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Providers urge San Francisco to release Prop C and homelessness funds as supervisors press departments for timelines
Summary
At a lengthy Budget & Finance Committee hearing, community providers, HESPA and supervisors said unprecedented Prop C and other funds remain unspent or under‑deployed; departments described progress but acknowledged contracting, IT and program design delays and committed to return with more concrete timelines.
A broad coalition of homeless‑service providers and advocates told the Budget & Finance Committee on Dec. 1 that tens of millions of dollars allocated in the city’s 2021–23 spending plans — including Proposition C funding — have not yet been fully released and are needed now to get people off the streets.
Joe Wilson and Mary Kate Bacalau of the Homeless Emergency Service Providers Association (HESPA) told the committee that while the city has committed large sums to housing and services, “funds must be released now” to prevent more deaths on the streets and to connect people to shelter, treatment and housing. Wilson said the scale of the response requires urgency: “Every delay, lives are at stake,” he told supervisors.
Department directors described steady…
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