Funding uncertainWith the city forecasting a $1.7 billion deficit over the next two fiscal years due to the health crisis, LGBTQ advocates and city officials acknowledge it will be tough to secure funding for most of the initiatives called for in the strategy.
Those that address issues brought into even starker relief by the pandemic, such as the challenges LGBTQ artists, nonprofits, and business owners were already facing in San Francisco, have a better chance of moving forward, they predicted."Even if it had come out a few months ago, the only recommendations in this report which would have been included in the budget would be those that in some way are strengthening the city's response to COVID," noted Beswick.