I’m not optimistic that this kind of approach will move the needle that much.

A lot of city corruption is related to construction. Part of the reason that there’s a market for the services of corrupt bureaucrats is that things like building permits that would be issued in weeks in other cities instead take months or years in San Francisco.

You’ll never totally stamp out “I want to pay you to let me break the law” kinds of corruption, but a lot of SF’s corruption seems to be more like, “I want to pay you to let me do something legal because going through regular channels is too burdensome.”

My hunch is that the state’s “build more housing, or else” policy will ultimately do more to reduce the amount of corruption in the city than this new proposal.