SF Plans to Convert Downtown Hotel Into Housing Shelter
San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved leasing a hotel Tuesday in the city’s downtown area to convert it into a semi-congregate shelter to help people exit homelessness.
The vote will allow the city to lease the Ansonia Hotel at 711 Post St., transforming it into a semi-congregate shelter with 123 units capable of housing up to 250 people.
In addition to beds, the new shelter space will include a kitchen, community room, laundry room, lobby, office space, bathrooms and showers on each floor. Furthermore, 24-hour staffing and case management services will be available, thanks to the city’s nonprofit partner Urban Alchemy, city officials said.
“It is going to take all of us working together as a city if we want to achieve our ambitious effort to move thousands of people off the street and into shelter and permanent housing,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement. “The approval of the lease at 711 Post not only allows us to build on the progress that we have made over the past two years to add new hotels for housing and shelter, but it also provides us an opportunity to recreate a temporary shelter model that further meets the needs of all of our homeless residents.”
“The 711 Post model is an incredible opportunity to provide a stable shelter with resources for those in need, and to ensure cleaner, safer streets in the surrounding neighborhood,” Urban Alchemy CEO Lena Miller said. “Urban Alchemy is committed to delivering our holistic approach — embracing our unhoused neighbors who need safe spaces, and embracing the neighborhood so the quality of life improves for everyone.”
Read more at SF.gov
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Just passed today – 711 Post! This new semi-congregate shelter is a reflection of lessons learned through the SIP Hotel program. The opening of 711 Post means up to 250 people will have a safe, semi-private, temporary place to lay their head at night. https://t.co/0Det3lzFtT
— SF Dept. of Homelessness & Supportive Housing (@SF_HSH) February 9, 2022
