District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder on Friday rebutted the city’s argument that a new policy capping shelter stays at 90 days had improved the “flow” of families from homeless shelters into stable housing and led to a 51 percent drop in the city’s waitlist for family shelter.
Instead, she said, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing rejiggered eligibility requirements for the shelter waitlist — and that change created a 51 percent drop.
Fielder’s comments came after a Mission Local article in which the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing said that a recent hefty decrease in the number of homeless families on the city’s waitlist came after a new policy, rolled out in December, capped shelter stays to 90 days with possible 30-day extensions…