SF gets state money for homelessness and mental health

(The Center Square) – San Francisco is getting new state funding for homelessness and mental health services. Speaking Friday at a San Francisco event titled "Treatments, Not Tents," Gov. Gavin Newsom said this will build on the state’s recent 9% reduction in unsheltered homelessness. “Extraordinary progress is being made in San Francisco,” Newsom, a Democrat, told reporters at a news conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie. “It’s not just the data that’s presented, people are feeling it again, they’re experiencing it again, and that’s the most difficult perhaps thing to move, and that’s perception, and no one has done that more effectively than Mayor Lurie.” The state is giving $419 million to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego as part of the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention program. HHAP is designed to assist local efforts to end homelessness through support services as well as interim and permanent housing. These funds add to those from Proposition 1, a voter-approved in