Matt Mahan

Tech-CEO-turned-mayor; previously CEO of civic-tech company Brigade. As mayor of San Jose he has cut the city's unsheltered homelessness roughly 23% from 2019 levels while the rest of California moved the wrong direction; San Jose was named America's safest big city during his term. Opposes new state taxes, supports a temporary gas-tax suspension, and built his housing record on permitting reform and impact-fee reductions.