Homeless people are pictured in San Francisco, California, the United States, Dec. 23, 2023. The number of homeless people in the United States has increased by 12 percent to a record high, showed a government report on Dec. 15. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua) Homeless people are pictured i...
The number of people sleeping outdoors in San Francisco dropped to under 3,000 in January, the lowest the city has recorded in a decade, according to a federal count.
SAN FRANCISCO – The City of San Francisco is set to close its only safe parking site for homeless people living out of their vehicles in early 2025.The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center opened in January of 2022 and since then has run into numerous, costly, problems.Now dozens of pe...
In Alameda County, which includes the city of Oakland, more than 8,000 people were counted as homeless, a 43-percent increase over the past two years. The Bay Area cities, including San Francisco, have been grappling with a worsening homelessness crisis in recent years. Some people have bla...
San Francisco,unofficially regarded as one of the homeless capitals of the US,counts nearly 6,500 homeless people, with 4,300 living on the street. Among the many problems that the homeless face is little or no access to showers.San Francisco only has about 16 to 20 shower stations to ac...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Outreach worker Edgar Tapia hit a San Francisco neighborhood on a mission to find people to take eight available shelter beds, including a tiny cabin perfect for a couple.
San Francisco's Homeless Outreach Team faces a tough task: persuading people to leave their tents and move indoors. But the city has a shortage of shelter beds.
“The initial results of this count show we have more to do to provide more shelter, more exits from homelessness, and to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The San Francisco Bay Area is grappling with a homelessness crisis dri...
Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the coalition on homelessness, said San Francisco officials haven't wasted any time sweeping homeless encampments across the city, and she's not happy about it. "What we have seen is much more aggressive treatment of homeless people. We'...
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.