San Francisco opens Garland Resort for supportive housing

“Providing shelter is essential to our Homelessness Restoration Plan and important for our strategy to get people residing on the road the companies they have to have,” said Mayor Breed. “These 80 units will not only deliver everlasting housing for formerly homeless folks, they will also carry us 80 models closer to addressing chronic homelessness. I want to thank all our companions on this task for their work to open these models to our most vulnerable communities.”

The metropolis has provided funding to Tenderloin Housing Clinic (THC) to master lease and function the former SRO hotel, which will now deliver long-expression economical housing with on-site social companies to homeless individuals. Now, there are 1,490 energetic PSH models and an further 1,054 models of PSH in the city’s pipeline. The town said it is on rate to attain 170% of Mayor Breed’s target to obtain or lease 1,500 PSH units by the conclusion of the Fiscal Yr 2021-22.

“This new PSH building is a wonderful illustration of advancing Mayor Breed’s Homelessness Restoration System,” explained Shireen McSpadden, Director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “This attractive developing will increase 80 new houses for people battling to exit homelessness and reflect the mayor’s emphasis on housing with support.”

In addition, the city has been awarded approximately $140 million in Challenge Homekey funding, Governor Newsom’s statewide initiative to speedily broaden housing for persons going through homelessness. That dollars has authorized the metropolis to obtain the Diva Hotel, Granada Lodge, and the Eula Lodge, which blended, have additional 527 Homekey-funded PSH units to the city’s pipeline.

Just about every night time, the metropolis provides shelter and housing to more than 14,000 homeless and formerly homeless persons, with additional than 10,000 of these persons residing in town-funded PSH units.