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Providers urge baseline funding for RHY beds, housing navigators and peer navigators as demand rises
Summary
Runaway and homeless youth providers and advocates told the Council that recent one‑time additions to RHY capacity and contracted beds need baseline funding, that peer navigators and housing navigators are effective at moving youth into permanent housing, and that current contract rates and payments have not kept pace with costs.
Runaway and homeless youth providers told the City Council that the FY26 executive plan’s temporary additions are not enough and urged the city to baseline funding for beds and navigation staff that help youth move from shelter into permanent housing.
Speakers from Covenant House, Safe Horizon and local RHY providers described how bed rates and the cost of running youth residential and drop‑in programs have diverged. Two young people with experience in Covenant House told the Council their shelters were lifesaving and urged…
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