Jeff Kositsky

As Director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), Jeff Kositsky is responsible for driving San Francisco’s homeless response system that seeks to make homelessness in San Francisco, rare, brief and one-time. 

Since launching in 2016, HSH has developed a five-year strategic framework that outlines a bold vision for making significant and sustained reductions to homelessness over time, while ending homelessness for thousands of individuals and families, providing shelter to approximately 14,000 individuals, and preventing homelessness for 6,500 households. HSH did this while expanding proven programs and reforming systems to improve outcomes for people in crisis, their nonprofit partners, and the City as a whole as it is better able to manage the system. HSH has also worked to implement Coordinated Entry across the Homelessness Response System to ensure that the most vulnerable individuals and households are prioritized for housing.  

Jeff is a nationally recognized leader in innovative homeless services and has over 20 years of experience managing nonprofit organizations in San Francisco, including as executive director of the Hamilton Family Center (2013-16) and Community Housing Partnership (2001-10). He has served on several nonprofit boards, including San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness and the Treasure Island Development Authority Board of Directors. Currently he sits on the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ Leadership Council.  

Jeff holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Relations from American University in Washington, DC and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.