SPUR — the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association — is a nonprofit public policy organization. We bring people together from across the political spectrum to …

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SPUR supported a recent Berkeley ordinance that motivates investments in zero-emissions home retrofits by taking advantage of home sales to require energy upgrades. Berkeley’s time-of …

Join Sebastian Petty, Senior Policy Advisor at SPUR, for a conversation about the future of Bay Area transit, the funding crisis it faces, and how we can ensure these essential systems …

SPUR is co-sponsoring two bills to keep struggling households from slipping through the food safety net. Both would make proven pilots into permanent benefits that reduce hunger and …

Oct 21, 2024 · Governor Newsom signed hundreds of bills into law, including six pieces of SPUR-sponsored legislation that will make housing faster and easier to build, support development of …

Oct 8, 2024 · For the November 2024 election, SPUR analyzed local and state measures related to our policy areas on the California, San Francisco, San José, and Oakland ballots. Our …

May 19, 2025 · SPUR sponsored three of the package’s bills and is working on four other bills that would make it easier to build critically needed housing, including in transit-rich areas where …

Jan 24, 2025 · SPUR outlined those challenges and recommended ways to address them in Making Government Work.

May 30, 2025 · Photo by Sergio Ruiz for SPUR. This article is the third in a three-part series examining San Francisco’s increasing structural deficit and the difficult decisions required to …