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Board adopts temporary rules to keep shelter‑in‑place hotel rooms available for rehousing and crisis placements
Summary
Supervisors approved an emergency ordinance to limit closures of shelter‑in‑place (SIP) hotel rooms, require transparency on placements and to make a portion of vacated rooms available for temporary shelter while housing placements occur.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Dec. 15 approved an emergency ordinance aimed at preserving access to shelter‑in‑place (SIP) hotel rooms used to house people experiencing homelessness during the COVID‑19 pandemic and to set reporting and transparency requirements for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH).
The measure requires that current SIP occupants not be returned to homelessness as a condition of moving them from a SIP room and adds new reporting requirements so the board and public can track placements from SIP hotels into permanent housing.…
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