Homelessness Oversight Commission to draft year-end report, form working group for 2025 strategic plan

The San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission agreed to form a working group to draft a year-end report and develop material for a 2025 strategic plan, commissioners said during a special meeting held in Room 416 of City Hall.

Chair Jonathan Butler said the groups immediate task is to "prepare for our year end report summarizing our accomplishments from last year and also to establish a working group tasked with developing our 2025 HLC strategic plan." The chair and other commissioners described the work as a combination of public education, oversight and clearer engagement with city departments.

The commissions year-end review will be organized around the powers laid out in the ordinance that created the body, commissioners said, and is intended to document what the commission has done, where it has influenced departmental practice and where its statutory powers are limited. Commissioner Katie Albright said she wants the commission to keep accessible materials and public-facing data tools central to its work: "I would love to continue just to center that practice and I think you did a really good job of that."

Nut graf: Commissioners described the new document as both an accountability tool and a public-education piece, designed to show the commissions activities, summarize hearings and data work over the past year and indicate areas for…