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Mayors and counties urge continued HAP funding as HCD tightens program oversight
Summary
Mayors, county officials and HCD described local uses of the Homelessness Housing Assistance and Prevention (HAP) program, asked the Legislature to secure ongoing funding and described steps the state has taken to strengthen fiscal and programmatic accountability.
City and county leaders told a Senate subcommittee on May 20 that the Homelessness Housing Assistance and Prevention (HAP) program has helped jurisdictions open shelter, deploy safe parking and safe sleeping sites and move people to permanent housing — and they urged the Legislature to fund a seventh round at $1 billion or make HAP ongoing.
Mayor Todd Gloria (San Diego) told senators HAP helped San Diego expand shelter capacity from about 1,000 beds to more than 2,000 and fund safe parking, family reunification and other services. “She could finally breathe,” Mayor Gloria quoted a formerly unhoused woman who entered a HAP-funded safe parking program and later obtained housing, emphasizing the program’s human impact.
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