THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO this week moved closer to implementing a policy for new shelters, transitional beds and behavioral health facilities to be matched to a neighborhood’s needs, rather than clustered in certain parts of the city.
The ordinance, authored by Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents District 5, will temporarily prohibit new city-funded shelters or treatment centers from being built in neighborhoods that already have more open shelter and transitional beds than the number of homeless people in the neighborhood.
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