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SPUR offers five recommendations to streamline and standardize permits to improve safety, lower costs, reduce burdens on contractors and consumers, and create a fairer, more efficient system Balancing San Francisco’s Budget, Part 3: Closing the Structural Deficit
- SPUR 2025 Annual Report
The SPUR Voter Guide helped voters navigate a big year with two elections and measures at the local and state levels In recent years, SPUR has expanded its well-regarded ballot analysis, long a mainstay in San Francisco, to include issues on the ballot in San José and Oakland
- Our Mission - SPUR
SPUR — the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — is a nonprofit public policy organization We bring people together from across the political spectrum to develop solutions to the big problems cities face
- State Legislature’s Fast-Track Housing Package Includes 3 SPUR . . .
SPUR sponsored three of the package’s bills and is working on four other bills that would make it easier to build critically needed housing, including in transit-rich areas where increased density could boost transit use and help the state meet its climate goals
- Yes on Measure A: Sales Tax Increase to Help Oakland Close . . . - spur. org
While Measure A is a regressive tax that will not solve Oakland’s structural deficit on its own, SPUR believes this additional revenue source will help prevent fiscal insolvency and protect against further reductions in public safety services
- What It Will Take to Close Oakland’s Structural Deficit, Part 3 . . .
Source: SPUR analysis of California State Controller's Office, Cities Financial Data, FY 2022-23 To attain a more sustainable fiscal position, the city should focus on growing its tax base — and attracting new taxpayers — in a way that enables economic prosperity for all Oaklanders
- Balancing San Francisco’s Budget, Part 1: The Budget Process | SPUR
Photo by Sergio Ruiz for SPUR This article is the first in a three-part series examining San Francisco’s budget process, the growth of revenues and expenditures, and actions to address the increasing structural deficit
- SPUR CEO Alicia John-Baptiste to Join SF Mayor’s Administration
SPUR President and CEO Alicia John-Baptiste will be leaving SPUR to take on a newly created policy chief role with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office On February 3, she will join Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration as Chief of Infrastructure, Climate Mobility
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