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Intense public outcry as committee debates mayoral plan to reallocate Prop C funds to food and shelter
Summary
San Francisco’s Budget Committee heard a lengthy HSH budget presentation and a mayoral proposal to reallocate unspent Our City, Our Home/Baby Prop C funds for short‑term food and shelter investments. Hundreds of childcare providers, parents and advocates urged supervisors not to repurpose voter‑mandated childcare funding.
San Francisco’s Budget and Appropriations Committee spent much of its June 15 meeting on a contentious proposal to use unspent revenues from the city’s homelessness gross‑receipts tax — funds tied to recent ballot measures for children, youth and families — to pay for immediate food‑security and shelter needs.
The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) told the committee it faces urgent shelter and housing demands and is proposing a two‑year reallocation of OCO/Baby Prop C balances to expand prevention, shelter and housing subsidies while state funding for youth and families moves through other channels. Executive Director…
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