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Council approves bill to track vacant supportive housing units after citing thousands of empty placements
Summary
The council approved Intro 7‑91a to require the Department of Social Services to publish counts and percentages of vacant supportive housing units and vacancy‑stage data. Sponsors cited roughly 5,000 vacant supportive units and urged a dashboard to connect people to housing; the item was adopted on the general‑orders calendar.
The City Council advanced Intro 7‑91a, a measure requiring the Department of Social Services to post on its website the total number and percentage of vacant supportive housing units and the number of vacant units at different stages of placement.
Council Member Lincoln Ressler and other sponsors argued the data dashboard will provide…
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