San Francisco has long struggled with problems of human waste and needles on the streets in the Tenderloin district, where many addicts and homeless people are found. The city set up public toilets and last year announced formation of a special six-person "poop patrol" team to clean up the ...
fieldwork, this powerful ethnography of men living on the streets of the most liberal city in America, "Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders," makes clear that the way we talk about issues of extreme poverty has real consequences for how we address this problem and for the homeless themselves."...
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...
Dean Preston, San Francisco District 5 supervisor, said the homeless problem in the city has gotten much worse during the COVID-19 crisis. Preston represents the area where the second Safe Sleeping Village was opened. "It has been a fight every step of the way to get city leaders to prote...
This cross-sectional study quantifies and describes deaths among people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco during the COVID-19 pandemic and
August 9, 2024 / 6:03 PM PDT/ CBS San Francisco Stepped-up homeless sweeps get pushback from Bay Area activists Stepped-up homeless sweeps get pushback from Bay Area activists03:32 Homeless advocates in the South Bay are speaking out against Gov. Gavin Newsom's demand to cities...
Mary Curtius
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.
Homelessness, both a legal and public policy issue, has dominated the City of San Francisco government agenda for over fifteen years. Despite the front-and-center nature of homelessness, the policies enacted have done little to reduce the count. This paper, first, presents San Francisco's new...
It is one of the most pressing crises facing this country. Homelessness is plaguing cities and towns across the U.S. But now, the Biden administration has announced an ambitious goal to cut homelessness by 25% in the next two years. But would it work in San Francisco? ...