Mayor Lee tells supervisors housing, wage and retirement questions demand both resources and collaboration

Mayor Edwin Lee spoke to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 15, 2014, during a scheduled policy discussion about housing, the city budget and other priorities.

Lee said San Francisco must continue investing in schools, youth programs and housing and described several measures he and the board are supporting, including a minimum wage increase on the November 2014 ballot and a $500,000,000 transportation bond. He said the city has made “historic investments” in the school district and pointed to recent programs such as Summer Jobs Plus and technology initiatives for students.

The mayor said housing remains the city’s most urgent resource problem, not a process problem, and pointed to a voter‑approved $1,300,000,000 housing trust and more than $96,000,000 in related investments…