File #: 110803    Version: 1 Name: Hearing - Family Flight
Type: Hearing Status: Filed
Introduced: 6/28/2011 In control: Government Audit and Oversight Committee
On agenda: Final action: 3/14/2014
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Hearing on the recent U.S. Census Bureau figures which show that just 13.4 % of San Francisco’s 805,235 residents are younger than 18, one of the lowest percentages of any city in the United States and speculation on the causes range from a lack of affordable and workforce housing, lack of neighborhood schools and good quality schools, the cost of living in general, dwindling resources for our parks and recreation, safe streets, and other reasons and calling on a wide range of individuals, including but not limited to representatives from the Department of Children, Youth and Families, the Mayor’s Office of Housing, the Recreation and Park Department, the San Francisco Unified School District, the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and other potential organizations to discuss family-related statistics, viewpoints as to the cause of family flight, and potential policies to address the problem.
Sponsors: Mark Farrell, John Avalos
Attachments: 1. Comm_Pkt_120811, 2. Comm_Pkt_030812
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