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Motto:''Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra'' (Spanish); (English: "Gold in Peace, Iron in War").
== Economic Growth and Diversification ==▼
Since the 1990s, San Francisco's economy has moved increasingly towards the prominence of high-tech, biotech, and medical research. Tech jobs accounted for 1 percent of the city's jobs in 1990. They had grown to 4 percent by 2010 and to an estimated 8 percent by the end of 2013. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metropolitan Statistical Area (a census designation) saw 90 percent tech industry growth from 2006-2016 according to a report by Praxis Strategy Group. San Francisco can now be said to be an important center for technology, Internet and social media companies (and especially for start-up businesses), attracting increasing venture capital funding compared to neighboring Silicon Valley - a trend the city has attempted to encourage with measures such as payroll tax exemptions for certain kinds of desirable companies.▼
A lack of new housing development and options and opposition to them coupled with this influx of new jobs and commuters who work in Silicon Valley (another Bay Area nexus of job growth) has contributed to a housing crisis in San Francisco and other Bay Area communities.▼
== Demographics ==
=== Race and Ethnicity ===
Non-Hispanic Whites accounted for 48 percent of San Francisco's population in 2010, down from 92.5 percent in 1940, making San Francisco a minority-majority city. As of the 2010 United States census, San Francisco's population consisted of▼
*48% Whites - 390,387 ▼
*33% Asians - 267,915 Residents identifying as Chinese constituted the largest single ethnic block at 21 percent of the population. ▼
*6% African-American/Black - 48, 870 This demographic has seen a steady decline since a high in 1970 of 13.4 percent of the population. ▼
*6.6 % Other race ▼
*Hispanics or Latinos of any race accounted for 15 percent of the population or 121,744 people. ▼
=== Education, Households and Income ===▼
Following Seattle, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of residents with a college degree of all major cities in the United States, with over 44% of San Francisco's adults having a bachelor's degree or higher.▼
San Francisco is a hub for the LGBTQ community with the highest percentage of gay and lesbian individuals of any of the 50 largest U.S. cities, at 15% and the highest percentage of same-sex households of any American county.▼
=== Homelessness ===
San Francisco is estimated to have 13,500 persons with 6,500 living on the streets.▼
== Government ==
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Note that legislation in San Francisco is also made through a direct ballot initiative/referendum process.
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*San Francisco Planning Department [https://twitter.com/sfplanning https://twitter.com/sfplanning]
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Bayview | Central | Ingleside | Mission | Northern | Park | Richmond | Southern | Taraval | Tenderloin
== Issues ==
▲== Economic Growth and Diversification ==
== Affordability ==
▲Since the 1990s, San Francisco's economy has moved increasingly towards the prominence of high-tech, biotech, and medical research. Tech jobs accounted for 1 percent of the city's jobs in 1990. They had grown to 4 percent by 2010 and to an estimated 8 percent by the end of 2013. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metropolitan Statistical Area (a census designation) saw 90 percent tech industry growth from 2006-2016 according to a report by Praxis Strategy Group. San Francisco can now be said to be an important center for technology, Internet and social media companies (and especially for start-up businesses), attracting increasing venture capital funding compared to neighboring Silicon Valley - a trend the city has attempted to encourage with measures such as payroll tax exemptions for certain kinds of desirable companies.
=== Cost of Living ===
▲A lack of new housing development and options and opposition to them coupled with this influx of new jobs and commuters who work in Silicon Valley (another Bay Area nexus of job growth) has contributed to a housing crisis in San Francisco and other Bay Area communities.
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=== Home Prices ===
▲Non-Hispanic Whites accounted for 48 percent of San Francisco's population in 2010, down from 92.5 percent in 1940, making San Francisco a minority-majority city. As of the 2010 United States census, San Francisco's population consisted of
=== Affordable Housing ===
▲*48% Whites - 390,387
▲*33% Asians - 267,915 Residents identifying as Chinese constituted the largest single ethnic block at 21 percent of the population.
▲*6% African-American/Black - 48, 870 This demographic has seen a steady decline since a high in 1970 of 13.4 percent of the population.
▲*6.6 % Other race
▲*Hispanics or Latinos of any race accounted for 15 percent of the population or 121,744 people.
== Transportation ==
▲=== Education, Households and Income ===
=== Public Transit ===
▲Following Seattle, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of residents with a college degree of all major cities in the United States, with over 44% of San Francisco's adults having a bachelor's degree or higher.
=== Regional Transit ===
▲San Francisco is a hub for the LGBTQ community with the highest percentage of gay and lesbian individuals of any of the 50 largest U.S. cities, at 15% and the highest percentage of same-sex households of any American county.
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=== Walking/Walkability ===
▲San Francisco is estimated to have 13,500 persons with 6,500 living on the streets.
== Publications and Blogs ==
== Housing and Urbanist Organizations ==
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*Home Ownership SF [http://homeownershipsf.org/ http://homeownershipsf.org/]
*Walk San Francisco [http://walksf.org/ http://walksf.org/]
== People ==
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