Mayor’s Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnership and Engagement, the Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health, integrated public safety agencies, private sector partners and the many reputable non-profit community service providers are committed to improving outcomes for individuals, breaking the cycle of homelessness by providing essential wraparound services
- On December 4th, 2015, Mayor Lee announced the creation of a new City department grouping all of San Francisco’s homeless services under one roof, a step that would be the most far-reaching effort in a decade to help people living on the streets.
- City sponsored shelters
- Creating / managing public and affordable housing, including 500 new transitional housing units
- Major supportive housing programs, including Master Lease Program, Local Operating Subsidy Program, and Direct Access to Housing
- Mental health, addiction and domestic violence
- Expand the Homeward Bound program – a successful and humane solution to connect people with loved ones
- Implementing Laura’s Law for the most severely mentally ill
- A focus on mobile medicine for those still living on the streets
- First city in California to end chronic homelessness for veterans
- Fully fund a special shelter for LGBT homeless population
- Building new supportive housing units for chronically homeless seniors
- Expand medical respite beds
- Launch a Mobile Integrated Healthcare Practice team to connect patients with non-emergency medical resources
- New enhancements to San Francisco’s 311 Customer Service Center and SF311 Mobile App for residents to more easily notify the City of homeless people in need of well-being checks
- A system for homeless individuals to make a 90-day shelter reservation by contacting 311
- Homeless Outreach Teams
- First-of-its-kind Navigation Centers to better move people off the streets and into housing with 24/7 counselors to intake new clients, provide meals and safe shelter, and connect with critical social services
- Navigation Partnership Fund to receive philanthropic contributions for the Navigation Centers
- Proposition A, a bond measure championed by Mayor Lee that allocates $310 million in City funding for affordable housing, passed in 2015 with two-thirds majority of voter approval