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Contentious vote on state-level homelessness emergency fails; item later sent to committee
Summary
A resolution urging Governor Jerry Brown to declare a statewide homelessness emergency drew sharp debate on Division Street encampment policy and failed to secure the eight votes required; the author later moved to rescind and send the measure to committee for further work.
A resolution urging Governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency on homelessness and to coordinate statewide responses failed to pass at the March 22 meeting after contentious debate over enforcement and encampment policy. The author, Supervisor Jane Kim, had sought a board endorsement to press the state for additional resources and coordinated sites to place people in temporary and permanent housing.
Kim described a statewide response as necessary, proposing short-term steps (inventory surplus public property to stand up emergency or transitional housing) and longer-term…
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