Get information about HSH’s approved budgets.
FY2023-24 & FY2024-25 Adopted Budget
The adopted FY2023-24 and FY2024-25 Budget for HSH is approximately $713 million in FY2023-24, and $646 million in FY2024-25. The budget:
- Maintains HSH’s current funding levels without programmatic cuts.
- Leverages local, state, and federal funds to start the housing, shelter, and prevention expansions outlined in Home by the Bay, the citywide five-year strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness.
The budget allocates $713.3 million to HSH in FY 2023-24 and $646.4 million in FY 2024-25.
HSH’s adopted two-year budget includes: 43.9% from local General Fund dollars, 35.2% from local Our City, Our Home dollars, 9.1% in federal funds, 7.8% in other local funds, and 4% in state funds. Our overall budget drops in FY 2024-25 due largely to the end of one-time state funding.
With ongoing Our City, Our Home funding, HSH’s budget has more than tripled since the first year of the Department’s operation.
The FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25 budget adds 10 positions over the two years to continue to right-size HSH’s staffing levels. These additional staff allow HSH to keep up with this expansion and enhance departmental effectiveness.
Ninety-two percent of the adopted two-year budget is appropriated to homelessness response system services, including 59 percent ($799.7 million) into housing. Housing costs go towards subsidies and services that keep households who have exited homelessness stably and successfully housed, as well as new units.
The adopted budget allocates 8% to departmental salaries, fringe benefits, and department-wide costs, including work orders with other City departments.
FY 2023-25 Key Initiatives and Expansions
The adopted budget includes investments to expand the homelessness response system and improve program quality.
Housing Investments
- Expansions:
- $12 million over two years to expand permanent housing by approximately 355 slots.
- $4 million to support operations and services of 258 newly constructed units through the City’s affordable housing pipeline serving adults, veterans, families, and young adults.
- $13 million for young adult and family acquisitions in FY2024-25.
- Quality Improvements: $50 million to enhance housing quality and housing choice, including money management support services, a pilot for skilled nursing and enhanced behavioral health in permanent supportive housing (PSH), building upgrades at legacy PSH sites, and capital repairs.
Shelter Investments
- Expansion: Investments to add a net of approximately 594 beds, reaching 55% of the goal set in the citywide strategic plan.
- Key expansions: one new shelter site in District 10, a 60-unit cabin project in the Mission, and expanded capacity of 395 beds across four existing shelter sites.
- Key Continuing Programs: $54 million to maintain six programs with approximately 521 units and beds stood up during the response to COVID-19 that may otherwise have had to close:
- Includes three hotel-based non-congregate shelters, one semi-congregate shelter, one cabin site, and one safe parking site.
- Quality Improvements: $1.2 million over two years to enhance hours and services at shelters.
Prevention Investments
Expansions: Reach 34% of the citywide strategic plan’s goals by investing:
- $16.2 million in homelessness prevention over 2 years to serve up to 750 additional households annually through the SF Emergency Rental Assistance Program (SF ERAP).
- $1.9 million over two years to provide 75 Latine young adults with problem solving annually.
FY 2023-24 and FY2024-25 Budget Approval Process
Over the winter, HSH held public meetings as required by the Administrative Code to solicit input on the proposed budget from the Local Homeless Coordinating Board and the general public.
HSH presented on the Mayor’s proposed budget at two hearings of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee on June 15, 2023, and June 22, 2023. Access meeting archives on the Board of Supervisors website.
The budget was fully adopted in July 2023. Get more information about the proposals and the final approved budget:
- FY2023-24 and FY2023-25 Mayor’s Proposed Budget Book (HSH content begins on page 211)
- Our City, Our Home Fund reallocation proposal:
FY2022-23 & FY2023-24 Adopted Budget
The adopted FY2022-23 and FY2023-24 Budget for HSH is approximately $672 million in FY 2022-23 and $636 million in FY 2023-24. The budget is characterized by significant investments in housing, shelter, and equity across the system.
Adopted Budget Overview
HSH Budget Overview: July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024
Our overall budget dropped slightly in FY2023-24 due to the end of one-time state funding. Sources for our two-year budget include: 44% from local General Fund dollars, 37% from local Prop C dollars, 10% in federal funds, 6% in other local funds, and 4% in state funds.
With ongoing Prop C funding, HSH’s budget has more than tripled since the first year of the Department’s operation. This budget will right-size HSH’s staffing levels to keep up with this expansion and enhance our effectiveness.
Proposed Budget Since Department Creation (dollars in millions)
Budget Highlights
The FY2022-23 and FY2023-24 budget includes significant investments in the following areas:
Equity in the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) portfolio:
- $30 million over two years to raise case manager salaries to $28 dollars/hour and increase frontline property management staff wages.
- $32.4 million over two years to increase case management staffing in PSH, bringing case manager-to-client ratios to 1:20 in family and youuth sites and closer to 1:25 in adult sites.
- $5 million in one-time funding for repairs, improvements, Wi-Fi, and other upgrades.
Ending Transgender Homelessness:
- Dedicate 150 scattered-site PSH subsidies for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) households.
- Acquire 50 to 80 units of PSH for TGNC youth.
- Invest $6 million over two years to build provider capacity, fund short-term/shallow subsidies, and/or provide flexible financial assistance.
Shelter Investments:
- $7 million for a new non-congregate cabin program in the Mission.
- $25 million in new state funding to operate approximately 410 beds of non- and semi-congregate shelter at 711 Post and the Baldwin Hotel
- Continue key existing programs:
- $18 million over two years to continue the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center (VTC) and open a second VTC site.
- $8.1 million in FY2022-23 to continue existing Safe Sleep and cabin programs.
- $24 million to extend one year of operations at three hotel-based emergency shelters with approx. 300 units.
Other Key Investments:
- $1.2 million ongoing to support the Street Wellness Response Teams.
- $900,000 over two years to pilot the HSH Street Ambassadors Program.
- $300,000 annually for mental health training and support for frontline staff.
- $230,000 annually to implement overdose requirements and reduce overdoses.
Additional Budget Details: FY2022-23 Budget
The adopted budget invests 80% of funding into programs serving adults or mixed populations, 9% into programs serving youth, and 11% into programs serving families.
In FY2022-23, 92 percent of the budget was appropriated to homelessness response services.
The majority of the budget (58%) continues to be invested in housing, the most effective solution to ending homelessness.
FY2022-24 Budget Hearings
HSH presented on the Department’s proposed budget at two hearings in June 2022 at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee.
- First Hearing – Thursday, June 16, 2022
- Second Hearing – Wednesday, June 22, 2022
- Public Comment Day – Friday, June 24, 2022
As part of the budget process, HSH held a series of public meetings required by the Administrative Code to solicit input from the Local Homeless Coordinating Board and the general public.
- January 3, 2022:Local Homeless Coordinating Board Monthly Meeting
- Access the Budget Presentation
- February 7, 2022: Local Homeless Coordinating Board Monthly Meeting
- Access the Budget Presentation
FY2021-22 and FY2022-23 Adopted Budget
The City and County of San Francisco’s FY21-22 and FY22-23 budget included significant investments to address homelessness in San Francisco and expanded the work started through the Mayor’s Homelessness Recovery Plan in 2020.
Budget Overview
The FY21-23 HSH budget leveraged $1.2 billion over two years in federal, state, and local resources (including Prop C funds). In addition to HSH’s existing commitments, we proposed to:
- add up to 4,000 new housing placements.
- prevent homelessness and eviction for over 8,000 households.
- support two new Safe Parking sites.
- fund the continuation of a new 40-bed emergency shelter for families.
- cap all Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) rents in the City’s PSH portfolio at 30% of a tenant’s income.
HSH requested community feedback on the proposal during several public meetings in 2021, as well as conversations with nonprofit partners and advocates. The Department worked closely with the Our City, Our Home (OCOH) Oversight Committee to strategically invest Prop C funding into eligible expenditure categories, including Permanent Housing, Temporary Shelter, and Homelessness Prevention for people experiencing homelessness. In June 2021, HSH presented an overview of the proposed FY21-23 budget to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Budget Details
The FY21-23 approved budget reflected the City’s continued prioritization of resources for people experiencing homelessness as we shifted out of the COVID-19 emergency response and into the recovery period.
The budget decreased by 22% between FY20-21 and FY21-22, largely due to the decrease in revenues from one-time COVID-19-related assistance. The City’s support of the Department from the general fund grew 13% in FY21-22. Additionally, over $500 million in funding from Prop C (Our City, Our Home) supports the Department’s work in FY21-23. Prop C funding was included in the full budget process for the first time this year.
Funding by Service Area and Population
HSH’s FY21-23 budget included funding for:
- Street Outreach (1.4%)
- Temporary Shelter (20.1%)
- Coordinated Entry (1%)
- Prevention and Problem Solving (8.3%)
- Housing (59.4%)
Housing is healthcare, and the approved FY21-23 budget reflected the City’s continued investment in supportive housing as the most effective solution to homelessness. In addition to HSH’s Essential Service Areas, the FY21-23 budget also included funding for health services (1.4%) and HSH administration and program delivery (8.4%).
HSH’s approved FY21-23 budget served four defined populations:
- Adults (78%) – Adults over the age of 24 without minor children.
- Transitional Aged Youth (10%) – People between the ages of 18 and 24.
- Families (10%) – Families with children under the age of 18.
- Veterans (2%) – Veterans of any age.