MONS newsletter APRIL 2016 | Page 8

Mayor Lee joined volunteers at Project Homeless Connect this month and announced that the City will open a new Navigation Center with 93 beds at the Civic Center Hotel, which will be expanded with additional supportive services and will open in less than two months. Mayor Lee also announced that an additional 200 new units of housing will be made available for people to move out of the Navigation Center once they are stabilized. They will move into permanent supportive housing that will include onsite staff to help connect people to the services they need to stay housed and turn their lives around.

Navigation Centers are a pioneering and innovative approach to help our most in need living on our streets, oftentimes in encampments. People get access to housing assistance, counseling, onsite medical care, meals and a community that cares for them. This model was started in San Francisco by the mayor’s office and has fast become a national model.