More San Francisco families are about to get free child care.

Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday that the city is adding 750 slots to its free and low-cost child-care subsidy program this summer. More than half of those will be for infants and toddlers.

“If you have a young child in this city, you should be able to find a place that you trust and can afford,” Lurie said. “That’s the standard that we are setting, because when we support families at the very beginning, we strengthen everything that comes after.”

The effort comes a few months after the city expanded eligibility for Early Learning for All. The program allows a family of four that earns less than $230,000 a year to receive free child care, while those earning $310,000 are eligible for a 50% subsidy.

The expansion is funded through a one-time surplus from 2018’s Proposition C measure. The additional slots will be available in neighborhoods across San Francisco as the city works to expand the number of providers in its early learning network, the mayor’s office said.

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Also on Thursday, the city opened applications (opens in new tab) for providers to join its roster of certified daycare centers and preschools so that families have more to choose from. There are about 700 families on the city’s waitlist for child care — about 81% of whom are looking for infant or toddler care — according to the city’s Department of Early Childhood.

“An important first step that the mayor announced earlier this year was to make those subsidies available up to that amount,” said Kunal Modi, the mayor’s chief of health and human services. “Now what we’re really focused on is ensuring that you don’t just have a subsidy with nowhere to go.”