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Hundreds urge more spending on homelessness, senior services, childcare and arts during budget hearing
Summary
At a public hearing on the mayor's proposed budget, scores of residents, nonprofit leaders and coalitions urged supervisors to add funding for housing subsidies and shelters, expand senior and disability services, preserve arts grants, and fund childcare and early education.
Hundreds of San Franciscans took the podium during the Budget & Finance Committee's public-comment period to press supervisors for additional spending in several social-service areas, with repeated calls for more housing subsidies and full-service shelters, expanded senior supports, no cuts to arts grants and greater early-childhood education funding.
Homelessness and housing subsidies dominated testimony. Speakers representing the Coalition on Homelessness, the Homeless Emergency Service Providers Association (HESPA), and numerous service providers urged the board to fund additional permanent subsidies and shelter capacity. Testimony varied on exact dollar totals—the transcript records speakers citing both $8.4 million and $9.5 million as outstanding asks—and on the number of vouchers requested (commonly 400 or…
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