Fiscal Year 2025-26 Approved Funding Recommendations

On March 25th, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Homeless Initiative’s $908 million Funding Recommendations for homeless services in fiscal year 2025-26, with the adoption of a motion to continue funding for homelessness prevention services and programs serving Transition-Age Youth.  

On April 15th, the Board approved a motion providing direction on which programs to continue funding and at what level, and which programs would subsequently have funding reduced. 

The approved Funding Recommendations include: 

  • $655,802,000 as the County’s first proceeds from the Measure A sales tax, including: 
    • $535,455,000 in Measure A Comprehensive Homelessness Services funds, 
    • A Local Solutions Fund allocation of $96,363,000 from Measure A funds to cities, Councils of Government, and/or the County on behalf of unincorporated areas, 
    • A $10,600,000 Homelessness Solutions Innovations allocation, and 
    • A $13,384,000 allocation for Accountability, Data, and Research;
       
  • $88,466,000 from one-time Measure H carryover;
  • $121,181,000 from Measure H Committed Obligated Fund balance; and 
  • $42,560,000 from State Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program (HHAP) Round 5 Tranche 2 funding. 

The timeline below outlines the actions and approvals taken by the Board of Supervisors toward finalizing the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 approved Funding Recommendations.

Final Approved FY 2025-26 Funding Recommendations:

Funding Recommendations Highlights

  • Experienced outreach teams to engage 21,000 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and connect them to services and housing resources
  • 7,200 interim housing beds for people transitioning out of homelessness
  • 3,100 housing navigation slots to support individuals in finding and securing permanent housing 
  • 2,600 units secure through the private rental market through housing acquisition innovations such as master leasing
  • 7,600 locally-funded rental subsidies to quickly and permanently rehouse people who recently fell into homelessness
  • Case management and supportive services for 29,686 people in permanent housing

About the 2025-26 Budgeting Process 

This spending plan was created with input from community members and stakeholders who participated in more than 20 Listening Sessions that drew 1,300 attendees between August and November 2024. The Homeless Initiative also engaged County departments, agencies and nonprofit organizations that constitute the County’s homeless services system, people with lived homelessness experience, residents from each of the County’s eight service planning areas, Spanish language speakers, and cities and Councils of Government.

Measure A Goals and Responsive Regional Plan 

In addition to the spending plan, the Board approved on March 25th a comprehensive regional plan attached to Measure A that will incorporate strategies and solutions from across the County’s local jurisdictions. Alongside the plan, the Board also passed a set of five-year metrics rigorously developed by a cross-sector committee of homeless providers, researchers, County and city agencies, and business and community leaders. Learn more.