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Ford: San Francisco lost 100,000 residents due to progressive policies

Bill Ford · Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03) · Jul 22, 2021 · at 40:36

Bill Ford, CEO of General Atlantic and co-chair of the Partnership for New York City, discusses the impact of progressive local policies and taxation on population loss.

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“I'll probably get in trouble for this, but San Francisco has moved so far to the progressive end. They've lost a 100,000 residents out of 900,000 people.”

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The claim, plainly

San Francisco lost approximately 100,000 residents out of a population of approximately 900,000 by mid-2021.

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Assessment

Bill Ford claimed that the city of San Francisco lost approximately 100,000 residents from a population of around 900,000. While the baseline estimate was reasonably close (873,965 in the April 2020 Census), official demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the City and County of San Francisco lost approximately 54,813 to 58,764 residents between 2020 and July 1, 2021 (falling to 815,201). This net loss is well below the claimed 100,000 (an overestimate of over 40%, far exceeding a standard ~15% approximation tolerance). A population loss exceeding 100,000 (116,385) was recorded across the broader San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley Metropolitan Statistical Area, not the city/county itself.

U.S. Census Bureau 2020 Decennial Census recorded San Francisco's population as 873,965 as of April 1, 2020.
U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2021 estimates recorded San Francisco's population at 815,201 as of July 1, 2021, representing a net loss of 58,764 residents from April 2020 (or 54,813 from July 2020).
U.S. Census Bureau data recorded a net loss of 116,385 residents between July 2020 and July 2021 only when including the entire San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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[1] wikipedia.org [2] newgeography.com [3] census.gov [4] sfist.com [5] sfist.com [6] sfgate.com [7] calmatters.org [8] foxbusiness.com

"San Francisco" population "July 1, 2020" "July 1, 2021" "Census Bureau" San Francisco population 2019 2020 2021 Census Bureau decline "San Francisco" population "873,965" "815,201" "Census" 2021 decline San Francisco population California Department of Finance 2020 2021 decline "873,965" "July 1, 2021" population San Francisco Census

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