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Advocates at Budget hearing: 'Housing is health care,' call for treatment‑on‑demand and expanded supportive housing
Summary
Dozens of community speakers, providers and nurses urged the Board of Supervisors to fund more supportive housing, intensive case management, peer navigators and treatment‑on‑demand, arguing that current capacity and pay rates for CBO staff undermine sustained recovery.
Dozens of community presenters and service providers used Wednesday’s Budget & Finance Committee hearing to urge targeted budget investments that, they said, would stabilize people leaving psychiatric care and reduce repeat crisis visits.
Bill Hirsch of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel told supervisors "housing is health care," pressing the city to prioritize permanent supportive housing and scattered‑site cooperative living for people with chronic mental illness. Community speakers — including representatives of the Mental Health Association, Progress Foundation, HAPN (HIV/AIDS Providers Network), and multiple frontline nurses and people with lived experience — presented specific budget asks: short‑term pop‑up peer clinics,…
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