SF supervisor Campos throws down gauntlet, calls for state of emergency on homelessness

[KamaAina]

http://www.48hills.org/2016/03/07/campos-throws-down-gauntlet-calls-for-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness/

Supervisor David Campos, frustrated by the city’s lack of progress on homelessness, is planning to announce Tuesday/8 that he’s introducing legislation to call a state of emergency to clear the way to build six more navigation centers in the next year.

In a strongly worded statement aimed directly at Mayor Ed Lee, Campos says:

If the Executive Branch of our local government won’t act then it is the responsibility of the Legislative branch to intervene.

I will be asking my colleagues on the board to move as quickly as possible to activate a provision in state law, usually reserved for disasters like floods and earthquakes, allowing the city to take emergency action to build additional Navigation Centers on city owned property. And in the next few weeks I will be introducing legislation that requires the executive branch to build six additional Navigation Centers in the next year, three of which must be built within the next four months. The Ordinance will also require a funding plan that will activate emergency reserve funds and streamline and cut current spending in our $9 billion budget to build these Navigation Centers without additional cost to our residents. If we can afford $5 million for the Super Bowl, we can afford to address homelessness.

[Cleita]

1. Considering homelessness became part of normal starting in the eighties after

the effects of Prop 13 came home to roost, isn't this party a bit late? I mean I appreciate the efforts of any and all elected office holders to tackle this problem, but I want to know why it's taking them so long.