SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.Titled "Breaking the Cycle," Lurie's plan sounds like a lot of words for the moment. Like Mayor London Breed before him, he is promising to add more shelter beds — in this case, 1,500 in the next six months — but he's already facing pushback from Tenderloin and Bayview residents who say their neighborhoods can't handle more shelters and shouldn't be used as "containment zones."Other aspects of Lurie's plan include the consolidation of various street outreach teams, which were found in a 2023 audit to be poorly coordinated with each other and often dysfunctional; the consolidation of twin programs for bussing the homeless back to friends or family elsewhere, known as Homeward Bound and Journey Home; and "revisiting" the city's harm-reduction services, especially surrounding fentanyl use.Promising a "new era of accountability" under his administration, Lurie also pledges to review contracts with nonprofits who provide homeless services, and to do a better job of making sure they do a better job of tracking the outcomes of individuals who seek services."I believe our city must be judged by how we care for our most vulnerable residents, and today, we are outlining immediate actions and long-term reforms to address the crisis on our streets," Lurie said in a statement. "This directive will break the cycle of homelessness, addiction and government failure by transforming our homelessness and behavioral health response."As the Chronicle reports, Lurie's directive lists out goals for the next 100 days, and for the next six months, with the overhaul of nonprofit oversight falling into the latter. Also in the next six months, Lurie said he and his team will push other Bay Area cities to "build sufficient capacity to meet their responsibilities to their residents, as it is unsustainable for San Francisco to serve as the services hub for the region."These all seem like great goals, but it's hardly the first time that SF residents have heard plans like this — and the entrenched "nonprofit industrial complex" that critics have called out in recent years will likely not be transformed in six months time into an efficient and fully accountable machine.But Lurie has been talking for years, ever since starting his Tipping Point organization in 2017, about "ending homelessness" in San Francisco — at the time, while he was rumored to have mayoral ambitions, Lurie told the press "I don’t view myself as a politician." As mayor, he likely learning the number of plates currently kept spinning in the city's efforts to address mental health, drug use, and homelessness, and challenging it will be to do things his own way and "break the cycle" as he's pledging to do. In about nine months, the next point-in-time homeless census will occur, which will be the first concrete benchmark of how his administration is handling the crisis.As of the 2024 count, there were around 8,000 unhoused people in the city.Previously: Daniel Lurie Gets His ‘Fentanyl Emergency Ordinance’ Passed In Landslide Board Vote ...read more read less