YIMBY Action✓ Endorses“SF YIMBY endorses Theo Ellington for District 10 supervisor.”
2026 Midterm Partner Endorsements
Theo Ellington
SF Supervisor, District 10 · San Francisco County, CA
Backed byYIMBY ActionAbundant San FranciscoHousing Action Coalition
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YIMBY Action✓ Endorses
Abundant San Francisco✓ Endorses“Theo Ellington has expressed strong support for the need for building more housing at all income levels.”
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About Theo Ellington
Theo’s family journey began when his grandfather moved to San Francisco from the segregated South, seeking a better life during the Great Migration. Theo and his brother were raised by their mother on the $18,000 a year she made as a concessioner at Candlestick Park during Giants and 49ers games.
Theo attended Charles Drew Elementary and Gloria Davis Middle School in Bayview/Hunters Point. What he remembers most about his daily walk to school was the balloon shrines—each one a memorial to yet another peer fallen victim to gun violence. After his 13-year-old cousin was shot and killed, Theo committed to creating a new normal for his neighborhood.
Theo found an outlet as a documentary filmmaker, first producing Bus 24: The Diversity Bus. Later, at School of the Arts, he directed a film about homelessness, in which he interviewed Mayor Newsom. These films were featured at the SF International Film Festival and World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Theo would become the first in his family to graduate from college, then earned his masters in Urban Affairs from the University of San Francisco.
From theoellington.com
Theo Ellington on Housing and Abundance
“My career has been focused on creating a more affordable, liveable San Francisco–creating 1,000 new affordable homes as City Commissioner, bringing 3,000 good jobs to San Francisco with the Warriors, and doubling Salvation Army’s homelessness services.”
“That means six-story apartments on infill lots near transit, single-stair buildings that fit our smaller lots, and density minimums on our corridors, because it makes no sense to build two units where twenty belong.”
“A nonprofit executive and former city commissioner, Theo has dedicated his life to building affordable housing, reducing homelessness, and delivering environmental justice for families at Hunters Point Shipyard.”