Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks about his progress at 100 days in San Francisco on Thursday.

On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie marked his 100th day in office with a speech touting the state of the city. He had plenty to boast about.

Crime rates, he noted, hit a two-decade low in 2024 and continued to drop in the first three months of 2025. The number of homeless tents fell to a record low last month. Hotel bookings are surging. New leases are being signed in Union Square. Artificial intelligence company Databricks plans to invest more than $1 billion in San Francisco over the next three years.

And for the first time in five years, polls show people feel San Francisco is headed in the right direction.

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Yet just as important as these accomplishments, we would argue, has been the way Lurie has carried himself. Gone (at least for now) is the unseemly stew of naked self-interest, demagoguery, pandering and vengeance that has too often defined San Francisco politics.

In its place, compromise and quiet competence.

Lurie has proved remarkably adept at bridging divides between the city’s political factions. He helped broker a deal to end a months-long hotel workers’ strike that threatened to derail blockbuster events such as the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and NBA All-Star Weekend. And he secured a near-unanimous vote from the Board of Supervisors to

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