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) -- U.S. San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Monday announced that preliminary results of the city's biennial homelessness count showed a 15 percent decrease in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5 percent decrease in overall homelessness. The Point in Time (PIT...
Mr. Trump, whose two-day fundraising visit to California ended Wednesday, has been bashing California's "liberal establishment" for the surge in homelessness. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said his administration "can't let Los Angeles, San Francisco and numerous other cities destroy themselves by allow...
The all-cause mortality rate also doubled, from 1829 per 100 000 in 2019 to 4119 per 100 000 in the first year of the pandemic (Figure 2). The demographic characteristics of decedents remained similar across study years (Table 1) and were similar to the general homeless population in...
"I appreciate and support the governor's push for accountability," San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said. Mahan said they're building affordable housing as a long-term solution. But in the meantime, they're offering shelter and transitional housing to get the homeless off the streets. ...
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...
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)...
More than twice as many people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco died during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, with the leading cause of death being drug overdose. No deaths attributed to the virus itself.
San Francisco is aggressively clearing its streets of homeless encampments after the Supreme Court empowered cities to enforce anti-camping laws.
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...