Bill Barnes

Bill Barnes (he/him) joined NPH in October 2023 as Director of Campaigns & Community Engagement, where he will lead NPH’s state and regional campaign initiatives and work to grow our member/resident voter engagement.

For more than 20 years, Bill worked alongside local and state officials who support affordable housing. Bill delivered $310 million for affordable housing in San Francisco as Campaign Manager for Proposition A, which earned 74% of the vote. Bill twice served as Campaign Manager for the late Mayor Edwin M. Lee, San Francisco’s first Chinese-American mayor and an affordable housing advocate. He’s developed groundbreaking engagement programs for low-income residents and delivered voter registration and turnout programs throughout California

For 10 years, Bill worked as the Senior Advisor for Policy & Communications for the San Francisco City Administrator. He helped design and coordinate six General Obligation bond measures through legislative drafting, community outreach, and environmental review. Each measure won, delivering more than $2.1 billion in new investment for firehouses, parks, roads, health clinics, waterfront safety improvements, transportation, and housing. At 29, Bill was the youngest Chief of Staff to a member of the California Assembly Democratic leadership. He remains active in the California Democratic Party as a state delegate. He lives in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, and is a renter.