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Committee advances emergency declaration to speed winter shelter capacity
Summary
The San Francisco Budget and Finance Committee advanced a resolution declaring a homeless shelter emergency to shorten procurement timelines and help place roughly 1,000 people off the streets this winter; an amendment adds a Feb. 15, 2018 sunset or earlier enactment by ordinance.
Supervisor Norman Yeechaired a Dec. 11 Budget and Finance Committee meeting that advanced a resolution declaring a shelter emergency to accelerate construction and contracting for temporary shelters and navigation centers.
Jeff Kositsky, director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), told the committee the city faces an acute homelessness crisis: "At the point in time count in 2017, we saw that 7,499 people were experiencing homelessness on any given night" and "in any given year, there's approximately 20,000 people, unique individuals who experienced homelessness in…
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