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

The San Francisco Homelessness Oversight Commission met Jan. 28 at City Hall to prepare a year-end report of its first two years and to form a working group to develop the commission’s input on a 2025 strategic plan.

The commission’s chair, Jonathan Butler, opened the meeting saying the session would “prepare for our year end report summarizing our accomplishments from last year and also to establish a working group tasked with developing our 2025 HOC strategic plan.” The meeting focused on commissioners’ reflections about the commission’s role, oversight activities to date, data and transparency needs, and how the body should engage with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and other agencies going forward.

The commission emphasized public education, data transparency and clearer lines of collaboration with city departments and providers. Vice Chair Kristen Evans said commissioners should aim to be constructive partners for the department: “I want to continue to move towards being additive to the department and not creating a relationship where they feel like they just have to placate us,” she said. Chair Butler told the commission he would “ask as a working group, commissioners, Evans,…