Thousands of people are homeless in San Francisco, and even more throughout the Bay Area. Despite years of concern and millions of dollars of investment, the problem persists.
Who are the people who live on the streets and on the edge of homelessness? Why have we failed to create lasting change? And are there solutions that offer hope for the future? As part of a collaboration with dozens of Bay Area news organizations, KQED is exploring these questions, and more.
Mobile Restrooms Offer Solution for Lower Polk’s Homeless Community
Homelessness in San Francisco's Mission: A Neighborhood View
Outside Yosemite, Rural Town Grapples with Homelessness
Start the Conversation: What Are Your Ideas For Addressing Homelessness?
Asking Homeless People for Their Advice
TIMELINE: The Frustrating Political History of Homelessness in San Francisco
What Happens When One Working Family Becomes Homeless
Selling Landlords on Formerly Homeless Tenants
Growing Up Homeless
Why Art-Making is Essential to the Tenderloin’s Homeless Population
On the Streets of the Tenderloin, 'a Light in an Unlit World'
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two portable bathrooms stand surrounded by flower pots and a white picket fence in one of the dirty and run-down alleys in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. A large van decorated with LED lights is parked nearby, stocked with clothes, home-cooked food and hot coffee.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the mobile City Resource Relief Center. Seven days a week it moves through the side streets in the Lower Polk section of the Tenderloin, assisting the homeless that live here, often because it’s close to services. Starting last week, the center evolved from being just a nocturnal operation to one that provides 24/7 access to a clean and safe public restroom — a basic need that has been hard to satisfy in this neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Lower Polk Community Benefit District was looking for a way to be proactive about cleaning up the alleys from human waste,” says Christian Martin, the district’s executive director, who agreed to partly fund the project. “We decided to deploy this pilot program, and since its launch there has been a documented 40-50 uses of the bathrooms each night, creating a dramatic reduction of human waste in the area.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024873 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Blair Thomas, serves the night’s dinner to the local homeless that come to the relief center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Blair Thomas serves the night’s dinner to local homeless people who come to the relief center. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea for the mobile center came from local residents David Hato and Ashley Blair Thomas, who both have experience with homeless outreach. They approached Martin with their plan to find a different way to tackle one aspect of the homeless problem in the city, and are funding the majority of the project out of their own pockets. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am trying to promote human dignity by ensuring human decency,” says Hato. “It is amazing how thankful these people are just to have a clean place to go the bathroom.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hato and Thomas launched the center on June 15, and it’s already being well received.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024874 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Hato (right) takes his Relief Center mobile and drives through the streets of the Tenderloin district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hato (right) takes his van through the streets of the Lower Polk neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tristan Greystone lives in the Next Door Shelter on the corner of Cedar Alley and Polk Street, but says he spends evenings in the alley because he doesn’t feel safe in the shelter at night. He says he’s thankful for the services of Hato and Thomas. “It’s like a little safe haven for even five minutes. David is so welcoming and friendly,” says Greystone. “I’ve lived in San Francisco for 25 years now. It is my home.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024910 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tristan Greystone frequents the City Resource’s Relief Center and applauds Hato’s new initiative. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tristan Greystone frequents the City Resource Relief Center and applauds Hato’s and Thomas’ new initiative. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Besides providing an accessible bathroom, the center offers hygiene kits, a safe place to dispose of used needles and access to donated clothes. Thomas, who used to be an emergency medical technician and is now a student at San Francisco State, offers foot care and blood pressure checks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hato and Thomas begin each shift around 6 p.m. and they park the van — and the bathrooms it tows — in an alley for an hour, serving hot food, usually cooked by Thomas. Then they pack up and begin driving through all the alleys in the Lower Polk, stopping and checking in on anyone they think needs assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason mobility is so amazing is because so many people won’t go into a shelter, so we bring the services to them,” says Hato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024912 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Hato (right) retrieves equipment including hygiene kits and spare clothes that are given out to those that visit the relief center through out the night. 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Local community members are also pitching in to volunteer their time, and Hato hopes to expand their team as the program continues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think we might have a shot at setting a new standard throughout the entire city and maybe one day beyond,” says Hato, before he slides the door open to his van and hands a man a clean shirt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paid $42,000 for the van and $5,000 for the bathrooms, and he and Thomas provided several thousand more dollars for additional equipment. The rest of the money for the program comes from donations. The Lower Polk Community Benefit District pays Hato $7,200 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Works offers a similar bathroom solution, the Pit Stop program. It began in July 2014 and operates at 11 locations throughout the city, including the Tenderloin, Castro and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/30/if-you-build-it-they-will-go-a-sparkling-new-street-toilet-arrives-in-the-mission\">Mission\u003c/a>. All the Pit Stop facilities are staffed by paid attendants who help ensure that the toilets are well maintained and used for their intended purpose. However, the bathrooms are only accessible during the daytime.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two portable bathrooms stand surrounded by flower pots and a white picket fence in one of the dirty and run-down alleys in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. A large van decorated with LED lights is parked nearby, stocked with clothes, home-cooked food and hot coffee.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the mobile City Resource Relief Center. Seven days a week it moves through the side streets in the Lower Polk section of the Tenderloin, assisting the homeless that live here, often because it’s close to services. Starting last week, the center evolved from being just a nocturnal operation to one that provides 24/7 access to a clean and safe public restroom — a basic need that has been hard to satisfy in this neighborhood.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The Lower Polk Community Benefit District was looking for a way to be proactive about cleaning up the alleys from human waste,” says Christian Martin, the district’s executive director, who agreed to partly fund the project. “We decided to deploy this pilot program, and since its launch there has been a documented 40-50 uses of the bathrooms each night, creating a dramatic reduction of human waste in the area.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024873 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Blair Thomas, serves the night’s dinner to the local homeless that come to the relief center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs03-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Blair Thomas serves the night’s dinner to local homeless people who come to the relief center. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea for the mobile center came from local residents David Hato and Ashley Blair Thomas, who both have experience with homeless outreach. They approached Martin with their plan to find a different way to tackle one aspect of the homeless problem in the city, and are funding the majority of the project out of their own pockets. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I am trying to promote human dignity by ensuring human decency,” says Hato. “It is amazing how thankful these people are just to have a clean place to go the bathroom.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hato and Thomas launched the center on June 15, and it’s already being well received.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024874 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Hato (right) takes his Relief Center mobile and drives through the streets of the Tenderloin district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs07-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hato (right) takes his van through the streets of the Lower Polk neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tristan Greystone lives in the Next Door Shelter on the corner of Cedar Alley and Polk Street, but says he spends evenings in the alley because he doesn’t feel safe in the shelter at night. He says he’s thankful for the services of Hato and Thomas. “It’s like a little safe haven for even five minutes. David is so welcoming and friendly,” says Greystone. “I’ve lived in San Francisco for 25 years now. It is my home.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024910\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024910 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Tristan Greystone frequents the City Resource’s Relief Center and applauds Hato’s new initiative. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs02-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tristan Greystone frequents the City Resource Relief Center and applauds Hato’s and Thomas’ new initiative. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Besides providing an accessible bathroom, the center offers hygiene kits, a safe place to dispose of used needles and access to donated clothes. Thomas, who used to be an emergency medical technician and is now a student at San Francisco State, offers foot care and blood pressure checks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hato and Thomas begin each shift around 6 p.m. and they park the van — and the bathrooms it tows — in an alley for an hour, serving hot food, usually cooked by Thomas. Then they pack up and begin driving through all the alleys in the Lower Polk, stopping and checking in on anyone they think needs assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason mobility is so amazing is because so many people won’t go into a shelter, so we bring the services to them,” says Hato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11024912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11024912 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Hato (right) retrieves equipment including hygiene kits and spare clothes that are given out to those that visit the relief center through out the night. David Hato (right) retrieves equipment including hygiene kits and spare clothes that are given out to those that visit the relief center through out the night. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/160629_reliefcenter_bhs06-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hato (right) prepares to hand out hygiene kits and spare clothes to people that visit the relief center during the night. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hato and Thomas are quickly expanding their services, with a plan to provide showers and lease a solar-powered trailer to provide more health care services. Local community members are also pitching in to volunteer their time, and Hato hopes to expand their team as the program continues. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I think we might have a shot at setting a new standard throughout the entire city and maybe one day beyond,” says Hato, before he slides the door open to his van and hands a man a clean shirt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paid $42,000 for the van and $5,000 for the bathrooms, and he and Thomas provided several thousand more dollars for additional equipment. The rest of the money for the program comes from donations. The Lower Polk Community Benefit District pays Hato $7,200 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Works offers a similar bathroom solution, the Pit Stop program. It began in July 2014 and operates at 11 locations throughout the city, including the Tenderloin, Castro and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/30/if-you-build-it-they-will-go-a-sparkling-new-street-toilet-arrives-in-the-mission\">Mission\u003c/a>. All the Pit Stop facilities are staffed by paid attendants who help ensure that the toilets are well maintained and used for their intended purpose. However, the bathrooms are only accessible during the daytime.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A man’s weathered face peers out from inside a green-and-gray tent on Treat Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District. Pop tunes pour out of a portable radio next to him, as I introduce myself and shake his hand. He tells me his name: Willy Colon. He says he’s been living on the street for about 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273232668\" 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>Colon is tired and recovering from a stroke and a broken hip. He is 69 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“I can’t do this no more,” he says. “I don’t want to die out here. I want to die at home in a bed, you know, in my own apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colon says he has been on the city’s public housing waitlist for a decade. So, for now, this is home. On either side of his tent sit two shopping carts, neatly stacked with belongings. Colon points to a broom, which he uses to sweep the sidewalk from the corner store down to the park.\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>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He sticks to this block because this is where he grew up. When his Social Security check runs out, the guys at the corner store give him credit. And he says he knows everyone in the neighborhood. Or he used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But now we have a lot of white people so they don’t know me. But I tell them, ‘You’ll know me.’ I’m a good person. I’m a very good person. I don’t touch nothing. I don’t steal. I don’t do bad things,\" he says, and then pauses. \"Only I mean the drugs. I don’t sell, but I’m using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how he is doing emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Emotionally, it’s like being lonely and very, very, very sad.” He sighs deeply, and his eyes fill with tears. He lies back in his tent. “That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Patrick Garrens, who’s been a homeless outreach officer for the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station for the past year, knows Colon by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really, really, really wants to get indoors,” Garrens says. “But there’s a lot of people that want to get indoors, and unfortunately everybody’s on the same list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s Garrens' job to try and get Colon to move. A neighbor called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on this call, they talk about the encampment close to the playground. The neighbor wants them moved along because it's an ongoing problem. But the neighbor doesn’t say what the problems are, though,\" Garrens said. \"I don’t know if the ongoing problem is the mere existence of the tent here, or if there’s other things they didn’t state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrens squats down to eye level with Colon. He asks him about his medical condition and tells Colon there’s been a complaint because he’s near the playground. After talking for a few minutes, Garrens tells Colon he’ll send the city’s homeless outreach team to help move him to a temporary shelter in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 4 a.m. to 2 p.m., Garrens responds to “homeless-related calls for service.” He says there is rarely a day when his shift ends and he's been able to answer all of the calls. Some are about a specific activity, such as drug use, alcohol use or public urination, but he says most are pretty generic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004554\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chase (left) and Monique (right) talk in their tent on Florida St. that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, June 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase (left) and Monique (right) talk in their tent on Florida Street that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A male with a tent blocking the sidewalk,” he read off the dispatch screen in front of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who call the police usually want the homeless person “moved along,” but Garrens says he just doesn’t have the authority to force people off the street. He can arrest someone if he sees a felony being committed, but he says that is very rare. Usually, all he can do is write a homeless person a ticket or ask them to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he’s successful in getting someone to move, he says they usually pack up their tent and relocate to another spot in the city. When someone in that area calls to complain, the police go out and ask the person to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Garrens if he ever feels like his job is pointless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the time you do feel like you’re failing the public and the complaints that they have,” he says. “And the homeless population still exists. It’s probably gotten bigger since the year I’ve been on, so I guess we haven’t helped much there. And we really try. And we really honestly try to help both sides. Both the people who are homeless and the people who are calling in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless complaints across the city are way up. Over the past three years, citywide complaints about encampments have increased by 1,000 percent. Part of the reason is it’s now easier to call, text or even tweet complaints to the city. But Garrens says residents are also more on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see it just when you talk to them,” he says. “You can hear it when you talk to 'em, but you can see it -- they actually are really scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace Combs owns a spa in the Mission, and she says she is on high alert when she walks to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004557 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Candice Combs runs the Mission Creek Merchants Association. She said homeless encampments in the Mission are impacting businesses like hers, InSymmetry spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-1920x1331.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-960x665.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Combs runs the Mission Creek Merchants Association. She said homeless encampments in the Mission are impacting businesses like hers, In-Symmetry Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a woman, walking around San Francisco, it’s frightening,” she says. “I’m not even going to lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says she’s lived in San Francisco for 26 years, and homelessness — especially encampments — is the worst she’s ever seen it. As the head of the \u003ca href=\"http://mcma-sf.org/\">Mission Creek Merchants Association\u003c/a>, Combs says she regularly gets calls and emails from business owners and neighbors who say they are losing customers because of the encampments. And they’re afraid, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, it makes you want to cry,” she said. “We have a mother who owns a house on Treat Street who was coming out strolling her kid. And the homeless man just starts screaming at her and was like, 'I’m going to murder both you and your child.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says every day on her way to work she sees illegal activity going on in homeless encampments, from people smoking crack, to sawing up stolen bikes to resell for parts. And she thinks the city needs to take more responsibility for treating and housing homeless people — because it’s not safe for anyone.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave people in tents on the sidewalk. You just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006070\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A couple people sleep in a dormatory at the Navigation Center. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. San Francisco. June 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of people sleep in a dormitory at the Navigation Center. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. San Francisco. June 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=2129\">Supervisor David Campos\u003c/a>, whose district includes the Inner Mission, said the solution ultimately is more housing. And while that’s a long-term goal, he says the city is also starting to move in the right direction short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee have approved a plan to build six more \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/navcenter.html\">Navigation Centers\u003c/a> in the city over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation Centers provide room and board to homeless people, but they are a little different from ordinary shelters. For one, they have fewer rules and restrictions. At the Navigation Center, people can stay with their pets and their partners, and they can come and go freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Campos, sporting a yellow bow tie and matching pocket square, shows me around the first Navigation Center, which was opened a year ago in his district at 16th and Mission streets. Four guys greet Campos warmly as we wander through one of the communal rooms where they are watching the Giants game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos led the push to build these centers across the city after seeing the successes at this pilot site. Most importantly, it promises case management to connect homeless people to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may not know how to get out of being homeless, and that’s where we come in,” Campos says. “How do we break that cycle?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004553 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Angela Clifton-Flax stands in the distance outside her tent on Shotwell in the Mission. She said people need housing not shelters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Clifton-Flax stands in the distance outside her tent on Shotwell in the Mission. She said people need housing, not shelters. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But with more than \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/2015-san-francisco-point-time-homeless-count-0\">6,000\u003c/a> people homeless in the city, even six more Navigation Centers aren’t going to fix the problem. People need homes, says Angela Clifton-Flax, who’s living in a tent on Shotwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you playing with people like you’re playing with them, that’s not going to help anybody,” she says. “It’s not helping. You’re just putting a Band-Aid over a bullet wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is building more low-income housing and working to get homeless people into single-room-occupancy hotels. But Campos says it’s a difficult problem to solve. There aren’t even enough homes in San Francisco for those who do have money. While there’s no single solution to this crisis, Campos says the city has to keep looking for answers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A man’s weathered face peers out from inside a green-and-gray tent on Treat Avenue in San Francisco’s Mission District. Pop tunes pour out of a portable radio next to him, as I introduce myself and shake his hand. He tells me his name: Willy Colon. He says he’s been living on the street for about 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273232668&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273232668'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colon is tired and recovering from a stroke and a broken hip. He is 69 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>“I can’t do this no more,” he says. “I don’t want to die out here. I want to die at home in a bed, you know, in my own apartment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colon says he has been on the city’s public housing waitlist for a decade. So, for now, this is home. On either side of his tent sit two shopping carts, neatly stacked with belongings. Colon points to a broom, which he uses to sweep the sidewalk from the corner store down to the park.\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>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He sticks to this block because this is where he grew up. When his Social Security check runs out, the guys at the corner store give him credit. And he says he knows everyone in the neighborhood. Or he used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But now we have a lot of white people so they don’t know me. But I tell them, ‘You’ll know me.’ I’m a good person. I’m a very good person. I don’t touch nothing. I don’t steal. I don’t do bad things,\" he says, and then pauses. \"Only I mean the drugs. I don’t sell, but I’m using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how he is doing emotionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Emotionally, it’s like being lonely and very, very, very sad.” He sighs deeply, and his eyes fill with tears. He lies back in his tent. “That’s it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Patrick Garrens, who’s been a homeless outreach officer for the San Francisco Police Department’s Mission Station for the past year, knows Colon by name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He really, really, really wants to get indoors,” Garrens says. “But there’s a lot of people that want to get indoors, and unfortunately everybody’s on the same list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s Garrens' job to try and get Colon to move. A neighbor called the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So on this call, they talk about the encampment close to the playground. The neighbor wants them moved along because it's an ongoing problem. But the neighbor doesn’t say what the problems are, though,\" Garrens said. \"I don’t know if the ongoing problem is the mere existence of the tent here, or if there’s other things they didn’t state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrens squats down to eye level with Colon. He asks him about his medical condition and tells Colon there’s been a complaint because he’s near the playground. After talking for a few minutes, Garrens tells Colon he’ll send the city’s homeless outreach team to help move him to a temporary shelter in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 4 a.m. to 2 p.m., Garrens responds to “homeless-related calls for service.” He says there is rarely a day when his shift ends and he's been able to answer all of the calls. Some are about a specific activity, such as drug use, alcohol use or public urination, but he says most are pretty generic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004554\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004554 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chase (left) and Monique (right) talk in their tent on Florida St. that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, June 23, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase (left) and Monique (right) talk in their tent on Florida Street that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco on June 23, 2016. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A male with a tent blocking the sidewalk,” he read off the dispatch screen in front of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who call the police usually want the homeless person “moved along,” but Garrens says he just doesn’t have the authority to force people off the street. He can arrest someone if he sees a felony being committed, but he says that is very rare. Usually, all he can do is write a homeless person a ticket or ask them to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If he’s successful in getting someone to move, he says they usually pack up their tent and relocate to another spot in the city. When someone in that area calls to complain, the police go out and ask the person to move again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Garrens if he ever feels like his job is pointless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the time you do feel like you’re failing the public and the complaints that they have,” he says. “And the homeless population still exists. It’s probably gotten bigger since the year I’ve been on, so I guess we haven’t helped much there. And we really try. And we really honestly try to help both sides. Both the people who are homeless and the people who are calling in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless complaints across the city are way up. Over the past three years, citywide complaints about encampments have increased by 1,000 percent. Part of the reason is it’s now easier to call, text or even tweet complaints to the city. But Garrens says residents are also more on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see it just when you talk to them,” he says. “You can hear it when you talk to 'em, but you can see it -- they actually are really scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candace Combs owns a spa in the Mission, and she says she is on high alert when she walks to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004557\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004557 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Candice Combs runs the Mission Creek Merchants Association. She said homeless encampments in the Mission are impacting businesses like hers, InSymmetry spa.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-1920x1331.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-1180x818.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Combs-960x665.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candice Combs runs the Mission Creek Merchants Association. She said homeless encampments in the Mission are impacting businesses like hers, In-Symmetry Spa. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a woman, walking around San Francisco, it’s frightening,” she says. “I’m not even going to lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says she’s lived in San Francisco for 26 years, and homelessness — especially encampments — is the worst she’s ever seen it. As the head of the \u003ca href=\"http://mcma-sf.org/\">Mission Creek Merchants Association\u003c/a>, Combs says she regularly gets calls and emails from business owners and neighbors who say they are losing customers because of the encampments. And they’re afraid, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh my God, it makes you want to cry,” she said. “We have a mother who owns a house on Treat Street who was coming out strolling her kid. And the homeless man just starts screaming at her and was like, 'I’m going to murder both you and your child.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs says every day on her way to work she sees illegal activity going on in homeless encampments, from people smoking crack, to sawing up stolen bikes to resell for parts. And she thinks the city needs to take more responsibility for treating and housing homeless people — because it’s not safe for anyone.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave people in tents on the sidewalk. You just can’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006070\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006070\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A couple people sleep in a dormatory at the Navigation Center. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. San Francisco. June 10, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of people sleep in a dormitory at the Navigation Center. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. San Francisco. June 10, 2016. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=2129\">Supervisor David Campos\u003c/a>, whose district includes the Inner Mission, said the solution ultimately is more housing. And while that’s a long-term goal, he says the city is also starting to move in the right direction short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee have approved a plan to build six more \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/programs/navcenter.html\">Navigation Centers\u003c/a> in the city over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navigation Centers provide room and board to homeless people, but they are a little different from ordinary shelters. For one, they have fewer rules and restrictions. At the Navigation Center, people can stay with their pets and their partners, and they can come and go freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Campos, sporting a yellow bow tie and matching pocket square, shows me around the first Navigation Center, which was opened a year ago in his district at 16th and Mission streets. Four guys greet Campos warmly as we wander through one of the communal rooms where they are watching the Giants game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos led the push to build these centers across the city after seeing the successes at this pilot site. Most importantly, it promises case management to connect homeless people to permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They may not know how to get out of being homeless, and that’s where we come in,” Campos says. “How do we break that cycle?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004553 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Angela Clifton-Flax stands in the distance outside her tent on Shotwell in the Mission. She said people need housing not shelters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/File_000-1-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Clifton-Flax stands in the distance outside her tent on Shotwell in the Mission. She said people need housing, not shelters. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But with more than \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/2015-san-francisco-point-time-homeless-count-0\">6,000\u003c/a> people homeless in the city, even six more Navigation Centers aren’t going to fix the problem. People need homes, says Angela Clifton-Flax, who’s living in a tent on Shotwell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you playing with people like you’re playing with them, that’s not going to help anybody,” she says. “It’s not helping. You’re just putting a Band-Aid over a bullet wound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Outside Yosemite, Rural Town Grapples with Homelessness",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you mention homelessness to anyone in the mountain town of Mariposa near Yosemite National Park, you’ll hear the same name over and over again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, Walter Brooks was considered Mariposa’s one and only homeless person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was born here in 1948 and this is my home turf,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Walter is iconic in this community,” says Doug Binnewies, sheriff of Mariposa County. But these days the myth of the one homeless person is gone. Mariposa, like many rural towns in California, has seen a big spike in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272286361\" 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>“I think AB109, combined with the recession, really fueled this issue,” says Binnewies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under AB109, parolees who committed non-serious crimes like theft or drug possession are sent back to the county where they were charged, even if it isn’t their hometown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Binnewies says, it’s safer to be homeless in a rural area than in a city, especially a place like Mariposa where the people are friendly and the weather is great. “The homeless are often victimized in other jurisdictions,” he says. “They’re a preyed-upon population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Iudice, a commercial real estate owner, says downtown business owners were initially riled by the increase in people living on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know who these people were that were in town,” he says. “At the time there was urinating in public doorways of businesses, just sleeping out in public areas. We were afraid transients were going to scare the tourists away, and so the businesses got up in arms about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006775\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006775\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-5-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourism fuels Mariposa's economy. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The homeless issue stirs up a lot of feelings, says the Rev. Ginger Foster, pastor of Mariposa United Methodist Church. The town had to have some hard conversations about how to handle this new reality. But Foster doesn’t buy the idea that Walter Brooks was the only homeless person before the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m pretty sure we’ve had homelessness all the way back to the Gold Rush,” she says. Especially in a rural, forested area where people can camp out for months undetected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa United Methodist opens its doors five nights a week for those who need dinner and a place to sleep. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church down the street handles the other two nights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have very stringent rules,” says the Rev. Steve Bulfer. “No drugs, no drinking. We’re doing what we can, but it’s not the long-term answer and we know it.” For one, it’s a drain on his small church community, where most of the members are geriatric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the shelter has caused a little controversy. Both Foster and Bulfer have been told their efforts are attracting homeless people to Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean people have actually said to me, ‘Because you have this program, people come here.’ And that’s a little true but hello, we’ve got a huge magnet in our county. It’s called Yosemite National Park. People come for seasonal employment. They come just to sightsee, you know, with their thumb,” Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability of seasonal work is just one factor, Foster says. There are other issues: mental health, substance abuse, lack of transportation. And decent affordable housing in Mariposa is almost impossible to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every person that’s sitting in this room right now, there’s a different combination of things that brought them to this point,” Foster says one night at mealtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Ginger Foster (left) appreciates the help she gets from shelter volunteer Linda Campbell. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Linda Campbell says she came to Mariposa after working in Yosemite. She had a job here until she lost her 17-year-old son -- and not long after, her sobriety. Grief and alcohol ran her life. But she stopped drinking five years ago and is now working on her GED. She says church leaders and the many local volunteers who bring in dinner almost every night have been life savers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t put us down,” Campbell says. “And this is hope for us. We see people on a daily basis that say, ‘Hey, how are you doing today? What can I pray with you about today?’ And it encourages us a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County Supervisor Marshall Long says there have always been homeless people in Mariposa County. “My family moved here in 1951, and there were homeless people living on our ranch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there still are. Long pays them to cut firewood. “It helps to clear the land, and they make a little extra money,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long says people aren’t taking care of each other like they used to, and they’re relying on the government to do that job. “I hope there are more people like me who take these folks and actually give them something to do because they want to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Blair Chenoweth. He was homeless for a year and a half, living in his car. He says he came to Mariposa to be near his kids, who live here with his ex-wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of the person who said, ‘OK look, I’m homeless. I’m here, I’m looking for a job.’ So I sort of called people out on that thing about like the homeless never want to get a job, the homeless never want to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church where he now volunteers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church, where he now volunteers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chenoweth found a job at a local nonprofit. He got some encouragement from Chevon Kothari. She’s the county’s director for Human Services. Kothari says helping people in a smaller town is sometimes easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of look at Mariposa sometimes like a Petri dish,” she says. “We can actually visibly see the results of our work, and I think that keeps us all motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people are motivated to help. County leaders have worked hard to come up with a plan to help the estimated 40 homeless people in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kothari points to a local park and says many of them used to gather here. Then county organizations pooled their resources and created a wellness center away from the business district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place where people could gather during the day, connect with services they may need, have a hot meal in the winter and lunch in the summer,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the county has housed 13 people who were homeless, including Walter Brooks. But his story has been a little more complicated. His landlord asked him to leave because he and his friends were too loud. The county recently found him another place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might make some business owners happy, but he says he’d rather live the way he always has: hanging out downtown where things are happening and finding a warm porch to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006777\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006777 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg\" alt=\"mariposa-6\" width=\"800\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-400x575.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-1180x1697.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-960x1381.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Brooks now has a place to live, but for a long time, he was considered Mariposa's one homeless person. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even his caseworker, Bobbi DePuertis, is conflicted. When he was on the street, “he was walking and he was up more,” she says. “Now since we’ve moved him into this house, he doesn’t want to get up and walk. He doesn’t want to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, she says, Brooks is ultimately safer. “I’ve seen him in the ER,” she says. “There were times when he was much worse off than he is now.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Both Foster and Bulfer have been told their efforts are attracting homeless people to Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean people have actually said to me, ‘Because you have this program, people come here.’ And that’s a little true but hello, we’ve got a huge magnet in our county. It’s called Yosemite National Park. People come for seasonal employment. They come just to sightsee, you know, with their thumb,” Foster says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instability of seasonal work is just one factor, Foster says. There are other issues: mental health, substance abuse, lack of transportation. And decent affordable housing in Mariposa is almost impossible to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For every person that’s sitting in this room right now, there’s a different combination of things that brought them to this point,” Foster says one night at mealtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006773\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006773 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/ginger-foster-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Ginger Foster (left) appreciates the help she gets from shelter volunteer Linda Campbell. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Linda Campbell says she came to Mariposa after working in Yosemite. She had a job here until she lost her 17-year-old son -- and not long after, her sobriety. Grief and alcohol ran her life. But she stopped drinking five years ago and is now working on her GED. She says church leaders and the many local volunteers who bring in dinner almost every night have been life savers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t put us down,” Campbell says. “And this is hope for us. We see people on a daily basis that say, ‘Hey, how are you doing today? What can I pray with you about today?’ And it encourages us a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County Supervisor Marshall Long says there have always been homeless people in Mariposa County. “My family moved here in 1951, and there were homeless people living on our ranch,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there still are. Long pays them to cut firewood. “It helps to clear the land, and they make a little extra money,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long says people aren’t taking care of each other like they used to, and they’re relying on the government to do that job. “I hope there are more people like me who take these folks and actually give them something to do because they want to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Blair Chenoweth. He was homeless for a year and a half, living in his car. He says he came to Mariposa to be near his kids, who live here with his ex-wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was kind of the person who said, ‘OK look, I’m homeless. I’m here, I’m looking for a job.’ So I sort of called people out on that thing about like the homeless never want to get a job, the homeless never want to do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11006776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church where he now volunteers. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair Chenoweth plays the piano at Mariposa United Methodist Church, where he now volunteers. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chenoweth found a job at a local nonprofit. He got some encouragement from Chevon Kothari. She’s the county’s director for Human Services. Kothari says helping people in a smaller town is sometimes easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I kind of look at Mariposa sometimes like a Petri dish,” she says. “We can actually visibly see the results of our work, and I think that keeps us all motivated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And people are motivated to help. County leaders have worked hard to come up with a plan to help the estimated 40 homeless people in the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kothari points to a local park and says many of them used to gather here. Then county organizations pooled their resources and created a wellness center away from the business district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A place where people could gather during the day, connect with services they may need, have a hot meal in the winter and lunch in the summer,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the county has housed 13 people who were homeless, including Walter Brooks. But his story has been a little more complicated. His landlord asked him to leave because he and his friends were too loud. The county recently found him another place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might make some business owners happy, but he says he’d rather live the way he always has: hanging out downtown where things are happening and finding a warm porch to sleep on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11006777\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11006777 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg\" alt=\"mariposa-6\" width=\"800\" height=\"1151\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-800x1151.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-400x575.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-1180x1697.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6-960x1381.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/mariposa-6.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter Brooks now has a place to live, but for a long time, he was considered Mariposa's one homeless person. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even his caseworker, Bobbi DePuertis, is conflicted. When he was on the street, “he was walking and he was up more,” she says. “Now since we’ve moved him into this house, he doesn’t want to get up and walk. He doesn’t want to go out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She says it's not easy to find the people they are trying to count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because they're at work,\" says Delgado. \"So we can have a couple, and both are working minimum wage jobs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Aucar family still feels raw after abruptly losing their stable home. In December 2015, Aucar says they got pushed out their $2,400-a-month rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything started when we were living in Daly City for 10 years and the landlord went to sell the house,\" says Shauky Aucar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar, his wife and seven children moved into his mother-in-law's studio apartment nearby but the neighbors quickly complained. They then slept in the family's large van until it got so cold they ended up back at his mother-in-law's place. This time they were sleeping in the garage. They had to hide like outlaws, getting up early and returning late at night so the neighbors didn't complain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think this is the American Dream,\" says Aucar. \"I saw my kids on the ground and I said, 'I don't want this future for them.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aucar coped with the upheaval by keeping his routine, going to work every day. He says he has worked full time at UCSF for 23 years, taking people in and out of surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also continued taking his 20-year-old daughter, Anshi Aucar, to community college so she can be the first family member to graduate from college. She has aspirations of going to medical school after she gets her degree in respiratory therapy. But there's little doubt that being homeless has taken its toll on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are some people who were like, 'Oh wow, you're homeless,' and there's always that one person who's going to be like judgeful,\" says Anshi. \"It's life. Life happens and even though I didn't want this to happen to my family, I didn't wish it to anyone else neither.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But homeless outreach advocates say more and more people are having the same experience -- which is why cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties are launching new efforts to find, count and help people they call the hidden homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004970\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004970 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sabrina Delgado - a homeless outreach team leader is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19996_FullSizeRender-qut1-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Delgado, a homeless outreach team leader, is helping a woman living out of her car in Redwood City get temporary housing in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sabrina Delgado walks the streets in San Mateo County as a Homeless Outreach Team leader for LifeMoves, the organization that found temporary housing for the Aucars. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of the key tools in the effort to end homelessness has a weakness. The “housing first” approach adopted by communities across the country involves helping people find housing and, in many cases, subsidizing their rent. Facing a shortage of rental housing, Santa Cruz County has set out to recruit landlords to rent to people who have been homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Brad Schwartz’s case, finding a landlord who would rent to him took about six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting on his couch sipping a beer, he explains that in 2007 or 2008, after two decades of homelessness, he applied for a Section 8 voucher -- a federally funded rental subsidy for people with very low incomes or disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271555780\" 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>“I got tired of being on the streets,” he says. “I decided I’d done everything I’d wanted to do while I was out there and that I wanted to tie up all my loose ends.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued sleeping in the woods for about five more years until county staff called and told him his name had come up on the waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ ‘Now go get your voucher and look for a place. 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He’s just going to come in and trash the unit and cost me lots of money and why would I do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Conway’s account, the landlord ended up renting to someone he had known previously who had become homeless as the result of a health issue. The person became a model tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That person was so relieved to have a housing unit that the last thing they were going to do was blow it.” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a theme in the campaign Conway is launching to encourage landlords to take tenants who have been homeless. The campaign is part of the county’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.unitedwaysc.org/news/new-countywide-strategic-plan-end-homelessness-approved\">All-In Strategic Plan to End Homelessness\u003c/a>.” Counter to stereotypes, people who have been homeless are often quiet, reliable tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Business Based on Renting to the Formerly Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A video she plans to show to the local Rotary Club and other civic groups opens with the slogan “Landlords: You are the key to ending homelessness in Santa Cruz County.” The video includes testimonials from landlords. One of them, Jack Cross, owns about 40 small units. He says renting to subsidized tenants is good business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like turnover, because turnover or vacancies is a headache of cleaning and advertising again and screening tenants,” Cross says. “Whereas these tenants stay for a long periods of time. The cash flow’s good and you don’t have any down time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive, the county will cover rent, if a tenant fails to pay. Conway says that’s unlikely because rent subsidies already automatically deposit into property owners’ accounts. The county will also pay a limited amount on top of the security deposit if a property gets damaged. These financial bonuses follow a model the county tried in a small program years ago. In that experience, Conway says only two small damage claims were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finally Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his search, Brad Schwartz had to request two extensions on the deadline for his voucher. He eventually got some help finding a place from John Dietz, a volunteer with 180/2020. That’s Santa Cruz County’s program that aims to make a 180-degree turnaround for the homelessness problem by the year 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John called me one day -- Saturday or something like 8 in the morning,” Schwartz says. “And he calls me and goes, ‘I just talked to a lady and she wants us there 2 o’clock for an interview. Got a place near the beach that you’d like where you can smoke tobacco.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His house has just two rooms. It’s in a part of Santa Cruz dominated by apartment buildings. The ivy and blackberry in the yard require regular trimming. 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The person became a model tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That person was so relieved to have a housing unit that the last thing they were going to do was blow it.” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a theme in the campaign Conway is launching to encourage landlords to take tenants who have been homeless. The campaign is part of the county’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.unitedwaysc.org/news/new-countywide-strategic-plan-end-homelessness-approved\">All-In Strategic Plan to End Homelessness\u003c/a>.” Counter to stereotypes, people who have been homeless are often quiet, reliable tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Business Based on Renting to the Formerly Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A video she plans to show to the local Rotary Club and other civic groups opens with the slogan “Landlords: You are the key to ending homelessness in Santa Cruz County.” The video includes testimonials from landlords. One of them, Jack Cross, owns about 40 small units. He says renting to subsidized tenants is good business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t like turnover, because turnover or vacancies is a headache of cleaning and advertising again and screening tenants,” Cross says. “Whereas these tenants stay for a long periods of time. The cash flow’s good and you don’t have any down time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an incentive, the county will cover rent, if a tenant fails to pay. Conway says that’s unlikely because rent subsidies already automatically deposit into property owners’ accounts. The county will also pay a limited amount on top of the security deposit if a property gets damaged. These financial bonuses follow a model the county tried in a small program years ago. 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She finds solace and inspiration at the fine art classes she takes at Hospitality House in the Tenderloin \u003ccite>(Photo: Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackson values the free art studio provided by \u003ca href=\"http://hospitalityhouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hospitality House\u003c/a>. The homeless services provider is located in the mid-Market neighborhood near 6th Street, a fast gentrifying part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a busy place. As Jackson works on her painting, more than dozen artists, most in living situations like Jackson’s, sketch with pastels or paint with acrylics. A pottery wheel sits against a wall in the studio, next to racks of paper and other supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://hospitalityhouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hospitality House\u003c/a> has served the homeless for nearly 50 years. The facility offers a men’s shelter, leadership development workshops, and job training programs. It also offers the only fine arts studio for the homeless in San Francisco, with more than 3,500 people using the space each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How art helps homeless people\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re lacking the basics of food and shelter, art might not seem like a priority. 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They’re showing their work at Hospitality House through Friday, Jul. 22. Jackson has sold a few paintings, she says. And all the artists gets 100 percent of the proceeds from sales of their work. Jenks says Hospitality House artists made $16,000 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art has been an essential service for Hospitality House since 1969, two years after its founding. “The walls can really seem to close in on you in an SRO or a shelter,” Jenks says. “But here, they’re sharing the beauty of what they can create and what’s in their hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A common vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality House isn’t the only organization in the neighborhood that offers opportunities for homeless people to tap into their creative selves. Jackson is also a frequent visitor at The Healing Well, an offshoot of the street ministry called \u003ca href=\"http://www.faithfulfools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faithful Fools\u003c/a>. The two organizations share a narrow and cozy building on Hyde Street on the edge of the Tenderloin, where they offer free poetry, yoga, meditation, and clowning classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first got involved in this work, I thought, you’ve got to be kidding,” says Kathy Curran, Healing Well’s founder and director.\u003cbr>\n“We’re offering classes like yoga and meditation, and art and poetry. Shouldn’t we be helping these people find housing and get jobs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Curran soon saw the value of Healing Well’s offerings. “I quickly realized how important it is for people to have a place where they can develop a sense of calm and confidence in coping with the trials of the past and the opportunities of the future,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11746043\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"An art show in the window of the Community Arts Center at Hospitaity House\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-400x247.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-960x594.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An art show in the window of the Community Arts Center at Hospitality House \u003ccite>(Photo: Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Hospitality House, Jackson puts her paintbrush in a cup of water. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271470763″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271470763″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.artlifting.com/collections/jo-jackson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jo Jackson\u003c/a> is working this sunny late spring afternoon on a series of small watercolors. “I like to build colors,” Jackson says. “I’m making a sun shape first, so that’s just an easy circular motion that’s so relaxing for me, then I get very bold and add a bright red.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson is a thin white woman, often bundled in a sweater and scarf. For years, she taught dance in Bolivia and Venezuela. But a series of personal setbacks over the past few years left her living in a San Francisco single room occupancy hotel (SRO), and then in a numbered bunk bed in a Tenderloin women’s shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson especially likes making collages and working with paints. Art, Jackson says, is both a form of expression and a kind of therapy. “Art for me is like water, like a river,” she says. “And water is very life giving and healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11746044 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"Jo Jackson is currently homeless. She finds solace and inspiration at the fine art classes she takes at Hospitality House in the Tenderloin\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-400x258.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-768x495.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-1920x1237.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3328-e1467130940216-960x618.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jo Jackson is currently homeless. She finds solace and inspiration at the fine art classes she takes at Hospitality House in the Tenderloin \u003ccite>(Photo: Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackson values the free art studio provided by \u003ca href=\"http://hospitalityhouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hospitality House\u003c/a>. The homeless services provider is located in the mid-Market neighborhood near 6th Street, a fast gentrifying part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a busy place. As Jackson works on her painting, more than dozen artists, most in living situations like Jackson’s, sketch with pastels or paint with acrylics. A pottery wheel sits against a wall in the studio, next to racks of paper and other supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://hospitalityhouse.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hospitality House\u003c/a> has served the homeless for nearly 50 years. The facility offers a men’s shelter, leadership development workshops, and job training programs. It also offers the only fine arts studio for the homeless in San Francisco, with more than 3,500 people using the space each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How art helps homeless people\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you’re lacking the basics of food and shelter, art might not seem like a priority. Yet visitors to Hospitality House consider the creative offerings essential to their existence. “The opportunity to create should be open to everyone, whether you have a home or not,” says Hospitality House executive director Jackie Jenks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11746046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/Jo-Jackson-Collage-e1467131532796.jpg\" alt=\"A collage Jo Jackson sold at silent auction at Hospitality house\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A collage Jo Jackson sold at silent auction at Hospitality house \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy Jo Jackson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackson, together with fellow Hospitality House artist Billy Crawford, recently had an art opening at the space. They’re showing their work at Hospitality House through Friday, Jul. 22. Jackson has sold a few paintings, she says. And all the artists gets 100 percent of the proceeds from sales of their work. Jenks says Hospitality House artists made $16,000 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Art has been an essential service for Hospitality House since 1969, two years after its founding. “The walls can really seem to close in on you in an SRO or a shelter,” Jenks says. “But here, they’re sharing the beauty of what they can create and what’s in their hearts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A common vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality House isn’t the only organization in the neighborhood that offers opportunities for homeless people to tap into their creative selves. Jackson is also a frequent visitor at The Healing Well, an offshoot of the street ministry called \u003ca href=\"http://www.faithfulfools.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faithful Fools\u003c/a>. The two organizations share a narrow and cozy building on Hyde Street on the edge of the Tenderloin, where they offer free poetry, yoga, meditation, and clowning classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first got involved in this work, I thought, you’ve got to be kidding,” says Kathy Curran, Healing Well’s founder and director.\u003cbr>\n“We’re offering classes like yoga and meditation, and art and poetry. Shouldn’t we be helping these people find housing and get jobs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Curran soon saw the value of Healing Well’s offerings. “I quickly realized how important it is for people to have a place where they can develop a sense of calm and confidence in coping with the trials of the past and the opportunities of the future,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11746043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11746043\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"An art show in the window of the Community Arts Center at Hospitaity House\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-800x495.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-400x247.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-768x475.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-1920x1188.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/06/IMG_3327-960x594.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An art show in the window of the Community Arts Center at Hospitality House \u003ccite>(Photo: Cy Musiker/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at Hospitality House, Jackson puts her paintbrush in a cup of water. Jackson has found temporary housing for the next three months. She says should be okay, as long as she can continue to make art. “Homelessness isn’t who I am,” Jackson says. “It happens to be something I’m going through right now.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BHP180pDRFn/\">a night in the life \u003c/a>of S.F. Night Minister Lyle Beckman on KQED News’s Instagram. \u003c/em>\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>an Francisco Night Minister Lyle Beckman is sitting across from me at a saloon on Mission Street in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights. He sips on a club soda while we wait for drag king Kit Tapata to finish hosting the bar’s trivia night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tapata, who’s dressed like Westley from “\u003ca href=\"http://princessbrideforever.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Princess Bride\u003c/a>,” points out Beckman to the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behave,” Tapata orders. “There’s a father in the house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the bar’s attention turns his way, a woman sitting nearby draws closer to Beckman and he leans in. They talk about her late husband, a topic that punctuates their conversation about baseball, the differences between the West Coast and East Coast, and her past as a devout Catholic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it’s under the influence of alcohol that I hear the stories of people that really want to share,” Beckman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"10:30 p.m.: Pastor Lyle Beckman, the SF Night Minister waits for drag king, Kit Tapata, to finish her trivia hosting duties at the 3300 Club to talk about flyers for an upcoming fundraising. Helping others costs money and the Night Ministry relies on folks like Tapata. As Pastor Lyle Beckman waits, bar goers approach him with stories of their childhood trauma, grief and faith. "Some people are so lonely and isolated that it's usually under the influence that I hear the stories that people really want to share," Beckman said. Beckman orders club sodas, but enjoys the community in local bars. As more neighborhood bars are priced out, he says the only people who talk to him at the new "sterile" spots are the bartenders. More than 70 percent of San Francisco's homeless lived in the city before they were homeless, according to the 2015 Homeless Count.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-400x248.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-960x595.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10:30 p.m.: Pastor Lyle Beckman, the S.F. Night Minister, waits for drag king Kit Tapata to finish her trivia hosting duties to talk about fliers for an upcoming fundraising. Helping others costs money and the Night Ministry relies on folks like Tapata. Beckman orders club sodas, but enjoys the community in local bars. As more neighborhood bars are priced out, he says the only people who talk to him at the new ‘sterile’ spots are the bartenders. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">T\u003c/span>he Bay Area is one of the least churchgoing metro regions in the United States, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://cities.barna.org/barna-cities-the-top-churchless-metro-areas/\">survey by the Barna Group\u003c/a>, with 48 percent reporting they don’t attend church anymore and 14 percent saying they’ve never gone to church at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beckman, an ordained Lutheran minister, says church and religion aren’t about regular attendance at service.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We could change this. But everybody waits for the city to do something. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can do something for these people sleeping on the streets.’ \u003ccite>The Rev. Lyle Beckman,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Night Ministry\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The S.F. Night Ministry holds what it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnightministry.org/joomla30/index.php/programs/open-cathedral\">open cathedrals\u003c/a> — outdoor services. Beckman says some of the people most in need of comfort are those who cannot stand in a room or be silent for an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real work of the church isn’t about what comes out of the archbishop’s office,” Beckman says. “It’s about what the church does feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, giving access to social services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005110 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Lyle Beckman points out where we are on an intricate mural depicting the ghosts of churches leaving the Tenderloin. With them often go services rendered to the poor and homeless in the area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-960x626.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Lyle Beckman points out where we are on an intricate mural depicting the ghosts of churches leaving the Tenderloin. With them often go services rendered to the poor and homeless in the area. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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>n the Tenderloin, Beckman has noticed that at the beginning of each month, when folks get their Social Security or other assistance payments, there are fewer people on the streets than usual. But he is sure that he’s needed anyway. While other institutions may provide shelter, food and services, Beckman and the other night ministers may be out in the neighborhood all night, listening to, hugging and praying with the homeless and most vulnerable residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could change this,” Beckman says, pointing down Turk Street. “But everybody waits for the city to do something. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can do something for these people sleeping on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness is part of the landscape, with a 2015 city count showing that 60 percent of those living without shelter in the city were found in the Tenderloin and South of Market.\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\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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://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/aside>\n\u003cp>Beckman ponders what change will bring to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wonder often, what’s the future of the Tenderloin? Will it lose its character?” said Beckman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no shortage of character in front of Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a gay bar on Turk. Outside on the sidewalk, a local named Tim Haley has set up a grill and the aroma of barbecue permeates the air. He sells sausage links, ribs, chicken and other favorites to bar patrons and his Tenderloin regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005112 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-800x571.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-400x285.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-1180x842.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-960x685.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After popping in to the Tenderloin’s legendary Aunt Charlie’s on the corner of Turk Street and Taylor Street, a woman asks the pastor: “He has a purple aura, doesn’t he?” referring to Tim Haley (right) who barbecues and sells sausage links, ribs, chicken and other meats for bar patrons and Tenderloin regulars. For $6, Haley gave her enough meat for her and her friends to have a good dinner. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">‘H\u003c/span>e has a purple aura, doesn’t he?” a woman asks, referring to Haley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckman stops to check out the aura and waves his hands in the air as if to outline the purple glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman looks at Beckman for a moment, realizing he’s a man of the cloth. She asks him if people who kill themselves go to hell. She explains her brother had taken his own life. Beckman softly explains that his God is one of forgiveness and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is going to hell tonight,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005117 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-800x558.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-400x279.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-960x669.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman asks the pastor to pray for her husband and dog, who she says had both been stabbed a few days earlier. He comforts her and says he’ll pray for all of them. For Pastor Beckman, this corner is ground zero.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \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\">T\u003c/span>im Haley says he’s a recovering addict who used to be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fell a long way back,” Haley says. He used to work at an apartment building around the corner. When they fired everyone, he went on a downward spiral, but found his way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I never would get out of that stuff,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005113 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Haley who used to be homeless and addicted to drugs, but turned his life around and now hands out food to folks who needs it and takes donations to pay for more meat. \" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-960x626.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Haley, who used to be homeless and addicted to drugs, turned his life around and now hands out food to folks who needs it and takes donations to pay for more meat. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">B\u003c/span>eckman has a striking presence as he walks through the Tenderloin. While most of us, conditioned by “mean world syndrome” and a thousand other anxieties, might put on some kind of psychic armor, Beckman seems unguarded in his exchanges with people on the street. He’s affectionate, but not overbearing. His 6-foot-4-inch frame, draped in black, is somehow more comforting than intimidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we walk down Turk Street, there is no one that Beckman will not stop for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man calls out to him from his seat on the pavement: “You’re the light in this unlit world. Thanks for being out here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes it’s under the influence of alcohol that I hear the stories of people that really want to share,” Beckman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005107\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005107 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-800x496.jpg\" alt=\"10:30 p.m.: Pastor Lyle Beckman, the SF Night Minister waits for drag king, Kit Tapata, to finish her trivia hosting duties at the 3300 Club to talk about flyers for an upcoming fundraising. Helping others costs money and the Night Ministry relies on folks like Tapata. As Pastor Lyle Beckman waits, bar goers approach him with stories of their childhood trauma, grief and faith. "Some people are so lonely and isolated that it's usually under the influence that I hear the stories that people really want to share," Beckman said. Beckman orders club sodas, but enjoys the community in local bars. As more neighborhood bars are priced out, he says the only people who talk to him at the new "sterile" spots are the bartenders. More than 70 percent of San Francisco's homeless lived in the city before they were homeless, according to the 2015 Homeless Count.\" width=\"800\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-800x496.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-400x248.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-1180x731.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_dragking-960x595.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">10:30 p.m.: Pastor Lyle Beckman, the S.F. Night Minister, waits for drag king Kit Tapata to finish her trivia hosting duties to talk about fliers for an upcoming fundraising. Helping others costs money and the Night Ministry relies on folks like Tapata. Beckman orders club sodas, but enjoys the community in local bars. As more neighborhood bars are priced out, he says the only people who talk to him at the new ‘sterile’ spots are the bartenders. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">T\u003c/span>he Bay Area is one of the least churchgoing metro regions in the United States, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://cities.barna.org/barna-cities-the-top-churchless-metro-areas/\">survey by the Barna Group\u003c/a>, with 48 percent reporting they don’t attend church anymore and 14 percent saying they’ve never gone to church at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Beckman, an ordained Lutheran minister, says church and religion aren’t about regular attendance at service.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We could change this. But everybody waits for the city to do something. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can do something for these people sleeping on the streets.’ \u003ccite>The Rev. Lyle Beckman,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Night Ministry\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The S.F. Night Ministry holds what it calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfnightministry.org/joomla30/index.php/programs/open-cathedral\">open cathedrals\u003c/a> — outdoor services. Beckman says some of the people most in need of comfort are those who cannot stand in a room or be silent for an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The real work of the church isn’t about what comes out of the archbishop’s office,” Beckman says. “It’s about what the church does feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, giving access to social services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005110 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Lyle Beckman points out where we are on an intricate mural depicting the ghosts of churches leaving the Tenderloin. With them often go services rendered to the poor and homeless in the area. \" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-800x522.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_mural-960x626.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Lyle Beckman points out where we are on an intricate mural depicting the ghosts of churches leaving the Tenderloin. With them often go services rendered to the poor and homeless in the area. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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>n the Tenderloin, Beckman has noticed that at the beginning of each month, when folks get their Social Security or other assistance payments, there are fewer people on the streets than usual. But he is sure that he’s needed anyway. While other institutions may provide shelter, food and services, Beckman and the other night ministers may be out in the neighborhood all night, listening to, hugging and praying with the homeless and most vulnerable residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could change this,” Beckman says, pointing down Turk Street. “But everybody waits for the city to do something. If we put our heads and hearts together, we can do something for these people sleeping on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness is part of the landscape, with a 2015 city count showing that 60 percent of those living without shelter in the city were found in the Tenderloin and South of Market.\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\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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://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/aside>\n\u003cp>Beckman ponders what change will bring to the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wonder often, what’s the future of the Tenderloin? Will it lose its character?” said Beckman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no shortage of character in front of Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, a gay bar on Turk. Outside on the sidewalk, a local named Tim Haley has set up a grill and the aroma of barbecue permeates the air. He sells sausage links, ribs, chicken and other favorites to bar patrons and his Tenderloin regulars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005112\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005112 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-800x571.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-400x285.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-1180x842.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_BBQ-960x685.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After popping in to the Tenderloin’s legendary Aunt Charlie’s on the corner of Turk Street and Taylor Street, a woman asks the pastor: “He has a purple aura, doesn’t he?” referring to Tim Haley (right) who barbecues and sells sausage links, ribs, chicken and other meats for bar patrons and Tenderloin regulars. For $6, Haley gave her enough meat for her and her friends to have a good dinner. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">‘H\u003c/span>e has a purple aura, doesn’t he?” a woman asks, referring to Haley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckman stops to check out the aura and waves his hands in the air as if to outline the purple glow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman looks at Beckman for a moment, realizing he’s a man of the cloth. She asks him if people who kill themselves go to hell. She explains her brother had taken his own life. Beckman softly explains that his God is one of forgiveness and compassion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one is going to hell tonight,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005117 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-800x558.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-800x558.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-400x279.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-1180x822.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/Pastor_Help-1-960x669.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman asks the pastor to pray for her husband and dog, who she says had both been stabbed a few days earlier. He comforts her and says he’ll pray for all of them. For Pastor Beckman, this corner is ground zero.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \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\">T\u003c/span>im Haley says he’s a recovering addict who used to be homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fell a long way back,” Haley says. He used to work at an apartment building around the corner. When they fired everyone, he went on a downward spiral, but found his way back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I never would get out of that stuff,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11005113\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11005113 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Haley who used to be homeless and addicted to drugs, but turned his life around and now hands out food to folks who needs it and takes donations to pay for more meat. \" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-400x261.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-1180x769.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/NM_TimHaley-960x626.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Haley, who used to be homeless and addicted to drugs, turned his life around and now hands out food to folks who needs it and takes donations to pay for more meat. \u003ccite>(Natalie Yemenidjian/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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\">B\u003c/span>eckman has a striking presence as he walks through the Tenderloin. While most of us, conditioned by “mean world syndrome” and a thousand other anxieties, might put on some kind of psychic armor, Beckman seems unguarded in his exchanges with people on the street. He’s affectionate, but not overbearing. His 6-foot-4-inch frame, draped in black, is somehow more comforting than intimidating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we walk down Turk Street, there is no one that Beckman will not stop for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Over 6,600 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to a 2015 count by the city. That includes not just people living on the streets, but those residing in shelters, cars, and other temporary locations. As part of Forum’s “In My Experience” series, and as part of the SF Homeless Project media collaboration, homeless Bay Area residents take us inside their day-to-day lives and share some of the personal stories behind the statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_2010101855465\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Jackie Juarez, Pastor Elaine Amos, Harmonie Taylor, and Mark\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2010101855465\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-400x267.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2016/06/use-group-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Jackie Juarez, Pastor Elaine Amos, Harmonie Taylor, and Mark \u003ccite>(Amanda Stupi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Moving Somewhere More Affordable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried to get out of San Francisco. I would love to get out of San Francisco. But outside of San Francisco, the places are starting to get expensive too. Because they know people are trying to leave San Francisco to find affordable housing, so for them to make money they’re raising their prices.” — Pastor Elaine Amos\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the Stress of Being Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we going to wake up in the morning? Are we going to get shot through our tent for being homeless? Are we going to wake up in the morning and have to move our stuff? It’s very, very stressful every single day, every minute being out there.” — Jackie Juarez\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I cry every night. It stresses me. I deal with a lot of pregnant girls and I cry to see them out there and to see people getting killed, the homeless dying. I talk with them constantly and it’s overwhelming. I cry myself to sleep wishing there was just something that would fall out of the sky where I could just help everyone.” — Pastor Elaine Amos\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On What Services Should be Provided\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Psychological services and the opportunity to be able to make money, and if they could somehow lend money to get a deposit down on an apartment.” — Mark\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They definitely need more transitional housing, for youth, coming basically out of the system or foster care or whatever the situation is. They hit 18 and basically the only option they have is homelessness.” — Harmonie Taylor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they come out and try to get you to move, have a solution, a place for you to go.” — Jackie Juarez\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On Police and City Officials\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being homeless with the police was horrible, it was very, very horrible. 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