The whole page is translated by the site's own translator; names, amounts and dates stay as filed. Machine translation can contain errors, and the English record is the reference.
Election day is November 3, 2026.The last day to register online in California is October 19, 2026.Ballots are mailed starting October 5, 2026, and drop boxes open October 6, 2026.
LobbyingWhat lobbyists are pushing for right now: the PG&E Matson Block project leads the summer filings, about 45 reported contacts for Hines Corporation.Lobbyists register with the city and report each conversation they have with an official, along with who they represent.Official SF portal data loading See the conversations
Money between committeesThe biggest checks this cycle where the giver is itself a committee or PAC, as filed, so a reader knows where to look for the money behind the money.Where the money is going
The 24-hour moneyContributions filed on 24-hour late-contribution reports in the last seven days, the freshest money in the record.All the big checks
One consultant, a candidate and a measureRegistered campaign consultants paid by a supervisor candidate and by a ballot measure committee in the same quarter, from their own reports.See the consultant reports
The mayor's coalitionGivers on file with two or more of Mayor Lurie's ballot measure committees this cycle, ranked by what they gave across them.Mayor Lurie, on the record
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01 MONEY
Money moving
The November 3 ballot, with the money
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For each measure, money this cycle to the committees for it and the committees against it
The committees name their side in their own filing name ("Yes on C", "No on I"), so the record sorts itself. A measure with money on one side only is a measure nobody is paying to oppose. A committee that names several measures counts under each of them, and the note under the bar says so.
Top 10 biggest donation checks in the last 30 days
Snapshot Sep 14, 2026
The largest single contributions to San Francisco campaign committees (candidates and ballot measures) in the newest filings.
Snapshot from filings dated August 5 to September 17, 2026. On the live site this card refreshes itself.
Velocity and acceleration, from daily contribution totals
Velocity is money per day over the last seven days. Acceleration is the change from the week before, as a percentage, and appears once a prior week exists. A third figure, how that percentage moved against the week before it, appears once three weeks are on file; it is the number that flags a committee going from quiet to hot suddenly. Committees marked new this week had no money the week before, which is its own kind of signal.
How it works
Where union money goes
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
Labor on the current ballot
Unions report like any other committee, so their giving is traceable by local and by measure.
$100KSEIU Local 1021 and Local 2015, $50K each to Tax Foreclosures, Yes on J, Sep 10, 2026
6Lobbying contacts by the Building and Construction Trades Council this summer
4Contacts by the Deputy Sheriffs' Association in the same window
Who gives, by kind of giver
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
The newest large contributions, split by whether the giver is a person, a company, a union, or another committee.
Contributions over time
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Monthly totals since 2018, election days marked
Every itemized contribution to a San Francisco committee, added up by week, month or year.
Top 25 funders, this cycle
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People whose contributions to San Francisco candidates and ballot measure committees add up to the most this election cycle.
How it works
Who gives small, and who gives large
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
Every contribution has a floor of disclosure
Contributions of $100 or more are itemized with the giver's name, employer and occupation.
$100The point where a giver's name, employer, and occupation enter the public record
$500The contribution limit to a candidate committee; ballot measure committees have no limit, which is where the largest checks land
$255,000Public financing a supervisor candidate can receive, which is how a campaign runs without large donors
Who passes money along
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When a contribution reaches a committee through another person or group, the committee names that go-between on its filing.
Same employer, same 48 hours
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Ten or more contributions of $500 or more, from people who list the same employer, to the same committee, within 48 hours, this cycle.
Where the money is going
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San Francisco candidate and ballot measure committees, by contributions received in the newest filings.
How it works
Public financing: the ceiling, the limit, and the qualifying rule
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
The city match, and who used it
San Francisco matches small contributions to qualifying candidates so a campaign can be built from the district rather than from large donors.
$255,000The maximum public financing a supervisor candidate can receive. Manny Yekutiel received the maximum in the District 8 race, per GrowSF, August 1, 2026
$500The most one person can give a supervisor candidate per election, the limit the site tests against
Small giftsOnly contributions from San Francisco residents count toward qualifying
Who runs on small gifts
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Share of each candidate committee's money from gifts of $100 or less, this cycle
The city match rewards small gifts from residents.
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The SF Democratic Party and its central committee
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Money the party's committees moved, and gifts from people who sit on the committee, this cycle
The Democratic County Central Committee endorses candidates and measures and runs its own committees.
The party's committees
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Gifts of $500 or more from committee members
Giving, on the map
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Contributions by donor zip code, Jul 1, 2025 through Sep 14, 2026, San Francisco only, as a single-hue density.
Giving by neighborhood
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Contributions to San Francisco campaigns, grouped by the neighborhood of the donor's home zip code.
Citywide, week over week
Giving by zip code
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The same contributions to San Francisco campaigns, by the donor's exact zip code, including donors outside the city.
How it works
Money on the measures that touch rent
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
Where the housing money is, by side
Housing measures move the most money of any local question, and the filings show which side each giver is on. This card keeps the two sides of the current ballot beside each other.
Money behind the supervisor races, by district
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Independent spending reported for or against candidates in each supervisor district race, this cycle (July 1, 2025 to today), with every candidate whose committee has filings on record. The newest filings are dated Sep 3 to 14, 2026. The full official candidate list is at sfelections.org.
Where the supervisor money lands
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Independent spending aimed at each district race, drawn on the 2022 district map.
Giving from AI and venture employers
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Contributions this cycle from givers who listed one of the named AI labs, venture firms or large technology companies as their employer, exactly as filed.
Committees where AI and venture employers weigh most
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For each committee with $10,000 or more on file this cycle, the dollars filed by givers who listed an AI or venture company as their employer, and that amount as a share of the committee's itemized total.
The biggest givers from AI and venture employers
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People who listed one of the named AI labs, venture firms or large technology companies as their employer, ranked by what they gave to San Francisco committees this cycle.
Supervisor races: money from AI and venture employers
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For each district race this November, the money that candidate committees took from givers listing those employers, and the share of each committee's itemized total it makes up.
Where supervisor candidates' money comes from
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Each candidate's itemized contributions this cycle, sorted by the giver's zip code as filed: zips entirely inside the district, zips the district shares with a neighbor (the filing cannot say which side), the rest of San Francisco, and outside the city.
New names
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Givers whose first appearance in the city's record is this cycle, $5,000 and up
The record of itemized contributions goes back years. A name that appears in it for the first time now, with a large check, is a name reporters look for by hand.
Few hands: committees past $100,000 from fewer than ten givers
Same weeks, past cycles
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Itemized contributions by week, July into November, this year beside the two cycles before
The pace of money in October is the story, and the only way to read pace is against the same weeks in earlier years. Weeks of the year from the same filings, back to 2022.
STORY
Following one measure
The same money, seen from four records at once.
Story spotlight
Proposition H, Stronger Muni for All
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
One measure, followed across every record. Who funds it, who runs it, and who is paid to make it happen.
What is this proposition about
Proposition H would add a 15-year parcel tax on San Francisco properties, tiered by property type and size, with the money set aside for Muni's operations. Its backers put the yield at roughly $160 million to $184 million a year, about half of Muni's operating gap, and it reached the November 3, 2026 ballot by signature petition. Summaries: San Francisco Department of Elections, SF Public Press, KQED.
Figures come from campaign filings dated Sep 3 to 14 and consultant reports covering Sep 2025 to Aug 2026. The Chamber's own donors to SF Forward appear only on SF Forward's filings, one step removed.
Money on the rent measures, from inside the city and outside it
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Each committee's money by the zip code on the giver's filing
Propositions C, D and I decide who can stay in their homes and what gets built. For each committee on those measures, the share of its money this cycle from givers whose filing carries a San Francisco zip code, from givers outside the city, and from filings with no zip at all. A zip code is the address on the filing, not where anyone votes.
02 OFFICIALS
City officials, on the record
Financial interest statements, gifts and travel, as filed.
Current officials' declared financial interests and passed deadlines to submit data
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Investments, property, outside income (Form 700).
Boards and commissions: who appoints whom
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
152 bodies, about 1,200 seats, one public database, and the appointments that connect City Hall
Every seat on a city board or commission is an appointment by someone, usually the Mayor or the Board of Supervisors, and every member files a Form 700.
152Legislative bodies identified by the Commission Streamlining Task Force
1,200(Approx)Seats appointing authorities must keep filled
60 daysCharter limit on holdover terms for Charter commissions
Sources: Commission Streamlining Task Force, final report, January 2026 (media.api.sf.gov); SF.gov boards and commissions database page; appointments as reported by Ballotpedia, ABC7, the Chronicle, the Examiner, and SFMTA, dated on each line. Membership changes often; every seat here carries its as-of date.
Mayor Lurie, on the record
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
The mayor is not a giver in the campaign record. Their footprint is the two ballot measure committees they control, the money moving into them, and the consultants they pay.
Lobbying contacts reported this summer, by the client's industry.
Lobbying contacts over time
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Reported contacts per period since 2018
Every reported lobbyist contact with a city official, counted by period. A count of conversations, not dollars.
Surges: who is suddenly busy at City Hall
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Weekly contact counts by client and by department, with acceleration
Clients and departments whose reported contacts are rising fastest week over week, computed from the live lobbyist record.
Recent conversations
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The newest contacts registered lobbyists reported having with San Francisco city officials, and what they were about.
Officials contacted most
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San Francisco city officials by the number of lobbyist contacts reported to them this summer.
Who lobbyists represent
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Every client in the summer's contact tally, ranked by how many reported contacts were made on its behalf.
Most active lobbyists
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Registered lobbyists by contacts reported with San Francisco city officials this summer.
Who was in the room
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The officials contacted most by registered lobbyists, day by day over the last ten weeks
Lobbyists must report each contact with a city official. Laid out by day, the reports show when the conversations cluster, often around a vote or a budget deadline. A contact is a reported conversation, not what was decided.
Driverless cars at City Hall
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One square for every reported lobbyist contact that mentions driverless cars, by client
Robotaxis share the streets with everyone, and the decisions about where they drive, park and charge are made partly at City Hall. Every contact a registered lobbyist reported this cycle whose record mentions Waymo, Zoox, Cruise, robotaxis, autonomous or self-driving vehicles, counted by the client it was made for, with the offices contacted most. A contact is a reported conversation, not an outcome.
04 BEHIND THE SCENES
The professionals behind the scenes
The people who help campaigns, permits, and large projects move forward.
Campaign consultants earn $1,000 or more a year for campaign management or strategy and must register with the city and file quarterly reports: clients and payments, their own political contributions, gifts to officials, city contracts, appointments, and any city officeholder or employee on their payroll.
Paid to AI companies, cloud hosts and ad platforms
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Committee payments this cycle to the named AI labs, cloud hosts and advertising platforms, as the payee is written on the filing.
The same firms, many campaigns
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Firms paid by three or more committees this cycle, from each committee's reported payments.
Relational entities, from campaign filings, consultant reports, and lobbyist contacts
Committees, the people and firms paying them, and the consultants they pay, drawn as one map. Hover a name for its figures; open it for the full record.
Hover on a name to see some connections. Click it to open the full record.
Committee or candidateDonorConsultantLobbying client
Contracts in the news: OpenGov and PermitSF
Sourced Sep 16, 2026
A city contract, the vote, the money, and who was in the room
OPENGOVpowersPERMITSF
On September 15, 2026 the Board of Supervisors approved, 10 to 1, an extension of the city's contract with OpenGov, the software behind PermitSF, Mayor Lurie's permit portal.
What was asked, what passed
Proposed$38.9M, 5 years
Approved$28M, 3 years
Analyst's advice1 year
First contract$5.9M, no bid
Bars are to scale against the original proposal. The one-year figure is the Budget and Legislative Analyst's recommendation, not a dollar amount.
The vote, September 15, 2026
10 yes, 1 no. Jackie Fielder the no, and the supervisor who asked the analyst how OpenGov was chosen.
$28MApproved, through 2029
15Permit types due on the system by March 2026; the full set was still being added in September
How it got here
Oct 2025A no-bid, one-year contract worth $5.9M begins.
Oct 2025Reporting on the company's ties to the administration and the mayor's past investment through a family trust.
Sep 2, 2026The city moves ahead with an extension worth up to $38.9M.
Sep 14, 2026Turnaround claims are contradicted by the city's own data.
Sep 15, 2026The Board approves $28M over three years, with an exit clause.
2029The extension ends.
Who was in the room
Stephen SherrillDistrict 2; carried the legislation for the extension.
Chyanne ChenDistrict 11; wrote the amendment that shrank it and added oversight tools.
Jackie FielderDistrict 9; the only no, and the supervisor who ordered the budget analyst's inquiry into how OpenGov was chosen.
Bilal Mahmood, Matt DorseyMahmood's office found the product not ready and turnaround times moving the wrong way, yet voted for the shortened contract; Dorsey welcomed the scrutiny. IFPTE Local 21 pressed for accountability.
In the city's filings
Related, from the same reporting
Flock camerasDistrict 8 candidate Gary McCoy has targeted the police department's Flock surveillance contract. The contract itself is not in the campaign or lobbying record.The San Francisco Standard, Power Play, Sep 9, 2026
Committees and candidates, by what they paid registered consultants this cycle.
Consultants earning the most
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Registered consultants by reported payments received this cycle.
Latest consultant filings
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The newest quarterly reports, as they arrive.
City officials on consultant payrolls
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Consultants must report any city officeholder or employee they employ.
Consultants' own political giving
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Contributions of $100 or more that consultants made or delivered.
Consultants with city contracts
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City contracts held by consultants or their clients, as reported.
Consultants appointed to city bodies
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Appointments to boards and commissions that consultants report.
Gifts consultants gave officials
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Gifts to city officers reported by consultants.
Who consultants pay
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Vendors consultants report paying on behalf of campaigns.
Consultant firm staff
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Employees reported by each registered consultant.
Who helps permits move
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Paid permit consultants and their contacts.
Inside the city, and outside it
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All itemized money this cycle, by the zip code on the giver's filing, as two circles whose areas are the money
A local election funded from outside the city reads differently from one funded from within it. A zip code is the address on the filing, not where anyone votes; filings with no zip are left out.
Big developers, on the record
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Filings and donations from large projects.
05 OUTSIDE INFLUENCE
Money, lobbying, and travel from outside San Francisco
Every person, company, union, and committee in the records on this page whose filings list an address outside the city: who they are, the address as filed, and what they did here. Outside money and lobbying is legal and common; this section only makes it visible in one place.
Nodes sized and shaded by money or contacts; one color, more of it where there is more
Each node is a place a donor, lobbying client, travel funder, or committee is based.
Donors
Lobbying clients
Travel funders
Committees
Money with a non-US address on the filing
Contributions with an address outside the country, by year
How this card reads the record, and what it does not conclude
Federal law bars foreign nationals from giving in any United States election, local ones included, and San Francisco requires an address on every contribution.
Outside donors
Snapshot Sep 14, 2026
Givers whose filings list an address outside San Francisco, in the newest large contributions, with the address as filed and what they funded.
Outside lobbying clients
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
Lobbying clients whose filings list an address outside the city, by contacts made on their behalf this summer, with the matter at hand.
Outside travel funders
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
Organizations whose filings list an address outside San Francisco and that paid for officials' travel, by total on file.
Regional and statewide committees
Snapshot Sep 14, 2026
Committees active on San Francisco's ballot whose filings list an address beyond the city.
06 BUDGET
The city budget, in plain sight
Where San Francisco's money comes from and where it goes, from the Controller's budget data on DataSF. Every figure is live from the city and links to the record.
Spending for the latest fiscal year, grouped the way the city groups its own departments (public protection, public works and transit, health, culture and recreation, general administration).
The biggest departments
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Departments by spending budget in the latest fiscal year. In the map, each department's area is its budget.
Spending and revenue, year by year
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Each fiscal year on file, spending beside revenue, so the gap is visible.
What the money buys
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Latest-year spending by kind: salaries, benefits, services, materials, debt, and transfers.
Where the revenue comes from
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Latest-year revenue by fund type: the general fund, enterprise funds like the airport and the port, and special revenue.
Fastest growing departments
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Departments whose budget grew most from the prior year, in dollars.
One hundred squares of city spending
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Each square is one percent of the latest year's budgeted spending
The four biggest departments and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, picked out of the whole. The rest of the city's spending is the grey.
07 UNFILED
Unfiled: required disclosures the city has not received
The Ethics Commission's own list of officials and employees who had not filed their 2026 Form 700, ethics training, or Sunshine training by the deadline.
The commission published this list on May 1, 2026 and issued its last update on June 1, 2026, after removing everyone who filed by May 31, 2026. Anyone who filed after May 31, 2026 still appears here, because the commission did not update the list again. A late statement is a late statement, not evidence of anything inside it; the only way to confirm a person's current status is the Form 700 search on the commission's site.
Board and commission members and senior roles first, because they hold decisions. Line staff appear in the full list, exactly as the city published it, not here.
Departments with the most unfiled
City list, Jun 1, 2026
Where the gaps cluster. SFMTA alone is nearly a quarter of the list.
What is missing, as a share
Snapshot Sep 15, 2026
The 171 people on the city's list, by which required filing was not received by May 31, 2026.
What is missing, by filing type
City list, Jun 1, 2026
Each person can be missing up to three required filings.
Missing a Form 700, the ten that matter most
City list, Jun 1, 2026
Everyone here is on the city's own list without a 2026 financial interest statement.
What communities still cannot see
Gaps
Information that would change what you can understand about your block, and why it is not here yet.
08 STORIES
Stories
Stories that only emerge when the records are read together relationally. Every figure below comes from a filing submitted to the city; the interpretation comes from the relationships between them, and the data/numbers come from official city portals.
Spotlight: where the lobbying is heaviest, the filings are thinnest
Sourced
Contacts are a hand tally of the city's lobbyist record (313 across 28 clients, Jul 22 to Aug 31, 2026), exact when live; unfiled counts are the commission's and may lag filings after May 31, 2026. A lobbied department is not a compromised one. Two records side by side, so you can ask the question.
Contacts, Jul 22 to Aug 31, 2026 (pink) and people unfiled, June 1, 2026 (red)
Hot topics: who is paying, lobbying, and organizing around them
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Housing, surveillance and cameras, AI and data centers, development, transit
Pick a topic to see everything in the records that touches it: lobbyist contacts whose matter mentions it, committees and donors tied to it, consultant reports, and what the budget funds.
Development, and housing for people without homes, side by side
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Three records, two sides, side by side
The same city, read from the developer's side and from the side of people without housing: who is paying for campaigns, who is in the room at City Hall, and what the budget actually funds.
Development
$60KDeveloper money to ballot committees in the newest filings: Core Urban Holdings $50K to Yes on C, No on I; SF Forward $10K to Yes on C, Sep 9 to 11, 2026
180Lobbyist contacts on behalf of real estate and development clients, Jul 22 to Aug 31, 2026 (Hines, Emerald Fund, Tourbineau, BCCI, Presidio Bay, Westwood, Kilroy, Hudson Pacific, and others)
…Latest budget: Planning, Building Inspection, and Economic and Workforce Development together
Housing for people without homes
$45KAffordable-housing money to ballot committees in the newest filings: Tenants and Owners Development Corporation $25K to the NPH Yes on C committee and $15K to No on D; David Baker $5K
0Lobbyist contacts on behalf of homelessness or supportive-housing organizations in the same window; service providers appear in the record as grant recipients, not as registered lobbying clients
…Latest budget: Homelessness and Supportive Housing
What this can and cannot say: campaign money and lobbying are what the filings show, counted as described on their cards. The budget figures come live from the Controller's data on the published site. None of this measures outcomes, only who spends, who speaks, and what is funded. The two columns are a reading, not a conclusion about either side.
The board
09 DECISIONS
Record of decisions
Who moved to affect what, and when: Board votes, contributions, money paid out, lobbyist contacts, and gifts of travel on one clock, set against the election calendar. The city stopped publishing votes as machine-readable data around 2018, so this project’s own reader visits the Board’s legislative site a few times a day and carries the votes here; every event links to the city’s own record.
How the record is moving
Contracts beside contributions
Dates side by side. The record speaks; this page draws no conclusion. Matches include filings where the name appears as the giver, the giver’s stated employer, a committee, or a contract team member.
10 QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS
Questions and concerns
How to ask for a record, and how to raise a concern.
Any person can ask any San Francisco city department for almost any record it holds: emails, contracts, reports, data, calendars. You don't have to give a reason, prove you're a resident, or even give your real name.
The easiest route is the city's records request portal at sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com, where you pick the department, describe what you want, and submit. You can also ask any department directly: by email or phone through the records contact on that department's sf.gov page, by mail (most departments receive mail at City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102), or in person; SF311 at (415) 701-2311 can route you to the right office. Describe the record as specifically as you can (what it is, roughly when it's from, and that you want it in electronic form) because vague requests get slow answers.
The department must respond within 10 days, and can extend by up to 14 more for unusually large requests, but it has to tell you why. There's also a faster lane: mark it Immediate Disclosure Request and readily available records are due by the close of the next business day.
If any part is withheld, the department must say exactly which record is withheld and cite the specific legal reason; a bare "no" isn't allowed, and they must release the parts of a record that aren't covered by the exemption.
If you think a response was wrong or late, you can bring it to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, a citizen body that hears these petitions (sotf@sfgov.org, (415) 554-7724, City Hall Room 244, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102), or ask the Supervisor of Records at the City Attorney's Office to review a withholding. Both are free and open to anyone.
