SF’s $16M pivot on homelessness: Portion of business tax to now fund prevention services

San Francisco supervisors have approved an ordinance that will reallocate over $16 million in a city business tax towards shelter and homelessness prevention services.

As part of the yearly budget also passed by supervisors at Tuesday’s board meeting, this ordinance will ensure revenues made from 2018’s Proposition C Homeless Gross Receipts Tax will temporarily shift from affordable housing for transitional aged youth and families to homelessness prevention efforts.