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Mayor Breed says Port will vote on Embarcadero navigation center planned for Lot 330
Summary
Mayor London Breed told the Board of Supervisors the Port Commission will consider a memorandum of understanding to site a safe navigation center at Embarcadero Lot 330 that would provide up to 200 beds and expanded services; she said the city will monitor outcomes and, if the model fails, discontinue funding.
Mayor London Breed told the San Francisco Board of Supervisors at its April 2019 regular meeting that the Port Commission will vote on a city memorandum of understanding to establish a safe navigation center at Embarcadero Lot 330.
Breed said the site, if approved, would be “our largest navigation center, providing shelter and services for up to 200 of our most vulnerable San Franciscans.” She described the proposal as “necessary” and “urgent” and said it is part of a broader effort to provide more navigation centers, more shelters and ultimately more housing.
Breed said the mayor’s office has heard community feedback from “dozens of community meetings and HOA meetings” and that the administration plans to “work with the South Beach neighbors and the residents in the area to ensure that we give regular data driven updates on whether this model is working.” She added the city has developed a public-safety plan that would include additional foot-beat officers for the neighborhood.
The mayor framed the center as a temporary shelter and pathway to housing: “Our goal has always been to try and provide support for our homeless population, as well as wrap around services, and to hopefully, eventually, permanently get them off the streets.” She said the city would stop funding the center if it did not keep clients and neighbors safe and stable: “If this safe navigation center does not work ... we should not continue to fund it.”
Breed also praised Supervisor Matt Haney for leadership on the navigation-center work and said the 200-bed site supports a citywide goal of “getting to a thousand beds by 2020.”
No formal action by the Board on the Port Commission MOU was recorded at the meeting; Breed indicated the Port Commission vote would occur separately and that the mayor’s office would provide updates to the Board and the public if the Port approves the MOU.
