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Panel backs San Francisco’s application for roughly $51 million in HUD homelessness funding
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee endorsed forwarding the city’s application for the 2019 HUD Continuum of Care grant — an award the city says is among the nation’s largest — and approved BLA technical amendments including a clerical correction and confirmation of local matching funds.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 18 moved to forward San Francisco’s 2019 Continuum of Care (CoC) grant application to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.
Gigi Whitley, deputy director for administration and finance at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, said the city requested up to $51,175,586 (application language varied slightly in the record) under HUD’s annual CoC NOFA to fund renewal and competitive projects. She told the committee San Francisco receives the fourth‑largest CoC award nationally and that most funds flow to nonprofit partner providers through the local competitive selection process led by the local homeless coordinating board.
Whitley described two tiers of funding in the application: roughly $44 million for renewals (primarily permanent supportive housing) and about $2.2 million for new bonus projects; she also said the department proposed a domestic‑violence bonus project for approximately $1.3 million that would be run by a nonprofit applicant (the Asian Women’s Shelter was cited in committee discussion).
Budget Analyst Sevin Campbell reviewed the application and requested a clerical correction to the application language; the BLA reported the application amount on its summary as $51,200,000 and noted the city’s matching funds of approximately $12,800,000 appropriated in the FY19‑20 budget. The BLA recommended approval as amended.
Committee members asked whether the domestic‑violence project funds would be disbursed directly to community‑based organizations; Whitley confirmed the proposed project’s applicant was a nonprofit provider and that most CoC funds are routed to nonprofit partners through the community selection process. The chair moved the item to the full Board with the BLA amendment; the motion carried in committee without objection.
The committee’s action allows staff to proceed with the HUD application and means the full Board will consider final authorization and any technical corrections required for submission.
