Join the Fight to Fix San Francisco

We’re building a coalition of San Franciscans who refuse to stand by while our city faces rising homelessness, out-of-control housing costs, a drug epidemic, and failing schools. We believe our local government has the power to make change, and it's up to us to demand it. Sign up to stay connected to us and thousands of others like you who are ready to commit to rewriting the future of our city.

San Francisco is facing multiple overlapping crises. We started TogetherSF Action to unite and empower people who are tired of being told those issues are too complicated to solve. We believe government can and should provide innovative solutions to society’s most urgent problems.

Our city’s palpable decline is directly attributable to policy decisions made by our elected officials. Follow along with us and we’ll help you distinguish between what those officials are saying and what they’re actually doing. We aim to empower you as a force to be reckoned with, providing the resources you need to make your vote count.

Only strength in numbers and shared priorities will steer us toward a future where San Francisco once again thrives. We can turn our city around, together. Are you ready to join this movement?

Experts at Claremont McKenna Diagnose the Roots of SF’s Dysfunction

Our sister organization TogetherSF recently released an important new report from the non-partisan research institution the Rose Institute at Claremont McKenna College examining San Francisco’s governmental structure.

This report is an important public resource, one that will help inform conversations about the ways we can improve our city government. It identifies the root causes of some of the ongoing institutional problems in San Francisco, ways other cities approach these challenges, and what structures might be reformed so the city is more effective at serving residents.

Read our special edition of City Hall Digest covering the Rose Institute’s report on the structural reforms needed to help San Francisco thrive, or click below to read the entire report.

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Ways to Get Involved

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Our printable booklet explains SF's 5 biggest problems and how we plan to tackle them.

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Our in-person and virtual events are designed to teach you exactly what you need to do to affect change in SF. Plus, they’re a good time. Join us!

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Create a Thriving San Francisco

San Francisco can be a city that effectively delivers on housing, safety, transportation, public education, social services, and economic opportunity for residents. Explore the city’s most vital issues here—where matters stand now, and the keys that will unlock a more promising future.

Education Safety Social Services Housing Business Governance Transit

Delivering Public School Education That Puts Children First

Parents are losing faith in a public school system that continually fails its children. We’re in the bottom five percent of California school districts in literacy, math proficiency has plunged to a historic low, and students are increasingly falling behind. We must reverse the course of under-resourced schools, underpaid teachers, and a board that does not prioritize our children. Our students deserve a better public education – period.

Feeling Safe in the City—and Confident It Will Stay That Way

Our city has failed to hold up its end of the social contract, turning a blind eye to open air drug markets, flagrant drug use, public defecation, and theft. Many people in this city have lost their trust in the institutions that are charged with keeping us safe. A more equitable, responsive, and enforced public safety system is not an impossible goal. It is a goal that must be reached with commitment and urgency—as if all our lives depended upon it. Because they do.

Building a Stronger Safety Net

In fiscal year 2021-2022, the city allocated $1 billion for the unhoused. Look around you—has this spending been effective in any way? We need a complete rebuild of our social services system so that this massive public investment actually begins to benefit the people who need help most.

Ensuring Access to Affordable Housing For All

A city where tens of thousands are forced to choose between paying the rent and putting a decent meal on the table cannot remain viable for long. We face a housing crisis of historical proportions, where the development process has been hobbled by political gamesmanship and mountains of red tape. What needs to change—now—to ensure abundant housing, so that you’ll never be scared to lose the place you call home again.

Leading the Way in Innovation and Economic Opportunity

Red tape, rising office rents, and increased business taxes have led many businesses to fold up and move their HQs to more business-friendly cities, like Austin, Seattle and Las Vegas. For San Francisco to retain its standing as the innovation capital, and to keep tax dollars that fund social services, we must create a more conducive climate for businesses to get started, and for industry leaders to stay.

Trusting the Government to Actually Govern

The Board of Supervisors should be working in tandem with the Mayor to develop and execute comprehensive policies to address San Francisco’s issues, but instead they are squabbling on social media and throwing each other under the bus. Weighed down by bureaucracy, too often captive to donor dollars or the loudest voices in civic life, City Hall has become ever less of a people’s house. Let’s create policies that put ordinary San Franciscans first.

Building a Best-in-Class Public Transit System

San Francisco’s public transit system, SFMTA, provides service that is slow, unreliable, sparse, and even unsafe in many parts of the city. Today, that system’s ridership is down by 50% from its pre-Covid usage. San Francisco needs a comprehensive plan to ensure Muni takes passengers where they need to be, when they need to be there. With a $14 billion dollar city budget, best-in-class transit is possible, but our officials need to prioritize it.

WHO WE ARE

Change Takes Courage

At TogetherSF Action, our mission is to unite and empower people who are tired of wringing their hands—who are ready to roll up their sleeves to do good. We connect residents and provide them with the information and education they need to steer the city toward a more equitable future where dysfunction no longer rules the day, where we hold our government and elected officials accountable to better results, and where a once-great city thrives again.

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HOW WE WORK

Our Unique Approach

Keeping Voters Informed

The constant barrage of negative news without the balance of a solution can feel hopeless. Our blog focuses only on the most pressing issues, explaining why our city is facing them as well as concrete ways to take action.

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Building a Coalition for Action

We provide opportunities for residents to get involved in initiatives that actually move the needle on San Francisco’s most pressing issues. Join us at an event to learn more.

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Fostering Community Engagement

One-on-one connection is at the heart of what we do. Our sister organization’s program managers are always connecting with residents and helping neighbors finally meet each other at our events.

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City Hall Digest: Our New Year’s Resolutions for City Hall

Wondering why your rent is exorbitant, you have to search for months to find a home you can afford, and homelessness is rising? It all comes down to one major issue: San Francisco is way behind on housing construction. The city needs to build 82,000 homes by 2031 to meet our Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) goal, or an average of roughly 13,000 new homes each year. Here’s how we’re doing on that goal: in 2024, San Francisco built just a little more than 1,000 homes.

City Hall Digest: Five Takeaways From November’s Election

The results are in. San Francisco has a new mayor, the balance of power on the Board of Supervisors has changed for the first time in recent memory, common sense has returned to the school board, our elected officials are committed to enacting commission reform, and solving the fentanyl epidemic is at the top of the city’s agenda. This edition of City Hall Digest digs into exactly what happened in an historic election.

City Hall Digest: New Scandals Show Why SF Needs Reform

With just two weeks to go until the November 5 election, it’s been a chaotic week in San Francisco. There are massive changes at San Francisco’s public schools, and the Dream Keeper Initiative scandal keeps getting bigger. The latest City Hall Digest digs into the latest scandal at San Francisco City Hall, and the changes in store with a new SFUSD Superintendent.

Join the Fight to Fix San Francisco

Experts at Claremont McKenna Diagnose the Roots of SF’s Dysfunction

Ways to Get Involved

Download Our Mini Guide

Attend an Event

Sign Up to Host Your Own Event

TogetherSF Action in the News

Create a Thriving San Francisco

Delivering Public School Education That Puts Children First

Feeling Safe in the City—and Confident It Will Stay That Way

Building a Stronger Safety Net

Ensuring Access to Affordable Housing For All

Leading the Way in Innovation and Economic Opportunity

Trusting the Government to Actually Govern

Building a Best-in-Class Public Transit System

Change Takes Courage

Our Unique Approach

Keeping Voters Informed

Building a Coalition for Action

Fostering Community Engagement

We’re stronger together.

Help our movement grow by making a donation today.

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