Every year, the national nonprofit Trust for Public Land evaluates the public park systems of the 100 most populous U.S. cities. Its annual ParkScore report was released this week, and San Francisco ranked seventh out of the pack.

The city earned high points for having parks close to every household, but it earned low points for inequitable distribution of park size. The city’s Recreation and Park Department hopes to better the city’s equity score with its new India Basin Waterfront Park.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.