Construction on the 92 bed facility to begin immediately, and will be open by end of December
The board of supervisors decided unanimously yesterday, to move the winter emergency homeless shelter to 301 North Access Road in South San Francisco at the SamTrans maintenance facility at the airport. The shelter is moving from the armory building on Humbolt Street, where it has been for 13 years. Supervisor Hill said construction on the new 92 bed facility is likely to begin immediately, and will be open by the end of December.
"It was just time to move it because we hosted it for so long," said City Councilmember Claire Mack in a prior interview. Mac pointed her finger at other communities in the county who did not want to take the shelter either. "A low-income and immigrant population should not have to put up with it," she said.
The shelter's new space will need protection because it is within a mile from the jet fuel storage tanks. The county said they are also working on ways to transport the homeless out there, possibly through a free SamTrans shuttle bus that would run mornings and evenings. Unlike the armory location, where staff had to take down cots and other materials after every night, this facility would be permanent.
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