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Under President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980, the government had slashed federal housing subsidies and poverty programs, including food stamps. 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"content": "\u003cp>Fifty years ago, the destitute figures who dotted America’s streets were called winos and hobos, and in San Francisco they mainly stuck to Third Street’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with the end of the Vietnam War, battle-shocked veterans began filling urban alleyways. The 1980s brought Reaganomics’ decimation of federal social and housing programs, and a cascade of the poor and mentally ill landed on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of that decade, a new term had entered the lexicon of San Francisco and the rest of the nation: homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271154169\" 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>Today, despite the efforts of six mayoral administrations dating back to Dianne Feinstein, homelessness is stamped into the city so deeply it has become a defining characteristic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco initially responded by providing temporary, spartan shelters. Now, it permanently houses thousands of people salvaged from the streets through multimillion-dollar residential and counseling programs. But still, the city remains home to sprawling tent cities, junkies squatting on blankets shooting heroin, and all manner of anguished destitute people and beggars holding out hands.\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’s last official one-day count, in 2015, put the adult homeless population at 6,686. But another city survey puts the total closer to 10,000, and many officials and advocates for homeless people say the number may be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case, homelessness in San Francisco doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago. Or 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money has always been part of the problem -- no matter how much the city has spent, it has never been enough. But homelessness has also persisted because of a lack of focus and because good intentions have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-960x649.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shelters Weren’t Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1980s, as a growing number of street people began living out of shopping carts downtown, Mayor Feinstein joined the rest of the country in adopting the shelter-bed-and-a-sandwich approach. Offer a place of respite, the thought was, and they can turn it around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities from San Francisco to New York learned that without dealing with the underlying factors that cause the most acutely troubled people to lose their housing -- mental illness, substance abuse, disabilities and joblessness -- temporary shelters accomplish little. That realization led to another: Doing more than just providing a cot for the night is incredibly expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been a national leader in getting people off the streets and into housing where they receive the counseling services they need. Since 2004, it has put more than 22,000 people under roofs. But it now spends $241 million a year on homeless programs -- more than double the budget for the city Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such spending can seem like sand shoveled into a tide. Workers at the eight city departments and 76 private and nonprofit organizations who devote themselves to restoring street-ravaged lives say there has been a lot of progress, but no end of frustration and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I shake my head and think, ‘What are we trying to do here?’” Mayor Ed Lee said one day as he watched a homeless camp being disassembled and its inhabitants moved into the city’s one-stop Navigation Center of homeless housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying everything we can,” Lee said. “It takes time. It is not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Can’t They Do More?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalid Abdul-Rahim, who works as a security guard along the Embarcadero, regularly has to shoo homeless people away from Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do new shelters like that Navigation Center, but why can’t they do more real housing permanently?” he asked one rainy night last winter as he watched three people shiver under thin blankets in a bus shelter. “I had one guy pull a fork on me to stab me once out here. I see people all the time hungry, sleeping outside, miserable. How can this be in a city this rich? It’s about humanity. Shouldn’t be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few understand the misery of homelessness better than Daniel Pledger. Born and raised in San Francisco, he’s been without a roof off and on for many of his 65 years -- a notable exception being when he played bass in the locally popular punk band Seizure in the 1970s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pledger has spent most of the past year sleeping on the streets around Potrero Hill. He kicked heroin five years ago, but his struggles with alcohol have gotten him evicted from one place after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a wife,” he said recently, sitting on a Tenderloin sidewalk with a Hefty bag full of his clothes. “I had a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I am the invisible man. People walk right by me. I have to get control of this demon -- of the booze -- but there are a lot of guys like me out here. Have they given up on us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Innovation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Art Agnos took the first step in San Francisco to move beyond overnight shelters. In the late 1980s, he created two large complexes with not just beds, but also mental health and substance-abuse counselors on site -- what have come to be called supportive services. He envisioned a program that would direct street people from there into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there wasn’t enough housing available. As Agnos struggled to ramp up his plans, a colony of homeless people in front of City Hall grew into the hundreds and was derisively dubbed “Camp Agnos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 1990, Agnos finally ordered police to sweep out the Civic Center squatters, abandoning his promise to transition them inside. Yet the stench of civic ineffectiveness had set in. The homelessness issue Agnos had taken on with such hope sank his bid for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the shelter-counseling complexes that Agnos created are mere shelters -- and he remains frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what to do, but we haven’t had the conviction or the commitment to make it happen,” Agnos said. “We could end homelessness as a commonplace occurrence in American cities if we adopted the same kind of commitment we did in addressing World War II: if we treat it like we want to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But until the public and the politicians who serve them say we are going to win this, we won’t. There is a bright spot here and there, and bleakness in everything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who succeeded Agnos as mayor, former Police Chief Frank Jordan, changed tactics, using police as outreach workers as well as enforcers. Under his Matrix program, their job was to clear the streets of homeless camps and aggressive panhandlers and steer them into housing and counseling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, there weren’t enough programs to handle the thousands of indigents on the streets. And enlisting police as social workers drew ceaseless attacks from the city’s progressives, torpedoing Jordan’s re-election bid as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Willie Brown followed with efforts at supportive housing, but ultimately -- and famously -- declared the homeless problem unsolvable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His successor, Gavin Newsom, took the most aggressive stance yet toward tackling the issue. In 2004, he announced a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it failed to reach that goal, it did result in moving 22,000 homeless people off the streets into either housing or onto buses headed home. And in the past few years, the majority of the city’s destitute military veterans -- many suffering post-traumatic stress from as far back as the 1970s -- have been moved indoors, thanks in part to a national effort led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the city’s streets look the same today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mythology that you can, quote unquote, end homelessness at any moment,” Newsom said in 2014. “But there are new people coming in, suffering through the cycles of their lives. It’s the manifestation of complete, abject failure as a society. We’ll never solve this at City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Angela Alioto, who was in charge of crafting the 10-year plan, says it failed because it didn’t create enough counseling and engagement, not just for street people, but for those already housed -- some of whom still panhandle, making the homeless landscape look even worse than it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to do housing, what I call ‘minute clinics’ for health and counseling in every building, and get the homeless involved in things that make them feel good about themselves -- volunteer work, charity, whatever,” Alioto said recently as she handed out dollar bills to a couple of panhandlers in North Beach. “It’s about dignity. Housing is not the end, it’s the beginning, if you really want to get everyone off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Types of Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What became clear over all the years is that the city’s homeless population is anything but homogeneous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are about 1,300 homeless people in San Francisco in either individual or family shelters, and another 1,500 in jail, transitional housing, hospitals or otherwise indoors. Some 3,500 are estimated to be “unsheltered,” and about half of those make up the hard-core street population -- the most obvious, most troubled and most expensive homeless people in the city to care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates by San Francisco officials and by the Silicon Valley Economic Roundtable are that each of those chronic cases costs about $80,000 a year in police, jail, ambulance and other tabs. By contrast, it costs about $20,000 a year to keep a person in a supportive environment -- the permanent housing where on-site mental therapists, substance abuse counselors and other social workers can help keep a person off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many chronically homeless people crowd into the Tenderloin, where soup kitchens, rehab clinics and poverty-aid organizations are centered. Homeless drug addicts have spread into areas where their dealers are easiest to find: heroin in the Mission District, methamphetamine around Division Street, crack in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mental Illness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most heart-rending subpopulation is made up of the mentally ill. Here, good intentions are at the heart of how San Francisco’s streets became an open-air mental ward, with deranged people railing at telephone poles or passersby, or muttering to themselves for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1960s and ’70s, state-run mental institutions, where troubled people were once committed against their will, came to be seen by advocates as a means of violating individuals’ rights. Closing them saved money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their demise, the plan, supported by both conservatives and liberals, was for community-based centers across the country to help people instead -- but those were underfunded. The result: A growing population of mentally ill people were turned loose to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s estimated that a third or more of homeless people in San Francisco and nationally suffer from mental illness. The city would need hundreds of new psychiatric-care beds to get them off the sidewalks -- the current inventory of fewer than 1,000 is not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it created those beds, getting people into them is difficult. Unless they are judged a danger to themselves or others, the mentally ill can’t be forced into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: Tatiana and Oksana, Ukrainian immigrants who speak little English and give no last name. Believed to be mother and daughter, they’ve been on the streets for at least a decade, with brief stints in emergency housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair pose no threat as they push their heaped shopping cart through downtown and the Mission, sleeping in doorways and glancing suspiciously at everyone who passes by, so they can’t be compelled to leave the streets. Any conversation with them veers quickly, wildly off track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two social workers, barred by state privacy rules from being identified, interviewed them several times. They concluded that Tatiana is in her 50s and Oksana is in her 30s, and that they are probably mentally ill or impaired. For three years, social workers have tried to get them to give their required permission for psychiatric care -- but the pair won’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Afraid of the ‘Russkies’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women have repeatedly told The Chronicle through Ukrainian interpreters they don’t need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re afraid of everyone, afraid we’ll be sent back to the old country,” Tatiana said. “Russians want us to leave the city, they are bad, they are everywhere, but we won’t go. We’re not homeless. We are just on the street. We will not go inside where the Russkies can get us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health programs weren’t the only ones bludgeoned by budget cuts. Federal housing aid and social programs were slashed by as much as 80 percent in the 1980s, and state and local governments couldn’t catch up. Many of the people who wound up homeless that decade have never left the street, pushing the average age among the street population to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Millions in Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the minimum wage supplying about half or less of the buying power it did in 1980 and about 30 percent of Americans living at or near poverty level, there is a continual flow of people becoming homeless, said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University law professor specializing in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never even replaced the affordable-housing support that was destroyed in the 1980s, so if you want to solve homelessness, you need to not have so much poverty,” Edelman said. “What we’ve got is a problem of homelessness created because we haven’t done what we should have in the first place, so now we have to handle it in the second place -- with techniques like supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one area in which San Francisco, with among the highest rents and greatest gulfs between rich and poor in the country, is actually a leader in innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the city has refined a system of sending outreach counselors into the street to persuade the chronically indigent to accept housing, shelter, employment or medical help -- and then move into permanent supportive housing before they can wander off again. In the past 12 years, San Francisco has put about 12,000 people into such housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is that the city is at least 2,500 supportive-housing units short of what it needs to clear the streets of the most expensive and visible chronically homeless people -- about 1,500 of them -- and to stay ahead of the incoming chronic population every year. But that’s not insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation could be dramatically improved through new private-public funding models, cheaper forms of modular housing, and streamlining techniques for helping people move out of supportive housing after they’ve been stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city’s shelters were expanded by hundreds of beds, and fashioned more along the lines of the 15-month-old Navigation Center, they could finally become the routing tools into housing that Agnos envisioned a quarter-century ago. The center at Mission and 16th streets takes in street campers with their partners, pets and gear and surrounds them with case managers to help them get their lives together quickly. The city is already heading that way: A second center is scheduled to open at Market and 12th streets this week, and the Board of Supervisors has voted to open five more Navigation Centers over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city’s establishment of a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, streamlining city services for street people under one roof into a more direct focus on housing and counseling, San Francisco has its best opportunity in years to clear the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do what we need to do,” said Jeff Kositsky, head of the new department. “The approach now is the same -- we just have to be creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bit of Optimism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, whose Coalition on Homelessness advocacy group has spent decades pushing the city to create more housing and services for the indigent, is skeptically optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Matrix is in the trash bin of history and police leaders insist cracking down isn’t the way to solve homelessness, Friedenbach said, the city still puts too much emphasis on breaking up camps whose residents have nowhere good to go and issuing tickets for quality-of-life violations like sitting on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Wasting Money’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city report in May that found taxpayers spend $20 million a year enforcing such laws quantifies the futility of the effort, she said. To Friedenbach, ticketing street people boils down to just two things: “San Francisco is either ruining homeless people’s lives and wasting money, or harassing homeless people and wasting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With little to show for it, it is time for a new approach,” she said. For Friedenbach, “new” actually means ramping up old concepts -- more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about money,” she said. “We need a sustained revenue source to double the housing units for homeless people, and to do prevention to keep people in their homes and to not become homeless to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that complicated,” she said. “I think in San Francisco, people are ready to do something different. But then, I’ve seen that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About this project: This week, the Chronicle will join more than 70 other news organizations to focus San Francisco’s attention on the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness in our city. The S.F. Homeless Project aims to explore possible solutions that might ease, if not end, the suffering of so many thousands of unfortunate people living on our streets, and improve the quality of life for all residents. The project’s primary day of coverage is June 29, but the Chronicle will publish stories and editorials all week. Videos, interactive graphics, and coverage from other media can be found online at \u003ca href=\"http://sfchronicle.com/homeless\">sfchronicle.com/homeless\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://medium.com/sfhomelessproject\">sfhomelessproject\u003c/a>.com, and on Twitter at @bayareahomeless. Join the online conversation at #sfhomelessproject.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco initially responded by providing temporary, spartan shelters. Now, it permanently houses thousands of people salvaged from the streets through multimillion-dollar residential and counseling programs. But still, the city remains home to sprawling tent cities, junkies squatting on blankets shooting heroin, and all manner of anguished destitute people and beggars holding out hands.\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’s last official one-day count, in 2015, put the adult homeless population at 6,686. But another city survey puts the total closer to 10,000, and many officials and advocates for homeless people say the number may be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case, homelessness in San Francisco doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago. Or 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money has always been part of the problem -- no matter how much the city has spent, it has never been enough. But homelessness has also persisted because of a lack of focus and because good intentions have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-960x649.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shelters Weren’t Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1980s, as a growing number of street people began living out of shopping carts downtown, Mayor Feinstein joined the rest of the country in adopting the shelter-bed-and-a-sandwich approach. Offer a place of respite, the thought was, and they can turn it around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities from San Francisco to New York learned that without dealing with the underlying factors that cause the most acutely troubled people to lose their housing -- mental illness, substance abuse, disabilities and joblessness -- temporary shelters accomplish little. That realization led to another: Doing more than just providing a cot for the night is incredibly expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been a national leader in getting people off the streets and into housing where they receive the counseling services they need. Since 2004, it has put more than 22,000 people under roofs. But it now spends $241 million a year on homeless programs -- more than double the budget for the city Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such spending can seem like sand shoveled into a tide. Workers at the eight city departments and 76 private and nonprofit organizations who devote themselves to restoring street-ravaged lives say there has been a lot of progress, but no end of frustration and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I shake my head and think, ‘What are we trying to do here?’” Mayor Ed Lee said one day as he watched a homeless camp being disassembled and its inhabitants moved into the city’s one-stop Navigation Center of homeless housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying everything we can,” Lee said. “It takes time. It is not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Can’t They Do More?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalid Abdul-Rahim, who works as a security guard along the Embarcadero, regularly has to shoo homeless people away from Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do new shelters like that Navigation Center, but why can’t they do more real housing permanently?” he asked one rainy night last winter as he watched three people shiver under thin blankets in a bus shelter. “I had one guy pull a fork on me to stab me once out here. I see people all the time hungry, sleeping outside, miserable. How can this be in a city this rich? It’s about humanity. Shouldn’t be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few understand the misery of homelessness better than Daniel Pledger. Born and raised in San Francisco, he’s been without a roof off and on for many of his 65 years -- a notable exception being when he played bass in the locally popular punk band Seizure in the 1970s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pledger has spent most of the past year sleeping on the streets around Potrero Hill. He kicked heroin five years ago, but his struggles with alcohol have gotten him evicted from one place after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a wife,” he said recently, sitting on a Tenderloin sidewalk with a Hefty bag full of his clothes. “I had a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I am the invisible man. People walk right by me. I have to get control of this demon -- of the booze -- but there are a lot of guys like me out here. Have they given up on us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Innovation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Art Agnos took the first step in San Francisco to move beyond overnight shelters. In the late 1980s, he created two large complexes with not just beds, but also mental health and substance-abuse counselors on site -- what have come to be called supportive services. He envisioned a program that would direct street people from there into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there wasn’t enough housing available. As Agnos struggled to ramp up his plans, a colony of homeless people in front of City Hall grew into the hundreds and was derisively dubbed “Camp Agnos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 1990, Agnos finally ordered police to sweep out the Civic Center squatters, abandoning his promise to transition them inside. Yet the stench of civic ineffectiveness had set in. The homelessness issue Agnos had taken on with such hope sank his bid for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the shelter-counseling complexes that Agnos created are mere shelters -- and he remains frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what to do, but we haven’t had the conviction or the commitment to make it happen,” Agnos said. “We could end homelessness as a commonplace occurrence in American cities if we adopted the same kind of commitment we did in addressing World War II: if we treat it like we want to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But until the public and the politicians who serve them say we are going to win this, we won’t. There is a bright spot here and there, and bleakness in everything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who succeeded Agnos as mayor, former Police Chief Frank Jordan, changed tactics, using police as outreach workers as well as enforcers. Under his Matrix program, their job was to clear the streets of homeless camps and aggressive panhandlers and steer them into housing and counseling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, there weren’t enough programs to handle the thousands of indigents on the streets. And enlisting police as social workers drew ceaseless attacks from the city’s progressives, torpedoing Jordan’s re-election bid as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Willie Brown followed with efforts at supportive housing, but ultimately -- and famously -- declared the homeless problem unsolvable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His successor, Gavin Newsom, took the most aggressive stance yet toward tackling the issue. In 2004, he announced a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it failed to reach that goal, it did result in moving 22,000 homeless people off the streets into either housing or onto buses headed home. And in the past few years, the majority of the city’s destitute military veterans -- many suffering post-traumatic stress from as far back as the 1970s -- have been moved indoors, thanks in part to a national effort led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the city’s streets look the same today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mythology that you can, quote unquote, end homelessness at any moment,” Newsom said in 2014. “But there are new people coming in, suffering through the cycles of their lives. It’s the manifestation of complete, abject failure as a society. We’ll never solve this at City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Angela Alioto, who was in charge of crafting the 10-year plan, says it failed because it didn’t create enough counseling and engagement, not just for street people, but for those already housed -- some of whom still panhandle, making the homeless landscape look even worse than it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to do housing, what I call ‘minute clinics’ for health and counseling in every building, and get the homeless involved in things that make them feel good about themselves -- volunteer work, charity, whatever,” Alioto said recently as she handed out dollar bills to a couple of panhandlers in North Beach. “It’s about dignity. Housing is not the end, it’s the beginning, if you really want to get everyone off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Types of Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What became clear over all the years is that the city’s homeless population is anything but homogeneous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are about 1,300 homeless people in San Francisco in either individual or family shelters, and another 1,500 in jail, transitional housing, hospitals or otherwise indoors. Some 3,500 are estimated to be “unsheltered,” and about half of those make up the hard-core street population -- the most obvious, most troubled and most expensive homeless people in the city to care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates by San Francisco officials and by the Silicon Valley Economic Roundtable are that each of those chronic cases costs about $80,000 a year in police, jail, ambulance and other tabs. By contrast, it costs about $20,000 a year to keep a person in a supportive environment -- the permanent housing where on-site mental therapists, substance abuse counselors and other social workers can help keep a person off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many chronically homeless people crowd into the Tenderloin, where soup kitchens, rehab clinics and poverty-aid organizations are centered. Homeless drug addicts have spread into areas where their dealers are easiest to find: heroin in the Mission District, methamphetamine around Division Street, crack in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mental Illness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most heart-rending subpopulation is made up of the mentally ill. Here, good intentions are at the heart of how San Francisco’s streets became an open-air mental ward, with deranged people railing at telephone poles or passersby, or muttering to themselves for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1960s and ’70s, state-run mental institutions, where troubled people were once committed against their will, came to be seen by advocates as a means of violating individuals’ rights. Closing them saved money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their demise, the plan, supported by both conservatives and liberals, was for community-based centers across the country to help people instead -- but those were underfunded. The result: A growing population of mentally ill people were turned loose to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s estimated that a third or more of homeless people in San Francisco and nationally suffer from mental illness. The city would need hundreds of new psychiatric-care beds to get them off the sidewalks -- the current inventory of fewer than 1,000 is not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it created those beds, getting people into them is difficult. Unless they are judged a danger to themselves or others, the mentally ill can’t be forced into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: Tatiana and Oksana, Ukrainian immigrants who speak little English and give no last name. Believed to be mother and daughter, they’ve been on the streets for at least a decade, with brief stints in emergency housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair pose no threat as they push their heaped shopping cart through downtown and the Mission, sleeping in doorways and glancing suspiciously at everyone who passes by, so they can’t be compelled to leave the streets. Any conversation with them veers quickly, wildly off track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two social workers, barred by state privacy rules from being identified, interviewed them several times. They concluded that Tatiana is in her 50s and Oksana is in her 30s, and that they are probably mentally ill or impaired. For three years, social workers have tried to get them to give their required permission for psychiatric care -- but the pair won’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Afraid of the ‘Russkies’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women have repeatedly told The Chronicle through Ukrainian interpreters they don’t need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re afraid of everyone, afraid we’ll be sent back to the old country,” Tatiana said. “Russians want us to leave the city, they are bad, they are everywhere, but we won’t go. We’re not homeless. We are just on the street. We will not go inside where the Russkies can get us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health programs weren’t the only ones bludgeoned by budget cuts. Federal housing aid and social programs were slashed by as much as 80 percent in the 1980s, and state and local governments couldn’t catch up. Many of the people who wound up homeless that decade have never left the street, pushing the average age among the street population to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Millions in Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the minimum wage supplying about half or less of the buying power it did in 1980 and about 30 percent of Americans living at or near poverty level, there is a continual flow of people becoming homeless, said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University law professor specializing in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never even replaced the affordable-housing support that was destroyed in the 1980s, so if you want to solve homelessness, you need to not have so much poverty,” Edelman said. “What we’ve got is a problem of homelessness created because we haven’t done what we should have in the first place, so now we have to handle it in the second place -- with techniques like supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one area in which San Francisco, with among the highest rents and greatest gulfs between rich and poor in the country, is actually a leader in innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the city has refined a system of sending outreach counselors into the street to persuade the chronically indigent to accept housing, shelter, employment or medical help -- and then move into permanent supportive housing before they can wander off again. In the past 12 years, San Francisco has put about 12,000 people into such housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is that the city is at least 2,500 supportive-housing units short of what it needs to clear the streets of the most expensive and visible chronically homeless people -- about 1,500 of them -- and to stay ahead of the incoming chronic population every year. But that’s not insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation could be dramatically improved through new private-public funding models, cheaper forms of modular housing, and streamlining techniques for helping people move out of supportive housing after they’ve been stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city’s shelters were expanded by hundreds of beds, and fashioned more along the lines of the 15-month-old Navigation Center, they could finally become the routing tools into housing that Agnos envisioned a quarter-century ago. The center at Mission and 16th streets takes in street campers with their partners, pets and gear and surrounds them with case managers to help them get their lives together quickly. The city is already heading that way: A second center is scheduled to open at Market and 12th streets this week, and the Board of Supervisors has voted to open five more Navigation Centers over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city’s establishment of a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, streamlining city services for street people under one roof into a more direct focus on housing and counseling, San Francisco has its best opportunity in years to clear the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do what we need to do,” said Jeff Kositsky, head of the new department. “The approach now is the same -- we just have to be creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bit of Optimism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, whose Coalition on Homelessness advocacy group has spent decades pushing the city to create more housing and services for the indigent, is skeptically optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Matrix is in the trash bin of history and police leaders insist cracking down isn’t the way to solve homelessness, Friedenbach said, the city still puts too much emphasis on breaking up camps whose residents have nowhere good to go and issuing tickets for quality-of-life violations like sitting on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Wasting Money’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city report in May that found taxpayers spend $20 million a year enforcing such laws quantifies the futility of the effort, she said. To Friedenbach, ticketing street people boils down to just two things: “San Francisco is either ruining homeless people’s lives and wasting money, or harassing homeless people and wasting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With little to show for it, it is time for a new approach,” she said. For Friedenbach, “new” actually means ramping up old concepts -- more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about money,” she said. “We need a sustained revenue source to double the housing units for homeless people, and to do prevention to keep people in their homes and to not become homeless to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that complicated,” she said. “I think in San Francisco, people are ready to do something different. But then, I’ve seen that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He's survived drug overdoses, brutal fights and a dramatic suicide attempt that's claimed the lives of more than 1,500 other people: a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265149628\" 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>At one time, military veterans like George made up as much as half the homeless population in some American cities. But in recent years there’s been surprising progress and the number of vets living in shelters and on the streets has dropped by as much as 50 percent. Are there clues here for solving our broader homeless crisis? Maybe. But one thing is clear to me. The push to help vets is radically changing the lives of people like George Arthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\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>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. Since 2011, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno and San Francisco have all seen steady declines in the number of military veterans living on the streets or in shelters by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans in the last five years, compared to other homeless subpopulations, have received a great deal of resources,” said Leon Winston, chief operating officer at Swords to Plowshares, the group that operates the Veterans Commons facility, just south of Market Street. \"It’s been a bit of an embarrassment of riches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\" width=\"800\" height=\"825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-400x412.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-1180x1216.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-960x990.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Charlie Berman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a coda to this story, I gathered recently at the offices of Citywide Case Management with George Arthur, Charlie Berman and Joel Daniel Phillips. Phillips brought along his portrait of George, mounted in a heavy frame. In the drawing, George is dressed in a T-shirt, sweatshirt and surf shorts, and is staring straight at the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s kind of my look,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George was seeing the portrait for the first time and took a very close look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me wonder what it is that is in his/my mind. It’s really expressive work. There's no question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he liked it. But he had a concern -- what was he to do with the drawing? It was too large to carry around on the streets. I reminded George that he now has an apartment \u003cem>with walls\u003c/em>. He could hang the portrait there. And that’s what he did, and that’s where it is today. At George’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's Note: To receive VA health care benefits, recent veterans must have served 24 continuous months or the full period for which they were called to active duty, although there are exceptions. However, as part of the VA’s homeless program, a person can be considered a veteran eligible for certain benefits regardless of the length of active service.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\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>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. Since 2011, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno and San Francisco have all seen steady declines in the number of military veterans living on the streets or in shelters by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans in the last five years, compared to other homeless subpopulations, have received a great deal of resources,” said Leon Winston, chief operating officer at Swords to Plowshares, the group that operates the Veterans Commons facility, just south of Market Street. \"It’s been a bit of an embarrassment of riches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\" width=\"800\" height=\"825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-400x412.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-1180x1216.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-960x990.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Charlie Berman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a coda to this story, I gathered recently at the offices of Citywide Case Management with George Arthur, Charlie Berman and Joel Daniel Phillips. Phillips brought along his portrait of George, mounted in a heavy frame. In the drawing, George is dressed in a T-shirt, sweatshirt and surf shorts, and is staring straight at the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s kind of my look,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George was seeing the portrait for the first time and took a very close look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me wonder what it is that is in his/my mind. It’s really expressive work. There's no question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he liked it. But he had a concern -- what was he to do with the drawing? It was too large to carry around on the streets. I reminded George that he now has an apartment \u003cem>with walls\u003c/em>. He could hang the portrait there. And that’s what he did, and that’s where it is today. At George’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County supervisors moved a step closer on Tuesday to placing a so-called \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/bos/supdocs/103824.pdf\">millionaire’s tax \u003c/a>on the November ballot. The .5 percent levy on residents earning over $1 million a year could bring in more than $250 million a year in revenue, according to the county’s own calculations. The money would be used to expand services for the county’s roughly 47,000 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s nothing new for a county or local municipality to impose a sales or tourism tax to help pay for day-to-day operating costs. But trying to impose a personal income tax to help finance a specific need is nothing if not unusual. \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>For one, L.A. doesn’t have the authority to do it on its own. What Tuesday’s narrow 3-2 vote does is clear the way for the county to seek a state amendment allowing California counties to impose such a tax. So, before L.A. County can impose the tax, it needs the backing of the state Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has already signaled a willingness to help combat surges of homelessness in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Bay Area and other parts of California. Last week he backed a massive $2 billion bond effort focused on housing the state’s mentally ill homeless residents. The bonds would be repaid over time with revenue from \u003ca href=\"http://prop63.org/\">Proposition 63\u003c/a>, the state’s own \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-millionaires-tax-20160510-story.html\">“millionaire’s tax”\u003c/a> approved by voters in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”mcI3sVGdwSohUkfOuKdoxUZ5iH8xhUwW”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now it’s time for us to seek every conceivable way possible to fund rent subsidies, rapid rehousing, the whole range of services that are needed for those who are suffering,” says L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who co-authored the county’s tax proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us know that we can and we should engage in a significant way,” says Ridley-Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the county “millionaire’s tax,” including Supervisor Mike Antonovich, complain it would hurt high-income county taxpayers and businesses. California millionaires already pay among the highest state income tax in the nation at just over 13 percent. Antonovich says the county measure also fails to address the underlying economic pressures that often contribute to homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should L.A. County’s “millionaire’s tax” proposal make it to the November ballot, it will require a two-thirds majority for passage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Los Angeles County supervisors moved a step closer on Tuesday to placing a so-called \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/bos/supdocs/103824.pdf\">millionaire’s tax \u003c/a>on the November ballot. The .5 percent levy on residents earning over $1 million a year could bring in more than $250 million a year in revenue, according to the county’s own calculations. The money would be used to expand services for the county’s roughly 47,000 homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s nothing new for a county or local municipality to impose a sales or tourism tax to help pay for day-to-day operating costs. But trying to impose a personal income tax to help finance a specific need is nothing if not unusual. \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>For one, L.A. doesn’t have the authority to do it on its own. What Tuesday’s narrow 3-2 vote does is clear the way for the county to seek a state amendment allowing California counties to impose such a tax. So, before L.A. County can impose the tax, it needs the backing of the state Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor has already signaled a willingness to help combat surges of homelessness in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Bay Area and other parts of California. Last week he backed a massive $2 billion bond effort focused on housing the state’s mentally ill homeless residents. The bonds would be repaid over time with revenue from \u003ca href=\"http://prop63.org/\">Proposition 63\u003c/a>, the state’s own \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-millionaires-tax-20160510-story.html\">“millionaire’s tax”\u003c/a> approved by voters in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And now it’s time for us to seek every conceivable way possible to fund rent subsidies, rapid rehousing, the whole range of services that are needed for those who are suffering,” says L.A. County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, who co-authored the county’s tax proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is on a campaign to show that the city’s latest tools to combat homeless — its Navigation Centers — are producing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, Lee has popped up for photo ops at these new shelters and the supportive housing units that go along with them. Behind the scenes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=904\">the city's homeless czar, Sam Dodge\u003c/a>, has been gathering data to build the case another way -- with numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dodge at the old Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street at Market. He showed me a small room he thinks will save many people's lives. It was nothing special -- just a well-used hotel room with a new coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This hotel has been converted into the city’s second Navigation Center. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">The first is near the 16th Street BART Station\u003c/a> in the Mission, and the city is currently planning a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these new shelters the homeless can come for a few months to sign up for benefits and get on a path to housing. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/24/navigating-a-path-from-homelessness-to-housing-in-san-francisco\">The city is buying up other old hotels\u003c/a> to accommodate the homeless coming out of these shelters. “Absent this kind of intensive intervention,” Dodge says, “they are going to die on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Absent this kind of intensive intervention, they are going to die on the street.' \u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homeless czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high for Dodge, who last October became the director of the city's Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement. The city is spending $241 million a year on homelessness, and Mayor Lee is counting on Dodge to make the Navigation Centers successful and to show voters the city can tackle an issue that has plagued it for decades. Everyone, Dodge says, is watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an open experiment that a lot of the city has been following in the past year,\" he says. In order to prove the experiment is working, Dodge is gathering hard data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it is tracking what happens to every person passing through a Navigation Center. Dodge says 80 percent or so of the clients, about 430 people, have moved into housing or in with family. He says that success rate has helped him convince the city to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a way to really tell the story about how we can use supportive housing to solve the homeless crisis,” Dodge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. There are still thousands of homeless people in the city. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\">Tent encampments are swelling\u003c/a> beneath the freeways. Critics say the Navigation Centers take too long to get people into housing and cost too much to set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make his case, Dodge has to pull out a calculator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I end up having to make economic arguments,” he says. “They resonate more than the moral or ethical arguments.” This, he says, is just the sad reality of living in our neoliberal society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is Dodge’s reluctant economic pitch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $241 million the city spends on homelessness is only 3 percent of the whole budget, he says, not that much for what he considers to be the city’s biggest issue. Housing, Dodge says, is the cheapest way to deal with the problem. 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"content": "\u003cp>Renay Nonog does not have a bed. She decided to get a futon instead. Every morning she folds the futon into a couch and tucks away her blankets. This way visitors like me have somewhere to sit. Nonog likes guests, but she is not used to welcoming them into her home. This is the first one she has had in six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nonog is living in a room at the old Henry Hotel at Sixth and Mission streets, one of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/6th-and-Mission-intersection-city-s-hottest-crime-2369466.php\" target=\"_blank\">the city's toughest corners\u003c/a>. The city has partnered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecs-sf.org/\">Episcopal Community Services\u003c/a> to lease the run-down SRO and transform it into supportive housing for the homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905685\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years.\" width=\"266\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0205.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Renay Nonog says she feels blessed to have a home for the first time in six years. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the new residents, like Nonog, are coming from the city's Navigation Center. The year-old shelter has different rules from most and promises a quick transition from the street to housing. The city is touting the shelter as an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">innovative approach to homelessness\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are so confident about the Navigation Center that it's in the process of opening a second one, along with 200 more supportive housing units for those transitioning out of these shelters. The idea is that this housing, like the old Henry Hotel, will be a next step for those leaving the shelters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog moved into her room about a month ago. The place is about 8 feet by 12 feet. The room is packed with her belongings -- her collection of baseball hats, a stand with cosmetics, a television. There is a little sink, which is great, Nonog says, because she can hand-wash her clothes. She tells me not to look in her closet. It’s too messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/254832499\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog says she has been homeless for six years. Near the end, a man she thought was her friend started abusing her. She had to get off the street, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was determined because I was tired,” she says, “This foot says, 'I'm tired.' This one says, 'Me, too.' I'm sorry to get sentimental. It's just a blessing. You know, that I did this, this far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog went to the Navigation Center, which is located at an old public school site on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets. Residents are expected to work with case managers to get signed up for benefits and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog followed the rules, she says, so after about a month the shelter staff sent her to the hotel. They gave her a little housewarming package before she left -- a toaster oven, soup pot and some other kitchen supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love to cook,\" Nonog says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog also brought some things she had been carrying around with her for years. She has a sound system she found on the street. She tied it in plastic bags and let it sit for a week to kill any bugs that could be living inside it. Next to the sound system are all the CDs she’s picked up over the years. At the top of the stack are Beethoven and Al Green, two of her favorites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Navigation Center is designed for the chronically homeless, people who have been on the street for over a year. So far, 142 people have passed through the center into housing. That is a fraction of what the city estimates to be about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-homeless-population-getting-sicker-older-6387308.php\" target=\"_blank\">1,700 chronically homeless\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=903\">director of Mayor Ed Lee's office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement\u003c/a>, or HOPE. Basically, he's the city’s homelessness czar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless.'\u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homelessness czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dodge says the Navigation Center is just a start, a way to show that the city can actually address homelessness. It pursued a lease of the Henry Hotel in part to provide a next step for those coming out of the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry “is not the end for them,” Dodge says, “It's just a vehicle that they can land in permanent housing and then work on for the rest of their lives for whatever goals they are pursuing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge says there is no quick fix. The chronically homeless often do not have IDs, bank accounts or health care. They suffer from physical disabilities, mental illness or the trauma that comes with living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905686\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10905686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Loretta Olivencia runs the support services at The Henry Hotel\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loretta Olivencia runs support services at the Henry Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel is now operated by Episcopal Community Services, which provides on-site case managers to help out residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Olivencia runs all the support services at the Henry. She says new tenants have lots of questions. Some are big ones like how to manage money, get health care or apply for a job. But sometimes residents just need to know where to buy furniture and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel has not always been a place to go for answers. It has a dark history. There are bullet holes in the front facade. And the furniture in the rooms is still bolted to the floor. But the building has been made over -- cleaned and repainted. For many here, like Phillip Torres, it is the best housing they have had in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'\u003ccite>Phillip Torres,\u003cbr>\nHenry Hotel resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I ask Phillip Torres to introduce himself, he says he is “a 31-year old Puerto Rican male from San Francisco.” Torres says he has been homeless since he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is showing me his room. It takes him a minute to open the door. He is not used to using a key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905682\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11.\" width=\"291\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres is in a relationship with Renay Nonog, but they are staying in separate rooms, getting their own lives together. Torres says for years he has had no real family. He relied on a gang for support and often had to fend for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've slept under cardboard,” Toress says, “I've went couch-hopping. I've went into abandoned homes. I’ve put a .357 to my head because I wasn't loved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres tells me there were four times he prepared to shoot himself. We are sitting on his bed. On a side table there is a yellow notepad. It's opened to the sketch of a flower, a tulip. Torres has written rap lyrics next to his drawing. He says the song is all about leaving gang life behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says the hotel is only temporary. He wants to move with Nonog into their own place and have a normal life. Exactly how they will do that, he doesn’t know yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says he is just trying to take it one step at a time.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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You know, that I did this, this far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog went to the Navigation Center, which is located at an old public school site on Mission Street between 15th and 16th streets. Residents are expected to work with case managers to get signed up for benefits and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog followed the rules, she says, so after about a month the shelter staff sent her to the hotel. They gave her a little housewarming package before she left -- a toaster oven, soup pot and some other kitchen supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love to cook,\" Nonog says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonog also brought some things she had been carrying around with her for years. She has a sound system she found on the street. She tied it in plastic bags and let it sit for a week to kill any bugs that could be living inside it. Next to the sound system are all the CDs she’s picked up over the years. 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Basically, he's the city’s homelessness czar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We're struggling, clearly, on the street with so much inflow, so many people becoming homeless.'\u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homelessness czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Dodge says the Navigation Center is just a start, a way to show that the city can actually address homelessness. It pursued a lease of the Henry Hotel in part to provide a next step for those coming out of the shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry “is not the end for them,” Dodge says, “It's just a vehicle that they can land in permanent housing and then work on for the rest of their lives for whatever goals they are pursuing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodge says there is no quick fix. The chronically homeless often do not have IDs, bank accounts or health care. They suffer from physical disabilities, mental illness or the trauma that comes with living on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905686\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10905686\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Loretta Olivencia runs the support services at The Henry Hotel\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-800x598.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-400x299.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1920x1434.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0225-960x717.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loretta Olivencia runs support services at the Henry Hotel. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel is now operated by Episcopal Community Services, which provides on-site case managers to help out residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loretta Olivencia runs all the support services at the Henry. She says new tenants have lots of questions. Some are big ones like how to manage money, get health care or apply for a job. But sometimes residents just need to know where to buy furniture and food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Henry Hotel has not always been a place to go for answers. It has a dark history. There are bullet holes in the front facade. And the furniture in the rooms is still bolted to the floor. But the building has been made over -- cleaned and repainted. For many here, like Phillip Torres, it is the best housing they have had in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'\u003ccite>Phillip Torres,\u003cbr>\nHenry Hotel resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I ask Phillip Torres to introduce himself, he says he is “a 31-year old Puerto Rican male from San Francisco.” Torres says he has been homeless since he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is showing me his room. 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He is not used to using a key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I walked in here I was like: Wow, this is what I was looking for all my life.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905682\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 291px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10905682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11.\" width=\"291\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-800x1071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-400x536.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1920x2571.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-1180x1580.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222-960x1285.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/IMG_0222.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phillip Torres says he's been homeless since he was 11. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres is in a relationship with Renay Nonog, but they are staying in separate rooms, getting their own lives together. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's normal for millennials to still live at home these days. But what if you're a millennial who doesn't have a home to go back to?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Alkeisha Porter says, she didn't like her mom's husband, and her dad had a drug problem. So at 16, she moved out and became homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was basically just house-hopping from friends to some family members. Hey, it was comfortable to me. It wasn't cold. I wasn't sleeping outside,\" says Porter, now 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people — 18- to 24-year-olds — make up one of the \u003ca href=\"http://homeless.samhsa.gov/Channel/Youth-31.aspx\">fastest-growing homeless populations in the country\u003c/a>. In many big cities, like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where housing is at a premium, finding affordable housing is especially hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/470876718/471233396\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, one-bedroom apartment rents average $3,490 a month. There are about 1,600 homeless young adults in the city on any given night, and public housing is out of reach for many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter found an apartment for herself and her baby on San Francisco's Ocean Avenue, in a building run by \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercyhousing.org/CA-1100-Ocean\">Mercy Housing\u003c/a>. The nonprofit provides subsidized affordable housing for low-income residents, including 25 apartments reserved for 18- to 24-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cinthia Mendoza is one of Porter's neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is my first dream, to be on my own, in my own apartment, paying rent, paying bills like a normal adult does,\" said the 21-year-old Mendoza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence forced her out of her home and into foster care when she was 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Behind the door there's a refrigerator, a huge one, which I've never had in my life. And then a microwave, and then I have a big stove, and it's brand-new. Everything was brand-new when I got here,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza is one of the lucky ones. There are way more low-income youth who need housing than there are subsidized apartments available. Technically, Mendoza and Porter could qualify for federal public housing instead of living at Mercy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AM9Cm2SJYmeVyzTHpc80TLFZ6RP1MZ9f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very simple,\" says Ron Ashford, director of Public Housing Supportive Services at HUD. \"[Young adults looking for public housing] just need to find their local housing authority, go to the housing authority and apply.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for young adults, the problem isn't applying. It's getting in. Their demographic is considered a lower priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Remember that you are competing against families who do not have a home and who are looking for public housing,\" Ashord says. \"When I was in the New York City Housing Authority some 20 years ago, the waiting list was more than 10 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the waiting list for public housing is so long that it's closed for the time being. 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But then a scandal broke, in which well-off college athletes in schools across the country were caught living in Section 8 public housing. This controversy prompted a change in \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2008/08/21/E8-19435/eligibility-of-students-for-assisted-housing-under-section-8-of-the-us-housing-act-of-1937\">the rules\u003c/a>, affecting most full- and part-time students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is just one reason local solutions like Mercy Housing have popped up, to provide alternatives for 18- to 24-year-olds. The nonprofit welcomes students but has to limit student residents to part-timers to qualify for federal tax credits. These tax credits make it possible to build this sort of public housing alternative in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mercy Housing apartments on Ocean Avenue are situated right across the street from San Francisco City College. 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Expanding the national shelter model my administration created, the navigation center. Ending chronic homelessness for veterans. A new 180-bed shelter at Pier 80. El Niño shelters to cover for 700 people, thanks to the collaboration and cooperation of our Interfaith Council. Helping hundreds of homeless people out of a public health emergency on Division Street and into shelter without having to make a single arrest. Twenty million dollars for a new bond funding for homeless shelters. Creating a new coordinated homeless department. A billion-dollar funding commitment with a goal of subsidizing 8,000 homeless people by 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I've held several meetings with HUD Secretary Julian Castro and President Obama's homelessness director. 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