Departments detail neighborhood investments in Lakeview/OMI; community presses for clearer tracking and fuller funding, library site dispute surfaces

San Francisco city departments told the Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Appropriations Committee on May 24 that they have targeted a range of services and investments to Lakeview, Oceanview, Merced Heights and Ingleside (collectively OMI) over the past decade, but community members and supervisors pressed for clearer, neighborhood‑level accounting and more sustained, capacity‑building support for local providers.

Supervisor Asha Safaie, who sponsored the hearing, framed it as a follow‑up to a COVID‑era conversation about equity investments in District 11. Presenters from the Human Services Agency (HSA), Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF), Office of Early Care & Education, Office of Economic & Workforce Development (OEWD), Department of Public Health (DPH), Mayor’s Office of Community Development (MOCD) and the public library described programs and methods to estimate investments targeted to ZIP codes 94112 and 94132.

HSA said it devotes more than $100 million annually in supports to residents in those ZIP codes and leverages an additional $91 million in state and federal funds; site‑based DAS programs serve roughly 4,200 seniors and adults with disabilities in the neighborhoods ($5 million annually). HSA noted…