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Office of Homeless Services pitches FY27 plan, pledges 1,000-bed expansion and service upgrades
Summary
The Office of Homeless Services told City Council it plans to add 1,000 shelter beds to reduce street homelessness and invest in on-site behavioral and medical supports while pursuing longer-term housing solutions; council members pressed for clearer data on counts, contractors and how shelter expansion links to permanent housing goals.
Cheryl Hill, executive director of the Office of Homeless Services, testified before the City Council Committee of the Whole about the department's FY27 operating budget and a strategy intended to reduce street homelessness.
Hill said the February 2026 point-in-time count recorded 711 unsheltered individuals and credited expanded shelter access and interagency work under Mayor Charerel Parker’s executive order for that decrease. She said OHS plans to add 1,000 shelter beds to an existing 2,859-bed system, noting that 785 beds are already online and 175 family beds are scheduled to open within weeks. Each new shelter site, Hill said, will include on-site behavioral health supports and some will offer on-site medical…
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