A homeless shelter for LGBTQ adults in San Francisco shuttered last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the city turns the tide on the health crisis, it's unclear when it will reopen.
Jazzie's Place is located on South Van Ness Avenue in the Mission district and overseen by Dolores Street Community Services.
Right now, people who had been staying there are residing at shelter-in-place hotels, DSCS officials said. The 24-bed shelter is named in honor of the late Jazzie Collins, a transgender woman who advocated for housing, seniors, and other issues and died in 2013.
It opened in 2015. Laura Valdez, a queer woman who is the executive director of DSCS, told the Bay Area Reporter that Jazzie's Place closed the weekend of July 4 "when we