District 10 supervisor says Lurie’s warehousing homeless people in city’s southeast
Mayor Daniel Lurie is proposing to more than double in size a homeless shelter proposed for the Bayview last year and eliminate RV parking spots on the site, a move that District 10 Supervisor Shamann Walton is calling “inequitable” and “unfair” because it “makes sure unhoused folks are warehoused in the southeastern part of San Francisco.”
“How are you going to expand something in Bayview Hunters Point when we’re talking about equitably providing shelter across the city?” asked Walton.
Last year, under Mayor London Breed, San Francisco leased a 2.25-acre industrial site at 2177 Jerrold Ave. in the Bayview to build a homeless village of 68 “tiny homes” and 20 RV parking sites. Tiny homes are a novel approach to homeless shelters, one Lurie himself touted while on the campaign trail, pointing to his nonprofit Tipping Point helping to build 70 of them at 33 Gough St. for about $34,000 each.
But it is unclear whether the homeless village will be built after all, according to Walton, whose district includes the site. In a Monday meeting, Walton was told by Lurie’s team that the mayor now wants to build a homeless shelter with “200-plus” homeless beds, and remove the RV parking spaces altogether… (more)