{"id":81985,"date":"2025-12-04T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81985\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:41:09","slug":"san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-past-leaders-took-the-city-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/81985\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: Past Leaders Took the City \u2018for Granted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, there\u2019s no place better to live in the world than the city by the bay. At WIRED\u2019s Big Interview event on Thursday\u2014not so coincidentally held in San Francisco\u2014the mayor told global editorial director Katie Drummond that he\u2019s absolutely convinced that anyone looking to rag on the city doesn\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mayor of San Francisco Daniel Lurie.\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Daniel-Lurie-Big-Interview-2025-3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photograph: Annie Noelker<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Of course, Lurie said, things could always be better. While he hailed positive changes San Francisco has made since he took office 11 months ago, like more office space being filled in the downtown area and a decrease in crime, he acknowledged that some of that might have come in the wake of companies\u2019 return to office policies and the AI boom. Still, Lurie said, if you ask San Francisco residents, 62 percent say that their city is headed in the right direction, compared to just 25 percent a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Lurie said part of what\u2019s going to help keep San Francisco moving in the right direction is a commitment from residents. Past leaders, he said, \u201ctook San Francisco for granted,\u201d thinking \u201cwe could just continue on and our success would continue as well.\u201d To make San Francisco resilient, able to weather economic changes and tech booms and busts, Lurie said its leaders have to be \u201crelentless in fighting for [their] city, standing up for [their] city, and welcoming people, saying, \u2018We want you here and we&#8217;re going to create the conditions for your success.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you believe San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie, there\u2019s no place better to live in the world than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[13938,405,101,103,102,104,106,105,2280,46721,46720],"class_list":{"0":"post-81985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-economic-policy","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-silicon-valley","17":"tag-tech-policy","18":"tag-the-big-interview-event"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985","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=81985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}