Despite the resounding approval San Francisco voters gave Mayor Daniel Lurie this month in the Chronicle’s first poll of his tenure, the survey also suggested he has some vulnerabilities.
Lurie’s remarkable 73% overall favorability rating was not matched when the poll dug into specific areas of his job performance. Asked how well the mayor was doing at providing enough reasonably priced housing, for instance, just 36% of respondents approved of his handling of the issue, versus 47% who disapproved.
On providing shelter to homeless people and managing the overdose crisis, Lurie’s approval was below 50%. But those ratings still represented pluralities of respondents due to the number who said they didn’t know…