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 ...
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...
He's doing that by serving on the city of San Francisco's Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team aka HEART. The team offers an alternative to police response and the program has proved its worth in its first year by responding to thousands of non-emergency calls which can take the poli...
In January 2018 a United Nations special rapporteur on homelessness, Leilani Farha, stated that she was "completely shocked" by San Francisco's homelessness crisis during a visit to the city. She compared the "deplorable conditions" of the homeless camps she witnessed on San Francisco's streets...
July 5, 2024 / 5:46 PM PDT / CBS San Francisco In San Jose, one homeless person died earlier this week because of the hot weather as the ongoing heat wave continues to affect those living on the street. With the Bay Area's largest city under a lengthy excessive heat war...
"Youth homelessness is a crisis throughout California, and in San Francisco we are working to get our young people housed and employed so we can prevent them from becoming chronically homeless," Breed said. Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesk said nearly 1,200 young people sleep on San ...
Across the California state, San Francisco is among cities and counties that are hardest hit by an aggravated homelessness crisis. According to one-night counts done every two years, San Francisco had a homeless population of more than 8,000 in 2019. ...
By KTVU Staff Updated January 15, 2020 1:29pm PST Homeless Crisis KTVU FOX 2SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced on Wednesday the next phase of her goal of sheltering some of the city's homeless by the end of the year. Breed said the cit...
The city has faced awave of recent bad headlinesamid an ongoing crime wave, drug abuse epidemic and homeless crisis. A high cost of living and layoffs in the tech industry are further saddling San Francisco, which has been simultaneously weighing proposals to potentially dole out millions o...
San Francisco Bay Area homelessness is cresting. Coordinated efforts among governments, nonprofits, and the private sector could stem the crisis and drive progress.