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San Francisco proposes major boost for navigation center, 468 supportive housing units and expanded services for homeless residents
Summary
The Human Services Agency asked the Board’s budget committee to fund expanded homeless services including $1.5 million to sustain the Navigation Center, funding for 468 new supportive-housing units and increased case management to lower caseloads to 1:35. Director Trent Roe said the moves aim to move navigation clients into permanent homes.
The Human Services Agency asked the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee on June 18 to expand city investments in homeless services aimed at moving people into permanent housing.
Trent Roe, Director of the Human Services Agency, told supervisors the mayor’s proposed budget adds roughly $24 million for homeless services, including $1,500,000 in general-fund support to continue operations at the Navigation Center after a private donation expires in December. "The Navigation Center is showing a lot of promise," Roe said, adding the pilot currently serves about 80 clients and has already placed "22 to 23" people into permanent housing.
The proposed budget also includes funding for 468 new units of supportive housing targeted primarily at exits from the Navigation Center. Roe said the plan pairs housing with services and will reduce case manager caseloads at supportive-housing sites to about 1 to 35, down from case ratios in some sites of 1 to 70 or 1 to 100.
Roe described additional investments: subsidies for families (30 new family rental subsidies and 15 for transitional-age youth), expansion of the Homeward Bound program (which the agency said has reunited roughly 8,900 people with family or support structures at an average cost of about $186 per client), and service funding tied to RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration) conversions to pay nonprofit service providers.
The committee approved a motion to send the related CARE Fund reauthorization to the full Board with recommendation, after public comment and without recorded objections.
Why it matters: The package is intended to create a pipeline—Navigation Center entry, short-term stabilization, and placement into supportive or subsidized housing—while reducing case-manager ratios to provide more intensive services. Roe said the expansion will allow the city to target chronically homeless populations and to prioritize exits into housing.
What’s next: The committee moved the items to the full Board for action on the schedule announced; specific contracts, site selections and implementation timelines will be developed as the CARE Fund and related funding are finalized.
