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Mayor Breed asks supervisors to back plan to expand family shelter capacity amid newcomer arrivals
Summary
At the March 12 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, Mayor London Breed outlined a proposal to increase family shelter capacity, speed exits to longer-term housing and reallocate funding to expand emergency family shelter options in response to rising numbers of families arriving in the city.
At the March 12 San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting, Mayor London Breed urged the board to support legislation to expand San Francisco’s capacity for family shelter and to speed placements from shelter into longer-term housing.
"We currently provide 337 units of family shelter and transitional housing and over 2,300 units of family housing in the homeless response system," Mayor London Breed said, adding that the city will “reallocate funds to increase family shelter capacity” and pilot hosted housing to match newcomers with private homes.
The mayor said the city has increased newcomer case…
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