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Shelter monitoring committee warns of shelter-capacity crisis; committee continues item for fuller HSA response
Summary
The Shelter Monitoring Committee told supervisors the city's emergency shelter system is in crisis: vacancies and schedules do not reflect on-the-ground capacity, families were turned away and wait lists surged. The Rules Committee continued the matter to Dec. 4 for fuller departmental responses.
Damien Ochoa, vice chair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee, told the Board’s Rules Committee that the city is “experiencing a crisis in the emergency shelter system,” with demand outstripping available beds and inaccurate vacancy listings that have left clients denied shelter despite system-reported openings.
The committee’s quarterly report, presented at the hearing, cited sharp increases in service demand after schedule cuts at Tenderloin Health. Ochoa said there were “154 families on the wait list for the family shelter and 51 families were turned away in the month of October for emergency family shelter.” He also reported increases in walk-in center services and intakes—figures the committee said have stretched staff beyond…
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