Research

GrowSF has been polling on housing for three years. Now we're releasing all our data, and it shows that housing is super popular.

Fewer than 5% of applicants make it from application to graduation from the SFPD academy. Here’s how we can improve that.

San Francisco's retail vacancy crisis is the product of our uniquely rigid planning codes, a legal requirement for almost all new buildings to include ground-floor retail space, and inflexible rules for adaptive re-use.

Last November, San Francisco voters passed Prop A which will help fund the construction of a central kitchen facility for SFUSD students. While the facility is still in the very early stages, SFUSD has already began to transition from a completely outsourced school lunch model to now cooking meals in schools across the district.

The formula retail ban, which limits chain stores in San Francisco, has led to higher prices, vacant storefronts, and hurt local businesses. Here’s how it came to be and how we can fix it.

San Francisco bears the cost of a broken mental health system, with insufficient state and federal support for long-term care.

San Francisco’s one-way streets were built for speed, not safety—and it’s costing lives. These outdated designs cause faster driving, more collisions, and higher pedestrian injury rates. It’s time to rethink our streets and do a system-wide change.

San Francisco’s budget is larger than 17 U.S. states, and the city faces a $1.5B deficit by 2030. Staffing has grown by thousands even as the population has shrunk, spending on departments and contracts has surged, and our per-resident budget now doubles that of comparable cities.

The city charter is the constitution of San Francisco. It’s time to rebalance and modernize it.

Our system fails the people who need the most help, and rather than end up indoors they bounce between a tent and the emergency room. Here’s how we got here.