As part of the recently approved 2021 budget, funding was included for a Human Services Department (HSD) led eight-person Homelessness Outreach and Provider Ecosystem (HOPE) Team. This new Team will be the City’s coordinating body for its response to homelessness in partnership with the contracted outreach providers and City departments. This new collaborative approach to homelessness began before the 2021 budget was adopted, when funding was approved in late October for the remainder of 2020, after months of deliberations between the […]