Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to require the City to open and operate no fewer than six Navigation Centers within twenty-four months of the effective date of the ordinance, offering comprehensive health, mental health, and other services to homeless people, and moving homeless people off the streets and into permanent housing or transitional or stable supportive housing that eventually leads to permanent housing through case management, social service programs, and the integration of other relevant city services; specifying programmatic requirements for Navigation Centers; requiring the development of plans for the equitable distribution of shelter and housing resources, and the identification of sustainable revenue sources for the development of new, permanent housing; transferring all responsibilities imposed by this Ordinance on the City Administrator to a new department charged with the coordination of services for the homeless, upon its establishment; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Committee

Clerk of the Board

Introduced

March 22, 2016

Passed

July 1, 2016

Enactment no.

117-16