SAN FRANCISCO – In a recent study conducted by WalletHub, San Francisco has been identified as the worst-run city in the United States. The study, which assessed the effectiveness of local leadership based on a “quality of city services” score, ranked San Francisco 148th out of cities evaluated nationwide. This ranking takes into account 36 criteria relative to the city’s per-capita budget.
According to WalletHub, the rankings aim to illustrate how efficiently city leaders manage and allocate public funds by comparing the quality of services provided to residents.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s office has contested WalletHub’s findings, criticizing the methodology which compares San Francisco’s combined city and county budget against budgets of other cities that only encompass municipal expenditures. Breed’s office emphasized that such comparisons can be misleading and inaccurate.
Despite the unfavorable ranking, Mayor Breed highlighted several accomplishments in her recent State of the City address, including a decline in crime rates, efforts to combat open-air drug markets, the provision of housing for over 15,000 individuals, and successful community-business partnerships.
“I’m tired of the people who talk about San Francisco as if our troubles are inevitable and our successes a fluke,” Mayor Breed asserted. “Our successes are not a fluke, and they’re not fleeting.”
Meanwhile, another city in California, Fremont, was praised by WalletHub for having the lowest share of its population living in poverty. Earlier this year, WalletHub also named Fremont the best city in the United States for raising a family.
The top-ranking cities in WalletHub’s study for overall best-run cities in America include Nampa, Idaho at number one, followed by Lexington-Fayette, Kentucky, and Boise, Idaho.
The study underscores ongoing challenges and successes across American cities, highlighting varying local governance and service delivery outcomes.
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