November 3, 2025· 37 min

San Francisco's New Mayor on Homelessness, Unaffordability, and AI

Orality
Model
55%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(868 words)
M:29%
HostJoe Weisenthal(2,122 words)
M:28%
GuestDaniel Lurie(3,564 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%
literally, completely, very
Engagement87%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, like
Repetition100%
it's (68x), like (59x), know (53x)
Parallelism50%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And, obviously, a very heated ..., But you know what?...
Sound Patterns57%
46 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases5%
you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging8%
may, maybe, arguably
Passive Voice4%
be passed, is open, are united
Abstract Nouns20%
investment, recommendation, business
Subordination7%
however, though, while
Sentence Length30%
Avg: 12.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity48%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style13%
705 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style70%
literally, completely, apply

Description

New York City is about to elect a new mayor, and whoever it is will have to address growing challenges like unaffordability, homelessness, and other basic quality-of-life challenges. Very few of these challenges are distinct to NYC. San Francisco, in particular, has also faced this weird tension, where it's incredibly dynamic and wealthy, and also famous for its obvious symptoms of dysfunction. The city is one year into the new Daniel Lurie administration, and many of the quality-of-life statistics have been improving (which is the case in other cities as well). The city is ground zero for the world's AI industry, which is heavily concentrated in SF, rather than the Bay Area writ large. So we spoke with Lurie about his approach to city management, what he's learned in his first year on the job, his vision for improving zoning, and what, if any, advice he'd offer to the next NYC mayor. Read more: Uber to Take on Waymo in San Francisco With Lucid, Nuro Robotaxis Trump Cancels San Francisco Raids After Benioff, Huang Calls Only Bloomberg - Business News, Stock Markets, Finance, Breaking & World News subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at  bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.