At a network assembly on Monday, August 17 at five p.m., District Nine supervisor Hillary Ronen is expected to reveal the main points and answer questions about a new sleeping site, which is proposed to open on the project in the coming weeks.
The proposed site, 1515 South Van Ness, is a city asset that is expected to become a 100 percent affordable housing complex, but has not yet innovated, such as the safe place to sleep in Upper Haight at 730 Stanyan.
Near Cesar Chavez and adjacent to a car area, the proposal can only accommodate 40 to 50 tents and 50 to 60 people, said Paul Monge, legislative assistant for District Nine.
If implemented, the site will provide homeless citizens in one of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, where ad hoc camps on sidewalks and medians pose a protective hazard for sheltered and homeless neighbors.
The only other place to sleep near the Mission, at Everett High School, closed a month ago, leaving its former citizens struggling to locate an area on the street after a five-week break.
Safe sleeping spaces have become a leading, if little-used, tool for homeless service providers in the city to ensure that homeless citizens have enough area to safely house the COVID-19 pandemic and have access to basic sanitation, food and services services.
The sites will be offering an option to collective shelters, which the city reopened last month to a reduced capatown after they had ended this spring due to a series of major epidemics, and which still provide demanding situations for good enough sanitation according to a recent report through SF. Public Press.
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