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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose sits in Silicon Valley -- one of the wealthiest regions in the country -- yet homelessness is a persistent problem. Take a look around some of the biggest streets in East San Jose and you’ll notice what are essentially modern nomadic villages. On Lucretia Avenue, right across from Yerba Buena High School, we found numerous people living out of cars and campers.\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>That’s where we spotted Joseph Luprete sweeping the sidewalk in front of his camper. He bought it about a month ago for $690 and recently blacked out the windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At night with the lights on, the cops will drive by and try to ticket me or tell me to move along because it’s illegal to live in your car, “ Luprete says. \"I blacked it out so, at night, it doesn’t look like anyone is in here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqwqxsbkBls&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luprete works nearly full time as a valet parking cars and makes $2,500 a month. He says it’s not enough to afford a one-bedroom apartment in San Jose, so he takes his chances every night living on the streets, knowing he’ll probably get cited by the police. “Oh yeah, they will bang on the door at 2, 3 in the morning and look at you like a homeless piece of crap. They just say, 'You gotta move, you can’t be here.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated there are more than 4,000 homeless people in San Jose. About 500 of them are living out of their vehicles, according to Ray Bramson, San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=738\">homelessness response manager\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the solutions the city is looking at is finding safe parking lots where people can park and get connected to housing and long-term services,” Bramson says. He notes the city has identified one potential partner and is working out some issues to have it as a pilot site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, where tent encampments are easily spotted on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses, many of San Jose’s homeless stay out of sight by setting up shelter deep along the city’s 140 miles of trails, creeks and riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the case with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\">The Jungle\u003c/a>, which was one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments until the city shut it down in 2014. More than 300 people were moved out and the area was fenced off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We returned to the site of The Jungle recently with Leonard Jackson, who says he spent five years living there. The area is now overgrown with weeds. But when Jackson called it home, The Jungle resembled a small community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004748 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was tents. It was couches, tarps, stoves, it was motor homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson ended up homeless due to drug addiction. He says many people in the Jungle struggled with drugs and mental health issues, but there were also plenty of people who were working and barely surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“9-to-5 good paying jobs. They just didn’t have no place to live,” Jackson says. “I knew people who worked for Google, who worked for Cisco, and they were homeless right here in The Jungle with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jungle’s closure led to new doors opening for Jackson. Outreach workers helped him get off drugs, find a job and move into a new home subsidized by the city. According to San Jose housing officials,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/20/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\"> more than 200 former residents of The Jungle now have homes,\u003c/a> but the city still faces a daunting challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can’t find units in the market. The vacancy rate for rentals hovers around 4 percent,” says Bramson. “We’re doing everything we can, rehabbing a lot of hotels and motels, buying manufactured housing that’s assembled elsewhere and bringing it on site to get people into supportive services that they need to keep them stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGEk1e88JyU&w=560&h=315]\u003cbr>\nIn what’s being hailed as the largest effort yet to end regional homelessness in the South Bay, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a $950 million affordable housing bond measure for the November ballot. A 2015 survey found that Santa Clara County has more than 6,500 homeless people, which would make it the fourth-largest homeless population in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard Jackson is grateful he won’t have to wait until November to find out if more help is coming. He says he’s thankful every day for the outreach workers who found him in The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the grace of God, these people came along and saved a lot of us,” Jackson says. “It feels great to have my own place, my own job, security. It feels like I am on top of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thuy Vu reported on this story for \"KQED Newsroom,\" a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He notes the city has identified one potential partner and is working out some issues to have it as a pilot site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike San Francisco, where tent encampments are easily spotted on sidewalks and under freeway overpasses, many of San Jose’s homeless stay out of sight by setting up shelter deep along the city’s 140 miles of trails, creeks and riverbeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the case with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/04/homeless-evicted-from-the-jungle-in-san-jose\">The Jungle\u003c/a>, which was one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments until the city shut it down in 2014. More than 300 people were moved out and the area was fenced off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We returned to the site of The Jungle recently with Leonard Jackson, who says he spent five years living there. The area is now overgrown with weeds. But when Jackson called it home, The Jungle resembled a small community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004748\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004748 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people.\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS13381_20141204_jungle_jt_016-sfi.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goods that cannot be hauled away by residents are left at the Jungle in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2014. The city of San Jose cleared out the part of Coyote Creek that was home to around 300 people. \u003ccite>(James Tensuan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was tents. It was couches, tarps, stoves, it was motor homes,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson ended up homeless due to drug addiction. He says many people in the Jungle struggled with drugs and mental health issues, but there were also plenty of people who were working and barely surviving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“9-to-5 good paying jobs. They just didn’t have no place to live,” Jackson says. “I knew people who worked for Google, who worked for Cisco, and they were homeless right here in The Jungle with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jungle’s closure led to new doors opening for Jackson. Outreach workers helped him get off drugs, find a job and move into a new home subsidized by the city. According to San Jose housing officials,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/20/a-year-after-the-jungle-san-joses-new-approach-to-homelessness\"> more than 200 former residents of The Jungle now have homes,\u003c/a> but the city still faces a daunting challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People can’t find units in the market. The vacancy rate for rentals hovers around 4 percent,” says Bramson. “We’re doing everything we can, rehabbing a lot of hotels and motels, buying manufactured housing that’s assembled elsewhere and bringing it on site to get people into supportive services that they need to keep them stable and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OGEk1e88JyU'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OGEk1e88JyU'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIn what’s being hailed as the largest effort yet to end regional homelessness in the South Bay, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors recently approved a $950 million affordable housing bond measure for the November ballot. A 2015 survey found that Santa Clara County has more than 6,500 homeless people, which would make it the fourth-largest homeless population in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leonard Jackson is grateful he won’t have to wait until November to find out if more help is coming. He says he’s thankful every day for the outreach workers who found him in The Jungle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the grace of God, these people came along and saved a lot of us,” Jackson says. “It feels great to have my own place, my own job, security. It feels like I am on top of the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thuy Vu reported on this story for \"KQED Newsroom,\" a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After being rousted from his makeshift encampment beneath the 101 freeway in San Francisco, Tommy Hughes moved on to another street and pitched camp there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sign says you have to move from Van Ness to 10th,\" he said. \"We're just going to move to Ninth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people did go to shelters, but many others, like Hughes, just relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of hundreds of tents concentrated on and around one San Francisco street, they're appearing more and more on various alleyways and sidewalks -- to the frustration of residents and merchants. It’s the latest in the city's long, frequently controversial, and always frustrating relationship with the homeless people living on its streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>L.A.’s Skid Row, by contrast, is a roughly 50-square-block area of downtown that’s home to several thousand people either living on the streets or in one of many shelters and transitional supportive housing complexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the visitor -- and even to longtime residents and advocates -- the sight of so many people, block after block, living in the open, out in the street beneath tarps, tents and lean-to’s, is shocking. But it’s also where someone without shelter, in need of mental health services, a hot meal or drug rehab, is most likely to find help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lion’s share of the city’s homeless services is concentrated in Skid Row. This happened decades ago by design as L.A.’s transient population blossomed. The homeless and the services they needed were directed to one part of the city that, at least at one time, was mostly a ghost town after government offices and garment factories shut down for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it may appear to be a convenient solution, in the end it doesn't work,\" says Mike Alvidrez, director of the Skid Row Housing Trust, \"unless you address the root cause, which is homelessness. Whether you put them in a concentrated a place like Skid Row or scatter (them) all over, you're not addressing what is the final solution -- and that is to create more housing, in this case for a population that has other needs as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem in Skid Row is that bed space and services have never been able to keep pace with the surge in homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11004882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11004882 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman waits in line to receive groceries and clothing from Los Angeles-based non-profit My Friend's House Foundation September 23, 2015, in the skid row section of Los Angeles, California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076-400x291.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/GettyImages-489709076-960x698.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman waits in line to receive groceries and clothing from Los Angeles-based nonprofit My Friend's House Foundation Sept. 23, 2015, in the skid row section of Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposed Solutions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Los Angeles is proposing a 10-year, $1.2 billion bond measure to help pay for an expansion of transitional housing and other services across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County also has a proposal to generate more homeless funding, with an emphasis on housing, by taxing its most wealthy residents. People who earn over $1 million a year would see their taxes rise by one-half percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Mike Antonovich is one of the lone voices opposing the so-called millionaire’s tax. He says the county already has one of the highest tax rates in the U.S. He doesn’t think the proposal fully addresses the root causes of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent hearing he pointed to outreach the county did on public buses and metro lines, trying to steer homeless people to available shelters and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(Most) refuse treatment and walk away. I have called in on the homeless I see, driving to and from work. Regardless how hot it is or how cool, they refuse shelter,” says Antonovich. “They are mentally ill. They need assistance; they need medical help. 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Supporters of the proposed crackdown argue the tents pose health and safety risks, both for the people who live in them and residents who have to live and work around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a city, we need to have a policy that we're not enabling individuals or groups of people to set up tents and allow the city to be complacent in that issue,” says Supervisor Mark Farrell, who authored the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Again, I don't think it's healthy for anybody,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics say the city doesn't have nearly enough shelter beds to accommodate the number of people currently living on the street, and that the move is nothing more than political grandstanding.\u003cbr>\nIn Los Angeles, there is also criticism that the city is funneling the lion’s share of money currently budgeted for homelessness to police enforcement in places like Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're going to go after bond measures, millionaire's taxes, but at the same time we continue to create costly ordinances that are going to cost us in the court of law,” says Pete White, director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network based in Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new ordinance approved by the L.A. City Council aims to prohibit homeless people from “lodging” in vehicles parked near homes and schools. But people will be allowed to sleep in their vehicles -- sedans, trucks or RV’s -- from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. in commercial areas and in the parking lots of certain churches and nonprofits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That crackdown coincides with a seemingly contradictory move by the Los Angeles Police Commission, directing officers to show more “compassion and empathy” when it comes to day-to-day encounters with the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many officers, especially those with the challenge of patrolling Skid Row, argue they already show a great deal of patience and compassion when working a part of the city with the highest concentration of mental illness, street violence and drug abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The enforcement costs us a lot of money. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After being rousted from his makeshift encampment beneath the 101 freeway in San Francisco, Tommy Hughes moved on to another street and pitched camp there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sign says you have to move from Van Ness to 10th,\" he said. \"We're just going to move to Ninth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people did go to shelters, but many others, like Hughes, just relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of hundreds of tents concentrated on and around one San Francisco street, they're appearing more and more on various alleyways and sidewalks -- to the frustration of residents and merchants. It’s the latest in the city's long, frequently controversial, and always frustrating relationship with the homeless people living on its streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>L.A.’s Skid Row, by contrast, is a roughly 50-square-block area of downtown that’s home to several thousand people either living on the streets or in one of many shelters and transitional supportive housing complexes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The homeless and the services they needed were directed to one part of the city that, at least at one time, was mostly a ghost town after government offices and garment factories shut down for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it may appear to be a convenient solution, in the end it doesn't work,\" says Mike Alvidrez, director of the Skid Row Housing Trust, \"unless you address the root cause, which is homelessness. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This story was originally published in 2016.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might have seen it, tucked into a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/us/san-francisco-homelessness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> report\u003c/a>: the phrase “clumps of humanity,” referring to San Francisco’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My KQED coworkers and I \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2016/05/16/clumps_of_humanity_this_new_york_times_article_treated_homelessness_in_just_about_the_worst_way_possible/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weren’t the only ones\u003c/a> who noticed the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>’ term, a denigration to those down on their luck. But it was especially strange to someone who covers music. Immediately, I thought of the many songs from the Bay Area that treat homelessness not with scorn, but with understanding and empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of those songs are by musicians who’ve been homeless themselves. Nearly all are by artists who’ve found ways to either give back to the organizations that helped them, or to help others without a roof over their head.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Crimpshrine, ‘Sleep, What’s That?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPIXlsXurdI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco punk bands had sung about being homeless before — DRI’s “\u003ca href=\"http://genius.com/Dri-soup-kitchen-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soup Kitchen Blues\u003c/a>” and MDC’s “\u003ca href=\"http://genius.com/Mdc-no-place-to-piss-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Place to Piss\u003c/a>” were both products of band members’ experiences squatting and couch-surfing in mid-’80s San Francisco. But Crimpshrine’s \u003cem>Sleep, What’s That?\u003c/em> EP, released in 1988 by a fledgling new record label called Lookout Records, tackled the issue head-on in its title track. Singer/guitarist Jeff Ott was himself homeless at the time, singing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>So much food to eat, so many homes to sleep in\u003cbr>\nStores so full of food, so why must I eat from a garbage bin?\u003cbr>\nThere’s 1,600 people walking around today, thinking life’s a little game to play\u003cbr>\nTrying to avoid police abduction, trying to avoid hunger and self-destruction\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>During \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adbbq2-w2WY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a show at 924 Gilman\u003c/a> in 1989, Ott introduced the song by saying: “It’s about myself and all my friends on Telegraph Avenue who have no place to live, and who go without enough food every day. And there’s places they could be sleeping, and they get busted for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lookout Records would go on to international renown with bands like Green Day and Operation Ivy. When Crimpshrine’s EPs were reissued, the band took the opportunity to give back to the organizations that’d helped them when they were on the streets, donating royalties to \u003ca href=\"http://ebfnb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food Not Bombs\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Free Clinic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Tom Waits, ‘Cold Water’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgwJQj2E6So\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Waits has long been an advocate for the homeless, whether in songs like “On the Nickel” — a beautiful ballad from \u003cem>Heartattack and Vine\u003c/em> about Los Angeles’ Fifth Street — or in lending a song to the soundtrack of \u003cem>Streetwise\u003c/em>, a 1984 documentary about homeless teenagers in Seattle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his 1999 album \u003cem>Mule Variations\u003c/em>, Waits penned the sympathetic ode “Cold Water,” a lovely and sad song in the voice of a homeless teenager:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I look 47 but I’m 24\u003cbr>\nWell they shooed me away from here the time before\u003cbr>\nTurned their backs and they locked their doors\u003cbr>\nI’m watchin’ TV in the window of a furniture store\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In 2011, Waits released \u003cem>Seeds on Hard Ground\u003c/em>, a limited-edition chapbook of his poetry about homelessness. All proceeds were donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacountyhomeless.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma County Homeless Referral Services\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.srcharities.org/get-help/shelter-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Support Center\u003c/a> run by the Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2Pac, ‘Changes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXvBjCO19QY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he moved to Oakland, Tupac Shakur grew up around tough neighborhoods in the Bronx, Harlem and Baltimore. Oftentimes, without a steady income, his single mother Afeni brought Shakur to stay at homeless shelters. The experience helped inspire “Changes,” originally recorded in 1993:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And still I see no changes\u003cbr>\nCan’t a brother get a little peace?\u003cbr>\nIt’s war on the streets and a war in the Middle East\u003cbr>\nInstead of war on poverty\u003cbr>\nThey got a war on drugs so the police can bother me\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Shakur put his money where his mouth was, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-30/local/me-38987_1_safe-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning a high-profile benefit concert\u003c/a> for the brand-new community center \u003ca href=\"http://www.apch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Place Called Home\u003c/a>, serving impoverished and at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. Shakur was murdered just weeks before the concert, but he greatly raised the center’s visibility. A Place Called Home is still going strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Metallica, ‘Low Man’s Lyric’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2Qq_tBhDsQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might assume that James Hetfield doesn’t have much exposure to homelessness, living as he did for years in one of the wealthiest per-capita counties in the nation. And yet a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/06/21/forum-on-the-road-san-rafael-s-homeless-plan-stirs-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Forum broadcast from Marin County\u003c/a> showed that amidst Marin’s multi-million dollar homes and shiny Maseratis lives a sizeable homeless population on the street. Some are there due to drug addiction, a group Hetfield sings for in “Low Man’s Lyric”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trash fire is warm\u003cbr>\nBut nowhere safe from the storm\u003cbr>\nAnd I can’t bear to see\u003cbr>\nWhat I’ve let me be\u003cbr>\nSo wicked and worn\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marin is an interesting case study for homelessness in areas with a vast senior-citizen population; the vicious resistance to affordable housing in the region is leaving many of advanced age out in the cold. While organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://hbofm.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeward Bound\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rittercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritter Center\u003c/a> provide for Marin’s homeless, Metallica bassist Robert Trujilo recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/134956135-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took part in a benefit\u003c/a> for San Francisco’s St. Anthony’s Foundation, which provides services and meals to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dead Kennedys, ‘Kill the Poor’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the Bay Area without a heavy dose of satire, would it? 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All proceeds were donated to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.refb.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redwood Empire Food Bank\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://sonomacountyhomeless.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonoma County Homeless Referral Services\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.srcharities.org/get-help/shelter-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family Support Center\u003c/a> run by the Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2Pac, ‘Changes’\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/eXvBjCO19QY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/eXvBjCO19QY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Before he moved to Oakland, Tupac Shakur grew up around tough neighborhoods in the Bronx, Harlem and Baltimore. Oftentimes, without a steady income, his single mother Afeni brought Shakur to stay at homeless shelters. The experience helped inspire “Changes,” originally recorded in 1993:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>And still I see no changes\u003cbr>\nCan’t a brother get a little peace?\u003cbr>\nIt’s war on the streets and a war in the Middle East\u003cbr>\nInstead of war on poverty\u003cbr>\nThey got a war on drugs so the police can bother me\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Shakur put his money where his mouth was, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1996-08-30/local/me-38987_1_safe-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planning a high-profile benefit concert\u003c/a> for the brand-new community center \u003ca href=\"http://www.apch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Place Called Home\u003c/a>, serving impoverished and at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. Shakur was murdered just weeks before the concert, but he greatly raised the center’s visibility. A Place Called Home is still going strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Metallica, ‘Low Man’s Lyric’\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/k2Qq_tBhDsQ'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/k2Qq_tBhDsQ'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>You might assume that James Hetfield doesn’t have much exposure to homelessness, living as he did for years in one of the wealthiest per-capita counties in the nation. And yet a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/06/21/forum-on-the-road-san-rafael-s-homeless-plan-stirs-debate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED Forum broadcast from Marin County\u003c/a> showed that amidst Marin’s multi-million dollar homes and shiny Maseratis lives a sizeable homeless population on the street. Some are there due to drug addiction, a group Hetfield sings for in “Low Man’s Lyric”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trash fire is warm\u003cbr>\nBut nowhere safe from the storm\u003cbr>\nAnd I can’t bear to see\u003cbr>\nWhat I’ve let me be\u003cbr>\nSo wicked and worn\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Marin is an interesting case study for homelessness in areas with a vast senior-citizen population; the vicious resistance to affordable housing in the region is leaving many of advanced age out in the cold. While organizations like \u003ca href=\"https://hbofm.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homeward Bound\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.rittercenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritter Center\u003c/a> provide for Marin’s homeless, Metallica bassist Robert Trujilo recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/134956135-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took part in a benefit\u003c/a> for San Francisco’s St. Anthony’s Foundation, which provides services and meals to those in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dead Kennedys, ‘Kill the Poor’\u003c/h2>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/sgpa7wEAz7I'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sgpa7wEAz7I'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It wouldn’t be the Bay Area without a heavy dose of satire, would it? 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"content": "\u003cp>Super Bowl City’s a thing of the past, but San Francisco has been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/02/tent-cities-compete-with-super-bowl-city-for-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clearing streets of homeless encampments\u003c/a> since the week-long event began. Yet, despite the city’s continuous efforts \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/22/san-francisco-to-vote-on-housing-not-tents-homelessness-measure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to push the homeless out of sight,\u003c/a> they’re still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local officials have their own ways of dealing it, San Francisco artist Annice Jacoby aimed to address the city’s homeless issue through her project \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UndercoverSF/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undercover\u003c/a>, which started during February’s Super Bowl festivities. Jacoby and her team provided those living on the streets with blankets, seeking not only to provide warmth to those who needed it, but also to incite conversation and create visibility for a community that’s otherwise \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/09/mayor-lee-blasts-talk-of-homeless-crisis-and-calls-for-critics-to-aid-citys-efforts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">neglected\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to use creativity to unite,” Jacoby says. “We’re making a visual statement, making a ceremony of care; it’s a mechanism to address this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families, friends and other community members came together at knitting circles held in two Mission stores, \u003ca href=\"https://missionpraxis.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Praxis\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.alleycatbookshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alley Cat Books.\u003c/a> Those who came out would put together blankets that doubled as ponchos and distribute them in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project’s efforts gained national attention, with inquiries and notes of appreciation coming in from other states, according to Undercover’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UndercoverSF/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook page\u003c/a>, which also provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/UndercoverSF/posts/1029187463790582\">patterns\u003c/a> for people hoping to make and distribute blankets themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole idea was for people to feel like they’re making a difference through making garments and connecting with people when they distribute them,” says Ivan Vera, program manager at Hospitality House, which helped print the Undercover blankets. “The goal is to get in touch with those who are homeless and share their humanity – they’re not invisible people; they’re just less fortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacoby has since gone on to speak about Undercover to different high schools along the Peninsula, hoping to engage students with the project, according to Txutxo Perez, one of the artists involved with the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some kids helped distribute during the first part of the project and got really into it and wanted to bring the experience back to their schools,” Perez says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he believes bringing such experiences and information to the younger generation is a start, as they’ll be the ones making significant changes in the future. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the larger blanket project was mostly focused on the Super Bowl, Undercover has served as inspiration for smaller efforts: Praxis distributed Undercover hats back in March, and Perez says an artist friend of his in Greece started her own project that focuses on recycling lifesaver vests from people displaced by war into backpacks for them to use on further travels. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately the goal of the project was to connect people — disenfranchised and not — and share each other’s humanity, and Vera says he believes Undercover did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope the project has taught others to listen to people, have compassion, start understanding how one becomes homeless – we don’t want to lose that part of ourselves that make us human.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Watch our report on the Undercover project during the Super Bowl:\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcC6uCISQaw\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Private chef Marc Vogel cooks for wealthy clients around the world, and he just returned home from a very long trip to Mali and Turkey. But despite his jet lag, he's dropping off a bag of old clothes at a San Francisco neighborhood homeless resource center called \u003ca href=\"http://northbeachcitizens.org\">North Beach Citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have my assistant go through the house, and I take it over because everybody here can use it,\" Vogel says. He also occasionally cooks at the center's annual fundraiser, an Italian-style dinner hosted by the center's famous founder, film director Francis Ford Coppola. (Until recently, Coppola cooked the meatballs himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Say what you want about Coppola,\" gushes Vogel. \"At least he's making it happen!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271265472\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco struggles for solutions to homelessness, North Beach Citizens is viewed by many homeless advocates as a success story, and one that could be replicated in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. It's a lot to maintain. It's hard to find places. But it's not \u003cem>that\u003c/em> hard. There are places in every neighborhood that can welcome this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says she can't help everyone who lands on her doorstep. The program has strict rules, and some people aren't ready or able to follow them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she doesn't get discouraged. She only wishes more San Francisco communities would leverage their wealth and talent to make ending homelessness a neighborhood priority.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Private chef Marc Vogel cooks for wealthy clients around the world, and he just returned home from a very long trip to Mali and Turkey. But despite his jet lag, he's dropping off a bag of old clothes at a San Francisco neighborhood homeless resource center called \u003ca href=\"http://northbeachcitizens.org\">North Beach Citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have my assistant go through the house, and I take it over because everybody here can use it,\" Vogel says. He also occasionally cooks at the center's annual fundraiser, an Italian-style dinner hosted by the center's famous founder, film director Francis Ford Coppola. (Until recently, Coppola cooked the meatballs himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Say what you want about Coppola,\" gushes Vogel. \"At least he's making it happen!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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/271265472&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/271265472'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco struggles for solutions to homelessness, North Beach Citizens is viewed by many homeless advocates as a success story, and one that could be replicated in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. 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"content": "\u003cp>California has more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">115,000 homeless people\u003c/a>, many suffering from some kind of mental illness. This week the state Legislature is acting on a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1618\">$2 billion bond\u003c/a> that would help get many of them off the streets. The state Senate approved the bond yesterday, the Assembly is expected to take it up later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like Angelina Washington. She is homeless and currently lives in a long-term shelter for women with mental illnesses at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Sacramento’s Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>. That’s a nonprofit that provides services to the homeless. Washington has a simple wish, if she ever has her own apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To sleep in when I want,” she says. “We can’t sleep in over there at the shelter. We have to get up at 6:30 and we have to be out by 8.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271237287″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because she’s been homeless for so long and suffers from mental illness, Washington could potentially benefit from the proposed bond. It would make $2 billion available to California counties over several years to create permanent supportive housing for people like her. The bond would be paid for with funds from \u003ca href=\"http://prop63.org/\">Proposition 63\u003c/a>, which provides money for mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Burke is director of advocacy at Loaves & Fishes. She says the money would help expand programs that have already proved successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what works. And we do have good programs that are helping people get out of homelessness much more quickly,” she says. “We just don’t have enough of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León started thinking about the bill last fall after taking a tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Counties already provide various services to the homeless. But de León says having a home is key to helping a person get stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just cannot provide psychotherapeutic services or substance abuse therapeutic services and expect them to go back and live in a cardboard box in an alley or adjacent to an off-ramp,” he says. “It’s nonsensical. It’s illogical. And you’re wasting money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and studies homelessness. She says housing-first approaches have been extremely successful. She acknowledges the strategy is initially expensive, but says it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately it costs taxpayers more money to leave people on the streets,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch does foresee some challenges, specifically where the housing will be built. She says neighborhoods tend to push back when low-income housing or other services are proposed nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of resistance that needs to be dealt with,” she says. “And I think that some of it has to be legislated in terms of not allowing communities to zone out or, in various other ways, exclude these kinds of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Money from the bond could be awarded as early as this fiscal year, which begins in July.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters have supported large housing bonds in the past, including a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_46,_Bonds_for_Housing_Projects_(2002)\">$2.1 billion bond in 2002\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1C,_Bonds_for_Housing_(2006)\">$2.9 billion bond in 2006 \u003c/a> for overall housing programs. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Burke is director of advocacy at Loaves & Fishes. She says the money would help expand programs that have already proved successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what works. And we do have good programs that are helping people get out of homelessness much more quickly,” she says. “We just don’t have enough of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Senate President pro tempore Kevin de León started thinking about the bill last fall after taking a tour of Skid Row in Los Angeles. Counties already provide various services to the homeless. But de León says having a home is key to helping a person get stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You just cannot provide psychotherapeutic services or substance abuse therapeutic services and expect them to go back and live in a cardboard box in an alley or adjacent to an off-ramp,” he says. “It’s nonsensical. It’s illogical. And you’re wasting money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Wolch is dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design and studies homelessness. She says housing-first approaches have been extremely successful. She acknowledges the strategy is initially expensive, but says it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately it costs taxpayers more money to leave people on the streets,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolch does foresee some challenges, specifically where the housing will be built. She says neighborhoods tend to push back when low-income housing or other services are proposed nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of resistance that needs to be dealt with,” she says. “And I think that some of it has to be legislated in terms of not allowing communities to zone out or, in various other ways, exclude these kinds of facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Money from the bond could be awarded as early as this fiscal year, which begins in July.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California voters have supported large housing bonds in the past, including a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_46,_Bonds_for_Housing_Projects_(2002)\">$2.1 billion bond in 2002\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1C,_Bonds_for_Housing_(2006)\">$2.9 billion bond in 2006 \u003c/a> for overall housing programs. In 2014, voters approved \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_41,_Veterans_Housing_and_Homeless_Prevention_Bond_(2014)\">$600 million for veterans’ housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After someone has a health crisis and gets emergency medical care, the patient is sent home to recover. But what if that person has no home? The homeless can’t get well when they go back to the street, and they end up cycling back into expensive hospitals and emergency rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now one program in Southern California has tackled that dilemma by giving people just out of the hospital a place to heal – by turning cheap motels into triage and recovery wards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just up the freeway from Disneyland, in the city of Buena Park in Orange County, Paul Leon stands outside the beat-up remnant of a seedy motel. Above him, a faded pink sign advertises the Coral Motel – whose rooms back in its prime cost 35 bucks a night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This particular motel was going to be taken back by the city of Buena Park,” Leon says, “because of the drugs, alcohol, prostitution at the motel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204668\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-10-e1467050104697.jpg\" alt=\"The Coral Motel in Buena Park, Calif., used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care, serves as a respite for people needing a place to recover after being discharged from the hospital. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Coral Motel in Buena Park, Calif., used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care, serves as a respite for people needing a place to recover after being discharged from the hospital. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon had another idea. As a public health nurse in Orange County, he proposed turning the motel lobby into a triage center and converting the rooms into clean recovery facilities for homeless people recently released from local hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually recuperative care centers are pricey to set up — but this, Leon says, was just the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this, it’s the poor man’s recuperative,” Leon says. “They’re not the Hyatt or the Hilton, but they do serve a purpose for us. The costs to run it are much less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motel recovery room costs about half as much as a hospital would, that’s about $2,000 less per person for each day. In some ways, it’s better than being at home, because it has a nurse on staff to help supervise care and handle complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elvin Quiñones is one of the patients staying at the Coral Motel. He walks me across the motel parking lot so he can show off his previous home -– a small white Datsun B210 sedan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll show you my house,” he says, “it’s not very big.”\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204670\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-13-e1467050409396.jpg\" alt=\"After Elvin Quiñones had gallbladder surgery, he didn’t have anywhere to recover. He ended up at the motel used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Elvin Quiñones had gallbladder surgery, he didn’t have anywhere to recover. He ended up at the motel used by the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quiñones is a solid guy, and it’s hard to picture him crammed in the car along with his two dogs. In the days right after his gall bladder operation, he had a bunch of medical gear, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll be honest, I was sleeping in front of Walmart, the 24-hour Walmart, because they had a bathroom,” Quiñones says. “I still had a tube stuck inside me that was draining, so I needed someplace where I could empty out the drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>Being homeless and helpless, he says, is “surreal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>“You think you’re going to wake up, and it’ll all be a nightmare. And you wake up and it’s not,” he says. “It’s just the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after his medical release, the hospital called and helped place him in the motel. Ginny Ripslinger is a nurse administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital in the city of Orange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a new model of care for Orange County,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and above any state payments from Medi-Cal, California’s health care program for the poor, hospitals and health insurers are happy to pony up some cash, she says. They save money by stabilizing these patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than that, Ripslinger says, it’s just the right thing to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to discharge them to the street,” she says. “And there’s an obligation on the hospitals to provide continuity of care and safe discharges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While those homeless patients are recovering in the motel room over two or three weeks, there’s a hidden benefit, Ripslinger says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You might say they’re a captured audience. We can then provide the social services and the linkages to the community for stable housing and get them in a protected environment,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_204664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1921px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/06/homeless-hotel-2-e1467049303242.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.\" width=\"1921\" height=\"1282\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Ramirez, 61, uses his ventilator at the men’s dorm at the Illumination Foundation Recuperative Care in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. \u003ccite>(Heidi de Marco/KHN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leon launched the homeless services nonprofit called the Illumination Foundation to help provide those community links and health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation now has expanded the motel model of care to six sites in four counties –- Orange, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino — and Leon says he has been working with dozens of cities across the country to establish similar models elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re just starting and you don’t have a recuperative care program,” Leon says, “one easy quick method is to use motels. 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