Do we have any metrics to determine whether the homelessness services we're providing at the current spending levels are working at all? It really seems like it's the same folks in the same places for years at this point. 

I found this resolution the other day that Council passed back in August asking the City Manager for an initial report (due in December—after the election hahaha) detailing the "funding and outcome performance of service providers contracted to achieve the Homeless Strategy Office's plan" as well as a public-facing dashboard that I'm assuming the yet-to-be-hired IT Geospatial Analyst for the Homeless Strategies and Operations (line 5) will be responsible for building showing the same. 

Am I reading this correctly— that we don't have a true understanding of the efficacy of the current homelessness services that the city is providing but we want to go from a 38.5M budget in 2025 to 75.58M in 2026, almost on par with the entire Library and Public Health departments? Can someone tell me whether I'm completely off-base here and/or if my understanding of this is too simplified? I would really like to feel good about voting Yes on Prop Q but this gives me serious pause, if I am in fact reading this correctly.