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.
L.A. County Pushes ‘Millionaire's Tax’ to Help Homeless
Pitching the Economic Logic for Ending Homelessness in San Francisco
Navigating a Path From Homelessness to Housing in San Francisco
A Visit to Pier 80, S.F.'s Temporary Homeless Shelter in Remote Corner of City
Life on Division Street: 'I Never Thought It Would Be Part of My Walk'
S.F. Clears Tent Camps From Division Street Neighborhood
A Conversation Between a Mother and Her Son, Both of Whom Are Homeless
The Faces Behind Contra Costa's Annual Homeless Count
Tent Cities Compete With Super Bowl City for Attention
Can Oakland Better Support Residents Living in Homeless Encampments?
The Important, Imperfect Science of Counting L.A.'s Homeless
Boxed In on San Francisco's Streets: Homeless Man Shares His Story
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is on a campaign to show that the city’s latest tools to combat homeless — its Navigation Centers — are producing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, Lee has popped up for photo ops at these new shelters and the supportive housing units that go along with them. Behind the scenes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=904\">the city's homeless czar, Sam Dodge\u003c/a>, has been gathering data to build the case another way -- with numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dodge at the old Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street at Market. He showed me a small room he thinks will save many people's lives. It was nothing special -- just a well-used hotel room with a new coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This hotel has been converted into the city’s second Navigation Center. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">The first is near the 16th Street BART Station\u003c/a> in the Mission, and the city is currently planning a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these new shelters the homeless can come for a few months to sign up for benefits and get on a path to housing. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/24/navigating-a-path-from-homelessness-to-housing-in-san-francisco\">The city is buying up other old hotels\u003c/a> to accommodate the homeless coming out of these shelters. “Absent this kind of intensive intervention,” Dodge says, “they are going to die on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Absent this kind of intensive intervention, they are going to die on the street.' \u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homeless czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high for Dodge, who last October became the director of the city's Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement. The city is spending $241 million a year on homelessness, and Mayor Lee is counting on Dodge to make the Navigation Centers successful and to show voters the city can tackle an issue that has plagued it for decades. Everyone, Dodge says, is watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an open experiment that a lot of the city has been following in the past year,\" he says. In order to prove the experiment is working, Dodge is gathering hard data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it is tracking what happens to every person passing through a Navigation Center. Dodge says 80 percent or so of the clients, about 430 people, have moved into housing or in with family. He says that success rate has helped him convince the city to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a way to really tell the story about how we can use supportive housing to solve the homeless crisis,” Dodge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. There are still thousands of homeless people in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\">Tent encampments are swelling\u003c/a> beneath the freeways. Critics say the Navigation Centers take too long to get people into housing and cost too much to set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make his case, Dodge has to pull out a calculator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I end up having to make economic arguments,” he says. “They resonate more than the moral or ethical arguments.” This, he says, is just the sad reality of living in our neoliberal society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Dodge’s reluctant economic pitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $241 million the city spends on homelessness is only 3 percent of the whole budget, he says, not that much for what he considers to be the city’s biggest issue. Housing, Dodge says, is the cheapest way to deal with the problem. He says out on the street the worst-off homeless cost the city $80,000 per person a year in emergency services. On the other hand, he says it takes only $20,000 a year to shelter and care for a homeless person with supportive housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not as if we're not spending money,” Dodge says. “It's just we aren't getting good results for that money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge says that even operating optimally, a lot more would have to be spent to really address homelessness. The Navigation Centers will not fix the problem, he says, but he hopes they are enough to make people believe a solution is possible.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Renay Nonog does not have a bed. She decided to get a futon instead. Every morning she folds the futon into a couch and tucks away her blankets. This way visitors like me have somewhere to sit. Nonog likes guests, but she is not used to welcoming them into her home. This is the first one she has had in six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nonog is living in a room at the old Henry Hotel at Sixth and Mission streets, one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/6th-and-Mission-intersection-city-s-hottest-crime-2369466.php\" target=\"_blank\">the city's toughest corners\u003c/a>. The city has partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\">Episcopal Community Services\u003c/a> to lease the run-down SRO and transform it into supportive housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905685\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years.\" width=\"266\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the new residents, like Nonog, are coming from the city's Navigation Center. The year-old shelter has different rules from most and promises a quick transition from the street to housing. The city is touting the shelter as an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">innovative approach to homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are so confident about the Navigation Center that it's in the process of opening a second one, along with 200 more supportive housing units for those transitioning out of these shelters. The idea is that this housing, like the old Henry Hotel, will be a next step for those leaving the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog moved into her room about a month ago. The place is about 8 feet by 12 feet. The room is packed with her belongings -- her collection of baseball hats, a stand with cosmetics, a television. There is a little sink, which is great, Nonog says, because she can hand-wash her clothes. She tells me not to look in her closet. It’s too messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/254832499\" 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>Nonog says she has been homeless for six years. Near the end, a man she thought was her friend started abusing her. She had to get off the street, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was determined because I was tired,” she says, “This foot says, 'I'm tired.' This one says, 'Me, too.' I'm sorry to get sentimental. It's just a blessing. You know, that I did this, this far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog went to the Navigation Center, which is located at an old public school site on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets. Residents are expected to work with case managers to get signed up for benefits and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog followed the rules, she says, so after about a month the shelter staff sent her to the hotel. They gave her a little housewarming package before she left -- a toaster oven, soup pot and some other kitchen supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love to cook,\" Nonog says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog also brought some things she had been carrying around with her for years. She has a sound system she found on the street. She tied it in plastic bags and let it sit for a week to kill any bugs that could be living inside it. Next to the sound system are all the CDs she’s picked up over the years. At the top of the stack are Beethoven and Al Green, two of her favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navigation Center is designed for the chronically homeless, people who have been on the street for over a year. So far, 142 people have passed through the center into housing. That is a fraction of what the city estimates to be about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-homeless-population-getting-sicker-older-6387308.php\" target=\"_blank\">1,700 chronically homeless\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\">director of Mayor Ed Lee's office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement\u003c/a>, or HOPE. Basically, he's the city’s homelessness czar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless.'\u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homelessness czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dodge says the Navigation Center is just a start, a way to show that the city can actually address homelessness. It pursued a lease of the Henry Hotel in part to provide a next step for those coming out of the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry “is not the end for them,” Dodge says, “It's just a vehicle that they can land in permanent housing and then work on for the rest of their lives for whatever goals they are pursuing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge says there is no quick fix. The chronically homeless often do not have IDs, bank accounts or health care. They suffer from physical disabilities, mental illness or the trauma that comes with living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905686\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10905686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Loretta Olivencia runs the support services at The Henry Hotel\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loretta Olivencia runs support services at the Henry Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel is now operated by Episcopal Community Services, which provides on-site case managers to help out residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Olivencia runs all the support services at the Henry. She says new tenants have lots of questions. Some are big ones like how to manage money, get health care or apply for a job. But sometimes residents just need to know where to buy furniture and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel has not always been a place to go for answers. It has a dark history. There are bullet holes in the front facade. And the furniture in the rooms is still bolted to the floor. But the building has been made over -- cleaned and repainted. For many here, like Phillip Torres, it is the best housing they have had in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'\u003ccite>Phillip Torres,\u003cbr>\nHenry Hotel resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I ask Phillip Torres to introduce himself, he says he is “a 31-year old Puerto Rican male from San Francisco.” Torres says he has been homeless since he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is showing me his room. It takes him a minute to open the door. He is not used to using a key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905682\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11.\" width=\"291\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres is in a relationship with Renay Nonog, but they are staying in separate rooms, getting their own lives together. Torres says for years he has had no real family. He relied on a gang for support and often had to fend for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've slept under cardboard,” Toress says, “I've went couch-hopping. I've went into abandoned homes. I’ve put a .357 to my head because I wasn't loved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres tells me there were four times he prepared to shoot himself. We are sitting on his bed. On a side table there is a yellow notepad. It's opened to the sketch of a flower, a tulip. Torres has written rap lyrics next to his drawing. He says the song is all about leaving gang life behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says the hotel is only temporary. He wants to move with Nonog into their own place and have a normal life. Exactly how they will do that, he doesn’t know yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says he is just trying to take it one step at a time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Renay Nonog does not have a bed. She decided to get a futon instead. Every morning she folds the futon into a couch and tucks away her blankets. This way visitors like me have somewhere to sit. Nonog likes guests, but she is not used to welcoming them into her home. This is the first one she has had in six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nonog is living in a room at the old Henry Hotel at Sixth and Mission streets, one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/6th-and-Mission-intersection-city-s-hottest-crime-2369466.php\" target=\"_blank\">the city's toughest corners\u003c/a>. The city has partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\">Episcopal Community Services\u003c/a> to lease the run-down SRO and transform it into supportive housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905685\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years.\" width=\"266\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the new residents, like Nonog, are coming from the city's Navigation Center. The year-old shelter has different rules from most and promises a quick transition from the street to housing. The city is touting the shelter as an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">innovative approach to homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are so confident about the Navigation Center that it's in the process of opening a second one, along with 200 more supportive housing units for those transitioning out of these shelters. The idea is that this housing, like the old Henry Hotel, will be a next step for those leaving the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog moved into her room about a month ago. The place is about 8 feet by 12 feet. The room is packed with her belongings -- her collection of baseball hats, a stand with cosmetics, a television. There is a little sink, which is great, Nonog says, because she can hand-wash her clothes. She tells me not to look in her closet. It’s too messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Basically, he's the city’s homelessness czar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless.'\u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homelessness czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dodge says the Navigation Center is just a start, a way to show that the city can actually address homelessness. It pursued a lease of the Henry Hotel in part to provide a next step for those coming out of the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry “is not the end for them,” Dodge says, “It's just a vehicle that they can land in permanent housing and then work on for the rest of their lives for whatever goals they are pursuing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge says there is no quick fix. The chronically homeless often do not have IDs, bank accounts or health care. They suffer from physical disabilities, mental illness or the trauma that comes with living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905686\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10905686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Loretta Olivencia runs the support services at The Henry Hotel\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loretta Olivencia runs support services at the Henry Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel is now operated by Episcopal Community Services, which provides on-site case managers to help out residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Olivencia runs all the support services at the Henry. She says new tenants have lots of questions. Some are big ones like how to manage money, get health care or apply for a job. But sometimes residents just need to know where to buy furniture and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel has not always been a place to go for answers. It has a dark history. There are bullet holes in the front facade. And the furniture in the rooms is still bolted to the floor. But the building has been made over -- cleaned and repainted. For many here, like Phillip Torres, it is the best housing they have had in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'\u003ccite>Phillip Torres,\u003cbr>\nHenry Hotel resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I ask Phillip Torres to introduce himself, he says he is “a 31-year old Puerto Rican male from San Francisco.” Torres says he has been homeless since he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is showing me his room. 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He is not used to using a key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905682\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11.\" width=\"291\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres is in a relationship with Renay Nonog, but they are staying in separate rooms, getting their own lives together. 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He’d heard of it, he said, but had no idea where it was.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I had to backtrack to Illinois Street to find the shelter, a cavernous warehouse once occupied by billionaire Larry Ellison’s America’s Cup yacht-racing team that now serves as a refuge for some of the city’s most destitute residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Located in a desolate part of the city’s southeast waterfront, the facility is surrounded by chainlink fences topped by razor wire and acres of empty asphalt crisscrossed by defunct railroad tracks. Just outside the fence, a man lies behind some bushes, apparently searching for a vein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially designated by the city as a temporary shelter from expected El Niño rains, Pier 80 has been pressed into service as a destination for some of those recently forced to disband tent camps in the South of Market and Mission districts. The center has grown from 100 to 120 to 150 and now to 180 “beds” — foam mats laid in rows on the floor of a giant tent inside the warehouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The building also houses a room filled with plastic tables and chairs arrayed in front of a TV. The facility also features showers, portable toilets and dog crates where shelter residents can keep their pets. 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The sound of a basketball bouncing and a woman’s inarticulate, staccato shouting echoed off the structure’s metal walls. None of the handful of people I encountered at the shelter wanted to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee’s homeless czar, Sam Dodge, said that since there’s no curfew or checkout at the shelter, the facility clears out every day and fills up again at night. Not that every spot in the shelter is taken: Dodge said that about 30 beds have been vacant each night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are making other choices,” Dodge said. “You know, people have civil rights, and we make the opportunities available, and we try to work with people to get in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the city’s Coalition on Homelessness, said there are other reasons many beds are going unclaimed at Pier 80. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Public Works moved in before dawn Tuesday to remove dozens of tents and their residents from the Division Street corridor that the city declared a health hazard last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru said crews were removing about 30 tents from a stretch of Division Street running from about Eighth Street to 13th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10882817\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1598.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10882817\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10882817\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1598-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beth Stromer, 45, one of the residents evicted early Tuesday from Division Street's tent camp.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1598-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_1598.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beth Stromer, 45, one of the residents evicted early Tuesday from Division Street’s tent camp. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said dozens more homeless campers were also being evicted from San Bruno Avenue and other streets near Showplace Square. The area has been frequented for years by people living on the street — and the scene of periodic city clearing and cleanup operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleanup crews were accompanied by police officers. Nuru said people ordered to move from the Division Street corridor, beneath the Central Freeway, were cooperative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said some of the conditions uncovered during Tuesday’s operation “left no doubt this is a public health hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve seen rats, mice, lots of feces, urine, rotting garbage,” said Gordon, standing near Trainor Street, off 14th between Harrison and Folsom. “Just behind me, hundreds of pounds of garbage are being picked up. Just from this one small street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But campers said they’re unhappy with city action that puts them on the move without any clear idea of what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just cleared us all out,” said Beth Stromer, 45, one of those evicted from the tents along Division Street. “[They] said, ‘Don’t come back’. Put up barricades. I don’t know what to do next.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stromer wept as she said she’s waiting to see whether she can get into a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d just like to get back to my family in Yuba City,” she said. “But I messed all that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebecca Padilla, 34, described the morning as “chaotic” and “stressful” and said she doesn’t know where she’ll sleep Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think too many people care, to tell you the truth,” Padilla said. “But they fail to realize we’re no different from anybody else You know, maybe our backgrounds may be a little different, but did anybody ever think about what we’ve been through? What’s happened to us, you know? Some of us don’t have anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many campers began moving from the area after the Department of Public Health notice last week. Some have relocated to Pier 80, where the city has created a new shelter. Others have simply shifted to streets in the South of Market and Mission districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10882866\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/divisionstreetb.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10882866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10882866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/divisionstreetb-400x297.jpg\" alt=\"Ana Held, one of the tent residents forced to move off Division Street, pulls cart with her belongings to a new location near South Van Ness Avenue.\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/divisionstreetb-400x297.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/divisionstreetb.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Held, one of the tent residents forced to move off Division Street, pulls cart with her belongings to a new location near South Van Ness Avenue. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Martin Taylor/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ana Held, 29, another tent resident forced to leave Tuesday, said she intended to relocate to Plum Street, off South Van Ness Avenue just a few blocks from Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to go to Pier 80 because it’s temporary, for one,” she said. “For two, it’s a tarp on the floor. I’ve got a tarp on the floor with my tent, you know what I mean? And I can make it more comfortable than I could at Pier 80, so I’d rather stay in my tent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru acknowledged in an early-morning interview from the scene that the homeless campers aren’t going far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people are going to nearby streets,” he said. “Other people are just rolling away from the areas that we’ve told them they cannot be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuru said the city is working to prevent future homeless encampments in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to have a few police barricades that will just tell people that these areas are part of the areas that have been declared a public health nuisance and that people cannot come here,” Nuru said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Christian Lee is a fourth-grader at Richmond College Prep. He excels in math, is a good reader and can draw pretty well. He even skipped kindergarten because he was ahead of his class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is also considered homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a conversation with his mother, Danielle Parker, 8-year-old Christian says he thinks about being homeless while in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/247948438\" 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>\"It makes me feel kind of sad,\" he tells her. \"That's one of the reasons I'm kind of distracted a lot because I'm really focused on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing these stories is important to understanding how to help the families and children who deal with long commutes, tired eyes or stress in school and life as a result of being homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California alone, nearly 300,000 children experience homelessness throughout the school year in some form, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.kidsdata.org/topic/230/homeless-students/table#fmt=355&loc=127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335,2&tf=79&sortType=asc\">KidsData\u003c/a>. That growing number also shows that a majority of the state's homeless students are in elementary schools, like Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many people don't know much about who these children are or what their stories sound like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Mohan, who founded \u003ca href=\"http://www.calcep.org/\">Community Education Partnerships\u003c/a> in 2010 to help tutor Bay Area homeless students, says many people she speaks with about youth homelessness initially think of families living on the street, which is just one way that homelessness can look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to challenge those stereotypes. And I think once we do that we’re going to find people willing to engage with homeless families and get the help and support that they need,” says Mohan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are several definitions of what student homelessness actually looks like, according to the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg116.html\">McKinney-Vento Act\u003c/a>. Included are students \"who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence,\" which may mean they live with relatives, in an emergency shelter or in a motel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, most homeless youth live in families that are \"doubled up,\" or live with other families in the same household, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://nchespp.serve.org/profile/CA?residence_year=2012-13\">National Center for Homeless Education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effects that different types of \u003ca href=\"http://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/toxic-stress/\">stress and trauma\u003c/a> can have on children have been well documented, along with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.icphusa.org/PDF/reports/Aftershocks_2_3_A_FIN.pdf\">impact of homelessness\u003c/a> and poverty on young people trying to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people, like those involved in the \u003ca href=\"http://cahomelessyouth.library.ca.gov/docs/pdf/CaliforniasHomelessStudents_AGrowingPopulation.pdf\">California Homeless Youth Project\u003c/a>, have argued that understanding homelessness as its own separate issue is important to understanding the unique needs of homeless children and families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stories like Danielle's and Christian's help us form the emotional connection to all the numbers and data that are used to make change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The story of Danielle and Christian came out of KQED's Oakland Open Newsroom, where we asked the public for their story ideas.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The last time it rained, Jarrett Keesling watched from under a bridge as the canal in front of his tent encampment rose past the pillars that held up a small overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tend to hunker us down,\" said Keesling, who's 30 and lives in a tent with his dog, Douja, and his friend, Kelly Lengele. \"I'm pretty good at MacGyvering us a shelter. When this thing floods, I sit right here and watch it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they often have to move. And the last time they did, they lost a bunch of clothes. Keesling says the clothes were picked up by the county and that these were items they could have used to keep warm.\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854761 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0170\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to stay at a shelter but, yeah, my dog. That's my kid,\" said Keesling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frequently, those seeking shelter are not allowed to take their pets with them. So Keesling chooses to stay outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to keep her in the van while I stayed in the shelter and I was up all night, periodically checking on her. I felt bad. Guilty. My dog should be sleeping in my bed with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federally Mandated Count\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling is one of many faces behind Contra Costa's annual Point in Time \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29446196/contra-contra-county-conducts-annual-homeless-census\" target=\"_blank\">homelessness count\u003c/a>. Every year for the past 11 years, the county has sent volunteers to canvass encampments as part of a national federally mandated count conducted by all counties that receive federal funding for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have an extremely tight housing market. And it will be interesting to see how our housing market has impacted our numbers over the last year,\" said Lavonna Martin, chief of homeless services for Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind the numbers are people with stories. Here are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854689 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0183\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling has been homeless on and off since he was 14. He met Lengele when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was a typical teen, picking fights with the older guys,\" said Keesling. \"Kelly was the one who'd stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling considers her to be his best friend, \"and then some.\" But when they first got together, they were in disagreement about the other female in his life: his dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Dude, the dog sleeps in the bed, I'm sorry. She is my foot warmer,' \" he said. \"Now she gets it and is like, 'OK, warm feet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling said that it was Lengele who saved him from a rough and abusive relationship. When he said that, Lengele chimed in from the back. \"You saved yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854743 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0251\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things Fell Apart in 2012\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'enha Brown has been homeless since March 15, 2012. That was the year she lost her father, godfather and boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then life changed,\" she said. \"I had to figure it out because I don't know how to do homelessness. I've always been sheltered and comfortable and housed. I've never been \u003cem>this\u003c/em> kind of homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she lived under bridges with friends. She called it \"hell's kitchen,\" and a place that became \"dangerously comfortable\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each day is a different test,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown said she's grateful for the challenges. They shaped her, she said. Her most recent challenge involved the house she was supposed to move into a few weeks ago. There have been a lot of delays, but she shrugs them off. As far as she's concerned, she said, she's already been through hellfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a glitch in the matrix. It's minor. Minuscule. God got it. I ain't worried about it,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10854686 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0239\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving to a Boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Mannering was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He's been at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord for about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't require a whole lot. I just want a place where I can be secure, safe and happy,\" said Mannering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became homeless after he couldn't find an affordable place that would take him and his dogs. But being at the shelter gave him some time to save up enough money to buy a boat. It's not ready, he said, and it needs a lot of work. But he said he'll sleep on the floor if he has to. It's the first time in a long time that he's had a place to call his own. He'll be moving in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd rather sit in a room with my dogs on my lap and a cup of coffee watching the water go by. To me, that's good living,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854756 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0284\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clean for nine months\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Williams, 43, has been homeless for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in an abusive relationship and was addicted to drugs. But once she was diagnosed with cancer, she knew she had to turn her life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew I needed help,\" said Williams, who was living on the streets at the time. And if she wasn't on the streets, she said, she was in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who has eight children and seven grandchildren, met her husband at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord. She receives treatment for her cancer regularly, and has been clean for nine months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got everything from here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The last time it rained, Jarrett Keesling watched from under a bridge as the canal in front of his tent encampment rose past the pillars that held up a small overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tend to hunker us down,\" said Keesling, who's 30 and lives in a tent with his dog, Douja, and his friend, Kelly Lengele. \"I'm pretty good at MacGyvering us a shelter. When this thing floods, I sit right here and watch it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they often have to move. And the last time they did, they lost a bunch of clothes. Keesling says the clothes were picked up by the county and that these were items they could have used to keep warm.\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854761 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0170\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0170-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to stay at a shelter but, yeah, my dog. That's my kid,\" said Keesling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frequently, those seeking shelter are not allowed to take their pets with them. So Keesling chooses to stay outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I used to keep her in the van while I stayed in the shelter and I was up all night, periodically checking on her. I felt bad. Guilty. My dog should be sleeping in my bed with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Federally Mandated Count\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling is one of many faces behind Contra Costa's annual Point in Time \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_29446196/contra-contra-county-conducts-annual-homeless-census\" target=\"_blank\">homelessness count\u003c/a>. Every year for the past 11 years, the county has sent volunteers to canvass encampments as part of a national federally mandated count conducted by all counties that receive federal funding for homeless services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have an extremely tight housing market. And it will be interesting to see how our housing market has impacted our numbers over the last year,\" said Lavonna Martin, chief of homeless services for Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But behind the numbers are people with stories. Here are a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854689 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0183\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0183-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling has been homeless on and off since he was 14. He met Lengele when he was a teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was a typical teen, picking fights with the older guys,\" said Keesling. \"Kelly was the one who'd stop it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling considers her to be his best friend, \"and then some.\" But when they first got together, they were in disagreement about the other female in his life: his dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was like, 'Dude, the dog sleeps in the bed, I'm sorry. She is my foot warmer,' \" he said. \"Now she gets it and is like, 'OK, warm feet.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keesling said that it was Lengele who saved him from a rough and abusive relationship. When he said that, Lengele chimed in from the back. \"You saved yourself,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854743 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0251\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0251-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Things Fell Apart in 2012\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>T'enha Brown has been homeless since March 15, 2012. That was the year she lost her father, godfather and boyfriend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then life changed,\" she said. \"I had to figure it out because I don't know how to do homelessness. I've always been sheltered and comfortable and housed. I've never been \u003cem>this\u003c/em> kind of homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, she lived under bridges with friends. She called it \"hell's kitchen,\" and a place that became \"dangerously comfortable\".\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each day is a different test,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Brown said she's grateful for the challenges. They shaped her, she said. Her most recent challenge involved the house she was supposed to move into a few weeks ago. There have been a lot of delays, but she shrugs them off. As far as she's concerned, she said, she's already been through hellfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a glitch in the matrix. It's minor. Minuscule. God got it. I ain't worried about it,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10854686 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0239\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0239-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving to a Boat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthew Mannering was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He's been at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord for about four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't require a whole lot. I just want a place where I can be secure, safe and happy,\" said Mannering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He became homeless after he couldn't find an affordable place that would take him and his dogs. But being at the shelter gave him some time to save up enough money to buy a boat. It's not ready, he said, and it needs a lot of work. But he said he'll sleep on the floor if he has to. It's the first time in a long time that he's had a place to call his own. He'll be moving in this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd rather sit in a room with my dogs on my lap and a cup of coffee watching the water go by. To me, that's good living,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10854756 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0284\" width=\"5472\" height=\"3648\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284.jpg 5472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/IMG_0284-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Clean for nine months\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Williams, 43, has been homeless for more than five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was in an abusive relationship and was addicted to drugs. But once she was diagnosed with cancer, she knew she had to turn her life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew I needed help,\" said Williams, who was living on the streets at the time. And if she wasn't on the streets, she said, she was in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who has eight children and seven grandchildren, met her husband at the Adult Homeless Shelter in Concord. She receives treatment for her cancer regularly, and has been clean for nine months now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got everything from here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It's a tale of two cities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Super Bowl City, recently erected on San Francisco's waterfront, was built to entertain visitors from around the world as they flock to the Bay Area for football's biggest event.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another, much less glamorous community, is made of tents, tarps and even welcome mats and an American flag: the tent cities and homeless encampments lining many San Francisco thoroughfares. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the runup to the Super Bowl, there's been speculation that these homeless encampments would be forcibly cleared out. The question no one seems able to answer, however, is where would all the homeless people go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We followed along on a recent morning as a cleanup crew from San Francisco Public Works went to various homeless encampments to sweep up garbage and scrub sidewalks.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Darryl McMath is an environmental service worker with Public Works. Dressed in a light-blue Tyvek suit and wearing heavy protective gloves, he approached a homeless man camped on Shotwell Street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend, are there any other things you would like to get rid of?” McMath asked gently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">McMath threw out a few cardboard boxes, but didn’t disturb the man’s tent or the belongings piled around it — including about two dozen bicycle wheels, a wooden pallet and clothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day, an average of a ton of trash, human waste and hypodermic needles is hauled off by McMath and other crews across the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said the crews don’t take personal property or force anyone to move. Instead, they clean around the tents, she said, and try to keep the sidewalks as clean and sanitary as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a different encampment, under Highway 101 at San Bruno Avenue, David Tompkins said things are different when the media aren’t around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t ask you to move, they tell you to move,” Tompkins said, indicating the Public Works crew. “I woke up to these guys throwing my things in the garbage.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every homeless person seems to have a different story. Rebecca Padilla lives in a tent under the freeway on Division Street, where tents often line both sides of the street and fill the median strip. 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The city operates about 1,200 shelter beds year-round and has been constructing temporary rain shelters for the winter months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But many of the homeless people we spoke to complained that shelters are dirty, dangerous and, ultimately, only a short-term solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just let you stay in their shelter for a week or two, and then they throw you back out on the street,” said Marin Santi. At 38, Santi says she’s been homeless since she was 11.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s like, why put yourself through that, get comfortable in a bed, just to go back out on the streets?\" she said. \"That’s just a torture of another torture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly before Christmas, Santi moved into the city’s new pilot project, the Navigation Center. Unlike other shelters, the Navigation Center is designed for long-term stays. Homeless people can move in as a group and bring their pets -- and they can stay as long as it takes to find permanent housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge, whose title is director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnership & Engagement (HOPE), knows many of the clients at the Navigation Center. On a recent visit, he congratulated one man on finding housing and gave Santi a hug to welcome her. “Get warm and rest up,” he told Santi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been in and out of group homes,” Santi said. “I never stayed long because I was always paranoid. I have bad paranoia schizophrenia.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santi hopes the Navigation Center, which has 75 beds, will give her the safe haven she needs to get her life in order. Dodge says it takes an average of 70 days to place people with long-term housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of San Francisco's estimated 6,700 homeless people live on the streets -- an existence that makes it hard to avoid breaking the law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, San Francisco police handed out about 2,300 citations a month — or 77 a day — for offenses such as sleeping in the park, blocking a sidewalk or drinking in public, according to city statistics. When the citations pile up, offenders can be taken to jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santi said she’d been jailed three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take my tent, they’ve put my dog in jail,” she said. “I have no clothes, no tent, they’ve taken everything I own.” Including, Santi said, her medications for HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge and others recognize the futility of arresting homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My police colleagues tell me all the time that they want more real solutions, that people need housing, they need a place to go,” Dodge said. But housing in the Bay Area is already in short supply and building affordable housing can take years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Ending homelessness is a matter of both resources and political will and public support,” said Dodge.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The annual homeless count has stayed relatively stable in recent years and suggests only a small growth in actual numbers. Gordon, with the DPW, thinks that widespread development is pushing homeless people into more central areas. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Our crews certainly have seen that they’re more visible,” Gordon said. And that means more friction and more calls to the city’s 311 information and service request phone line.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s often a 311 call that Public Works crews are responding to on their morning routes. Until a long-term solution to homelessness is found, they’ll continue their daily visits to homeless encampments, morning after morning, from 4 a.m. until midday, sweeping, scrubbing and hauling away trash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you could offer a way out, most people here would grab it with both hands,” said David Tompkins, who shelters in a tiny wooden box on wheels that he constructed himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Tompkins takes a pretty cynical view of city leadership.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Who wants to tackle a problem in public office when there is no fix?” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Dressed in a light-blue Tyvek suit and wearing heavy protective gloves, he approached a homeless man camped on Shotwell Street.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My friend, are there any other things you would like to get rid of?” McMath asked gently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">McMath threw out a few cardboard boxes, but didn’t disturb the man’s tent or the belongings piled around it — including about two dozen bicycle wheels, a wooden pallet and clothing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every day, an average of a ton of trash, human waste and hypodermic needles is hauled off by McMath and other crews across the city. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said the crews don’t take personal property or force anyone to move. Instead, they clean around the tents, she said, and try to keep the sidewalks as clean and sanitary as possible.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But at a different encampment, under Highway 101 at San Bruno Avenue, David Tompkins said things are different when the media aren’t around. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They don’t ask you to move, they tell you to move,” Tompkins said, indicating the Public Works crew. “I woke up to these guys throwing my things in the garbage.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every homeless person seems to have a different story. Rebecca Padilla lives in a tent under the freeway on Division Street, where tents often line both sides of the street and fill the median strip. She said she’s been homeless for about a year, and is now worried that the Super Bowl means more trouble from the police. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We were told that we had to move from the area because of the Super Bowl,” Padilla said. “The mayor doesn’t want all this to be seen by the public eye.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mayor Ed Lee made headlines last August when he was widely quoted as saying that the city’s homeless “must leave the streets” before the Super Bowl. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Sam Dodge, the mayor’s point man on homelessness, said the mayor’s remarks were blown out of proportion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There's no formal city policy and no instructions given to cops to move people for the Super Bowl,” Dodge said. “The real things that we're concerned with right now are El Niño and people's health.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge said outreach workers have been trying to connect homeless people with alternatives, including services and shelter beds. The city operates about 1,200 shelter beds year-round and has been constructing temporary rain shelters for the winter months. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But many of the homeless people we spoke to complained that shelters are dirty, dangerous and, ultimately, only a short-term solution.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“They just let you stay in their shelter for a week or two, and then they throw you back out on the street,” said Marin Santi. At 38, Santi says she’s been homeless since she was 11.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So it’s like, why put yourself through that, get comfortable in a bed, just to go back out on the streets?\" she said. \"That’s just a torture of another torture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shortly before Christmas, Santi moved into the city’s new pilot project, the Navigation Center. Unlike other shelters, the Navigation Center is designed for long-term stays. Homeless people can move in as a group and bring their pets -- and they can stay as long as it takes to find permanent housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dodge, whose title is director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnership & Engagement (HOPE), knows many of the clients at the Navigation Center. On a recent visit, he congratulated one man on finding housing and gave Santi a hug to welcome her. “Get warm and rest up,” he told Santi. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I’ve been in and out of group homes,” Santi said. “I never stayed long because I was always paranoid. I have bad paranoia schizophrenia.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santi hopes the Navigation Center, which has 75 beds, will give her the safe haven she needs to get her life in order. Dodge says it takes an average of 70 days to place people with long-term housing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">About half of San Francisco's estimated 6,700 homeless people live on the streets -- an existence that makes it hard to avoid breaking the law. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, San Francisco police handed out about 2,300 citations a month — or 77 a day — for offenses such as sleeping in the park, blocking a sidewalk or drinking in public, according to city statistics. When the citations pile up, offenders can be taken to jail.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santi said she’d been jailed three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They take my tent, they’ve put my dog in jail,” she said. “I have no clothes, no tent, they’ve taken everything I own.” Including, Santi said, her medications for HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge and others recognize the futility of arresting homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My police colleagues tell me all the time that they want more real solutions, that people need housing, they need a place to go,” Dodge said. 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"disqusTitle": "Can Oakland Better Support Residents Living in Homeless Encampments?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Milton Murphy crowds in with a small group under the freeway at 35th and Peralta streets in West Oakland on a recent Wednesday morning. Several people who have been living in this camp over the past few months are standing around, some sweeping their spaces, while the sidewalks fill with stacks of their belongings ready to be picked up and either stored or thrown away by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the scene of a homeless encampment about to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have scouts going out to figure out the best place that would be comfortable and suitable for us as homeless people,” said Murphy, who says he's been living on the streets for about 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244505475\" 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\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It only took about a month for everybody to get here.'\u003ccite>Milton Murphy,\u003cbr>\ncamp resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A paper sign on a nearby concrete pillar says, “Notice to Vacate: Illegal Encampment,” in stark all-caps lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight months of 2015, Oakland cleared homeless encampments 162 times, according to the city. The residents, who often seek shelter under overpasses or in areas tucked away from view, pick up their things and move what they can. Many of them won’t use services offered by the city and nonprofits to find housing, and housing in the East Bay is increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and other major cities are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wiener-city-needs-fast-response-to-homeless-tent-camps\" target=\"_blank\">seeing more homeless encampments\u003c/a>. There are an estimated 2,100 homeless people in Oakland, according to a recent count conducted throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the Bay Area's housing crisis creates more scarcity in Oakland, the city is considering what other options it has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244478583\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height='166' iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camps Often Come Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless encampments in Oakland often begin with just one tent, Murphy tells me. Then they grow and grow. On the morning last week when Murphy and others were cleared from 35th and Peralta, around a dozen tents were still standing, while others had been taken down, their owners in the process of leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It only took about a month for everybody to get here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.'\u003ccite>Joe DeVries,\u003cbr>\nAssistant to the Oakland city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Camp clearing is driven by complaints that get funneled through the city’s Public Works Department. The city will alert an encampment 72 hours before crews clean the site, sometimes with the help of police, said Joe DeVries, the Oakland staffer who receives the complaints. DeVries takes offense when people say the city “closes” homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really providing a cleaning,” he said. “We have rat infestations, human waste, feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where the encampment is located, the previous inhabitants will often resettle in the same spot a day later, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So clearing a camp isn't a permanent answer to the city’s homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to provide something different and better than what we’re doing now,” DeVries said. “But there is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley Students Challenge 'Status Quo'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10585950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland staffer Joe Devries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland staffer Joe DeVries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering alternative solutions that would better serve the growing number of people living on the streets. The city spends around $240,000 annually on its homeless outreach to try and connect homeless people with services, according to DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes that outreach doesn't work, or people don't want to use the services. Plus, some of the encampments have really intricate home designs made out of very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could provide an area for people where they could live temporarily while we navigated them into a permanent supportive housing -- I do believe that would be really helpful,” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalizing homeless encampments was one recommendation in a report written by students at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, which concluded that “the status quo [regarding the camp-clearing process] serves as a cyclical disruption for camp residents and creates an additional barrier on their pathway to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who work with the homeless, whether through the city or a network of nonprofits, are currently committed to finding housing for homeless individuals first, said Peter Radu, one of the five students who co-authored the report for the city’s Human Services Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem now is that the East Bay housing market is just so tight and so expensive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"T4z9JeYT0FikBEKhZkqmElWMWEXS6eSX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with outreach and case managers striving to provide one-on-one help for homeless people, it’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/17/for-one-man-looking-for-housing-means-putting-fatherhood-on-hold\" target=\"_blank\">still hard\u003c/a> to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, there are folks on the street tonight with nowhere to go,” Radu said. “There are not enough shelter beds. And even if there were shelter beds, a lot of folks are unable or unwilling to use those shelter beds because of a lot of personal issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalizing homeless encampments wasn’t among the \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2545922&GUID=434AAC04-C98E-4D9C-A2A9-AB95B964308E&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\">six possible investments\u003c/a> to respond to homelessness proposed to the City Council last week. There were, however, other ideas with “low barriers to entry,\" including creating tiny homes, converting shipping containers into interim housing or modifying a large warehouse for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of our recommendation is definitely being met and we’re very excited,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council plans to vote this week on spending $180,000 more on emergency winter shelters, which could double the number of beds currently available in the city. But funding a larger system, which could provide better accommodations for unsheltered people and also lead to permanent housing, is a more complicated feat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Respect on the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244479286\" 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>Within two days, a dozen tents have already reappeared under the overpass at 35th and Peralta streets. The sidewalks have been swept and the belongings that lay around just a couple of days ago are gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I approach Terrance Dixon, he is lying in his tent, speaking to a friend who sits on a chair right outside the flap. Dixon tells me he is an ex-felon who is addicted to drugs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Milton Murphy crowds in with a small group under the freeway at 35th and Peralta streets in West Oakland on a recent Wednesday morning. Several people who have been living in this camp over the past few months are standing around, some sweeping their spaces, while the sidewalks fill with stacks of their belongings ready to be picked up and either stored or thrown away by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the scene of a homeless encampment about to be cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have scouts going out to figure out the best place that would be comfortable and suitable for us as homeless people,” said Murphy, who says he's been living on the streets for about 12 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/244505475&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/244505475'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It only took about a month for everybody to get here.'\u003ccite>Milton Murphy,\u003cbr>\ncamp resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A paper sign on a nearby concrete pillar says, “Notice to Vacate: Illegal Encampment,” in stark all-caps lettering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last eight months of 2015, Oakland cleared homeless encampments 162 times, according to the city. The residents, who often seek shelter under overpasses or in areas tucked away from view, pick up their things and move what they can. Many of them won’t use services offered by the city and nonprofits to find housing, and housing in the East Bay is increasingly hard to come by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and other major cities are \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wiener-city-needs-fast-response-to-homeless-tent-camps\" target=\"_blank\">seeing more homeless encampments\u003c/a>. There are an estimated 2,100 homeless people in Oakland, according to a recent count conducted throughout Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as the Bay Area's housing crisis creates more scarcity in Oakland, the city is considering what other options it has.\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/244478583&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/244478583'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camps Often Come Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeless encampments in Oakland often begin with just one tent, Murphy tells me. Then they grow and grow. On the morning last week when Murphy and others were cleared from 35th and Peralta, around a dozen tents were still standing, while others had been taken down, their owners in the process of leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It only took about a month for everybody to get here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.'\u003ccite>Joe DeVries,\u003cbr>\nAssistant to the Oakland city manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Camp clearing is driven by complaints that get funneled through the city’s Public Works Department. The city will alert an encampment 72 hours before crews clean the site, sometimes with the help of police, said Joe DeVries, the Oakland staffer who receives the complaints. DeVries takes offense when people say the city “closes” homeless encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really providing a cleaning,” he said. “We have rat infestations, human waste, feces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Depending on where the encampment is located, the previous inhabitants will often resettle in the same spot a day later, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So clearing a camp isn't a permanent answer to the city’s homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do want to provide something different and better than what we’re doing now,” DeVries said. “But there is a certain level of housekeeping that we have to do, or it’s just going to get out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Berkeley Students Challenge 'Status Quo'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10585950\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10585950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland staffer Joe Devries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS15949_IMG_0024-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland staffer Joe DeVries has visited many homeless encampments. He says clearing camps helps maintain the health and safety of residents, and after an area is cleaned it's often quickly repopulated.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland is currently considering alternative solutions that would better serve the growing number of people living on the streets. The city spends around $240,000 annually on its homeless outreach to try and connect homeless people with services, according to DeVries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sometimes that outreach doesn't work, or people don't want to use the services. Plus, some of the encampments have really intricate home designs made out of very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could provide an area for people where they could live temporarily while we navigated them into a permanent supportive housing -- I do believe that would be really helpful,” DeVries said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalizing homeless encampments was one recommendation in a report written by students at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, which concluded that “the status quo [regarding the camp-clearing process] serves as a cyclical disruption for camp residents and creates an additional barrier on their pathway to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People who work with the homeless, whether through the city or a network of nonprofits, are currently committed to finding housing for homeless individuals first, said Peter Radu, one of the five students who co-authored the report for the city’s Human Services Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem now is that the East Bay housing market is just so tight and so expensive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with outreach and case managers striving to provide one-on-one help for homeless people, it’s \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/17/for-one-man-looking-for-housing-means-putting-fatherhood-on-hold\" target=\"_blank\">still hard\u003c/a> to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, there are folks on the street tonight with nowhere to go,” Radu said. “There are not enough shelter beds. And even if there were shelter beds, a lot of folks are unable or unwilling to use those shelter beds because of a lot of personal issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legalizing homeless encampments wasn’t among the \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=2545922&GUID=434AAC04-C98E-4D9C-A2A9-AB95B964308E&Options=&Search=\" target=\"_blank\">six possible investments\u003c/a> to respond to homelessness proposed to the City Council last week. There were, however, other ideas with “low barriers to entry,\" including creating tiny homes, converting shipping containers into interim housing or modifying a large warehouse for shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The spirit of our recommendation is definitely being met and we’re very excited,” Radu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council plans to vote this week on spending $180,000 more on emergency winter shelters, which could double the number of beds currently available in the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244233532\" 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>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. 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You're in a car looking for people, but really the people are not to be found,” says Wade Trimmer, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfvrescuemission.org/\">San Fernando Rescue Mission\u003c/a>, about 30 miles northeast of downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimmer says there’s been a significant spike in the San Fernando Valley’s homeless population. But he doesn’t think it’s accurately reflected in recent L.A. 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County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"W4TkWX7xJXRwXIBiOWoCKIpIUoxFVAGJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's also deploying more teams to far-flung areas of the county where homeless people are harder to find, and expanding efforts to link people to services on the spot. But counts are still done mostly the old-fashioned way, says Wade Trimmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why can't we do the count on the smartphone or do it on a tablet?” wonders Trimmer. “It’s (still) pencil and paper and I have volunteers who are always surprised, who come back and say: 'This is how we do the count?' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LAHSA’s Naomi Goldman says the count is starting to go high tech, though slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're always looking to refine and see what can we improve,\" says Goldman. \"We do have parts of the count that are using iPads and Survey Monkey, which will make some of the counting and some of the process a little more streamlined, a little bit faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results of the 2016 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count should be available by spring.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For three days and nights, several thousand volunteers have fanned out across Los Angeles County trying to get an accurate tally of the county's immense homeless population. The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is considered the largest such effort in the nation. The count is now done annually, one of several changes intended to make it more efficient and effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conducting a \u003ca href=\"http://www.theycountwillyou.org/\">homeless count \u003c/a>is not easy. Volunteers traipse into dry river bottoms, push through thick brush at public parks and cruise along dimly lit city streets.\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/244233532&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/244233532'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer counters are discouraged from having too much interaction with people -- there’s a more comprehensive census-style survey that is done separately from the actual counting -- or from disturbing people holed up in makeshift outdoor shelters or vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10847788\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 700px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=10847788\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10847788 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/homless-count-the-2015-homeless-count-demographic-survey-p1-normal.gif\" alt=\"The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting.\" width=\"700\" height=\"906\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The L.A. County annual homeless count includes a more comprehensive census-style survey portion that's done separately from the actual counting. \u003ccite>(Los Angeles County Homeless Authority)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So volunteers, typically led by members of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lahsa.org/\">Los Angeles County Homeless Authority’s \u003c/a>street outreach team, typically rely on their own intuition, instinct and internal extrapolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an imperfect science, to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way the count is conducted, it is often done drive-by, right. You're in a car looking for people, but really the people are not to be found,” says Wade Trimmer, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://sfvrescuemission.org/\">San Fernando Rescue Mission\u003c/a>, about 30 miles northeast of downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trimmer says there’s been a significant spike in the San Fernando Valley’s homeless population. But he doesn’t think it’s accurately reflected in recent L.A. 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County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg\" alt=\"People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848007\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-800x518.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-768x498.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1440x933.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/HomelessFoodLine-960x622.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait for a meal outside the Midnight Mission on Skid Row. Roughly half of L.A. County’s homeless live in the city of Los Angeles, several thousand in shelters and on the streets of downtown’s Skid Row. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It helps us advocate for our fair share of funding,” explains L.A. County Homeless Authority spokeswoman Naomi Goldman. \"It's also data that helps us work with the community-based organizations and the homeless service providers to figure out where best to allocate the dollars so that'll do the most impact.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year's L.A. County homeless count recorded a 12 percent increase from 2013, or around 41,000 people living on the streets and in shelters across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of them were living in the city of Los Angeles alone, with the greatest number concentrated in and around downtown’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the raw numbers are just part of the picture. Just as important, says Todd Palmquist, is a survey portion that works a little like a census survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain numbers of the homeless are actually interviewed,\" says Palmquist, former director of the San Gabriel Valley Consortium on Homelessness and a volunteer homeless count coordinator and trainer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey helps identify trends, such as more people living in cars, for example, or spikes in the number of kids or military veterans living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It can really give a good idea of populations that are in need of help, and hopefully eventually be able to be used to identify and set up programs to prevent homelessness rather than just help people get out of homelessness,” says Palmquist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year L.A. County shifts to an annual count, a move it hopes results in more consistent data. The count used to be done every other year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848013\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. Part of the 2016 count included an effort to link people to services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848013\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-400x261.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/SkidRowCartsGuys-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Many homeless people come to Skid Row because they could not find services in their own communities. Still, recent counts have shown spikes in homelessness in L.A. neighborhoods farther and farther from downtown. 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