San Francisco Mayor London Breed is reportedly finalizing an ambitious plan to address homelessness in the city, aimed at both supporting front line service workers and redeveloping dilapidated motels into supportive housing.
According to the S.F. Chronicle, which recently published an investigation that revealed understaffing and unlivable conditions in some current supportive housing buildings, Breed is now set to propose spending $67.4 million on raising pay for frontline workers and increasing the number of on-site case managers at housing placements.
Additionally, another $5 million would be earmarked to repairs the motels and buildings currently used to house homeless individuals.
The Chronicle notes that this marks the most significant funding increase to the homeless sector since Breed took office in 2018. However, over the past year, the mayor reportedly had a record $1.1 billion budget to spend on homelessness, but Breed allocated less than 2 percent of her budget toward boosting services in existing supportive-housing sites, the Chronicle’s investigation found.