“Affordable child care” is something of an oxymoron in San Francisco. Here’s what care can cost in The City.
Unless your income is among the highest in San Francisco, or even among the lowest, finding and affording child care may be just wishful thinking.
Financial assistance to offset child-care costs is available, and for many low-income families, it is essential to making ends meet. But a large swath of families doesn’t qualify and struggles to pay out of pocket. Making ends meetFromer of the Children’s Council knows the child care crunch more than most. The sixth-generation San Francisco resident was once a client at the organization she now leads seeking support to find child care for her two sons while pursuing a better job.
A household with two adults, one infant and one preschooler on average spends about $4,000 per month on childcare in San Francisco, according to the Insight Center. Meanwhile, the median rent in San Francisco is $3,750, according to Zillow estimates. “The wait list for child care was so long, it was scary,” she said, adding that having someone walk her through child-care assistance programs was game changing.
Today’s waiting list is actually shorter than past years, particularly for pre-school-age children. But long waiting lists for infant care are trickier to solve. One reason is that safety regulations require a lower caregiver-to-child ratio for younger kids, making it more expensive to care for infants.
“We started sorting out child care as soon as we got pregnant,” said Jonah Horowitz, a father of a six-month-old in San Francisco.
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