Publication: San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco officials are eyeing a Caltrans-owned parking lot in the Bayview district as the site for a 200-bed Navigation Center intended to help address the escalating homelessness crisis on the city’s southeast side.
The lot, at 1925 Evans Ave. near Interstate 280, is in District 10, a historically industrial enclave that includes the Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill and Dogpatch neighborhoods. The district’s pockets of open land tracts have made it the target of intensive development in recent years, but a rising homeless population there has easily eclipsed the number of available shelter beds.
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The proposed Bayview facility would be the third San Francisco Navigation Center built on Caltrans property. That’s largely thanks to state legislation introduced by Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, directing Caltrans to give the city the first chance to lease parcels near freeways for little cost.
The center’s anticipated 200 beds will replace the 125 overnight mats that Providence Church has provided for years. Kositsky said the church originally planned to offer the mats for a single year — but that was nearly two decades ago.