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Mayor Farrell urges state funding and prevention programs to address homelessness
Summary
Mayor Mark Farrell told the Board of Supervisors the city must emphasize prevention and problem-solving services and join other big-city mayors in Sacramento to seek roughly $1.5 billion in state homelessness funding.
Mayor Mark Farrell on Tuesday used his mayoral question time to press the Board of Supervisors to prioritize homelessness prevention and to coordinate with state leaders for large-scale funding.
Farrell described homelessness as “the challenge of our time,” said San Francisco already has about 7,500 supportive housing units — the most per capita among major U.S. cities — and argued the city must invest more in prevention programs that help people at risk avoid becoming…
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