Video Interview: Saving Small Businesses

Running time: 0:24 to 6:08
The Neighborhood News Network interviews Joel Engardio about what City Hall must do to save small businesses in San Francisco.

Joel says a radical change in our attitude toward business is needed if we want local merchants to survive beyond coronavirus — and keep our city from spiraling into irrelevance. Small businesses were going extinct in San Francisco long before the pandemic turned everything upside down. City Hall’s excessive fees, regulations and bureaucracy are to blame.

Read Joel’s full story.

Joel Engardio is a candidate for supervisor on San Francisco’s westside in District 7. Learn more about his views on local issues at engardio.com/issues