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Funding and expansion of low barrier beds and Safe Haven facilities
3:13:43
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Council Member Restler and DSS officials discuss the funding and expansion of low barrier beds and Safe Haven facilities. Key points include:
- Currently, there are about 4,000 low barrier beds in the system
- The city is adding 900 new Safe Haven beds
- The preliminary budget added $71.6 million in FY 2025 and 2026 for street outreach and sheltering, increasing to $77.1 million by FY 2028
- The timeline for adding new beds depends on site identification and development, with some beds coming online as early as summer
Lincoln Restler
3:13:43
Okay, and you mentioned that we're at about 4,000 low barrier beds in the system today.
3:13:51
And you mentioned that I think it was of $550,000,000 in new needs on shelter costs that $3.60 I think you said was for single adults.
3:14:01
Do you have that broken down between the traditional single adult system and low barrier beds?
3:14:08
I assume that the low barrier beds are baked into that, the new safe haven beds that the mayor announced?
3:14:13
Or are those separate?
Richard Johns
3:14:14
No, those are separate.
Lincoln Restler
3:14:16
Oh, so that's totally separate.
3:14:17
This is just for the traditional single adult system?
Molly Wasow Park
3:14:19
Yeah.
3:14:19
Do
Lincoln Restler
3:14:20
you know the cost on the new Safe Haven beds that we're adding?
3:14:23
And it's 900 that you're adding, is that right?
Molly Wasow Park
3:14:27
Yes.
Lincoln Restler
3:14:27
And over what period of time?
Molly Wasow Park
3:14:30
The time period will depend a little bit on the sites that we identify.
3:14:35
As you all know, sometimes our sites are rehab projects, sometimes they are ground up new construction.
3:14:42
Obviously ground up new construction takes a longer period of time, so we'll start to see some of the new beds come online as early as this summer, but I won't have a full timeline until we've cited all of them, which we have not done yet.
Lincoln Restler
3:14:53
Okay, Okay, go ahead.
Richard Johns
3:14:55
Sorry, and just to answer your question.
3:14:57
So the preliminary budget added $71,600,000 in FY twenty five and '20 '6 for street outreach and sheltering.
3:15:05
And then that increases in fiscal year twenty seven to seventy five point two million and then 77,100,000.0 in FY twenty eight.
Lincoln Restler
3:15:15
And that covers the full 900 beds?
3:15:17
That's the funding for it?
Molly Wasow Park
3:15:18
Correct.