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Committee urges mayor to fund 2,000 shelter placements over two years
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The Budget and Appropriations Committee unanimously forwarded a resolution asking Mayor London Breed to fund 2,000 new shelter or temporary housing placements over the next two fiscal years; advocates urged leasing hotels and vacant apartments as a rapid, cost-effective approach.
The San Francisco Budget and Appropriations Committee on May 3 voted to send a resolution to the full Board asking Mayor London Breed to fund 2,000 new shelter or temporary housing placements over the next two fiscal years.
Vice Chair Rafael Mendelmann, the item’s author, said the city urgently needs immediate exits from street homelessness and that the Department of Emergency Management had indicated the primary barrier to encampment resolution was a lack of placements. Mendelmann urged the mayor’s office and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to act quickly to expand shelter capacity and…
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