I’m interested to see how Prop C changes things. Proposition C was passed in 2018 and taxes companies that made over 50 million dollars a year so that they contributed money into a fund specifically for ending homelessness. Normally the city budget includes money to create a thousand units of housing for homeless exits, whether the city is buying property to convert into permanent supportive housing or putting money into rent subsidies. A year ago the June budget was able to access the prop c money, and the budget included 4,000 units of housing for homeless exits. About 5,000 people a year become homeless in San Francisco. I did a research project last summer and found that indeed 20% of them are able to be housed through the coordinated entry system. So it’ll be interesting to see how that number changes with the Prop C money. Though homeless advocates have to constantly fight with the city to make sure the money is used for homeless exits and not services for homeless people that don’t actually help them get housed (like food).
I’m interested to see how Prop C changes things. Proposition C was passed in 2018 and taxes companies that made over 50 million dollars a year so that they contributed money into a fund specifically for ending homelessness. Normally the city budget includes money to create a thousand units of housing for homeless exits, whether the city is buying property to convert into permanent supportive housing or putting money into rent subsidies. A year ago the June budget was able to access the prop c money, and the budget included 4,000 units of housing for homeless exits. About 5,000 people a year become homeless in San Francisco. I did a research project last summer and found that indeed 20% of them are able to be housed through the coordinated entry system. So it’ll be interesting to see how that number changes with the Prop C money. Though homeless advocates have to constantly fight with the city to make sure the money is used for homeless exits and not services for homeless people that don’t actually help them get housed (like food).
(The research I was doing: https://www.cohsf.org/a-new-coordinated-entry-shifting-from-a-system-of-scarcity-to-assessing-real-needs/)