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Friendship House awarded Proposition 1 funds for Village SF; Newsom highlights HAP accountability
Summary
Governor Gavin Newsom and state officials announced Proposition 1 and HAP funds for Friendship House’s proposed Village SF rehabilitation and new build, describing new distribution conditions requiring encampment strategies and housing‑element compliance. Officials and the mayor framed the project as culturally specific treatment for Indigenous residents.
Friendship House will receive state funds under Proposition 1 to support a planned Village SF campus that state officials say will provide culturally focused behavioral‑health and addiction recovery services for urban American Indian and Alaska Native residents.
Emery Tahi, a house manager at Friendship House, introduced the project as a six‑story village that will serve "over 3,500 American Indian and Alaska Natives" in the Bay Area and include residential and outpatient treatment capacity. Kim Johnson, California’s health secretary, said the Friendship House award from Proposition 1’s Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program will support 60 residential substance use disorder beds, 107 mental‑health outpatient spaces and about 100 wellness spaces.
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