A YIMBY Action Endorsement Questionnaire. View all November 2018 Questionnaires.

Phillip House

Candidate - SFUSD Board of Education

SFUSD owns a good deal of land in San Francisco. A distressing amount of this land is surface parking lots. Do you think this is a good use of this land? Would building housing on these lots be a better use? How important is this issue to you?

Building housing on these lots is good

More and more students attending our public schools suffer from homelessness. What do you believe the school district should do to address this problem?

Let the people sleep in the Gym on mats

More and more teachers struggle with the cost of housing. What do you believe the school district should do to address this problem?

build a tower for them

Getting children to and from public schools is a problem for many parents. A major finding from the SF CTA Child Transportation Study was that “most parents drive their children to school and afterschool programs.” Do you see this as a problem? What solutions do you think the school district could pursue to address this? Please feel free to discuss school busses, shuttles, protected bike lanes, etc.

no the Muni are giving out free passes

YIMBYs care deeply about integration and healing the wounds of redlining and exclusionary zoning. These policies deliberately result in segregated schools. SFUSD has a lottery assignment system designed to fix this segregation problem in our housing, but it has not resulted in vastly more integrated schools. What do you see as solutions to this complex problem?

let the parents and children choose their school

There are serious geographic equity issues with our schools. Additionally, as some districts are growing their housing supply, adding more and more children, the lack of quality schools everywhere is becoming an increasingly urgent issue. How do you plan on addressing the issue of access to quality schools in every district and opening more schools?

muni is giving out free bus passes

Is there anything else you think our members should know about your candidacy? Links, references, endorsements, etc?

I like to see more tutoring

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