With a $360 million deficit projection — which could worsen depending on the outcome of the state budget — service cuts are inevitable. As city departments worked out how to come up with the 20 percent in cuts they were told to come up with to balance the budget, the impacts are becoming clearer. The Human Services Agency, which provides services for The City’s most vulnerable, has a proposal for 20 percent in cuts, as all departments were instructed by the mayor to come up with.
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As winter temperatures and blustery storms return to the Bay Area, a shortage of shelter beds in San Mateo County is forcing dozens of people to fend for themselves on the street every night. Nonprofit agencies that run the two main homeless shelters on the Peninsula — the 90-bed Safe Harbor Shelter in South San Francisco and the 76-bed Maple Street Shelter in Redwood City — say their facilities have been packed to capacity under unprecedented demand during the recession.
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