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Health Commission adopts SRO health-impact recommendations, backs mandatory operator training and data-sharing

San Francisco Health Commission · September 20, 2016
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Summary

The Health Commission unanimously adopted a resolution endorsing five recommendations from an SRO health impact assessment, including mandatory operator training, consolidated educational materials, standardized inspection data and an interagency housing data workgroup; commissioners amended wording to note increasing drug overdoses in SROs and requested a one-year report back.

The San Francisco Health Commission voted to adopt a resolution endorsing recommendations from a health impact assessment (HIA) aimed at improving conditions in single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels and reducing health disparities among residents.

Cindy Commerford of the Department of Public Health's Office of Policy and Planning summarized the three-year project and stakeholder outreach that underpinned the report. "We came up with a list of 5 recommendations," Commerford said, listing a mandatory training for SRO operators, consolidated culturally competent educational materials, standardized and automated housing-inspection data, integration of that data into city business processes, and creation of an interagency housing-data subcommittee to…

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