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Deploy street medicine teams citywide that provide continuous physical, mental…
Brief
Nithya's plan (posted 2026-05-05) proposes eliminating encampments by deploying street medicine teams that follow people from street to housing, restructuring Inside Safe motel stays into 120‑day stabilization stays to triple throughput, and expanding Time Limited Subsidies to convert ~$82,420/year motel spending into 2.25 years of housing with a 75% sustainment rate, plus 48‑hour responses and a public dashboard.
Why it matters
Deploy street medicine teams citywide that provide continuous physical, mental, and behavioral health care from street → shelter → permanent housing; Medi‑Cal covers 60% of treatment costs, yielding an estimated net cost of $200 per person per month.
Key details
- Restructure motel/Inside Safe use so people receive 120 days of intensive stabilization (case management, mental health treatment, document prep), allowing each motel room to serve three times as many people per year at roughly half the current cost per person.
- Expand Time Limited Subsidies: city currently spends about $82,420 per participant for one year in motels with <33% transitioning to permanent housing; Nithya's plan claims the same per‑participant cost would provide ~2.25 years of housing plus intensive services with a 75% permanent‑housing sustainment rate, plus a 48‑hour response for new encampments and a real‑time public dashboard.