Faced with the highest per-capita rate of homelessness in the country, San Francisco has struggled to address its homeless problem for more than twenty years. Until recently, the city relied primarily upon criminalization tactics to manage the problem, issuing criminal citations for sleeping out...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed Thursday pledged to spend 5 million U.S. dollars in addressing the city's homeless crisis as official statistics showed that the number of the homeless has increased by 17 percent over the past two years. Breed said the fu...
LONDON, March 15 (Xinhua) -- A new study has found that deaths among homeless people in the U.S. city of San Francisco more than doubled during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, British paper Daily Mail has reported. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, ...
Unprecedented growth in the Bay Area has brought unprecedented challenges. The region has long been an engine of growth and prosperity, but it has also increasingly become marked by unaffordability and inexcusable conditions for our most vulnerable. The problem i...
On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said his administration "can't let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allowing what's happening" and vowed to do something about the problem. But at the time, he only mentioned creating a task force. ...
This cross-sectional study quantifies and describes deaths among people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic and
San Francisco is aggressively clearing its streets of homeless encampments after the Supreme Court empowered cities to enforce anti-camping laws. The city has increased shelter beds and supportive housing, but still has a shortage. (AP Video/Terry Chea)...
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. And many homeless residents don’t want to stay in crowded shelters. (AP Video/Terry Chea)...
August 26, 2024 / 11:45 PM PDT/ CBS San Francisco It's been just about a month sinceSan Francisco began aggressively sweepinghomeless encampments across the city. Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said from her vantage point, the sweeps aren't ...
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