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Then she buys food for people who sleep on these streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/172482722\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t feed the world, but I would if I could,” Bartley said. “Because I understand the concept of being hungry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the sprawling county of Sacramento, roughly \u003ca href=\"http://sacramentostepsforward.org/understanding-homelessness/point-in-time-pit-scope-size-populations/\">950 people\u003c/a> have no shelter on a typical night. On the streets surrounding the Capitol, local officials counted 62 people sleeping in March -- almost double the number they counted two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley helps homeless people around the state Capitol. \" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-400x297.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-1180x877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-960x714.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley helps homeless people around the state Capitol. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is heartbreaking evidence of a long-standing problem in many cities across California, a state home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">more than one-fifth\u003c/a> of all homeless people nationwide. Inside the marble-floored Capitol, lawmakers are considering a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-brown-plan-to-ease-homelessness-20160513-story.html\">$2 billion bond\u003c/a> to build housing for homeless people who are mentally ill. (Update Thursday 1:00 p.m.: Lawmakers have now passed the bond.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was partly crafted by Darrell Steinberg, the former state Senate leader who was recently elected mayor of Sacramento. He hopes it will help local governments statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003530\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley talks to people waiting for free meals at a church near the state Capitol. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-960x621.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley talks to people waiting for free meals at a church near the state Capitol. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It would be folly to say we can end homelessness and get everybody off the streets. But we must make it better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Steinberg is promising an approach that combines more housing with additional outreach, case management and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley thinks she can help. Until last year, she was homeless, bouncing among shelters, cheap motel rooms and a tent after losing her job at a mini-mart in 2011. Now she makes enough money most months selling Homeward to pay the $400 monthly rent at a Sacramento trailer park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003428\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley, 55, lives in a trailer in Sacramento but worries about becoming homeless again. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley, 55, lives in a trailer in Sacramento but worries about becoming homeless again. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I worry every day about being homeless again.'\u003ccite>Debbie Bartley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I worry every day about being homeless again,” she said, pointing to a broken tooth and the deep lines on her face as testimony to life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley buys the papers from the nonprofit publisher for 10 cents apiece and sells them for a minimum donation of $1. Each weekday morning, she sweeps her graying hair into a bun, rides the bus downtown at 7 o’clock, then spends hours on a busy street corner, waving the paper high above her head and greeting everyone who passes by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good morning, guys,” Bartley calls out. “Would you like to make a donation to a homeless nonprofit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11003535 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) shakes hands with Debbie Bartley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-960x678.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) shakes hands with Debbie Bartley. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers pass without making eye contact. Bartley can name others who regularly shake her hand. There are days when she feels angry, watching people with means stroll by without sharing. But for the most part, she says, the Capitol workforce is a generous bunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley says she was addicted to methamphetamines for many years and weathered abusive relationships. A stern warning from a judge prompted her to get sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raised five children, working at minimum wage jobs. Two of her daughters are now drug addicts who live on the streets. She looks for them in abandoned houses some afternoons when she’s done selling newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley says she’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but shuns medication because it makes her feel weird. She carries receipts from her rent payments in her backpack, eagerly showing them to people who give her donations. She wants them to know she doesn’t spend their money on drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has a work ethic that won’t quit,” said John Lovell, a lobbyist for law enforcement groups who gives Bartley money and buys her ham sandwiches. “She is out here rain or shine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Bartley had collected $17 by 10:30 a.m. That was after she spent $1 on a Pepsi for a homeless man she frequently takes care of. He’s a regular presence around the Capitol; outreach workers say they have tried to help him but can’t break through a fog of mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer sun was baking the sidewalk as the man approached Bartley on her corner. She went into a market and came out with the soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here, baby,” she said. “Have a blessed day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is no reason for anybody in this world to eat out of a garbage can. There is too much money here.'\u003ccite>Debbie Bartley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bartley said she began sharing food with the man after she saw him eating from a garbage can. Now she picks up a bag lunch for him from a nearby charity or gives him leftovers she collects from lunchtime events on the Capitol grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no reason for anybody in this world to eat out of a garbage can,” Bartley said. “There is too much money here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters is a nonprofit journalism venture dedicated to exploring state policies and politics. For more stories by Laurel Rosenhall, go to\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/newsanalysis\">\u003cem>calmatters.org/newsanalysis\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t feed the world, but I would if I could,” Bartley said. “Because I understand the concept of being hungry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the sprawling county of Sacramento, roughly \u003ca href=\"http://sacramentostepsforward.org/understanding-homelessness/point-in-time-pit-scope-size-populations/\">950 people\u003c/a> have no shelter on a typical night. On the streets surrounding the Capitol, local officials counted 62 people sleeping in March -- almost double the number they counted two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003489\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-800x595.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley helps homeless people around the state Capitol. \" width=\"800\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-400x297.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-1180x877.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley16-960x714.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley helps homeless people around the state Capitol. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is heartbreaking evidence of a long-standing problem in many cities across California, a state home to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">more than one-fifth\u003c/a> of all homeless people nationwide. Inside the marble-floored Capitol, lawmakers are considering a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-brown-plan-to-ease-homelessness-20160513-story.html\">$2 billion bond\u003c/a> to build housing for homeless people who are mentally ill. (Update Thursday 1:00 p.m.: Lawmakers have now passed the bond.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was partly crafted by Darrell Steinberg, the former state Senate leader who was recently elected mayor of Sacramento. He hopes it will help local governments statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003530\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003530\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley talks to people waiting for free meals at a church near the state Capitol. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-1180x763.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley32-960x621.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley talks to people waiting for free meals at a church near the state Capitol. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It would be folly to say we can end homelessness and get everybody off the streets. But we must make it better,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As mayor, Steinberg is promising an approach that combines more housing with additional outreach, case management and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley thinks she can help. Until last year, she was homeless, bouncing among shelters, cheap motel rooms and a tent after losing her job at a mini-mart in 2011. Now she makes enough money most months selling Homeward to pay the $400 monthly rent at a Sacramento trailer park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11003428\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Debbie Bartley, 55, lives in a trailer in Sacramento but worries about becoming homeless again. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley27-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Debbie Bartley, 55, lives in a trailer in Sacramento but worries about becoming homeless again. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I worry every day about being homeless again.'\u003ccite>Debbie Bartley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I worry every day about being homeless again,” she said, pointing to a broken tooth and the deep lines on her face as testimony to life on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley buys the papers from the nonprofit publisher for 10 cents apiece and sells them for a minimum donation of $1. Each weekday morning, she sweeps her graying hair into a bun, rides the bus downtown at 7 o’clock, then spends hours on a busy street corner, waving the paper high above her head and greeting everyone who passes by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good morning, guys,” Bartley calls out. “Would you like to make a donation to a homeless nonprofit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11003535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11003535 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) shakes hands with Debbie Bartley. \" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-400x283.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Bartley25-960x678.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) shakes hands with Debbie Bartley. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers pass without making eye contact. Bartley can name others who regularly shake her hand. There are days when she feels angry, watching people with means stroll by without sharing. But for the most part, she says, the Capitol workforce is a generous bunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley says she was addicted to methamphetamines for many years and weathered abusive relationships. A stern warning from a judge prompted her to get sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She raised five children, working at minimum wage jobs. Two of her daughters are now drug addicts who live on the streets. She looks for them in abandoned houses some afternoons when she’s done selling newspapers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartley says she’s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder but shuns medication because it makes her feel weird. She carries receipts from her rent payments in her backpack, eagerly showing them to people who give her donations. She wants them to know she doesn’t spend their money on drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has a work ethic that won’t quit,” said John Lovell, a lobbyist for law enforcement groups who gives Bartley money and buys her ham sandwiches. “She is out here rain or shine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, Bartley had collected $17 by 10:30 a.m. That was after she spent $1 on a Pepsi for a homeless man she frequently takes care of. He’s a regular presence around the Capitol; outreach workers say they have tried to help him but can’t break through a fog of mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The summer sun was baking the sidewalk as the man approached Bartley on her corner. She went into a market and came out with the soda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here, baby,” she said. “Have a blessed day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There is no reason for anybody in this world to eat out of a garbage can. There is too much money here.'\u003ccite>Debbie Bartley\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bartley said she began sharing food with the man after she saw him eating from a garbage can. 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They included fire safety issues like ensuring that smoke detectors and fire escapes were working, as well as ensuring exits were not blocked in case of a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many were along the 24th Street and Mission Street corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says about one in five of the housing code violations it issued in the Mission were considered serious safety problems. According to the data, four in five of all the identified problems were corrected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it took some work. The agency issued 215 notices of violation on 152 properties in the Mission during 2014-15. It issued financial penalties on close to five dozen of them, which included rent reductions for tenants. 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That's part of providing them services.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/171996997\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart took on this mission more than a decade ago. He started by handing out hot dogs to homeless folks in the community of Pacheco, next door to Concord, where he sat on a municipal advisory council.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This takes a little chunk out of you every night. You cannot continually go out every night and see despair and sadness and be OK. It doesn't work like that.'\u003ccite>Doug Stewart,\u003cbr>\nContra Costa Homeless Outreach\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It just seemed like every meeting we were talking about homelessness,\" Stewart says. \"What I really found out is that after about 4:30 in the afternoon. there was nothing for 'em.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the past five years, Stewart has run Contra Costa Homeless Outreach, an agency he created to distribute all sorts of aid to people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't just offer homeless services eight hours a day,\" he says. \"Homelessness is not an eight-hour-a-day operation. It's important to be out here 24/7.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart and his two outreach workers -- who together cover a territory stretching from Richmond to communities in eastern Contra Costa County -- get a torrent of calls once night falls. The calls come from police, public service agencies and people who need shelter for the night. Stewart works the streets in response, handing out food, blankets, clothing and medicine. He offers people rides and passes out hotel vouchers and bus tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271429875\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.5em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> rode along with Stewart on one of his nighttime drives through Martinez. It was after midnight when he spotted an older man, hunched over at a bus stop. Stewart knew him. His name was Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark was visibly drunk, and Stewart got out to gently warn him the cops wouldn’t let him stay all night and that he should move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t move as fast as I used to,\" said Mark, who uses a walker to get around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart gave Mark a ride to a different bus stop, one that’s a little more discreet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982913\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10982913 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Stewart has been providing homeless outreach in Contra Costa County for 12 years.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Stewart has been providing homeless outreach in Contra Costa County for 12 years. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"If the police come, you tell them I put you here, OK?\" Stewart said. \"If somebody comes and bothers you, you tell them I put you here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.5em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tewart won't be helping Mark, or any of the other hundreds of people he's gotten to know over the years, for much longer. He's \"retiring\" -- quitting to move on to something else -- later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constant scramble for funding has taken a toll, Stewart says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Martinez Police Department provides one of seven grants that have funded Stewart's outreach unit this past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez Police Chief Manjit Sappal says Stewart knows how to connect people with the network of services that are available in a way that police don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Doug can be far more approachable, and when we partner with him we get the benefit of his building those relationships,” Sappal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sappal says he’s concerned about the void Stewart will leave behind. Sappal says he plans to hire one of Stewart’s employees to pick up where he left off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart says that to carry on, you need to be ready for the harsh reality he has seen night in and night out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You gotta be prepared for whatever's in front of you, whether it's dangerous, sad, disgusting, whatever,\" Stewart said while making his rounds one evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he's torn about ending work he knows has been important to so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel bad, you know, I do,\" Stewart says. \"This takes a little chunk out of you every night. You cannot continually go out every night and see despair and sadness and be OK. 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His name was Mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark was visibly drunk, and Stewart got out to gently warn him the cops wouldn’t let him stay all night and that he should move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t move as fast as I used to,\" said Mark, who uses a walker to get around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart gave Mark a ride to a different bus stop, one that’s a little more discreet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10982913\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10982913 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Stewart has been providing homeless outreach in Contra Costa County for 12 years.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/IMG_1023-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Stewart has been providing homeless outreach in Contra Costa County for 12 years. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"If the police come, you tell them I put you here, OK?\" Stewart said. \"If somebody comes and bothers you, you tell them I put you here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.5em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>tewart won't be helping Mark, or any of the other hundreds of people he's gotten to know over the years, for much longer. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>(For mobile viewing, \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Cr_Y3ZGSwfE\" target=\"_blank\">open this video in your YouTube app\u003c/a>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 6,000 homeless people in San Francisco, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=455\" target=\"_blank\">2015 report, \u003c/a> and each person has a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Iversen, who goes by Tygrr, has been homeless since the 1990s. Jackie Juarez and her fiancé, Gustavo Rios, have been living in a tent in the Mission District for about two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>How to View 360 Videos\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ltH0FyoI4Gg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/360_feature_camp.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For desktop viewing, the latest versions of the following browsers support 360 video:\u003cstrong> Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer\u003c/strong>. Click and drag to navigate around the frame.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>For iOS or Android mobile viewing, \u003cstrong>open the video directly in your YouTube app\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Cr_Y3ZGSwfE\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/Cr_Y3ZGSwfE\u003c/a>. Move your phone around or use your finger to navigate.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To use Google cardboard with your smartphone, click the cardboard icon in the bottom right within the YouTube app.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Originally from Castro Valley, Iversen ran away from home at the age of 12 and hasn’t been back since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homeless people are people who are down on their luck,” Iversen says. “Then there's girls like me, who were really seriously physically and sexually abused as children.” She is currently living near Indiana Street and Islais Creek Channel, but she’s planning to move shortly because she expects an influx of people to the area when the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/04/a-visit-to-pier-80-s-f-s-temporary-homeless-shelter-in-remote-corner-of-city\" target=\"_blank\">temporary Pier 80 shelter closes\u003c/a> July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Iversen, Juarez and Rios have been homeless for only a few months. The two were staying with relatives, but after a family fight they were asked to leave. During their first few weeks on the street, Juarez and Rios went to get TB tests (a prerequisite for access to drop-in centers offering showers). While they were gone, the couple say, the police took their belongings. “We lost everything,” Juarez says, including medicine and photos from her father, who passed away a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Every day we tell each other that we’ve got to make it through, and be strong for each other.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Jackie Juarez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Juarez receives about $900 a month from Social Security insurance because of a chronic lung condition. However, after paying for phone service, food, storage and other basic needs, she isn’t able to afford the deposit for a place to rent. Juarez and Rios have been living in a tent near the U-Haul facility at Alameda and Bryant streets for the last several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rios does short-term jobs when possible, like helping to move furniture and to unload the trucks that come to U-Haul, but he worries when he leaves Juarez alone. “Even in daytime, lots of stuff happens around here,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like giving up,” Juarez says. “Every day we tell each other that we’ve got to make it through, and be strong for each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iversen, who is 48, says she doesn’t think or hope much about the future, but she’s considering going indoors this winter. “My bones are getting a little bit old to be so close to this concrete every night,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. 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He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. 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Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Private chef Marc Vogel cooks for wealthy clients around the world, and he just returned home from a very long trip to Mali and Turkey. But despite his jet lag, he's dropping off a bag of old clothes at a San Francisco neighborhood homeless resource center called \u003ca href=\"http://northbeachcitizens.org\">North Beach Citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have my assistant go through the house, and I take it over because everybody here can use it,\" Vogel says. He also occasionally cooks at the center's annual fundraiser, an Italian-style dinner hosted by the center's famous founder, film director Francis Ford Coppola. (Until recently, Coppola cooked the meatballs himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Say what you want about Coppola,\" gushes Vogel. \"At least he's making it happen!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271265472\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco struggles for solutions to homelessness, North Beach Citizens is viewed by many homeless advocates as a success story, and one that could be replicated in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. It's a lot to maintain. It's hard to find places. But it's not \u003cem>that\u003c/em> hard. There are places in every neighborhood that can welcome this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says she can't help everyone who lands on her doorstep. The program has strict rules, and some people aren't ready or able to follow them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she doesn't get discouraged. She only wishes more San Francisco communities would leverage their wealth and talent to make ending homelessness a neighborhood priority.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. 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"content": "\u003cp>California has more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">115,000 homeless people\u003c/a>, many suffering from some kind of mental illness. This week the state Legislature is acting on a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1618\">$2 billion bond\u003c/a> that would help get many of them off the streets. The state Senate approved the bond yesterday, the Assembly is expected to take it up later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Angelina Washington. She is homeless and currently lives in a long-term shelter for women with mental illnesses at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Sacramento’s Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>. That’s a nonprofit that provides services to the homeless. Washington has a simple wish, if she ever has her own apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To sleep in when I want,” she says. “We can’t sleep in over there at the shelter. We have to get up at 6:30 and we have to be out by 8.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271237287″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s been homeless for so long and suffers from mental illness, Washington could potentially benefit from the proposed bond. It would make $2 billion available to California counties over several years to create permanent supportive housing for people like her. The bond would be paid for with funds from \u003ca href=\"http://prop63.org/\">Proposition 63\u003c/a>, which provides money for mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Burke is director of advocacy at Loaves & Fishes. She says the money would help expand programs that have already proved successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what works. And we do have good programs that are helping people get out of homelessness much more quickly,” she says. “We just don’t have enough of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León started thinking about the bill last fall after taking a tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Counties already provide various services to the homeless. But de León says having a home is key to helping a person get stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just cannot provide psychotherapeutic services or substance abuse therapeutic services and expect them to go back and live in a cardboard box in an alley or adjacent to an off-ramp,” he says. “It’s nonsensical. It’s illogical. And you’re wasting money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and studies homelessness. She says housing-first approaches have been extremely successful. She acknowledges the strategy is initially expensive, but says it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately it costs taxpayers more money to leave people on the streets,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch does foresee some challenges, specifically where the housing will be built. 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Because of VR’s immersive properties, some people describe the medium as “the ultimate empathy machine.” But can it make people care about something as fraught and multi-faceted as homelessness?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study in progress at Stanford’s \u003ca href=\"https://vhil.stanford.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtual Human Interaction Lab\u003c/a> explores that question, and I strapped on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.oculus.com/en-us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oculus Rift\u003c/a> headset (one of the most popular devices people currently use to experience VR) to look for an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A new way of understanding homelessness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study, called \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://vhil.stanford.edu/projects/2015/empathy-at-scale/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Empathy at Scale\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> puts participants in a variety of scenes designed to help them imagine the experience of being homeless themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11744366\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11744366 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-800x481.jpg\" alt=\"'Empathy at Scale,' a computer simulation developed by Stanford researchers, attempts to help you experience what it is to live as a homeless person.\" width=\"800\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-400x240.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-1180x709.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut-960x577.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/RS19971_HomelessStudy_Scene2-qut.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Empathy at Scale,’ a computer simulation developed by Stanford researchers, attempts to help you experience what it is to live as a homeless person. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike VR that uses 360-degree video, this dramatization looks like a low-fi video game, so it’s hard to mistake it for reality. Even so, my brain responded to the immersive environment to some extent as if I did perceive it as real. When a cop pulled up and trained a flashlight into the car, I physically flinched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who come into our lab and say ‘I knew that was fake the whole time,’” says \u003cem>Empathy at Scale\u003c/em> project manager Elise Ogle. “But for some people, your brain just can’t determine the difference between real life and this powerful visual stimuli that we’re showing you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The 22 bus line story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their research for the project, the creators of \u003cem>Empathy at Scale\u003c/em> incorporated local stories about homelessness. One they found particularly affecting was \u003cem>Hotel 22\u003c/em>, a short documentary by a Stanford student filmmaker about Valley Transportation Authority \u003ca href=\"http://www.vta.org/routes/rt22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bus line 22\u003c/a>, which runs all night between Palo Alto and San Jose. The line is nicknamed “Hotel 22,” because it’s popular with homeless people looking for a safe alternative to sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">[vimeo 138190538 w=640 h=360]\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/138190538\">\u003cem>Hotel 22\u003c/em> by Elizabeth Lo\u003c/a> from \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/shortoftheweek\">Short of the Week\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bus, it turns out, is an ideal virtual reality setting for delivering a variety of stories that show how complex the problem of homelessness is. As the bus travels down the street in the VR world, I click on each passenger, and hear a recording of Ogle telling me how they got on the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back, a man sits with a boy of about 10. “This is a father, Ray, and his son, named Ethan,” Ogle says in a flat, emotionally neutral tone. “Ethan’s mother suffered from a chronic illness and recently passed away. Left with the hospital bills, Ray is in debt. They’re on a family shelter waiting list. So until free spaces become available, they sleep on the bus at night.\u003cem>“\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271733576″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Empathy is uncomfortable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jamil Zaki, an assistant professor of psychology at \u003ca href=\"http://ssnl.stanford.edu/\">Stanford’s Social Neuroscience Lab\u003c/a>, helped the VR team design its study, and he says we often go out of our way to avoid feeling empathy. “People are incredibly efficient at cutting the world up into us and them,” Zaki says. “And when they do so, they’re also incredibly efficient at cutting off whoever’s on the other side of that boundary. Even when people acknowledge that someone who’s different from them experiences pain and suffering, they often find ways to blame that individual. They say ‘Well, that person’s having a bad time, but it’s because of the choices that they made. I would never been in that position.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”rSm5iIUjxRt3aztiv3qAbmK9w2V2jhfe”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wearing a VR headset that engages your ears, eyes and even peripheral vision, makes it hard to shut out the pain of the people or avatars in front of you. “Once you understand the world as someone else sees it, and inhabit their inner life, you’re on the hook!” Zaki says. “You now, in essence, have a responsibility to care for that person, and maybe invest in their well-being.”\u003cbr>\nAs University of Southern California VR researcher \u003ca href=\"http://www.immersivejournalism.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nonny de la Peña\u003c/a> explained in a recent TED talk, the VR scenario may also force people to confront strong emotions like panic when events occur that they feel powerless to stop. 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"content": "\u003cp>After someone has a health crisis and gets emergency medical care, the patient is sent home to recover. But what if that person has no home? The homeless can’t get well when they go back to the street, and they end up cycling back into expensive hospitals and emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now one program in Southern California has tackled that dilemma by giving people just out of the hospital a place to heal – by turning cheap motels into triage and recovery wards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just up the freeway from Disneyland, in the city of Buena Park in Orange County, Paul Leon stands outside the beat-up remnant of a seedy motel. Above him, a faded pink sign advertises the Coral Motel – whose rooms back in its prime cost 35 bucks a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular motel was going to be taken back by the city of Buena Park,” Leon says, “because of the drugs, alcohol, prostitution at the motel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-10-e1467050104697.jpg\" alt=\"The Coral Motel in Buena Park, Calif., used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care, serves as a respite for people needing a place to recover after being discharged from the hospital. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coral Motel in Buena Park, Calif., used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care, serves as a respite for people needing a place to recover after being discharged from the hospital. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon had another idea. As a public health nurse in Orange County, he proposed turning the motel lobby into a triage center and converting the rooms into clean recovery facilities for homeless people recently released from local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually recuperative care centers are pricey to set up — but this, Leon says, was just the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this, it’s the poor man’s recuperative,” Leon says. “They’re not the Hyatt or the Hilton, but they do serve a purpose for us. The costs to run it are much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motel recovery room costs about half as much as a hospital would, that’s about $2,000 less per person for each day. In some ways, it’s better than being at home, because it has a nurse on staff to help supervise care and handle complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elvin Quiñones is one of the patients staying at the Coral Motel. He walks me across the motel parking lot so he can show off his previous home -– a small white Datsun B210 sedan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll show you my house,” he says, “it’s not very big.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204670\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-13-e1467050409396.jpg\" alt=\"After Elvin Quiñones had gallbladder surgery, he didn’t have anywhere to recover. He ended up at the motel used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Elvin Quiñones had gallbladder surgery, he didn’t have anywhere to recover. He ended up at the motel used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quiñones is a solid guy, and it’s hard to picture him crammed in the car along with his two dogs. In the days right after his gall bladder operation, he had a bunch of medical gear, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be honest, I was sleeping in front of Walmart, the 24-hour Walmart, because they had a bathroom,” Quiñones says. “I still had a tube stuck inside me that was draining, so I needed someplace where I could empty out the drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>Being homeless and helpless, he says, is “surreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>“You think you’re going to wake up, and it’ll all be a nightmare. And you wake up and it’s not,” he says. “It’s just the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after his medical release, the hospital called and helped place him in the motel. Ginny Ripslinger is a nurse administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a new model of care for Orange County,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and above any state payments from Medi-Cal, California’s health care program for the poor, hospitals and health insurers are happy to pony up some cash, she says. They save money by stabilizing these patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than that, Ripslinger says, it’s just the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to discharge them to the street,” she says. “And there’s an obligation on the hospitals to provide continuity of care and safe discharges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those homeless patients are recovering in the motel room over two or three weeks, there’s a hidden benefit, Ripslinger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might say they’re a captured audience. We can then provide the social services and the linkages to the community for stable housing and get them in a protected environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1921px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-2-e1467049303242.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.\" width=\"1921\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon launched the homeless services nonprofit called the Illumination Foundation to help provide those community links and health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation now has expanded the motel model of care to six sites in four counties –- Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino — and Leon says he has been working with dozens of cities across the country to establish similar models elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just starting and you don’t have a recuperative care program,” Leon says, “one easy quick method is to use motels. 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They save money by stabilizing these patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than that, Ripslinger says, it’s just the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to discharge them to the street,” she says. “And there’s an obligation on the hospitals to provide continuity of care and safe discharges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those homeless patients are recovering in the motel room over two or three weeks, there’s a hidden benefit, Ripslinger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might say they’re a captured audience. We can then provide the social services and the linkages to the community for stable housing and get them in a protected environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1921px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-2-e1467049303242.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.\" width=\"1921\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon launched the homeless services nonprofit called the Illumination Foundation to help provide those community links and health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation now has expanded the motel model of care to six sites in four counties –- Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino — and Leon says he has been working with dozens of cities across the country to establish similar models elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just starting and you don’t have a recuperative care program,” Leon says, “one easy quick method is to use motels. 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(KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was shocking and it was new. Homeless people in San Francisco. No one was sure how many, but emergency shelters were taking in close to a thousand, while many more eked out a life in the alleys and the parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why was this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, we were in the middle of a recession. Twelve million people were unemployed across the country, 1.5 million in California, and 150,000 in the Bay Area. Manufacturing plants were shutting down, people were hurting. It was the beginning of what we now know as “the de-industrialization of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsweek declared it “The Hard-Luck Christmas of ’82,” saying “with 12 million unemployed and 2 million homeless, private charity cannot make up for federal cutbacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the other reason: cutbacks. Under President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980, the government had slashed federal housing subsidies and poverty programs, including food stamps. Low-cost housing was vanishing, especially in cities like San Francisco, where the housing market was already tight and expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10998258\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10998258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2.jpg\" alt='A still from the 1983 KQED documentary, \"To Have and Have Not.\"' width=\"1418\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2.jpg 1418w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-1180x899.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-960x731.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the 1983 KQED documentary, \"To Have and Have Not.\" \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was at least one more cause of this new homeless calamity: the closing of mental health hospitals without creating an adequate safety net of neighborhood clinics and support services. 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They were surrounded by those with old Pacific Heights money and the new prosperity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. In Los Gatos, a Ferrari dealer told me he was experiencing record sales. Sometimes customers forked over $80,000 in cash for a new sports car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my lifetime, which began in the postwar prosperity of the ’50s and '60s, this “tale of two cities” clash was the beginning of the long era of “income inequality” that has so divided our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10998256,10998255\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are scenes in “To Have and Have Not” of homeless people and their advocates starting to organize and march on City Hall to demand and receive emergency shelter. 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