Kyle Smeallie is the Policy Director for the San Francisco Community Land Trust. Prior to joining SFCLT, Kyle served for four years as Chief of Staff for San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, where he specialized in affordable housing and anti-displacement policy. In 2020, Kyle helped pass Proposition I, a transfer tax increase on the highest-valued properties in San Francisco, and he worked to ensure the funds – more than $300 million to date – were directed to creating permanently affordable housing. In addition to affordable housing advocacy, he crafted more than a dozen anti-eviction laws since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and helped ensure full funding for the Tenant Right to Counsel program. When he’s not working on housing policy, Kyle and his wife enjoy parenting their puppy Stuart, who is a socialist.