SoMa West Community Benefit District member Enrique Cervantes disposes of collected trash into his roving cart in San Francisco on June 1, 2023. | Benjamin Fanjoy for The Standard
In April, the SoMa West Community Benefit District picked up more than 35 tons of trash, or nearly 71,000 pounds of garbage. In 2021, Tenderloin Community Benefit District cleaners gathered a whopping 146 tons, or 292,600 pounds, of waste.
San Francisco is home to 17 of these organizations, most of which are concentrated in the city’s densely populated Downtown core. It sounds like a lot of political jargon, and that’s because it is.
But community benefit districts, or CBDs, play a crucial role in the city: They clean streets—sometimes faster than the Department of Public Works (DPW)—and connect community members in SF’s often-chaotic commercial and mixed-use neighborhoods.
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