We Need a People's Budget
San Francisco is one of the richest cities in the world, but City Hall is proposing cuts to the services, jobs, and community organizations that keep our city safe, healthy, housed, and connected.
San Francisco has more billionaires than community centers. The average nonprofit worker makes $62,000 a year. The City spends 8 times more on police overtime than on immigrant legal services.
Now the Mayor is proposing to balance a $1.5 billion deficit on working families, immigrants, seniors, youth, LGBTQ+, HIV, and transgender communities, homeless San Franciscans, and the nonprofit workers who serve them.
City Hall says there is no money, but keeps finding money for police raises, jail expansion, mass arrests, and costly approaches that do not solve the root causes of crisis.
Here is what is at stake:
- $62 million in public health cuts, including transgender, LGBTQ+, HIV, and community health services
- Over 20,000 low-income families could lose services that help them stay employed, meet basic needs, and prevent homelessness
- An 80% cut to San Francisco’s Climate Action Plan
- At least 1,500 nonprofit and City workers laid off, cutting critical services across the city
- Immigrant-serving nonprofits losing wraparound and emergency support
Cuts today mean deeper crisis tomorrow. These cuts will push more people into homelessness, unemployment, emergency rooms, shelters, and crisis response.
San Francisco cannot cut its way into recovery.
Take one minute today to email the Mayor and Board of Supervisors.
Tell City Hall: Find the money. Restore the cuts. No cuts. No layoffs. Fund OUR San Francisco.
We need a People’s Budget that protects community services, not billionaire tax breaks.