"Next year, San Francisco will make a choice. We can accept a future where the working class-the teachers, Muni drivers, nurses, line cooks, and nonprofit staff-live one rent hike, one accident, or one federal budget cut away from losing their homes. Or we can decide that in this city, housing for working people is a public obligation, not a private afterthought-and build the permanent, predictable funding to match that belief."
"According to a shocking new report released just last month from Tipping Point, the Bay Area's poverty rate soared from 12.2 percent to 16.3 percent in less than a year. That statistic represents a human catastrophe: more than 245,000 additional neighbors fell into poverty in a single calendar year. Today, 1.02 million Bay Area residents live in poverty. Another 790,000 hover on the brink. Together, nearly three in 10 people in this region struggle to meet their basic needs."
"And the epicenter of this collapse? It isn't a remote suburb. San Francisco saw the sharpest rise in the region, now holding the highest poverty rate at 17.5 percent. Crucially, this is a crisis of the working poor. Half of all families living in poverty have at least one full-time worker. These are the people serving our coffee, cleaning our office towers, and teaching our children-working full-time jobs that no longer guarantee a roof over their heads."
San Francisco faces a choice between allowing working-class residents to remain vulnerable to rent hikes, accidents, and budget cuts or treating housing for working people as a public responsibility with stable funding. Claims of insufficient money mask choices about priorities and power. The Bay Area's poverty rate jumped from 12.2 percent to 16.3 percent in under a year, adding over 245,000 people to poverty. Currently 1.02 million residents live in poverty and 790,000 more are near-poor. San Francisco has the region's highest poverty rate at 17.5 percent, and half of families in poverty include at least one full-time worker.
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