The latest awards add to the Mayor’s Homelessness Recovery Plan, which started in 2020 and set a goal of buying or leasing 1,500 new units of permanent supportive housing over two years.
The multi-million-dollar award will go toward purchasing and operating two properties in San Francisco that will add about 250 units of permanent supportive housing to the city’s inventory. It includes The City's first-ever building dedicated to families experiencing homelessness.
The plan ended this year on June 30; The City has acquired 2,918 units over the two-year period. Starting in 2020, San Francisco’s Shelter-in-Place Hotel program use 25 hotels and 2,288 rooms at its peak, and provided shelter to nearly 3,700 people, according to data from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
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