tldr;sf civic data, sourced
This site is being built in public. The budget explainer is live and sourced to the June 2026 city budget; more sections are on the way.

Civic data for San Francisco.

Sourced dashboards on how the city actually works. We start with the budget. The Board of Supervisors and the housing pipeline are next. Built to be read, shared, and corrected.

● Live

The Budget

Where does the money actually go?

San Francisco's proposed budget is about $16.9 billion. Most of it runs itself — roughly 55% is enterprise operations that fund themselves. The other ~45% is the General Fund, the part City Hall actually fights over. A focused first release, sourced to the June 2026 city budget and verified to the printed totals. Revenue, the set-aside structure, and federal exposure are still to come.

Open the budget explainer →
○ Coming soon

BOS Explorer

Every vote, on the record.

A searchable record of San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes, sourced to official meeting minutes. In development; we'll publish it when the data is verified.

In development
○ Coming soon

Housing Pipeline

Are we building enough?

San Francisco's housing pipeline against its state targets: what's approved, what's built, what's stuck. In development.

In development

About this project

tldr;sf is being built in public. We publish each dashboard when its data is sourced and verified, not before — which is why some are live and others are still in development.

tldr;sf is a research project surfacing the structure of San Francisco's governance and budget. The aim is straightforward: dashboards that pass the "read it cold" test — anyone who lands on a page should learn something useful about how the city actually works, even if they came in skeptical.

Editorial discipline: Every quantitative claim is sourced. Hover the ⓘ badges to verify. We disclose source lean (left, moderate, right) where it matters. We distinguish what was proposed from what was signed from what was implemented. We try not to editorialize in the primary view; we leave conclusions to the reader.

Civic-ed lane: tldr;sf is sibling to D for D8, the campaign of Darshini Patel for District 8 Supervisor. The dashboards are non-partisan civic education; the campaign's interpretation of that data lives at votedarshini.com.

Open source: Code at github.com/rfycy7pt9y-gif/tldrsf. Issues, corrections, and contributions welcome.