The 'Bay Guardian' 2003
poverty index
A snapshot of economic conditions in the city
Number of eviction notices in fiscal year 2002-03: 1,486
Number of people with no known address who have died this year: 169
Number of billionaires living in San Francisco: 11
Rank of San Francisco among all California counties in terms of the level of economic inequality: 2
Hours of work per week required at a minimum-wage job to afford an average apartment in San Francisco: 159
Percentage of S.F. residents living below the federal poverty line: 11.3
Number of people on the waiting list for S.F. public housing: 25,000
Percentage by which the public housing waiting list increased in about one year: 39
Number of people on the waiting list for slips at the St. Francis Yacht Club: 500
Percentage of single moms with children under five years old living in poverty: 32.4
Minimum amount the city would have to spend annually to house the homeless by 2010: $133 million
Percentage of President George W. Bush's $87 billion Iraq war request that this represents: 0.1
Amount a full-time minimum wage-worker earns annually: $14,404
Maximum household income of families targeted by mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom's Workforce Housing Initiative: $68,226
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