Supervisors hear hours of testimony on services for homeless women and families; providers urge rapid rehousing and eviction prevention

Chair Mark Farrell convened a Budget & Finance Committee hearing focused on services for women and families experiencing homelessness, citing a local point‑in‑time count showing women make up about 27 percent of San Francisco’s homeless population and school data indicating roughly 2,200 students are homeless.

Bevan Dufty of the mayor’s Office of HOPE framed the city’s response and emphasized efforts to reduce risk for unsheltered women, including changes to the shelter reservation process and a pilot women‑only winter shelter to be operated at Bethel AME by the Providence Foundation. Dufty and other presenters noted family waitlists: roughly 200–300 families are on the Connecting Point shelter wait list and the centralized list showed about 216 families; staff and advocates described average waits of several months and multi‑year waits for affordable housing.

Joyce Crum of the Human Services…