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Committee extends three SIP hotels into 2023 amid urgent street homelessness debate
Summary
After extended questioning on FEMA reimbursements, costs and neighborhood impacts, the committee amended and approved HSA’s request to extend several hotel booking agreements and to convert three hotels into non‑congregate emergency shelters through August 2023; supervisors pressed the department about decommissioning timing, funding sources and safety outside sites.
The Human Services Agency asked the Budget & Finance Committee to authorize extensions of several hotel booking agreements that had been part of the city’s COVID Shelter‑in‑Place (SIP) hotel program. HSA described three categories of contracts: five large bookings that exceed $10 million, two previously approved extensions, and a group of smaller agreements under the $10 million threshold.
HSA Deputy Director Dan Kaplan and Noelle Simmons (HSH) said the ordinance would allow limited…
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