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Supervisor Maxwell and mayoral staff outline Communities of Opportunity plan; residents and funders urge continued support
Summary
City officials presented refinements to the Communities of Opportunity (COO) place‑based anti‑poverty initiative, citing pilot successes including a claimed 43% drop in elementary truancy; residents, nonprofits and funders testified in favor of continued funding and embedding services in redeveloped public housing.
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell convened the Committee’s hearing on the Communities of Opportunity program (COO), and Dwayne Jones, the city lead on COO, described a strategic shift from infusing new programs to systems change rooted in resident engagement.
Jones said COO now focuses on three pillars — smart government, strong communities and serious transformation — and described a 'prosperity grid' approach to ensure access to housing, jobs and services. He said the program’s near‑term goal is to reduce the share of families in crisis to less than 10 percent and to increase the number of stable families by 50 percent over the planning horizon.
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