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> Both the city’s public school system and transit systems are crumbling and underfunded, and its housing and homelessness crises remain existential. Some quic
by TulliusCicero 2y ago
> Both the city’s public school system and transit systems are crumbling and underfunded, and its housing and homelessness crises remain existential.
Some quick googling indicates that SF has something like 3x the per capita city budget as San Jose, a city in the same metro area with similar average rent (according to Zillow). If its city departments manage to still be underfunded in spite of that, something is deeply wrong.
- jefflinwood 2y agoSan Francisco is both a city and a county, unlike San Jose. In addition, you can't directly compare municipal budgets without taking into account enterprise departments that are meant to be revenue neutral, such as airports - in this case, both have an airport.
- mikeyouse 2y agoTrue but if you’re talking about per capita spending, the $650M for San Jose’s airport is about a billion dollars less than SF is spending on the much larger and busier SFO, so even that really skews the budgets.
- 1024core 2y agoRead this: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/23/5-charts-that-show-how-california-cities-spent-37-billion-on-public-employees-last-year/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/23/5-charts-that-show-ho... San Jose also runs a zoo and an airport.
- BurningFrog 2y agoPerhaps SF is not underfunded, but rather spends money ineffectively.
- 1024core 2y agoThis is what you are looking for: https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/23/5-charts-that-show-how-california-cities-spent-37-billion-on-public-employees-last-year/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/08/23/5-charts-that-show-ho...