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Service providers urge supervisors to restore $14.8 million for homelessness services

Budget and Finance Committee, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco County · June 18, 2018
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Summary

A broad set of homelessness advocates and formerly unhoused speakers urged the Budget and Finance Committee to add back roughly $14.8 million to fund housing subsidies, full-service shelters, emergency vouchers and mental-health and employment services.

Scores of service providers, advocacy groups and people with lived experience told the Budget and Finance Committee their top budget priority was restoring funding for homelessness services.

Speakers representing the Homeless Emergency Service Providers Association (HESPA), the Coalition on Homelessness and partner organizations pressed supervisors to restore roughly $14.8 million in add‑back funding. Testimony repeatedly requested money for three broad…

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