EDITORIAL: RafaelMandelman’s proposal lays out SF’s 40 years of failed attempts to make a dent on homelessness and sets forth a clear plan to do better. The proposal deserves a full debate and anyone opposed should present an equally thoughtful plan.
Homeless people sleep outside entrances to the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch during the homeless point-in-time count on Jan. 24, 2019. Is 2022 the year when San Francisco leaders will finally do what’s necessary to provide shelter to the thousands of people living in misery on our streets? It depends on whether the Board of Supervisors decides to support Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s proposal to require The City and the county to offer shelter to anyone experiencing homelessness.
Mandelman’s proposal, a revised version of a previous effort that failed in 2020, is co-sponsored by supervisors Matt Haney, Gordon Mar, Myrna Melgar and Catherine Stefani. Haney, who said he opposed Mandelman’s previous proposal because it relied to heavily on tent encampments, supports the new version because it focuses on getting people into more traditional forms of shelter.
With San Francisco poised to spend $1 billion on homelessness in the next few years, taxpayers will expect results in a city where the problem only seems to get worse with each passing year. The lack of available housing and shelter has resulted in an explosion of tent encampments as well as people sleeping in whatever alley or doorway they can find.
Among other things, the report called for Bay Area cities to expand the availability of emergency shelters, noting that the number of unsheltered homeless people in the Bay Area increased by 63% between 2010 and 2020. In San Francisco, the number of unsheltered homeless people increased by 76% during the same period of time.
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