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New homelessness department previews coordinated entry system, $95M No Place Like Home estimate
Summary
Jeff Kositzky presented the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing’s strategy to centralize services through coordinated entry, expand navigation centers and short‑term subsidies, and pursue No Place Like Home funding—an estimated $95 million to help build new permanent supportive housing in San Francisco.
Jeff Kositzky, director at the newly consolidated Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, summarized the department’s plan to reorganize fractured service lines into a coordinated entry system that assesses each person once and matches them to the appropriate resource. “Our mission is to make homelessness in San Francisco a rare, brief, and non recurring event,” Kositzky said.
Kositzky told the committee San Francisco’s 2015 point‑in‑time count observed nearly 7,000 people experiencing homelessness, about 48 percent of whom were unsheltered. He said the current system is “waiting‑list based” with multiple access points and inconsistent assessments; coordinated…
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