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In the next four years, I want to create enough shelter beds, step-up housing, homeless housing units and subsidies for every person who is currently unsheltered. That's 4,000 new placements. And let's be clear: every neighborhood must be a part of the solution.

We should pass my windfall proposal: $185 million for 310 new shelter beds, 300 units of master-lease housing, 255 units for formerly homeless seniors and adults, and much more. Every dollar we take away is one fewer bed. One more person on the street.

Thank you @LarkinStreet, @ECS_SF, @ChinatownCDC, @HamFamSF, @HealthRIGHT360, @JamestownSF, @CHP_SF, and the countless other organizations and community leaders who are united behind this plan.

The problem goes beyond homelessness. People injecting drugs & suffering from mental illness need more than housing. They need help, and we are helping. We've added 50 mental health stabilization beds--I'm adding 100 more this year and pushing to strengthen conservatorship laws.

To bring all our mental health programs together, I'm creating a Director of Mental Health Reform. We need to build up people's lives, not shuffle them from emergency room to emergency room, jail cell to jail cell. The criminal justice system is not a mental health solution.

Today I'm announcing that I've hired a new Director of @SF_DPH: Dr. Grant Colfax. Dr. Colfax is one of our own, trained at UCSF, and worked at @SF_DPH as Director of HIV Prevention & Research before joining the Obama White House as Director of National AIDS Policy.

We're also confronting our other allegedly impossible problem--housing. I will continue to support and fund Right to Civil Counsel, so every tenant who needs a lawyer can get one. And as we keep people in their homes, we need to build more housing. A lot more.

If we are going to be a San Francisco for all, we need to be a San Francisco that builds housing for all. That's why we are moving forward a $300 million Affordable Housing Bond so we can continue investing in badly-needed affordable housing. But it's not just about investing.