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Council Member Restler questions HPD officials on supportive housing plan and funding
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Council Member Lincoln Restler, speaking on behalf of Chair Sanchez, questions HPD Acting Commissioner Ahmed Tigani and other officials about the supportive housing plan, its funding, and timeline changes. The discussion reveals confusion and delays in the implementation of the 15x15 plan, particularly regarding scatter site units.
- The executive budget added $46.6 million for FY27-FY29 for the 15x15 supportive housing plan
- Less than 20% of the scatter site commitment (approximately 1,500 units out of 7,500) has been awarded
- The plan has been revised, reallocating most scatter site units to congregate housing
- The timeline for completing all 15,000 units has been extended beyond the previously announced 2028 deadline
Lincoln Restler
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The executive financial plan included $46,600,000 for fiscal year twenty seven through fiscal year twenty nine for additional funding for the fifteen fifteen supportive housing plan.
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Does the funding added for supportive housing in the exec budget amount to $137,000,000 over five years?
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It's in addition to the
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Oh, that's the expense side.
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Got it.
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And then could you just clarify, I was a little confused by the mayor's announcement from a couple weeks ago.
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How many scattersight units have been so fifteen fifteen fifteen plan, 15,000 units by 02/1930.
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Mayor Adams announced we're speeding it up and going faster, gonna build those we're gonna create those 15,000 units by 2028.
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But it's been a little bit confusing what the tracking has been all along.
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So can you just give us the data?
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How many scatter site units have we created to date?
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How many congregate units have we created to date?
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And then this change in plan will create an additional 6,000 congregate units, is that correct?
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of Don't give us the latest, but what's the just any update at all because
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hard to get.
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Okay.
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For those tracking at home, that's at less than 1,500 units?
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And when will we so we'll no longer complete the 15 by 15 plan in 2028 as the mayor previously committed.
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What's the new deadline for now all 15,000 units being completed?
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Do you have a deadline for when we'll be done with these 15,000 units?
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Can you get back to us with a timeline?
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I understand, but the mayor went out on a limb and said, we're gonna get this timeline done faster.
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We're gonna complete these 15,000 units by 2028 and then change the plan dramatically.
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I mean, because we weren't on pace to do it.
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We'd only done 20% of the scatter site.
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So the whole thing just seems it's not all in HPD's bucket.
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The things that I'm criticizing are the things outside of HPD's bucket.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm tangenting.
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I'm here to channel the chair.
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I apologize.
Ahmed Tigani
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It's in to 137,000,000
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137,000,000 1
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So we yeah.
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So it's about a little over like around 5,900.
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We I think it was 1,300 scatter.
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I think part of it is that we're evaluating because we we do straight ground up construction of new supportive housing, but we also have worked with our other programs like Ella or Mix and Match to combine
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We can we can try it's it's really about what's in our pipeline and how fast we
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I work on getting that.
Gardea Caphart
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hundred and 30 7 million dollars is for the capital plan this for the 187,000,000 is the expense budget.
Kim Darga
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HPD isn't point on the scattered site program, so I don't have the latest numbers.
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I think talking to the Department
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So originally, the plan was 7,500 scattered site, 7,500 congregate.
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Less than 20% of the scattered site commitment has been awarded.
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Approximately.
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And the the reallocation leaves a few hundred units essentially for scattered site production, but reallocates the vast majority of that commitment to the scattered.
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So the congregate commitment will extend beyond the 2028 commitment.
Justin Brannan
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it's been
Pierina Ana Sanchez
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Okay.