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Hundreds of speakers urge supervisors to restore cuts to supportive housing, HIV and safety-net services
Summary
At a lengthy Budget & Finance Committee public-comment period, service providers, clients and health professionals urged restoration of cuts to supportive housing, San Francisco’s HIV/LIFE and Stonewall programs, and other safety-net services, warning reductions would increase homelessness and medical crises.
Chair Carmen Chu opened the Budget and Finance Committee’s public-comment period, where dozens of community organizations and hundreds of residents urged restoration of proposed reductions to supportive housing and related services. Community Housing Partnership Executive Director Gail Gilman told the committee that supportive housing is the most cost-effective intervention to move people off the streets and called on supervisors to “find money through the budget analyst report to restore cuts to health and human services.”
Speakers from Community Housing Partnership, Hospitality House and other providers described how service reductions would undermine retention rates,…
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