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San Francisco supervisors probe 10-year plan on chronic homelessness as counts remain stubbornly high
Summary
Supervisors heard department directors, consultants and advocates review the 10-year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, with officials citing housing-first gains but warning counts held near 6,400. Speakers urged better outreach, clinical staffing, eviction protections and changes to funding and housing ladders.
Supervisor Mark Farrell convened a Budget & Finance Committee hearing on the city—s 10-year plan to abolish chronic homelessness, which is scheduled to sunset in June. The committee heard detailed presentations from Bevan Dufty (Mayor—s Office of HOPE), Trent Rohrer (Human Services Agency), Applied Survey Research and Barbara Garcia (Department of Public Health), followed by public-comment testimony from providers and advocates.
Dufty, who helped implement the plan a decade earlier, said the central goal—to create 3,000 permanent supportive housing units—was largely achieved: the city has developed roughly 2,800 of those units with only about 200 remaining in the pipeline. Dufty credited coordinated assessment, outreach and eviction-notification proposals for helping preserve housing placements while urging improvements to an apparent ‘‘housing ladder’’ so formerly homeless tenants can move into other affordable options and free supportive units for others.
Trent Rohrer of the Human Services Agency…
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