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Residents and advocates press for faster air‑conditioning upgrades as DHS cites logistical limits to granular reporting
Summary
The City Council heard June 3 testimony on a proposed one‑time report about air conditioning in homeless shelters, with DHS saying many sites have cooling rooms and an RFP now requires AC at new sites while residents and advocates demanded faster, enforceable action to protect vulnerable people.
The City Council Committee on General Welfare heard testimony June 3 about Intro 12‑08, a bill requiring a one‑time report on air conditioning in city homeless shelters. Department of Homeless Services officials said the agency has issued an addendum to its open RFP requiring air conditioning at new shelter sites, and that a majority of existing sites have either site‑wide air conditioning or a cooling room. DHS witnesses also warned the committee that producing the highly granular data requested would be difficult because shelter maintenance is managed by many nonprofit providers and DHS does not maintain a centralized repair tracking system.
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