San Francisco Public Bank Supporters Release Poll Indicating Strong Public Mandate to Start SF Public Bank
October 7th, 2025
New Poll Shows Resounding Support For Public Bank In San Francisco
October 6th, 2025
Press Release: New Poll Shows 2/3rds of SF Voters Want to Start a Public Bank
October 6th, 2025
San Francisco Green-Lights Nation's First City-Run Public Bank
September 8th, 2023
What's Next for San Francisco's Public Bank Plan
San Francisco Given Go-Ahead to Start Creating Nation's First Municipal Public Bank
September 6th, 2023
SF Public Bank inches closer to city approval
July 20th, 2023
Proposed SF Public Bank gets first review by supervisors
July 20th, 2023
SF's Public Bank plan set to go before Board of Supervisors
May 19, 2023
A Public Bank for San Francisco is Moving Forward
May 17, 2022
The Public Bank Alternative: A new push to remake the American financial system
September-October, 2021
California could soon have its own public banking service, under AB1177 signed by Gavin Newsom
October 04, 2021
AB 1177 PASSES FINAL HURDLE IN CA. SENATE!
AUGUST 26, 2021
Group of Experts Devising Business Plan for SF Public Bank
AUGUST 5, 2021
We Need Public Banking
AUGUST 2, 2021
Press Release for Reinvest SF Working Group
JULY 27, 2021
Gran victoria para la banca pública en SF
JULY 2, 2021
A Huge Victory for Public Banking in SF
JULY 2, 2021
SF Supes Approve Plan To Create First Public Bank In U.S.
JUNE 15, 2021
Supervisors Approve A Public Bank For San Francisco
JUNE 6, 2021
Plans for a public bank could take a big step forward this week
MAY 30, 2021
San Francisco se aproxima a tener un banco público
MARCH 11, 2021
SF draws closer to a public bank with widely supported reinvestment ordinance
MARCH 11, 2021
SF Poised to Work on Blueprint for Creating a Public Bank
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
City Moves Toward Creating First Municipal Bank
JANUARY 27, 2021
San Francisco moves closer to creating nation’s first city-owned public bank
JANUARY 26, 2021
Supe proposes working group to develop business plan for SF public bank
JANUARY 26, 2021
SF supe introduces legislation to create first city-run ‘public bank’
JANUARY 21, 2021
A public bank could make affordable housing more affordable
Proposed Legislation Sets Timeline for S.F. Public Bank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
The Organizers and Officials Behind San Francisco’s Push for a Public Bank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
How a Public Bank Could Free S.F.'s Money from Wall Street
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-of-its-kind law to help establish public banks — and San Francisco wants to be first in line.
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Supervisors Endorse ‘Bold’ Public Bank Plan
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Momentum builds for a city-run bank as supervisors encourage starry-eyed thinking that could divest $11 billion annual budget away from Wall Street and to local issues.
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Questions remain as Treasurer’s Public Bank Task Force comes to a close
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Seven months after convening the Municipal Public Bank Task Force and after, presumably, seven months of research, public bank advocates expected Treasurer Jose Cisneros’s office to present a full draft of a long-anticipated report at the last Task Force Meeting. The Treasurer, instead, had only a draft of a Executive Summary to show the public and task force members. Too many questions remain unanswered by the task force as it comes to a close in just 42 days.
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Could San Francisco Open a Public Bank?
JULY 26, 2018
In the midst of the Occupy movement’s righteous anger toward big banks and their role in the Great Recession, activists floated an idea: What if state-owned banks managed public funds, like San Francisco’s $11 billion annual budget, themselves?
Advocates say public money could be invested in affordable housing, clean energy, and small businesses. Cities could fund student loans at affordable rates, instead of immigrant detention centers, oil pipelines, and other institutions San Franciscans inherently oppose. A public bank has practical applications too, like saving millions of taxpayer dollars in fees spent on financial services.
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Advocates say public money could be invested in affordable housing, clean energy, and small businesses. Cities could fund student loans at affordable rates, instead of immigrant detention centers, oil pipelines, and other institutions San Franciscans inherently oppose. A public bank has practical applications too, like saving millions of taxpayer dollars in fees spent on financial services.
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