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...
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...
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...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The homeless population in San Francisco has increased by double digits over the past two years, despite the city's huge efforts to combat homelessness, said the Office of Mayor London Breed on Thursday. The initial results of the two-year Homelessness Poi...
Chronic homelessness: 35 percent of the homeless population in San Francisco are estimated to be chronically homeless, about ten percentage points higher than the rate of chronic homelessness nationwide.18 Chronically homeless individuals are the most visible and vulnerable...
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? ...
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 (AP) — A federal count shows the number of homeless people increased by double-digit percentages in three San Francisco Bay Area counties over two years as the region struggled to tackle the growing problem, including 17% in San Francisco and 43% in the county that includes Oa...
There was no significant difference between the all-cause mortality rate in the 2003-2008 cohort compared with the 1988-1993 cohort. A 15% reduction in deaths owing to natural causes was offset by an 83% increase in deaths due to external causes. Although HIV-related deaths decreased considerab...
SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, San Francisco's mayor issued an emergency order to help tackle some major issues, like homelessness and open-air drug use and dealing, that are an ongoing problem in the city's Tenderloin District. On Tuesday the city launched a new linkage center at...