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Whitley summarized the department's current adopted 2024-25 budget of about $846 million and said a substantial share of HSH's recent budget relied on one-time state and local infusions. \"We currently have an $846,000,000 budget,\" Whitley said during the presentation, noting that much of the near-term spending is multiyear or one-time funds that will not recur.

Why this matters: The mayor's guidance to reduce ongoing general-fund spending by up to 15 percent next year — roughly $46 million for HSH in a straight calculation — would force difficult choices because a large portion of HSH's operations are locally supported and many shelter and housing costs are recurring.

Key points from the presentation:

- Structural picture: Whitley said the department's budget appears smaller in year-to-year comparisons because one-time grants and carryover inflated the current-year total; many programs now are funded with multiyear or nonrecurring sources.

- Our City Our Home (OCO) volatility: The gross-receipts-funded OCO fund has shown revenue swings and appeals can create large year-to-year differences. The department expects updated OCO revenue projections in January and again in April.

- Cost drivers: Whitley called out rising insurance costs for providers, an expensive meals budget for shelter operations, and lease payments for privately owned sites as recurring pressures.

- Mayor's instructions and process: The incoming mayor had issued a hiring freeze and asked departments for ideas including new revenue strategies, efficiencies, and a review of contracted provider outcomes. Whitley said the mayor's office has asked departments not to submit an immediate plan that simply cuts 15 percent but to collaborate on longer-term solutions and potential revenue and efficiency measures.

- Revenue and efficiency ideas: Whitley listed possible approaches: pursuing additional state grants (HAP/encampment resolution funds), aggressive applications for one-time capital grants (Homekey/Prop 1-style funds) to acquire or convert property, leveraging Medicaid waiver and CalAIM funding for supportive services, and reviewing meal-delivery and site-consolidation options to lower recurring costs.

Questions and concerns: Commissioners pressed Whitley about what a 15 percent permanent reduction would mean, how Prop M and appeals affect OCO revenue volatility, and whether the department could provide a clearer line-item view of spending and outcomes tied to units or beds. Whitley said HSH is hampered by data-system limitations but pledged to improve reporting and to present more detailed breakdowns at the Feb. 14 meeting.

Next steps: HSH will refine its departmental proposal for the mayor's office by the statutory Feb. 21 submission deadline, continue liaison meetings with the OCO oversight committee in February and March, and return to the commission in February with a more detailed budget package.

Ending note: Whitley told commissioners the administration aims to prioritize homelessness but that the department must identify a mix of creative revenue options, efficiencies and programmatic tradeoffs to meet a large projected citywide shortfall.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","City of San Francisco - Video Open Video Only in Windows Media Player - Jul 04, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Gigi Whitley, HSH chief of administration and finance, told the Homelessness Oversight Commission on Jan. 10 that San Francisco faces an $876 million two-year general-fund shortfall and that the mayor's office has instructed departments to prepare options that could include permanent reductions, program consolidations and new revenue strategies.","taxTitle","San Francisco City, San Francisco County, California","taxId",5751,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6644399,"HSH director reports two shelter shootings, outlines outreach, vacancies and moves into housing",306,722000,1028000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5166643-e2e028fcb3c35c5a18da2ce49f3efb6a&start=722&end=1028","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5166643-e2e028fcb3c35c5a18da2ce49f3efb6a/thumbnail_722000.jpg","/articles/6644399/San-Francisco-City/San-Francisco-County/California/HSH-director-reports-two-shelter-shootings-outlines-outreach-vacancies-and-moves-into-housing","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6644399-d7ac4a5d74ec184250057daf510b48cc/orig.mp4?Expires=1773647015&Signature=LEpgG5g2tB6~gEWilpSgv1fhr85N3T0ZQfLJ-RnB1599nNmB5U~PLIkhYVcIxEQq26FPhRt0olfp6iXi9zaY2JDGk7Bp~0KsHfwbgto9wPHM3WrRI7PY4hGH0Eu~n-9AmdpYdDuxchP1eOZH7zt6bQqJYJ027s58SNI0mQWiwLgrAi3shSoFEPfhU5V5oLfx0W68jCnJaPfg97p72CUghBhcDX40yAtaiUsp-Ca0jfZrThETCVlN~5WjtojHzXgPuDT589ZIPgxAgjgXQtrheAMtp8mIKdAbYpH8Fo32uX0-phqooGlJeViXSIlBYzUBo8pzKej9giEdTGN8l8vvoQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing Executive Director Shereen McSpadden told the Homelessness Oversight Commission on Jan. 10 that the department responded to two shootings at sites serving people experiencing homelessness and has been working with providers and public health partners on safety and trauma-response measures.

McSpadden said, “we had 2 shootings at 2 different sites,” and praised on-site staff and community-based partners for their responses and ongoing support to residents and employees at each location.

Why this matters: The incidents underline persistent safety and behavioral-health challenges inside some shelter and supportive-housing sites, and come as HSH tracks occupancy, unit outages and efforts to bring offline units back into service.

McSpadden presented data for November and December 2024 and early January 2025: the city's homeless outreach team conducted 3,131 engagements and distributed 7,028 items (food, water, hygiene supplies); field teams completed 197 housing assessments, connected 12 households to housing and made 185 placements to shelter; the coordinated entry system completed 976 assessments in November. HSH reported 126 moves into permanent housing in November and 946 so far this fiscal year.

On the supportive-housing portfolio, McSpadden said HSH had a site-based vacancy rate of 8.4 percent. Of 724 vacant units, 319 had move-ins in progress, 332 were offline and 73 were available for referral. HSH required providers with units offline 90 or more days to submit plans; of 147 such units, 106 were brought back online, 18 require rehabilitation and 20 were under instruction to be returned to service by Jan. 15.

Shelter system snapshots: HSH reported 3,698 units of shelter capacity on Dec. 27 with a 92 percent occupancy rate. On Dec. 18, the family shelter wait list held 278 families; 21 families were placed into family shelters in November. The adult wait list stood at 248 people, down from 316 the prior month; 587 people joined the adult wait list in November and the average time on the wait list for adults who accepted placement was 11 days.

Prevention and problem-solving: McSpadden and HSH staff described the San Francisco Emergency Rental Assistance Program (a partnership with the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development) as a key prevention tool. In the month reported, ERAP served 354 households at an average of $4,470 per household; 87 percent of recipients were identified as people of color and 78 percent earned 30 percent or less of area median income. HSH said problem-solving efforts resolved homelessness for 361 unique households over the prior five months with $1,237,572 in direct financial assistance; staff later said the department curtailed some eligible problem-solving uses in November after funds were spent earlier in the fiscal year.

Staffing and operations: HSH told the commission it had 254.65 full-time-equivalent positions and about 333.65 vacancies, with 35 active recruitments; commissioners pressed HSH on how a new mayoral hiring freeze would affect conditional offers and ongoing recruitments.

Commission response and public comment: Commissioners and members of the public raised concerns about shelter training, de-escalation, staff hiring and the condition of some navigation centers. Several public commenters urged better tracking of who exits wait lists without placements and asked for demographic breakdowns (age, seniors, transitional-age youth) for those exits. McSpadden said HSH is working on additional reporting and communications to address those questions.

What's next: McSpadden said HSH will continue to work with the Department of Public Health and providers on trauma-informed approaches and revised shelter training material, and will report further as corrective actions on offline units and other operational items are completed.

Ending note: Commissioners asked HSH to provide more detailed demographic and cohort data in follow-up reports so the commission and the public can better understand inflow and outflow patterns and which prevention tools are most effective for specific populations.","San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing Executive Director Shereen McSpadden told the Homelessness Oversight Commission on Jan. 10 that the department responded to two shootings at sites serving people experiencing homelessness and provided monthly operational updates including outreach totals, housing placements and efforts to bring offline supportive-housing units back into service.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6644389,"Commission approves nearly $1.31 million in capital grants for two supportive-housing sites",390,7170000,7560000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5166643-e2e028fcb3c35c5a18da2ce49f3efb6a&start=7170&end=7560","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5166643-e2e028fcb3c35c5a18da2ce49f3efb6a/thumbnail_7170000.jpg","/articles/6644389/San-Francisco-City/San-Francisco-County/California/Commission-approves-nearly-131-million-in-capital-grants-for-two-supportive-housing-sites","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6644389-84aa99f45bf2b450615fb2aea82ed394/orig.mp4?Expires=1773647015&Signature=KaaWn3LENOnJWyO60xdx~-ZMAmdBUNpugRq18xV1v5FVn1Lpwk1K2PlIVU6pJ-CdrQUJttyqWVtTnaMQakiGNGB9UzxULLdAEHvxPIVfymAq5yh3DcNR8bb6qWKtzmHKkNZWgTbSnUFFzDs0K7OCVlQC4hsqvSAmwYJkiwOWhQxXtUPe6RPUALEh3Z-IsXsr149oQyEu9DFrF5pj0FZ6ZNM39DPcAhMq7xF4n~PS3JLpCHDEmTqh-wgWuTmEWdTDOFAOIw9ClYooJdEwRubuDKzuy3lNLP-eZmsoY8dKgRY6zLu8BGdgiG5ixGl5-bueEe0t9TQFJlDr-HCJ~fWGgQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Homelessness Oversight Commission on Jan. 10 approved two one-time capital grants to repair and modernize infrastructure at supportive-housing sites serving very low-income residents.

The commission approved a $350,000 grant to the nonprofit Mary Elizabeth Inn to renovate shared restrooms across the building, repair fixtures and improve habitability for residents of the 92-unit single-room-occupancy facility, which includes 58 permanent supportive-housing units. The grant period begins Feb. 1, 2025 and runs through June 30, 2026.

Commissioners also approved a $959,538 grant to Episcopal Community Services to modernize the elevator at the Henry Hotel, a master-leased supportive-housing building. The elevator project is the final award in a series of master-lease elevator grants the commission discussed at prior meetings; the Henry Hotel award carries the same roughly 17-month timeline.

Vote and motions: The two grants were presented together; a motion to approve both items passed on a roll call with unanimous support from commissioners present (Chair Jonathan Butler, Vice Chair Kristen Evans, Commissioners Katie Albright, Dina Aslanian Williams, Bevan Dufty, Joaquin Guerrero and Sharkey Laguana).

Why this matters: Both awards use one-time capital funds targeted to address long-deferred building repairs and accessibility issues in older nonprofit- and master-leased properties that house people formerly or at risk of homelessness. HSH said the projects were selected from a pool of older buildings that had not received significant renovation in the last 15 years.

Implementation notes: HSH staff said providers will submit detailed project plans after grant execution; the department will confirm whether temporary resident relocations are needed and how they will be managed. For the Mary Elizabeth Inn, HSH expects to minimize relocations by phasing bathroom work; final relocation plans will be reviewed in the project plan.

Ending: Both grants were approved and will be executed subject to standard grant agreements and post-award project plans and reporting requirements.","The Homelessness Oversight Commission voted unanimously Jan. 10 to approve two one-time capital grants: $350,000 to the Mary Elizabeth Inn for shared-bathroom renovations and $959,538 to Episcopal Community Services to modernize the elevator at the Henry Hotel. Both projects use one-time capital funds and have up to 17 months to complete work.","actionData","errors"]

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HSH budget chief warns of large city shortfall; mayor asks departments to plan 15% general-fund reduction

HSH director reports two shelter shootings, outlines outreach, vacancies and moves into housing

Commission approves nearly $1.31 million in capital grants for two supportive-housing sites