McMahan v. City and County of San Francisco

Opinion

JONES, P. J.

San Francisco voters adopted Proposition N, an initiative ordinance popularly known as “Care Not Cash,” to address the city’s persistent homeless problem. The measure required that San Francisco provide in-kind benefits such as permanent housing and meals to eligible indigents, replacing the majority of an individual’s existing cash grant with those guaranteed services. The measure also mandated a baseline appropriation to fund the in-kind services.

But after the voters approved the initiative, San Francisco announced that the funding provisions of the law were…