The mayor's office will work with several city agencies and local non-profit groups to end homelessness for the estimated 400 transgender and gender nonconforming homeless people in the city, according to a news release from Breed's office. The plan is included in her proposed two-year budget.
"Transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming San Franciscans are eighteen times more likely to experience homelessness compared to the general population, and we know that the rates are even higher for our minority trans communities," Breed said in a statement. "With one of the largest TGNC populations in the country, we not only must ensure that all San Franciscans have access to housing and essential resources through continued investments, but we can show the country that we continue to be a leader in supporting and protecting our trans communities."
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Included in her program are 150 long-term investments through the city's housing grant pool program, $6 million over two years to fund short-term rentals and $500,000 for behavioral science health services for transgender people experiencing homelessness or at-risk for homelessness.
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"This is a groundbreaking initiative that meets the needs of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals who are uniquely vulnerable to an array of health and safety challenges associated with unsheltered homelessness," said Supervisor Matt Dorsey.
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Homelessness in transgender communities mainly affects Black, Hispanic and other transgender women of color, the city said.
Like other cities in California, San Francisco has long been plagued by homelessness and the crime and sanitary issues that come with people living on the streets. Efforts to house them have been mixed.
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More than 100 people fatally overdosed on fentanyl in San Francisco hotels used to house the homeless between 2020 and 2021, Seattle radio host Jason Rantz told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" in February.
"I would argue that ‘disaster’ is probably an understatement," Rantz told host Tucker Carlson. "The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing poured $160 million into a program to create these homeless hotels. They turn hotel rooms into permanent supportive housing that ends up getting managed by various nonprofits, and it’s been a total failure."
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Around the sand time, a homeless man claimed the city was paying him to be homeless. Breed is expected to unveil her budget proposal Wednesday.
Seattle will make a database of homeless camps and provide more than $100 million to a regional group trying to fend off the region’s ongoing crisis of people without homes, the city’s mayor announced Tuesday.
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"Issues created over decades cannot be solved overnight, but we must reject the status quo where people are left to suffer unsheltered on sidewalks and in parks," Mayor Bruce Harrell said in announcing his plan to address the city's homelessness crisis.
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