Here’s how to fight for your neighborhood!

Editor’s note (7/6/2026): We created this resource page to help the community during San Francisco’s budget season, which has concluded. And, good news! The community got most of what it needed. Read this story to find out what went down.

City Hall is reducing the budgets of Tenderloin service providers.

Why should that matter to you? Because those services affect life for everyone here. They help people stay healthy, housed, and happy — and if funds are cut, we’ll all feel it.

Time is running out, and June 24 may be your last chance to push back.

Scroll down to find out what you can do. The most important thing is to show up and speak at Public Comment Day at City Hall, if you can. You can also help increase turnout by printing our flyer and handing it out or posting it someplace right now. We’re offering the flyer in multiple languages.

Want to learn about the budget situation? Find all our coverage here, or you can start with this primer on the known Tenderloin programs under threat. And here are testimonials, from service providers themselves, about what’s at stake.

This journalism was made possible with funding from the San Francisco Foundation.

Show up, speak at Public Comment Day

Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: Starts at 10 a.m.
Location: City Hall, Room 250

Public Comment Day is your opportunity to join your neighbors in person and tell lawmakers directly what you think and feel about these cuts.

You’ll get one minute at the mic. That’s just enough time to say:

Your name
Your connection to the Tenderloin — maybe you live or work here, now or previously?
How the cuts would affect you

Perhaps you care about Livable City’s Sunday Streets event, and want to see it continue operating? Consider describing a happy memory from that event. Or if you’ve struggled with addiction, or know someone who has, then maybe you’ll push for the Substance Use Disorder Navigators program to survive? It’s slated for elimination, which means hundreds of people would no longer get help finding and obtaining treatment.

For ideas about what to focus on, check our list of affected programs, or the Tenderloin People’s Congress’ list of talking points. Organizers recommend picking just one talking point when you give your testimony.

Be prepared: The line to speak could be quite long.

Go here for more information about Public Comment Day.

If you want to connect with the People’s Budget Coalition before getting in line to give your comment, they’ll be in Room 278 offering help practicing your comment, translation support, childcare, snacks, buttons, and stickers. You can also RSVP to the People’s Budget Coalition to let them know you plan to be there. The Coalition recommends that if you only have an hour to spare, you show up sometime after 3 p.m.

Don’t have time to show up? Contact lawmakers.

You can call or email elected officials to tell them what you want to see funded in the city budget.

To send a comment to city supervisors working on the budget, email monique.crayton@sfgov.org.

To share your feedback specifically with District 5 supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, email MahmoodStaff@sfgov.org or call 415-554-7630.

To share your feedback with Mayor Daniel Lurie, email daniel.lurie@sfgov.org or call 415-554-6141.

If you prefer to join an organized letter-writing campaign, the People’s Budget Coalition has created one here.

Join final budget deliberations

Date: Thursday, June 25
Time: Starts at 10 a.m.
Location: City Hall, Room 250

The Budget and Appropriations Committee’s final day of deliberations is an all-day process that tends to go late into the night — earning it the name “add-back night.” City supervisors go through San Francisco’s budget line-by-line and make adjustments, moving funds around. It’s the last chance for advocates to make their case to legislative staff to put money back into threatened programs.

You are welcome to show up! If you do, find the seasoned budget organizers (like folks from the People’s Budget Coalition) and take your cues from them on how to most effectively lobby legislators on this day.

Print and hand out our flyer

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We’re getting flyers out into the neighborhood to increase turnout to Public Comment Day on June 24, at City Hall.

You can help! Print our flyer and give it to everyone at your workplace, or maybe post one or leave a stack at the entrance to your apartment building. If you need us to print for you, contact us: hello@tlvoice.org

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We’ve been out in this community, helping to mobilize and inform people regarding the budget cuts — and we’re still looking for ways to help the Tenderloin advocate for its needs. We can’t do this work without your support.