Once again, advocates for the homeless have questioned Supervisor Mandelman’s proposal, arguing that building out a network of temporary shelters could pull resources away from the real solution to homelessness: more permanent and affordable housing.
Homeless people congregate at Turk and Jones streets in the Tenderloin on Monday, April 4, 2022.
Backed by business and neighborhood organizations, Mandelman proposes that the city study how it could provide an emergency shelter bed for every homeless person on San Francisco’s streets. “This plan would not be supplementing or complementing a housing plan, because there is no housing plan,” said Carlos Wadkins, a human rights organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness.
Other amendments made by Supervisor Myrna Melgar during a committee hearing on Thursday were targeted at making the bill more inclusive of permanent supportive housing in the city’s planning process. Another amendment was designed to ensure easy access to shelters for residents of every neighborhood in the city via a telephonic registration system.
New York City, for example, has a court-established “right to shelter,” which mandates the city provide enough shelter beds for every homeless person. The result is that, while New York City has the country’s largest homeless population, the vast majority are living in shelters and not on the street.
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