Plan would renovate vacant public housing units for homeless people

Image based on a photograph by the SF Examiner's Mike Koozmin of Mike, a homeless man who sleeps on sidewalks in the Tenderloin.

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Sup. London Breed has proposed setting aside city funding to renovate vacant and dilapidated San Francisco Public Housing units, in an effort to quickly make housing available for homeless families in the face of a dire shortage.

At the San Francisco Board of Supervisor’s meeting on April 15, Breed called for the city controller and city attorney to begin drafting a supplemental appropriation of $2.6 million, to be put toward renovating 172 public housing units that are currently sitting vacant and in disrepair. Read more »