{"id":272208,"date":"2026-04-17T07:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:08:28","slug":"san-francisco-considers-closing-some-permanent-supportive-housing-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272208\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco considers closing some permanent supportive housing \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In San Francisco, homeless advocates are expressing concern as the city considers potentially closing some of its permanent supportive housing sites. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/sf-could-close-some-permanent-homeless-housing-22206855.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As the San Francisco Chronicle reported<\/a>, homeless service providers reported that the mayor&#8217;s chief of health and human services met with housing providers last month that the city was working on a list of potential buildings to be closed. <\/p>\n<p>Multiple homeless advocates told NBC Bay Area they had heard about this proposal and the general approach by Mayor Daniel Lurie&#8217;s office to reexamine how the city uses permanent supportive housing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is something that\u2019s been discussed for a few months at this point,&#8221; said Christin Evans, a former San Francisco Homeless Oversight Commissioner and current small business owner in the city. <\/p>\n<p>Advocates describe permanent supportive housing (PSH) as a more stable and long term option for people experiencing homelessness, providing a place to live that is directly connected to the health and social services a person needs when transitioning out of homelessness. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/data--housing-inventory\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco currently has<\/a> more than 9,000 site-based permanent supportive housing units.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Daniel Lurie&#8217;s press secretary, Charles Lutvak, shared a statement on Thursday, noting, &#8220;\u2026 our administration is prioritizing tools to get people struggling with addiction into treatment and the path to stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Permanent supportive housing is a critical one, but we need to make it work better,&#8221; Lutvak continued, noting the city is spending $300 million a year while also facing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Lutvak also said it is not determined yet whether the city will be closing permanent supportive housing beds in the coming months.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In San Francisco, homeless advocates are expressing concern as the city considers potentially closing some of its permanent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-272208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}