SF homeless czar touts streamlined approach, urges patience San Francisco’s new homeless czar, Jeff Kositsky, spent an hour talking with The Chronicle’s editorial board Monday, and despite his street outreach team dismantling the biggest encampment in the city that morning, he wasn’t doing much crowing. The task of combining the efforts of at least five city departments into the new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is going to take years, he warned.