Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced that San Francisco will soon receive $1 million in new federal funding to support the construction of more than 200 new high-quality affordable homes on the corner of 7th and Brannan Streets. This funding was awarded by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Affordable Housing Program (AHP), which provides financial assistance for the development and maintenance of affordable housing.
Sacramento, Calif. – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden's student debt relief initiative:
"Today, the Republican supermajority on the Supreme Court cruelly denied more than 40 million Americans deeply needed student debt relief. In doing so, the Court allows a crisis of debt to continue holding back families from buying homes, starting businesses and making ends meet.
San Francisco – Today, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced that San Francisco will soon receive nearly $1 million in federal grants to support veterans experiencing homelessness. This funding from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Homeless Veterans' Reintegration Program (HVRP) will support the efforts of Bay Area organizations that help veterans experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness reintegrate into the workforce.
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced that San Francisco will soon receive more than $50 million in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation under the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This federal funding will put new American-built electric buses on San Francisco roads and improve the existing roadway network within the Bayview neighborhood.
San Francisco — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the passing of gender justice advocate and philanthropist Peg Yorkin:
"America has lost a giant of the feminist movement, who devoted decades of her life to the fight for gender justice: Peg Yorkin.
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement after the Supreme Court rejected the fringe independent state legislature theory and affirmed the power of state courts to review election laws:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement to mark the eighth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement marking ten years since the Supreme Court's Shelby County v. Holder decision in 2013, which gutted the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965:
"The right to vote is a sacred promise of our Democracy. But with its ruling in Shelby v. Holder ten years ago today, as the late Congressman John Lewis said, the Supreme Court stuck a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act: diminishing our Democracy by allowing acts of voter suppression to run rampant across America.
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the one-year anniversary of President Biden signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act:
San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released this statement marking one year since the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority overturned Roe v. Wade with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization:
"One year ago today, the Republican-captured Supreme Court issued its disgraceful and devastating decision to overturn the long-held, constitutionally protected fundamental freedom of Roe v. Wade.