Mayor Daniel Lurie's proposed budget cuts in San Francisco are causing anxiety as layoff notices are delivered to workers and essential community programs face significant funding reductions. Despite its vagueness, the budget entails critical cuts, including the heart-wrenching elimination of funding for organizations dedicated to worker rights and vulnerable populations. With a shift in funding toward increased police presence, longstanding connections to community empowerment and support services are jeopardized. Groups like the Human Rights Commission foresee drastic reductions, leaving many community leaders uncertain about which programs will survive the impending cuts.
The Lurie budget puts lots of money in to hiring more cops, presumably to fight crime—but wage theft is also a crime, and this bit of law enforcement is going to go away.
Clair Lau, a campaign coordinator at the Chinese Progressive Association, told me that the Workers Rights Community Collaborative will lose all its city funding for the 2026-27 cycle.
The Human Rights Commission will see its budget cut by almost 40 percent. Jude Diebold, an investigator, said nobody knows exactly which grants and programs will be cut.
For years, San Francisco CityBuild has helped vulnerable people, including those who have served time in prison, get training, apprenticeships, and eventually careers in the construction industry.
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