Homelessness Oversight Commission · Apr 2, 2026
Thursday4 h 20 min7 officials identified13 public speakers5 agenda itemsRoll call: 1 present (clerk)Video: SFGovTV
The item that drew the most public speakers: Process and desirable qualifications for director of the department of homelessness and supportive housing selection, 5 speakers, over 15 min.
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Agenda · 5 itemsShowHide
- 3:02ANNOUNCEMENTS BY THE CHAIR/Chair Albright
- 4:21Approval of the march 5, 2026, hoc regular meeting minutes
- 2:53:59Announcement on future agenda item topics
- 3:05:53Process and desirable qualifications for director of the department of homelessness and supportive housing selection
- 3:21:41Closed session reconvene in open session
What happened
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- The commission took up adoption of the March 5th meeting minutes, and the motion was announced as approved.4:23
Quotes
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…is this counting people as individuals? So for instance, a hypothetical dataset, you have 3 people in a family and 1 individual, you house the family, you would say 75% of all exits from homelessness to housing?Sharky Laguana · Commissioner23:37
I wanted to ask about how robust our relationship is with the school district, because that is really the frontline for a lot of young people who, who are experiencing homelessness.Bevan Dufty · Commissioner25:13
And those who have exited their RVs into any form of housing, is there, you know, typically, like, where do they go? Is it all throughout the city?Obai Rambo · Vice chair1:16:17
So for those of you who are like, we keep talking about TAY. My God, I just did it. I just did the thing. I try not to do acronyms. Transitional age youth are people in their 20s, generally 18 to 25, 26, 27. And they are disproportionately in the homeless population.Thomas Rocca · Commissioner1:36:53
There was an article in the Chronicle that sort of overgeneralized one person’s experience with no context for the fact that we know that homelessness overall is a racial inequity problem.Joaquin Guerrero · Commissioner2:37:17
Who spoke
7 officials identified · talk time, most first.
- Joaquin GuerreroCommissioner · 35 minFirst speaks at 9:38
- Katie AlbrightChair · 26 min
- Sharky LaguanaCommissioner · 13 minFirst speaks at 8:35
- Bevan DuftyCommissioner · 5.5 minFirst speaks at 7:08
- Thomas RoccaCommissioner · 2.3 minFirst speaks at 27:43
- Dontaye BallCommissioner · 2.2 minFirst speaks at 1:21:09
- Obai RamboVice chair · 1.5 minFirst speaks at 1:15:41
Roll call: 1 present, 0 excused, 0 absent. From the clerkPublic comment: 13 speakers.
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Hamlet, “Homelessness Oversight Commission, Apr 2, 2026: San Francisco.” https://cities.myhamlet.com/sf/homelessness-oversight/meetings/2026-04-02. Data as of Oct 9, 2026 (version d14b03c); meeting of Apr 2, 2026.






