SAN FRANCISCO, June 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced the opening of the Post Hotel, creating 89 units of housing for adults moving out of homelessness.
San Francisco and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) partner to fund new permanent supportive housing at the Post Hotel, as part of the city's Homelessness Recovery Plan, according to the announcement.
In partnership with HUD, the city has provided funding to Episcopal Community Services (ECS) to lease and operate the Post Hotel as Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH), which provides long-term affordable housing with on-site social services to people exiting chronic homelessness. Currently, more than 10,000 people live in the city's PSH, the announcement said.
Breed recently also announced that the city will leverage over 1 billion U.S. dollars to advance and expand the work started through the Homelessness Recovery Plan over the next two years, including adding another 4,000 housing placements.
"We know we need more housing if we are going to make a difference addressing homelessness," said Breed. "We moved thousands of unsheltered people into emergency housing throughout the pandemic ... Permanent supportive housing at places like the Post Hotel are essential to providing long-term solutions to our city's most vulnerable communities."
"We applaud Mayor London Breed and San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing for continuing to invest in permanent housing solutions to prevent and end homelessness," said HUD's Deputy Regional Administrator Wayne Sauseda. Enditem
