ABOUT
San Francisco faces many significant challenges–chronic homelessness, concerns about public safety, a lack of affordable housing, and a struggling downtown. Addressing these concerns requires an effective, consistent response from our City Hall. But San Francisco’s dysfunctional government structure limits our ability to address this crisis. We must reform and restructure city government to have the power to meet its current and future challenges.
TogetherSF Action is leading the effort to pass 2 measures on the November 2024 general election ballot to transform our city government to make San Francisco more effective and responsive. Together SF Action is a civic engagement organization equipping residents with the knowledge and tools they need to build a stronger and safer San Francisco. Amid the City’s housing and homelessness crisis, rising public safety issues, and an underperforming public education system, TogetherSF Action is holding officials accountable and pushing for common sense solutions.
This effort is the result of extensive research, including a detailed report commissioned by TogetherSF from the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont
McKenna College, an academic research institute that focuses on the study of state and local governments in California. Read the complete report here.
A recent poll found that 76% of San Francisco residents believe the city is on the wrong track and pessimism in local government is at an all time high. When compared to other major cities and previous iterations of San Francisco’s Charter, the government’s systems, roles and responsibilities are inconsistent, convoluted and conflicting. As San Francisco grapples with a fentanyl, housing, and homelessness crisis, rising public safety issues, barriers to economic revitalization, and a $780 million budget deficit, the city’s government systems and structure remains a large impediment to making the type of progress residents and businesses deserve and expect to see.
“TogetherSF Action is committed to championing evidence-based solutions that will improve the effectiveness of our City government to address the many challenges that we face."
- TogetherSF Action Founder and CEO