Week 41, 2026
2 published briefs this week. This week was not mailed as a newsletter.
- Mayor's proposed budget increases spending on homelessness, shifts expenditures from General Fund to JumpStart
Mayor Wilson's proposed budget would expand the city's homelessness response with hundreds of new shelter beds and transfer $126.8 million in KCRHA homeless services provider contracts back to City administration. 29 permanent positions would be added in HSD to administer those contracts and contracts implementing the Mayor’s Shelter Accelerator Initiative.
- Mayor hoarded 2026 treatment funding to pay for shelter expansion in 2027
Addiction treatment disappears in the Mayor’s shell game to balance the budget and create more shelter.