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Providers warn rising acuity, vacancies and unpaid rent threaten supportive housing stability
Summary
Supportive Housing Provider Network presenters told the commission that providers face growing resident acuity (incidents, overdoses), rising unpaid rent and vacancies that together create multi-million-dollar financial pressure and recommended measures including expanded money-management services, damage-mitigation pools and capital investments.
Salvador (housing division) and Lauren Hall, co-chair of the Supportive Housing Provider Network (SHPN), presented a consolidated account of operational pressures facing permanent supportive housing (PSH) providers, including resident acuity, unit damage, vacancies and arrears.
Salvador said the PSH portfolio is housing people with increasingly acute behavioral-health and medical needs as coordinated entry has successfully reached people who were previously out of reach. He cited incident-reporting data for calendar year 2023 that showed hundreds of incidents involving threats or physical violence and notable…
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