In a tight budget year for San Antonio, City Council remains bullish on addressing homelessness.
A staffer moves furnishings at Towne Twin Village, a permanent supportive housing development to aid the local senior homeless population.for fiscal year 2025 includes $44.2 million for direct homeless prevention services, outreach, shelters, housing and encampment cleanups. That’s $6.35 million more than it spent last year.
The proposed $44.2 million for housing services next fiscal year does not include all the indirect spending next year that helps address homelessness, Walsh said, including expenses for the public health, police and fire departments. Walsh also proposed increasing the amount of homeless encampment cleanups, also called abatements, from an estimated 1,100 in 2024 to 1,300 next year. Currently, it takes crews an average of 18 days to clear an encampment reported to the city — quicker than the 44-day average at the start of 2024 but longer than the 14-day goal.
“I definitely don’t want to punish unsheltered residents who might be down on their luck, but we need to balance that with the needs of our housed residents who are frustrated with this problem,” she said.
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