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Mayor urges Board to declare shelter emergency, move a thousand people indoors this winter
Summary
Mayor Edwin Lee asked the Board of Supervisors to approve a resolution declaring a shelter emergency and to authorize rapid construction of emergency navigation centers and expanded interagency effort to place 1,000 people indoors over the winter.
Mayor Edwin Lee asked the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to declare a shelter emergency and authorize rapid deployment of navigation centers and related resources to move 1,000 people off the streets this winter. Lee told the board the city will rely on emergency navigation centers, medical respite beds, supportive housing and partnerships with faith groups to reach that goal.
Lee said the city is piloting a unified command structure in the Civic Center area and that results from that pilot included 85 referrals to substance-abuse treatment centers, sobering centers, shelters and health-care facilities. "We need to act now," Lee said, urging…
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