And it usually ends up being yes.\u201d In comparison, Lurie\u2019s predecessor, London Breed, often faced strong pushback<\/a> from her board colleagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s easier and more clean-cut to say a plain yes or no to legislation, Melgar said, but working on amendments and bringing people to an agreement requires more work, such as talking to departments and negotiating with colleagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFolks have not been as willing to do that,\u201d Melgar said, sometimes because they \u201cdon\u2019t quite know how to do that yet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The deference to the mayor comes partly because the board \u201ctrusts\u201d that the mayor is \u201cdoing what he needs to do,\u201d Melgar said, but also because of the \u201cmyth that the mayor is doing really well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, \u2018Let\u2019s go, San Francisco,\u2019\u201d Melgar said. \u201cIf we are not voting with him, we\u2019re maybe not down with \u2018Let\u2019s go, San Francisco.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Mayor Lurie, Melgar said, is \u201cnice and kind and generous with his time\u201d in the social-media department and his \u201centhusiasm for our city.\u201d But she added that \u201cthere is this myth that our mayor has turned our city around. And I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s quite what is happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n For example, the decrease in crime rates is \u201cpart of a national phenomenon<\/a>\u201d as major cities across the country are all seeing fewer crimes, Melgar said. The comeback<\/a> of the city\u2019s economy followed the low points during the pandemic. These may not be this mayor\u2019s credit to take, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Melgar, who represents District 7, covering Inner Sunset in the north to Parkmerced in the south, has positioned herself as \u201can unapologetic progressive urbanist.\u201d Terming out in 2029, Melgar has a list of things to do before leaving office. Top of that list:\u00a0<\/p>\n A sustainable, consistent source of funding for affordable housing development \u2014 a fund that the city can \u201cpredict, bond against and plan against.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Legislation to create a program for co-op housing, especially on the Westside, with good schools and public space. \u201cWe want to create homeownership opportunities that are accessible to middle-class people, not just the ultra-rich,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Universal child care, a promise from the 2018 baby Prop. C. \u201cWe are about 40 percent of the way there,\u201d she said. Early this year, Mayor Lurie expanded access to free and subsidized childcare<\/a>, but there are \u201cstructural issues\u201d that require legislation, Melgar said.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the hour-long conversation, Melgar looked back at her past five years in office and pointed to her long list of achievements on housing and transportation: Breaking ground at the 1,100-unit Balboa Reservoir<\/a> housing project next to City College of San Francisco, the Stonestown redevelopment plan that will bring 3,500 new residential units to the parking lot next to the buzzing shopping mall, and protected bike lanes on Frida Kahlo Way at City College.\u00a0<\/p>\n Melgar has managed to appease and get reelected<\/a> in a district that includes both the progressive neighborhoods like Inner Sunset and Park Merced, and the more conservative areas like Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood.<\/p>\n In the 2024 election, Melgar\u2019s top challenger, Matt Boschetto, ran on a platform<\/a> that is largely different from hers: Public safety and tough-on-crime<\/a> policies, rather than density and transit. Boschetto spent some $400,000 to unseat Melgar, but she won<\/a> with 53 percent of the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n Through fights from housing development to bike lanes during her two terms, Melgar said she hopes to pull the district a bit in her direction.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cLittle by little, we progress, we evolve in our thinking,\u201d she said. \u201cWe see the outcome of the things that we feared, and see, \u2018well, it\u2019s not so bad.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Supervisor Myrna Melgar did not hesitate before answering \u201cyes\u201d when asked if she feels this iteration of San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[405,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-282537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-san-francisco","10":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","11":"tag-san-francisco-news","12":"tag-sf","13":"tag-sf-headlines","14":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/myrna-melgar-joe-eskenazi-853x640.jpg\")
District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar talks with Mission Local managing editor Joe Eskenazi during an on-stage interview on Wednesday evening, April 22, 2026. Photo by Junyao Yang.<\/p>\n