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

R.B. and T.R.


October 22, 2003