Mayor Brandon Johnson revealed his administration’s five-year plan to tackle homelessness on Tuesday amid another personnel flap that has elicited pushback from one of the city’s nonprofit partners on housing.

The 137-page “Blueprint on Homelessness” report details dozens of actions Johnson and other city officials and advocates want the city to take to prevent and end homelessness but does not include specific ways to pay for his goals beyond exploring “a dedicated revenue stream so programs can launch and remain sustainable.”

Asked what new taxes he could feasibly get enacted to fund the package, Johnson kept his goals broad, saying, “All of them have to be on the table.”

“I don’t think we should limit ourselves to one form of revenue,” the mayor — who has struggled with passing major planks of his progressive taxation agenda — told reporters at a City Hall news conference. “It’s imperative that we find multiple streams of revenue so that we have more than enough not just to deal with homelessness and housing, but we can deal with the other critical needs that people have.”

Meanwhile, Johnson said his administration “never made a commitment” that the city’s first chief homelessness officer position, codified under his 2023 executive order, would be permanent. His comments came after the philanthropic group funding the inaugural role helmed by Sendy Soto released a statement calling for the city to find a way to keep her position.

“CFTEH’s intent was for the Chief Homelessness Officer to become a permanent, city-funded role to ensure ongoing implementation of the city’s new five-year plan,” the coalition’s executive director, Emily Krisciunas, wrote. “CFTEH continues to believe that dedicated, senior-level leadership in the Mayor’s Office and sustained city investment are two key components of our collective efforts to end homelessness.”

In announcing Soto’s exit, Johnson’s team said on Monday that the role Soto first assumed two years ago was always meant to be temporary. But the nonprofit coalition’s statement notes the funding was supposed to stretch through this October, and that a third, final payment “remains pending.”

Johnson denied that the city would miss out on remaining funding under the grant, however, and said “those resources will go towards implementation” of the five-year blueprint. He said his deputy mayor of health and human services, Jonah Anderson, will fill a “dual appointment” as director of the mayor’s office of homelessness.

“The title, in and of itself, doesn’t determine whether or not the assignment will continue,” Johnson said when asked about the disconnect with CFTEH’s expectations. “That’s the goal, and we’ll get it done. And I’m grateful for the partners believing in our administration that we would actually take on this promise.”

He then pivoted to another pitch for progressive revenue so that the city would not rely on “a confined set of time through grant or through philanthropy.”

The city’s budget documents say the full grant was $675,000, with $421,000 carrying over into 2026.

Johnson praised Soto Tuesday and argued her exit after two years showed “impressive” speed in completing the report. He touted his administrations work to address homelessness as “the most comprehensive any administration has been” on the issue, citing shorter waits for shelter beds and new shelters with private spaces.

“That work doesn’t get interrupted or slowed or prevented because this particular assignment was completed early,” he said. “This is not just simply policy points. This is personal for me. I’m never going to give up on this issue.”

The “blueprint” plan Soto spearheaded includes an array of recommendations. It calls for more affordable housing to be built and places a major emphasis on preventing homelessness with programs like legal aid for eviction defense and rental assistance.

Some of the report’s recommendations would not cost the city money, such as the creation of new guidance for first responders responding to homeless people and a Homeless Advisory Council.

But other major goals outlined in the report would likely prove costly if implemented, including the expansion of housing vouchers and subsidies, efforts to preserve and expand “deeply affordable housing” and robust healthcare support for homeless people.

The plan points to Medicaid as a potential federal funding source that could pay for housing, but acknowledges that an “evolving federal landscape” puts at risk many of the federal funding sources the city already uses to house less-wealthy Chicagoans.

Johnson and his allies were key backers of the “Bring Chicago Home” referendum that sought to increase taxes on real estate transfer over $1 million to raise $100 million annually earmarked to address homelessness. Voters narrowly rejected the tax.