after the accreditation crisis in 2012, ccsf was having low student enrollment issues. in the years that followed the crisis, student enrollment went from 90,000 students down to 60,000 students by 2017. in february 2017, the city of san francisco began offering free tuition at ccsf for san francisco city residents in a two year pilot program called “free city college”. the money for the free tuition was raised from proposition w, a transfer of properties tax on property sold over $5 million. by fall 2017, student enrollment was increased by 16% (4,900 students). however, a financial audit in 2019 showed that the college was still in dire straits with deficits for at least three years and nearly $14 million more in spending than revenue during the previous fiscal year.