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San Francisco is on track to lose over 450 shelter beds as the city began closing multiple homeless shelters in the Tenderloin area in recent weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among them: The Adante and the Monarch, two of the city\u2019s last remaining covid-era converted hotels on Geary Street, ended service in recent weeks, and the Ansonia Hotel at 711 Post St., a 280-bed shelter at the edge of the Tenderloin, is slated to close within a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The closures are the latest blow to Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s 2025 scrapped pledge<\/a> to open 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office. They also align with the city\u2019s shift away from longer-term shelter stays in favor of short-term shelter<\/a> services, often in conjunction with law enforcement and sobriety rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reasons for the recent closures vary. The city has been slowly shutting down converted shelter-in-place hotels since the pandemic as its leases have ended \u2014\u00a0over 180 residents at the Adante and Monarch were moved to different locations, according to District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mahmood has long pushed to redistribute shelters<\/a> in the city away from neighborhoods like the Tenderloin where they have historically been concentrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe principle of geographic equity is important, and one the Tenderloin community has been advocating for years,\u201d Mahmood said. \u201cWe are now exploring siting more effective services, like sober centers, outside of the Tenderloin or through expansions of existing sites.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mahmood said that all residents staying at the Adante and Monarch hotels were moved to new shelter or housing, but it is unclear where the residents were placed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For 711 Post, which opened in 2022, District 2 Supervisor Danny Sauter said the decision to close was to lessen the \u201cnegative impact\u201d on the Lower Nob Hill neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Residents in the area have sought to close<\/a> the shelter at 711 Post for years, claiming<\/a> that street conditions have deteriorated as a result of its presence there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSince taking office, I have spent a significant amount of time considering the future of 711 Post,\u201d Sauter said in a statement. \u201cBy all measures,\u201d the shelter \u201cwas not meeting the standards that we should set for services in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Urban Alchemy ran the site under a $27 million contract since its opening, but announced earlier this year that the nonprofit no longer wished to operate it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Urban Alchemy spokesperson Jess Montejano said that running 711 Post was causing \u201creputational impact\u201d and caused the nonprofit more problems than it was worth, but that Urban Alchemy was proud of the work it achieved there and the over 200 people that moved from the shelter into permanent housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Claims from the neighborhood that the shelter contributed to worsening street conditions were overblown, Montejano added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked really hard to keep that shelter clean and safe both inside for our guests and outside for the neighborhood,\u201d Montejano said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Urban Alchemy came under intense scrutiny from the city last year, in part due to spending at 711 Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lena Miller, Urban Alchemy\u2019s founder and CEO, said the nonprofit adjusted to meet the city\u2019s requests, including absorbing 30 additional beds, and went over budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The homelessness department issued a corrective action notice regarding the overspending, but spokesperson Emily Cohen said at a September budget hearing that the shelter was seeing \u201chigh service outcomes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It remains unclear why the city continued to move towards closing 711 Post \u2014 Montejano was unaware that it was shuttering and declined to comment. The closure was in the works even as Five Keys Charter Schools & Programs, another nonprofit, took over operations on April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sauter did not respond to questions about who decided to close the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Five Keys operated nearly 100 rooms at the Adante as part of the RESTORE partnership with the Department of Public Health, which offered opioid addiction treatment to shelter residents. At both the Adante and the Monarch, a 100-room transitional shelter operated by WeHOPE, residents had their own rooms and received two meals per day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As existing shelters have closed, the city has begun opening<\/a> new ones with what the mayor refers to as \u201cthe right kind of beds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In August, the mayor\u2019s office announced three new sober shelters \u2014\u00a0some 70 beds in the Mission, about 65 beds at the former Marina Inn, and about 60 beds at the new Hope House in SoMa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some, like the Eleanora Fagan Center in the Mission District, allow short stays of 30 to 60 days. Others, like Wells Place in the Marina, allow residents to stay for up to two years, but require those residents to work or study and save money during that time to become financially independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In coming weeks, the city is also expected to open a RESET center<\/a> at 444 Sixth St. in SoMa, a sheriff-run \u201ctough-love\u201d facility for people detained for public intoxication. Last year, a \u201cpolice-friendly\u201d stabilization center<\/a> for officers to take people in crisis, also opened at 822 Geary St.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe city remains focused on standing up treatment beds at the right level of clinical intensity to help people succeed on their pathways out of homelessness,\u201d wrote a spokesperson for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. <\/p>\n

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