Measure A repeals and replaces the existing homelessness measure with a new approach to start making our neighborhoods safer and care for those in need.

• Prevents loss of funding to stop a 25% increase in homelessness
• Moves homeless people with mental health and addiction problems out of tents and into treatment
• Removes encampments to make neighborhoods safer
• Makes housing more affordable for everyone
• Delivers results: moves funding away from programs that aren’t working
  

"We're overwhelmed in the emergency department. Patients are struggling with mental health issues and addiction. We need change. Measure A will move people from encampments and tents into mental health treatment -- so that our patients are safe, allowing us to treat everyone in a timely manner. That's why Measure A is supported by nurses and doctors like me." 

- Dr. Erika Flores Uribe

ER Nurses & Doctors

Service providers who shelter vulnerable women and children say Vote Yes on Measure A because it prevents victims of domestic violence from becoming homeless, and it prevents thousands of women and children who are already being helped from losing their housing and services and being forced to choose between the streets or their abusers.

Housing advocates endorse Measure A because if it does not pass, current homelessness funding will expire. Experts say that will increase homelessness by 25 percent, and that thousands of women, children, veterans, and people with mental health conditions and disabilities will end up back on the street — because funding for housing and services will be cut off for more than 25,000 people and 6,000 shelter beds.

Measure A is a new approach that holds programs accountable for delivering results. Written into Measure A are the following outcomes. Programs that fall short will have funds taken away.

Accountability for Results

Specific elements of Measure A include:

Increases mental health and substance abuse treatment

Removes encampments, eases burden on first responders and emergency rooms

First-ever guaranteed local revenue stream for housing affordability and renter assistance

Builds on lessons learned: enacts governance reforms and cuts red tape

Accountability through audits and spending reports

Written by experts and put on the ballot by more than 390,000 citizens