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Supervisors advance ordinance to create six navigation centers, remove safe-injection language for separate action
Summary
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee forwarded a twice-amended ordinance requiring the city to open six navigation centers (now to be opened within 24 months) to provide case management and housing exits; supervisors removed a safe-injection provision to be considered separately and asked the city attorney to allow conversion of existing shelters.
Supervisor David Campos introduced an ordinance that would require San Francisco to open no fewer than six "navigation centers" offering case management, mental-health and housing-exit services to move people living on the streets into permanent or transitional housing. "Navigation centers are temporary, low barrier to entry shelters that through case management and social service programs help in moving homeless people off the streets and out of encampments and into permanent housing or transitional housing," Campos said.
The committee agreed to amendments Campos offered that extend the implementation timeline from 12 months to 24 months, increase…
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