SF Extends Program to Keep Hotels Open for Unhoused Residents
“Since the program’s inception last year, 729 participants have been rehoused, according to the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which oversees it.
‘It takes significant city and nonprofit staffing to move people from the hotels into housing,’ said Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the department. ‘It’s not a quick process. And so we really need to have the capacity and the workers to do this process. Any delays will just result in a tremendous crisis at the end of the program.’
Cohen said the program’s extension buys the city more time to move as many people as possible into stable housing.”