SF Supes OK one of Ed Lee’s last requests — fast-tracking homeless shelters

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved one of Mayor Ed Lee’s final requests, to declare a citywide emergency and fast-track construction of shelters for homeless people.

But several supervisors contested and ultimately delayed voting on a second proposal from the mayor, who died early Tuesday morning, to add showers and laundry facilities at an office building on 440 Turk Street where the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is headquartered.

Supervisor Jane Kim, whose district includes the 440 Turk Street building and the Tenderloin neighborhood that surrounds it, said the shower-and-laundry renovation plan was a misuse of the term “emergency.