San Mateo County's official point-in-time homeless count, a snapshot census taken in one day of the county's unhoused population, found an 18 percent increase from the count conducted in 2022.
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...
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...
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...
particularly San Francisco,[174]while others have argued that these concerns are restricted to the downtown core.[175]Many retailers in Downtown San Francisco and Downtown Oakland have closed since 2020,[176]with some citing complex challenges with visible homelessness and crime in the area.[177...
San Francisco, unofficially' regarded as2one of the homeless capitals of the US, has nearly 6,500 homeless people, with 4,300living on the street.Among the many problems that the homeless face is little or no access to showers. San Francisco only has about 16 to 20shower stations to acco...
At San Francisco's largest homeless shelter, Saint Vincent De Paul Society's Multi Service Center South, 95 homeless people and 10 staff members tested positive for the coronavirus in early April. The center was closed for less than two weeks, but underwent a deep cleaning and has new sociall...
The annual point-in-time survey is done by the county's health department and focuses on counting Contra Costa County's homeless population on a single night. In 2023, the count was 4% higher than in 2022. The team and its community partners, including hundreds of volunteers, canvas...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely disappeared from great swaths of San Francisco, a city widely known for its visible homeless population. The number of people sleeping outdoors dropped to under 3,000 in ...