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"content": "\u003cp>As lawmakers in Sacramento continue to weigh a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/23/push-to-limit-money-bail-gains-steam-in-california/\">massive overhaul of the state's for-profit bail system\u003c/a>, some local governments are doing their own work to change a practice critics say unfairly punishes the poor with no consideration for public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city leaders have been studying the issue and today released a report showing that African-American and Latino residents are disproportionately impacted by bail: The groups account for just 21 percent of the city's population, but 63 percent of those paying bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report details how the bail system strips $15 million a year from city residents -- more than $9 million of that from black and Latino families. The biggest impacts are felt in low-income neighborhoods, including the Bayview and Tenderloin. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, the report finds that 85 percent of the city's jail population is waiting to go to trial -- while some are too dangerous to be released, half of those people could return to their families, jobs and homes safely, but are stuck behind bars at taxpayer expense because they can't afford to post bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/06/TCRam20170628LagosBail.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/06/28/CherylWindow.jpg\" Title=\"Report: Bail Hits People of Color Hard, Strips $15 Million a Year From S.F. Residents\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Diston has been one of those people, and knows firsthand how devastating it can be to languish in jail because you can’t afford bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t breathe. The first thing you think about is your children -- who’s taking care of them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four struggled with mental health issues and drug addiction for years, and was in and out of jail during that time -- stints behind bars that resulted in her children being put in foster care for years at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your children are affected, and I don't just mean for overnight -- this sticks with your children, this shapes and forms your children. Indirectly, directly. It affects who they become, all of that. It’s a vicious cycle,\" Diston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11535837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Diston holds a photo of her sons Kevin McGhee Jr. (left) and Demetrius Sells (right). \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros heads up the Fines and Fees task force that wrote the report and is dedicated to easing the impacts of government policies on low-income people. Cisneros said he was shocked to learn what happens when friends and family members of those arrested go to a bail bond agent to post bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There, they pay 10 percent deposit on their bail amount, and that deposit is not deposit, it's a nonrefundable fee that they forever have to pay, even if just a few days later the charges are dropped, even if they meet all their court appearance requirements, even maybe if they are found innocent -- that 10 percent deposit is forever gone,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the average bail is set at $50,000, meaning that the 10 percent fee is around $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With a lot of low-income families, $500 can be a lot to come up with -- so $5,000? Particularly $5,000 they are never going to see again, because it's nonrefundable, is a very heavy hit,\" Cisneros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[bailAmounts]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report suggests a slew of recommendations, some of which are already underway, including investing more money in programs that let people await trial outside jail and creating a regulatory system to better oversee the bail industry. Supervisor Hillary Ronen said she is drafting that legislation now, and today will hold a hearing to examine the report and what San Francisco can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the bail system is predicated on a promise to protect public safety -- but it’s not doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just allows people with means to buy their freedom, and poor people to get even deeper into the hole, by having to pay these large nonrefundable fees to the bail industry. And the people who are paying those fees are nine times out of 10 women,\" Ronen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those women, she said, aren't accused of a crime -- they are trying to help a loved one. And, Ronen says, those women often end up on a payment plan that could last longer than that loved one’s court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue impacts mothers, grandmothers, sisters, wives, granddaughters -- mostly women -- in one of the most vulnerable moments of their life, when a loved one is locked up,\" she said. \"The effects are profound, on their ability to stay in school, to provide food for their children. And, the level of shame they feel ... a common thread from the women telling me their experiences, is the incredible feeling of shame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11535836 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An #EndMoneyBail sign posted on Cheryl Dison's wall. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ronen said her legislation will create a licensing process for bail agents that operate in San Francisco -- and allow the city to collect more information about the debt collection agreements people sign with bail agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another idea being explored by city leaders is the creation of a revolving debt fund that would act as a bail bond agent does now -- but give people back the 10 percent fee once their case is adjudicated. The report also recommends lowering the city's bail amounts, something set by the courts. And, it suggests adopting a text message reminder system for court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisneros said the bail report is part of a bigger push by his office and others to help low-income people improve their financial situation -- and make sure the city isn't adding to their woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we’re saying is when a fine or fee is warranted, let's make sure we are right-sizing it, let's make sure that it's impacting people equally, depending upon the income they have,\" he said. \"So one of the things the Fines and Fees task force and our project is looking at is maybe introducing some kind of tool that gauges people's ability to pay -- maybe a fine for somebody making $20,000 a year should end up being a different dollar amount than somebody who makes $200,000 a year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the full report:\u003cbr>\n[documentcloud url=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3879297-Bail-Report\" notes=\"true\" text=\"true\" search=\"true\" sidebar=\"true\" pdf=\"true\" responsive=\"true\" page=\"1\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t breathe. The first thing you think about is your children -- who’s taking care of them,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mother of four struggled with mental health issues and drug addiction for years, and was in and out of jail during that time -- stints behind bars that resulted in her children being put in foster care for years at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your children are affected, and I don't just mean for overnight -- this sticks with your children, this shapes and forms your children. Indirectly, directly. It affects who they become, all of that. It’s a vicious cycle,\" Diston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11535837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25860_0M6A3788-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Diston holds a photo of her sons Kevin McGhee Jr. (left) and Demetrius Sells (right). \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros heads up the Fines and Fees task force that wrote the report and is dedicated to easing the impacts of government policies on low-income people. Cisneros said he was shocked to learn what happens when friends and family members of those arrested go to a bail bond agent to post bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There, they pay 10 percent deposit on their bail amount, and that deposit is not deposit, it's a nonrefundable fee that they forever have to pay, even if just a few days later the charges are dropped, even if they meet all their court appearance requirements, even maybe if they are found innocent -- that 10 percent deposit is forever gone,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the average bail is set at $50,000, meaning that the 10 percent fee is around $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With a lot of low-income families, $500 can be a lot to come up with -- so $5,000? Particularly $5,000 they are never going to see again, because it's nonrefundable, is a very heavy hit,\" Cisneros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[bailAmounts]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report suggests a slew of recommendations, some of which are already underway, including investing more money in programs that let people await trial outside jail and creating a regulatory system to better oversee the bail industry. Supervisor Hillary Ronen said she is drafting that legislation now, and today will hold a hearing to examine the report and what San Francisco can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the bail system is predicated on a promise to protect public safety -- but it’s not doing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just allows people with means to buy their freedom, and poor people to get even deeper into the hole, by having to pay these large nonrefundable fees to the bail industry. And the people who are paying those fees are nine times out of 10 women,\" Ronen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those women, she said, aren't accused of a crime -- they are trying to help a loved one. And, Ronen says, those women often end up on a payment plan that could last longer than that loved one’s court case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This issue impacts mothers, grandmothers, sisters, wives, granddaughters -- mostly women -- in one of the most vulnerable moments of their life, when a loved one is locked up,\" she said. \"The effects are profound, on their ability to stay in school, to provide food for their children. And, the level of shame they feel ... a common thread from the women telling me their experiences, is the incredible feeling of shame.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11535836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11535836 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25857_0M6A3530-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An #EndMoneyBail sign posted on Cheryl Dison's wall. \u003ccite>(Serginho Roosblad/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ronen said her legislation will create a licensing process for bail agents that operate in San Francisco -- and allow the city to collect more information about the debt collection agreements people sign with bail agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another idea being explored by city leaders is the creation of a revolving debt fund that would act as a bail bond agent does now -- but give people back the 10 percent fee once their case is adjudicated. The report also recommends lowering the city's bail amounts, something set by the courts. And, it suggests adopting a text message reminder system for court appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cisneros said the bail report is part of a bigger push by his office and others to help low-income people improve their financial situation -- and make sure the city isn't adding to their woes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All we’re saying is when a fine or fee is warranted, let's make sure we are right-sizing it, let's make sure that it's impacting people equally, depending upon the income they have,\" he said. \"So one of the things the Fines and Fees task force and our project is looking at is maybe introducing some kind of tool that gauges people's ability to pay -- maybe a fine for somebody making $20,000 a year should end up being a different dollar amount than somebody who makes $200,000 a year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>For KQED’s week of homelessness coverage, we asked you to submit your questions on homelessness. We received over 1,300 submissions. This week, Bay Curious answers some of the most frequently asked.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are the most common causes of homelessness?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homelessness mostly arises from poverty and a lack of affordable housing. In the Bay Area, the cost of housing is outpacing what people making minimum wage can afford. When they lose their jobs, or their housing, they are at risk for becoming homeless. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco during the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf\">2017 Homeless Count\u003c/a>, 22 percent of the respondents reported job loss as the primary cause for their homelessness. Eviction accounted for 12 percent of responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other people were forced out of their homes due to interpersonal tensions: arguments with family (13 percent), and breakups and divorce (10 percent). These things alone do not cause homelessness. It’s a systemic issue involving poverty, inadequate safety nets, lack of opportunity and an increasingly expensive housing market.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second most self-reported cause of homelessness was alcohol or substance abuse (15 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of San Francisco, causes homeless people cite shift slightly. Read the full report for your county for more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County 2015\u003c/a> (2017 report expected later this month)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ALAEMDA_7-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://hsa.smcgov.org/sites/hsa.smcgov.org/files/OneDayHomelessCount_ExecSummary_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/sites/default/files/files/servicepages/2015_06/executivesummary_marincounty_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http:///hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf\">San Francisco 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that two-thirds of the respondents cited one or more health conditions. These include physical illness, physical disabilities, chronic substance abuse and severe mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that having mental health problems increases your risk of homelessness and that homelessness worsens mental health problems,” says Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF who specializes in homeless issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002390 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-800x423.png\" alt=\"Source: The San Francisco 2015 Homeless Count\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-800x423.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-1180x624.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-960x508.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630.png 1202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 2015 Homeless Count\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The most common mental health problem among people who are homeless is severe depression, followed by bipolar disease, followed by schizophrenia. People have this view that everyone has a thought disorder and that’s just not true,” says Kushel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kushel also wants to point out that some of the people you see on the street acting erratically are actually housed and in treatment programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People who are housed may still be out on the street engaging in behaviors that might look like they are homeless,” says Kushel. “In fact, many of the people who don’t have housing in this city are invisible to the general public. You’d never guess that they don’t have a home,”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002523 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man sleeping in a doorway in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man sleeping in a doorway in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Henry Rubin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do I do if I think someone needs help?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like most cities, San Francisco has a a 311 number to call if outreach or other resources are needed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, there are multiple outreach groups that aid homeless people, such as the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (415-734-4233) or the San Francisco Mobile Crisis Treatment Team (415-970-4000)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, KQED published \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/help-homeless-san-francisco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on this three years ago or you can check out the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/WHAT-TO-DO.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 Things To Do When You See Homeless People\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers with a church group serve free meals to people at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with a church group serve free meals to people at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are other cities sending their homeless to San Francisco with one-way bus tickets?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, people are being sent here, but it doesn’t work the way you think it might. Most cities have programs that put homeless people on buses. These buses bring homeless people to friends and family where they can find support and a stable living situation. Some people arrive here using such programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco also has one of these programs, it’s called \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm\">Homeward Bound\u003c/a>. It provides a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ticket, travel aid and an escort to the bus for people who have confirmed housing and support in another city. Since 2005, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">over \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-expanding-program-bused-10k-homeless-residents-town-past-decade/\">10,000\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> people have gotten bus tickets through the Homeward Bound program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, while reuniting people with friends and families can be a good thing, homeless advocates worry that the bus ticket programs are abused and don’t help people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221311\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but simply export people and their problems elsewhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Some participants in the program are not even going home but simply to other areas that might have an open bed. Critics claim that these programs don’t do enough to ensure that people’s needs will be met at their destination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But cities have an economic incentive to keep the program running. San Francisco’s Homeward Bound program spends an average of $185 per ticket, whereas housing and caring for people without shelter can cost thousands of dollars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That said, there have been examples of bus tickets being used illegally. A few years ago, a Las Vegas hospital was found to be systematically putting mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses out of town. It was estimated that about 500 patients had destinations in California. Last year, San Francisco won a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposal-in-nevada-patient-dumping-case/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$400,000 settlement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the state of Nevada to cover the medical costs of some 24 patients who arrived in the city with one-way tickets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002489 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Thumper" sits for a portrait in the People's Park in Berkeley, Calif. where he is currently homeless and plays guitar to earn money for food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Thumper’ sits for a portrait in People’s Park in Berkeley, California, where he is currently homeless and plays guitar to earn money for food. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do any of the homeless choose life on the street? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When people who are homeless are offered a safe and decent place to call home, we find they always say yes,” says Jennifer Friedenbach, the director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People often mistake turning down one night in a shelter as choosing to be homeless. They don’t understand that you have to lose all your belongings, separate from your pet, separate from your partner and wait in line for hours on end, only to get five hours of sleep and get kicked out in the next day without your property and survival gear,” says Friedenbach. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other reasons people cite for opting out of shelters include violence, racism, homophobia and transphobia. There are others who decide to sleep on the streets because they want to avoid the bureaucracy and restrictions that come with living in supportive housing. “After going through the merry-go-round of social services … people might not be interested in a sheltered treatment-type program for long periods of time. They want to be more independent and off on their own,” says Eduardo Vega, a past director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco .\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In regard to long-term housing, the director of Hospitality House, told \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Franciscans-know-about-homeless-isn-t-7224018.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that there’s more to a person’s refusal of housing. “A lot of times people have been traumatized and re-traumatized and they don’t think [their lives will change]. They might need a little bit more work in order to be able to make that leap.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A couple people sleep in a dormitory at a Navigation Center in San Francisco. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple people sleep in a dormitory at the Navigation Center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What happens to all the money that San Francisco spends on the homeless?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco allocated over $241 million on homelessness for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-800x582.png\" alt=\"Courtesy of The Chronicle\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-800x582.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-400x291.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-1180x858.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-960x698.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822.png 1879w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year includes $245.5 million to address homelessness and supportive housing. \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_2017_Final_CMYK_LowRes.pdf\">The plan\u003c/a> allocates over $11 million for outreach and prevention and over $203 million towards shelter and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are there so many homeless people in San Francisco, and why are they so visible?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s because of the high housing costs. San Francisco has a huge homeless population because it’s one of the most expensive cities,” says Kushel, the UCSF professor who specializes in homeless issues. “There is a myth that homeless people are drawn to San Francisco because it’s such a great place to be homeless. But research doesn’t hold that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man waiting in line outside of Glide uses a box for warmth and tries to get some sleep.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man waiting for homeless services uses a box for warmth and tries to get some sleep. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The draw of a milder climate only has a marginal effect,” says Eduardo Vega, the previous director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the 2015 San Francisco Homeless Count, of the 7,539 people counted, 71 percent lived in the city before they lost housing. Only 10 percent came from outside the state and the remaining 19 percent came from elsewhere in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We do know that across the country, when people become homeless, they tend to migrate to a city. That’s because it’s hard to experience homelessness in a suburban area. You might have to walk 4, 10, or 20 miles to the nearest service agency. So, people tend to move to cities, but there’s nothing about San Francisco in particular,” says Kushel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Vega, the ratio of housed to unhoused people in San Francisco is unremarkable for a city of its size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because we have a small dense metropolitan area and a lot of people are crowded into the same 4 square miles downtown, there is a perception that the problem is somehow much worse in San Francisco,” says Vega.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 2015 \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">report\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by U.S. Housing and Urban Development, San Francisco’s homeless population, in sheer numbers, is smaller than New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, D.C. and Chicago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The problem is that homelessness is a big problem across the country. But here people are seeing lots of homelessness and getting sensitized to it, which is good,” says Vega. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002487\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chase and Monique talk in their tent on Florida St. that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase (left) and Monique (right) in their tent on Florida Street that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are there so many \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>young\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> homeless people in San Francisco than other places?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“More and more, we are seeing Bay Area youth becoming homeless,” says Mary Howe, director of the Homeless Youth Alliance. The organization provides a safe space for homeless youth in the Haight neighborhood and focuses on providing harm reduction services. The Haight is one neighborhood where young people living on the street are highly visible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many young people become homeless after aging out of the foster care system. Some were homeless with their families but left because they don’t want to be a burden. Some leave abusive, traumatic or neglectful homes. Others are kicked out after coming out as LGBTQ. In San Francisco, 48 percent of the young respondents in the 2015 homeless count identified as LGBTQ. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002471\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Howe is the executive director of the Homeless Youth Alliance on Haight Street in San Francisco. The organization provides a safe space for homeless youth in the Haight neighborhood and focuses on providing harm reduction services.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Howe of the Homeless Youth Alliance \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similar to the adults, many of the homeless youth lived here before becoming homeless. According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/Youth_SanFrancisco_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL_2.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homeless Youth Count\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 56 percent of the homeless youth population was living in San Francisco prior to becoming homeless. Another 25 percent came from another county in California and 19 percent came from out of state. Many of the newcomers head to the Haight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I do think the Haight in particular is an international destination for young people. It will always draw people in, as it did in the ’60s. People still view it as something better than what they are leaving,” says Howe. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I also want to point out that many of the people paying rent in San Francisco are actually not from here either.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are there any plans for adopting a “Housing First” program similar to that in Salt Lake City?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Kevin Fagen, Salt Lake City has “all but ended chronic homelessness.” The city accomplished this through an aggressive “Housing First” program, which quickly puts people into permanent housing. There are no requirements for eligibility, such as sobriety, treatment or service participation. Over 2,000 people who were formerly chronically homeless are housed in what is described as “showpieces of modern architecture.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So why can’t San Francisco do this? Well, the city actually \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">does\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have a Housing First program. According to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Salt-Lake-City-a-model-for-S-F-on-homeless-5587357.php?t=edc865e5e805236f26&cmpid=twitter-premium\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it includes about 5,000 units of supportive housing in the Tenderloin neighborhood. But why hasn’t the program seen the same success as Salt Lake City? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Chronicle reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/kevin-fagan/\">Kevin Fagan\u003c/a>, Salt Lake City has more data on its homeless population, enabling the program to target the most at-risk people on the street. These are the people who use emergency services most. By identifying these folks, government and nonprofit agencies can quickly house and begin supportive services catered to the individual’s needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco has no single information network that tracks homeless people and the services they use. This hinders the city’s ability to help people who need it most. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fagan says that another reason San Francisco’s program isn’t as successful is because it’s harder to cultivate a culture of self-improvement in the Tenderloin. Residents with substance abuse issues have a difficult time breaking old habits. Counselors in the Tenderloin are spread too thin and can have up to 100 clients each. By comparison, the Salt Lake City program has one counselor for every 15 residents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We provide a fair number of [Housing First units], but we need a lot more,” says Vega, the director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, San Francisco still has 1,745 chronically homeless individuals and 18 chronically homeless families. To provide more supportive housing similar to the Salt Lake City model, the main obstacle will be the cost. Building housing in the country’s most expensive real estate market costs heaps more than in Utah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, the high prices both cause homelessness and create barriers to finding a home outside of government support. In Salt Lake City, the program has a 15 percent turnover each year as people are able to transition out and support themselves. In San Francisco, less than 5 percent of the residents leave the program each year. They stay longer because they cannot afford to leave. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002473\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Division Street homeless encampments\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18599_IMAG2728-qut-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Division Street homeless encampments. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published on June 21st 2016. It was updated on June 23rd 2017. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>For KQED’s week of homelessness coverage, we asked you to submit your questions on homelessness. We received over 1,300 submissions. This week, Bay Curious answers some of the most frequently asked.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What are the most common causes of homelessness?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homelessness mostly arises from poverty and a lack of affordable housing. In the Bay Area, the cost of housing is outpacing what people making minimum wage can afford. When they lose their jobs, or their housing, they are at risk for becoming homeless. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco during the \u003ca href=\"http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf\">2017 Homeless Count\u003c/a>, 22 percent of the respondents reported job loss as the primary cause for their homelessness. Eviction accounted for 12 percent of responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other people were forced out of their homes due to interpersonal tensions: arguments with family (13 percent), and breakups and divorce (10 percent). These things alone do not cause homelessness. It’s a systemic issue involving poverty, inadequate safety nets, lack of opportunity and an increasingly expensive housing market.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second most self-reported cause of homelessness was alcohol or substance abuse (15 percent).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside of San Francisco, causes homeless people cite shift slightly. Read the full report for your county for more details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/oah/coc/census/Documents/SantaClaraCounty_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Clara County 2015\u003c/a> (2017 report expected later this month)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://everyonehome.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ALAEMDA_7-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda County 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://hsa.smcgov.org/sites/hsa.smcgov.org/files/OneDayHomelessCount_ExecSummary_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Mateo County 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhhs.org/sites/default/files/files/servicepages/2015_06/executivesummary_marincounty_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marin County 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http:///hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf\">San Francisco 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It’s important to note that two-thirds of the respondents cited one or more health conditions. These include physical illness, physical disabilities, chronic substance abuse and severe mental health conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that having mental health problems increases your risk of homelessness and that homelessness worsens mental health problems,” says Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF who specializes in homeless issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002390\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002390 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-800x423.png\" alt=\"Source: The San Francisco 2015 Homeless Count\" width=\"800\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-800x423.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-400x212.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-1180x624.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630-960x508.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.27.12-AM-e1467045025630.png 1202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco 2015 Homeless Count\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The most common mental health problem among people who are homeless is severe depression, followed by bipolar disease, followed by schizophrenia. People have this view that everyone has a thought disorder and that’s just not true,” says Kushel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kushel also wants to point out that some of the people you see on the street acting erratically are actually housed and in treatment programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People who are housed may still be out on the street engaging in behaviors that might look like they are homeless,” says Kushel. “In fact, many of the people who don’t have housing in this city are invisible to the general public. You’d never guess that they don’t have a home,”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002523\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002523 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man sleeping in a doorway in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS18252_IMG_3524.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man sleeping in a doorway in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Henry Rubin)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What do I do if I think someone needs help?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like most cities, San Francisco has a a 311 number to call if outreach or other resources are needed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, there are multiple outreach groups that aid homeless people, such as the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (415-734-4233) or the San Francisco Mobile Crisis Treatment Team (415-970-4000)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, KQED published \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/07/help-homeless-san-francisco/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a story\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on this three years ago or you can check out the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/WHAT-TO-DO.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 Things To Do When You See Homeless People\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002537\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002537\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers with a church group serve free meals to people at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7933_freezing_temps_10dec2013_0244_web-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers with a church group serve free meals to people at U.N. Plaza in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are other cities sending their homeless to San Francisco with one-way bus tickets?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, people are being sent here, but it doesn’t work the way you think it might. Most cities have programs that put homeless people on buses. These buses bring homeless people to friends and family where they can find support and a stable living situation. Some people arrive here using such programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco also has one of these programs, it’s called \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm\">Homeward Bound\u003c/a>. It provides a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ticket, travel aid and an escort to the bus for people who have confirmed housing and support in another city. Since 2005, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">over \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-expanding-program-bused-10k-homeless-residents-town-past-decade/\">10,000\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> people have gotten bus tickets through the Homeward Bound program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, while reuniting people with friends and families can be a good thing, homeless advocates worry that the bus ticket programs are abused and don’t help people \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5221311\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">but simply export people and their problems elsewhere\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Some participants in the program are not even going home but simply to other areas that might have an open bed. Critics claim that these programs don’t do enough to ensure that people’s needs will be met at their destination.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But cities have an economic incentive to keep the program running. San Francisco’s Homeward Bound program spends an average of $185 per ticket, whereas housing and caring for people without shelter can cost thousands of dollars.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That said, there have been examples of bus tickets being used illegally. A few years ago, a Las Vegas hospital was found to be systematically putting mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses out of town. It was estimated that about 500 patients had destinations in California. Last year, San Francisco won a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-reaches-400k-settlement-proposal-in-nevada-patient-dumping-case/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">$400,000 settlement\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the state of Nevada to cover the medical costs of some 24 patients who arrived in the city with one-way tickets.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002489\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11002489 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\""Thumper" sits for a portrait in the People's Park in Berkeley, Calif. where he is currently homeless and plays guitar to earn money for food.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19951_160621_HomelessThumper_bhs04-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Thumper’ sits for a portrait in People’s Park in Berkeley, California, where he is currently homeless and plays guitar to earn money for food. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do any of the homeless choose life on the street? \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When people who are homeless are offered a safe and decent place to call home, we find they always say yes,” says Jennifer Friedenbach, the director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“People often mistake turning down one night in a shelter as choosing to be homeless. They don’t understand that you have to lose all your belongings, separate from your pet, separate from your partner and wait in line for hours on end, only to get five hours of sleep and get kicked out in the next day without your property and survival gear,” says Friedenbach. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other reasons people cite for opting out of shelters include violence, racism, homophobia and transphobia. There are others who decide to sleep on the streets because they want to avoid the bureaucracy and restrictions that come with living in supportive housing. “After going through the merry-go-round of social services … people might not be interested in a sheltered treatment-type program for long periods of time. They want to be more independent and off on their own,” says Eduardo Vega, a past director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco .\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In regard to long-term housing, the director of Hospitality House, told \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Franciscans-know-about-homeless-isn-t-7224018.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that there’s more to a person’s refusal of housing. “A lot of times people have been traumatized and re-traumatized and they don’t think [their lives will change]. They might need a little bit more work in order to be able to make that leap.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002522\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002522\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A couple people sleep in a dormitory at a Navigation Center in San Francisco. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19840__MG_0893-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple people sleep in a dormitory at the Navigation Center in San Francisco’s Mission District. Unlike other centers, couples are allowed to push their beds together here, and dogs sleep with their people. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>What happens to all the money that San Francisco spends on the homeless?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco allocated over $241 million on homelessness for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002393\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002393\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-800x582.png\" alt=\"Courtesy of The Chronicle\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-800x582.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-400x291.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-1180x858.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822-960x698.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-06-27-at-9.31.32-AM-e1467045166822.png 1879w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget for the 2017-2018 fiscal year includes $245.5 million to address homelessness and supportive housing. \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_2017_Final_CMYK_LowRes.pdf\">The plan\u003c/a> allocates over $11 million for outreach and prevention and over $203 million towards shelter and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are there so many homeless people in San Francisco, and why are they so visible?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s because of the high housing costs. San Francisco has a huge homeless population because it’s one of the most expensive cities,” says Kushel, the UCSF professor who specializes in homeless issues. “There is a myth that homeless people are drawn to San Francisco because it’s such a great place to be homeless. But research doesn’t hold that up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002482\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002482\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man waiting in line outside of Glide uses a box for warmth and tries to get some sleep.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS4660_homeless-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man waiting for homeless services uses a box for warmth and tries to get some sleep. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The draw of a milder climate only has a marginal effect,” says Eduardo Vega, the previous director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the 2015 San Francisco Homeless Count, of the 7,539 people counted, 71 percent lived in the city before they lost housing. Only 10 percent came from outside the state and the remaining 19 percent came from elsewhere in California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We do know that across the country, when people become homeless, they tend to migrate to a city. That’s because it’s hard to experience homelessness in a suburban area. You might have to walk 4, 10, or 20 miles to the nearest service agency. So, people tend to move to cities, but there’s nothing about San Francisco in particular,” says Kushel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Vega, the ratio of housed to unhoused people in San Francisco is unremarkable for a city of its size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Because we have a small dense metropolitan area and a lot of people are crowded into the same 4 square miles downtown, there is a perception that the problem is somehow much worse in San Francisco,” says Vega.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the 2015 \u003c/span>\u003ca style=\"line-height: 1.5\" href=\"https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2015-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\">report\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by U.S. Housing and Urban Development, San Francisco’s homeless population, in sheer numbers, is smaller than New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, D.C. and Chicago. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The problem is that homelessness is a big problem across the country. But here people are seeing lots of homelessness and getting sensitized to it, which is good,” says Vega. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002487\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11002487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Chase and Monique talk in their tent on Florida St. that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District of San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS19965_160623_Florida-St-Encampment_bhs08-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chase (left) and Monique (right) in their tent on Florida Street that is part of a homeless encampment in the Mission District. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Why are there so many \u003c/b>\u003cb>\u003ci>young\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003cb> homeless people in San Francisco than other places?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“More and more, we are seeing Bay Area youth becoming homeless,” says Mary Howe, director of the Homeless Youth Alliance. The organization provides a safe space for homeless youth in the Haight neighborhood and focuses on providing harm reduction services. The Haight is one neighborhood where young people living on the street are highly visible. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many young people become homeless after aging out of the foster care system. Some were homeless with their families but left because they don’t want to be a burden. Some leave abusive, traumatic or neglectful homes. Others are kicked out after coming out as LGBTQ. In San Francisco, 48 percent of the young respondents in the 2015 homeless count identified as LGBTQ. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11002471\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11002471\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Howe is the executive director of the Homeless Youth Alliance on Haight Street in San Francisco. The organization provides a safe space for homeless youth in the Haight neighborhood and focuses on providing harm reduction services.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi.jpg 540w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS7974_homeless_youth_alliance_dec2013_0335_web-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Howe of the Homeless Youth Alliance \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similar to the adults, many of the homeless youth lived here before becoming homeless. According to the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/Youth_SanFrancisco_HomelessReport_2015_FINAL_2.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Homeless Youth Count\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 56 percent of the homeless youth population was living in San Francisco prior to becoming homeless. Another 25 percent came from another county in California and 19 percent came from out of state. Many of the newcomers head to the Haight. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I do think the Haight in particular is an international destination for young people. It will always draw people in, as it did in the ’60s. People still view it as something better than what they are leaving,” says Howe. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I also want to point out that many of the people paying rent in San Francisco are actually not from here either.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Are there any plans for adopting a “Housing First” program similar to that in Salt Lake City?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Kevin Fagen, Salt Lake City has “all but ended chronic homelessness.” The city accomplished this through an aggressive “Housing First” program, which quickly puts people into permanent housing. There are no requirements for eligibility, such as sobriety, treatment or service participation. Over 2,000 people who were formerly chronically homeless are housed in what is described as “showpieces of modern architecture.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So why can’t San Francisco do this? Well, the city actually \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">does\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have a Housing First program. According to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/nation/article/Salt-Lake-City-a-model-for-S-F-on-homeless-5587357.php?t=edc865e5e805236f26&cmpid=twitter-premium\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it includes about 5,000 units of supportive housing in the Tenderloin neighborhood. But why hasn’t the program seen the same success as Salt Lake City? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Chronicle reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/author/kevin-fagan/\">Kevin Fagan\u003c/a>, Salt Lake City has more data on its homeless population, enabling the program to target the most at-risk people on the street. These are the people who use emergency services most. By identifying these folks, government and nonprofit agencies can quickly house and begin supportive services catered to the individual’s needs. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco has no single information network that tracks homeless people and the services they use. This hinders the city’s ability to help people who need it most. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fagan says that another reason San Francisco’s program isn’t as successful is because it’s harder to cultivate a culture of self-improvement in the Tenderloin. Residents with substance abuse issues have a difficult time breaking old habits. Counselors in the Tenderloin are spread too thin and can have up to 100 clients each. By comparison, the Salt Lake City program has one counselor for every 15 residents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We provide a fair number of [Housing First units], but we need a lot more,” says Vega, the director of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, San Francisco still has 1,745 chronically homeless individuals and 18 chronically homeless families. To provide more supportive housing similar to the Salt Lake City model, the main obstacle will be the cost. Building housing in the country’s most expensive real estate market costs heaps more than in Utah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, the high prices both cause homelessness and create barriers to finding a home outside of government support. In Salt Lake City, the program has a 15 percent turnover each year as people are able to transition out and support themselves. In San Francisco, less than 5 percent of the residents leave the program each year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:40 p.m. Thursday, June 15:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers issued a “Stink Alert” late Thursday afternoon about its corpse flower, which has been on the verge of blooming for days: Terra the Titan has started to open. It might not totally unfurl this evening, but its stench — which has been likened to rotting flesh — will be the strongest tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory will be open until 9 p.m., with the last entry at 8:30 p.m, to accommodate visitors to Terra, and will reopen at 10 a.m. Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening,” said its Facebook post. “Smell you soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plant will reek for only a few days, but its collapse will also be something to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, June 13:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no prouder parent than Sidney Price. On Monday morning, he savored a private visit with his “baby” at the \u003ca href=\"http://conservatoryofflowers.org/\">San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought she’d be an early bloomer,” said Price, as he gazed at Terra the Titan, a 9-year-old corpse flower poised to unleash an overpowering stench that has been compared to decaying animal flesh, filthy socks, rotting garbage and human feces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it doesn’t repel people. Quite the contrary. When a corpse flower blooms, it is always a botanical blockbuster, drawing thousands of people who can’t get enough of its putrid smell and unearthly beauty. The last time this rare event occurred at the conservatory was in 2005, drawing about 16,000 visitors in four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbKOVv5GII0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest unbranched inflorescence — or flowering structure — in the plant world, the corpse flower is also known as an \u003cem>Amorphophallus titanum\u003c/em> (giant misshapen penis) or \u003ca href=\"https://www.chicagobotanic.org/titan/about\">Titan Arum.\u003c/a> When one bloomed at the \u003ca href=\"http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/\">UC Botanical Garden\u003c/a> in Berkeley in 2010, Price witnessed the phenomenon at its olfactory peak, which is usually no more than 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was love at first sight,” recalled Price. “I’d never seen something so beautiful and that smelled so much. It was huuuuuge, as our president would say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odor reminded him of roadkill. “It smelled like dead possum,” Price said. “It was pretty pungent and intense. I grew up in Arkansas, so I know what dead possum smells like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he lives in a small apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District, Price \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to have a corpse flower of his own. He bought a pot with two small plants at the shop in the botanical garden. The sprouts, the offspring of Trudy and Titania, had been propagated at UC a year and a half earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were sickly-looking, spindly and yellowish,” said the 64-year-old Price, a retired IT worker. “But I wanted one because they’re getting destroyed in their native habitat in Indonesia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed them in his kitchen window, but the northern exposure wasn’t kind. Two months later, Price moved them to his bathroom, where bright sunlight transformed them from wimps into amazons, and a third sibling emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shower mist didn’t hurt either. “I’m very clean,” Price said. “I take a shower in the morning and another in the evening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants’ rampant growth began to resemble something out of a science-fiction movie. Price was thrilled but stunned, as he watched Terra overtake his bathroom. He also fretted about the consequences of an untimely bloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was worried I’d be away on a trip and somebody would call the police and tear down my door because they thought a dead body was inside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, when one of the gigantic leaves reached 7 feet, he realized it was time to say goodbye. One day in 2014, he called the Conservatory of Flowers. Three years later, Terra is poised to become its first permanent corpse flower to bloom — its 2005 predecessor was borrowed from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Price visited Terra on Monday, he noted that he’s 5-foot-8 and the plant’s phalluslike spadix is just under 6 feet, and rising. He still can’t believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mothered this plant,” he said. “I just wanted it to survive so badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price knows a thing or two about survival. The Ozark Mountains native moved to San Francisco in 1975 during its gay heyday — “Harvey Milk even hit on me” — and retired in 1996 when he was diagnosed with AIDS. But his timing was good: A new class of drugs kept him alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like all the conditions came together for my survival,” he said. “And later, for the plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Price refers to Terra as a she, he’s well aware that the plant is a hermaphrodite, with male and female flowers. “It’s perfect for gay pride month,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terra produced its first-ever bud on May 1, and is growing 1 to 3 inches a day. The flowers reside out of sight in the base of the spadix, which looks like a baguette and is encircled by a spathe that resembles a ruffled, pleated skirt and will turn the color of red meat when it unfurls. The odor and color lure pollinators in the form of carrion beetles and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s total deception on the plant’s part,” said Lizzie Roeble, education coordinator at the conservatory. “We are ecstatic. We can’t talk or think about anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Spellmann, a nursery specialist at the conservatory, helped relocate Price’s plants from their bathroom habitat to their tropical oasis in the Richmond district, where Terra is about to attain superstar status. “Now it needs to be wet all the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, or even hours, it will likely bloom, but Titan Arums are “notoriously unpredictable,” according to Roeble. Terra’s celebrity will be short-lived — just a few days — before it goes limp and collapses into total anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508300\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11508300\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg\" alt=\"The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment.\" width=\"320\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-160x284.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-240x427.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-375x667.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom-520x924.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/Titaninbathroom.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Titan Arum plants that Sidney Price purchased as sprouts eventually outgrew the bathroom of his Mission District apartment. \u003ccite>(Sidney Price)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Titan Arums grow on the hillsides of Sumatran rainforests, and “corpse flower” is the translation of its Indonesian name, \u003cem>bunga bangkai\u003c/em>. They’re vulnerable because their habitats are being wiped out by agricultural production and timber logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me incredibly sad,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roeble agreed. She hopes that the hordes who descend on Terra will learn a bit about the plight of its relatives in the wild, as they sniff and marvel and recoil and take selfies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conservatory is extending its hours for Terra’s coming-out party. It is usually closed on Mondays, but it opened at noon on June 12 so that people could visit the Titan Arum as it inched ever closer to blooming. The plant’s progress will be charted with regular updates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=conservatory%20of%20flowers\">Facebook,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqAGa9EDih4\">YouTube,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/conservatoryofflowers/\">Instagram\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFConservatory\">Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after the doors opened Monday, Terra was holding court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the only thing that’s smellier than me,” said Tom Calder, a swimming-pool retiler from Australia. “She’s just a prize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is as good as April the Giraffe,” declared another patron, referring to the ruminant that gave birth earlier this year as the world watched on YouTube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt McAndrews, a marketer from Philadelphia in town for a few days, heard about Terra from a friend and raced over to the conservatory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like plants but there’s nothing like this,” he said. “It’s pod people. It’s body snatchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman seemed to think the entire pollination process would be on display. Docent Joan Simmons disabused her of that notion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We try not to have carrion flies in here,” Simmons explained.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was huuuuuge, as our president would say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The odor reminded him of roadkill. “It smelled like dead possum,” Price said. “It was pretty pungent and intense. I grew up in Arkansas, so I know what dead possum smells like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though he lives in a small apartment in San Francisco’s Mission District, Price \u003cem>had\u003c/em> to have a corpse flower of his own. He bought a pot with two small plants at the shop in the botanical garden. The sprouts, the offspring of Trudy and Titania, had been propagated at UC a year and a half earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were sickly-looking, spindly and yellowish,” said the 64-year-old Price, a retired IT worker. “But I wanted one because they’re getting destroyed in their native habitat in Indonesia.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He placed them in his kitchen window, but the northern exposure wasn’t kind. Two months later, Price moved them to his bathroom, where bright sunlight transformed them from wimps into amazons, and a third sibling emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shower mist didn’t hurt either. “I’m very clean,” Price said. “I take a shower in the morning and another in the evening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plants’ rampant growth began to resemble something out of a science-fiction movie. Price was thrilled but stunned, as he watched Terra overtake his bathroom. He also fretted about the consequences of an untimely bloom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was worried I’d be away on a trip and somebody would call the police and tear down my door because they thought a dead body was inside,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, when one of the gigantic leaves reached 7 feet, he realized it was time to say goodbye. One day in 2014, he called the Conservatory of Flowers. Three years later, Terra is poised to become its first permanent corpse flower to bloom — its 2005 predecessor was borrowed from UC Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11508296\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11508296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/terra2-conservatory-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors take advantage of a rare open Monday at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers on June 12, 2017. \u003ccite>(Patricia Yollin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Price visited Terra on Monday, he noted that he’s 5-foot-8 and the plant’s phalluslike spadix is just under 6 feet, and rising. He still can’t believe it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mothered this plant,” he said. “I just wanted it to survive so badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price knows a thing or two about survival. The Ozark Mountains native moved to San Francisco in 1975 during its gay heyday — “Harvey Milk even hit on me” — and retired in 1996 when he was diagnosed with AIDS. But his timing was good: A new class of drugs kept him alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like all the conditions came together for my survival,” he said. “And later, for the plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Price refers to Terra as a she, he’s well aware that the plant is a hermaphrodite, with male and female flowers. “It’s perfect for gay pride month,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terra produced its first-ever bud on May 1, and is growing 1 to 3 inches a day. The flowers reside out of sight in the base of the spadix, which looks like a baguette and is encircled by a spathe that resembles a ruffled, pleated skirt and will turn the color of red meat when it unfurls. The odor and color lure pollinators in the form of carrion beetles and flies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s total deception on the plant’s part,” said Lizzie Roeble, education coordinator at the conservatory. “We are ecstatic. We can’t talk or think about anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Spellmann, a nursery specialist at the conservatory, helped relocate Price’s plants from their bathroom habitat to their tropical oasis in the Richmond district, where Terra is about to attain superstar status. “Now it needs to be wet all the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days, or even hours, it will likely bloom, but Titan Arums are “notoriously unpredictable,” according to Roeble. 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The Department of Emergency Management has acknowledged that it was not enough for the center to answer calls quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under pressure to respond faster to an increase in call volume, the agency is hiring more dispatchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, during Wednesday's Fire Commission meeting, a top emergency official plans to unveil a new computer program that will help dispatchers send the closest medics to emergencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The computer system will calculate which ambulance is closest and the approximate travel time, and allow us to always send the closest unit,\" said Rob Smuts, deputy director of the Department of Emergency Management, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11473971\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11473971\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-800x536.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-960x644.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-240x161.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-375x251.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/GettyImages-671214366-1020x684-520x349.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Fire Department crews stand outside an electric substation where a fire occurred and might have caused the the power outage on April 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Currently a 911 dispatcher in San Francisco uses a map that shows the location of ambulances and a system that recommends an ambulance for a medical incident. But that system, known as a computer-aided dispatch (CAD), relies on where a medic reports for duty over a radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department plans to start using technology that specifies exactly where an ambulance is, based on its GPS location. The new technology, known as a Mobile Area Routing and Vehicle Location Information System (MARVLIS), also uses Fire Department data to calculate how long it will take for an ambulance to respond to an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is currently testing the technology and plans to roll it out in the next few weeks, Smuts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is expected to face questions from at least one member of the Fire Commission concerned about how the agency is working to make improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Seconds matter when you're calling for a firefighter or EMS,\" said Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese, who requested Smuts to appear on Wednesday after seeing reports of staffing problems at the 911 center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing issue prompted a \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/officials-working-to-properly-staff-sf-911-dispatch-center/1952861/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">call for a supervisors hearing\u003c/a>. Earlier this month the San Francisco Examiner reported that \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/mayor-lee-vows-solve-911-response-failures-two-months/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayor Ed Lee promised\u003c/a> that the city would meet the national standard of answering 90 percent of emergency calls within 10 seconds within the next two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the San Francisco Chronicle recently reported that when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Homeless-man-s-death-highlights-staff-shortages-11095772.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a man suffered cardiac arrest\u003c/a> and collapsed at a local church last month, several people called 911, but the phone kept ringing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a lot of questions that I want to ask,\" Veronese said. \"The primary goal is to see if we can be better at response times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco receives more than 1.2 million emergency and non-emergency calls per year, according to Department of Emergency Management spokesman Francis Zamora. That's an average of more than 3,400 calls per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, the agency has experienced a 37 percent increase in call volume. \"That means our dispatchers are answering 1,000 more calls a day than they did six years ago,\" Zamora said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department blames San Francisco's growing population and the increasing popularity of smartphones for the increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the agency hired 23 new dispatchers. Altogether, the department currently has 125. Smuts plans to tell the commission that it is training 40 more to add to its ranks.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The recent conclusion by local air regulators that malfunctions at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/17/air-district-blames-chevrons-richmond-refinery-for-s-f-odor/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chevron's Richmond facility sent toxic gas 11 miles across San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> late last year means that a larger part of the region may be vulnerable to refinery malfunctions than many previously believed, environmentalists and experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a greater risk here than people realized,\" said Patrick Sullivan, a spokesman for the Center for Biological Diversity. \"We have to have a different calculus of how these refineries affect communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Bay Area Air Quality Management District\u003c/a> issued four notices of violation against Chevron for problems at the refinery in late December that prompted flaring, moments before residents in San Francisco complained of a sulfurlike odor. The district concluded that the smell was caused by releases of hydrogen sulfide from the Chevron refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mysterious smell in San Francisco came two months after dozens of Vallejo residents sought medical treatment \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">from an odor that spread through that city\u003c/a>. The sickening fumes appear to have coincided with an oil spill on the other side of the Carquinez Strait near the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the district's announcement came less than two weeks after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/05/benicia-refinery-power-outage-triggers-evacuations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">power outage at Valero's Benicia refinery\u003c/a> sent a huge plume of smoke and toxic gas into the sky. The initial flaring there sent at least 12 people to the hospital and prompted a series of evacuation and shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chances that a problem at a refinery on one side of the bay could send toxic gas to another depends in part on which way the wind blows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the wind direction is not blowing the air towards you, you're not going to smell it,\" said Anthony Wexler, director of \u003ca href=\"https://aqrc.ucdavis.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds the night of the Chevron malfunction were blowing between 5 and 10 mph from the north-northeast to the south-southwest, according to Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other weather facts at play, according to Wexler. If plumes of smoke and gas that erupt during refinery flaring don't mix well enough into the atmosphere, they can travel and affect a larger area, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chevron case involved hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that Chevron's own monitors apparently measured a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide shortly before people smelled an odor in San Francisco, and winds can blow a rotten smell 10 miles in 10-20 minutes, I strongly suspect the San Francisco odor was caused by Chevron's refinery,\" said Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of the school's Atmosphere and Energy Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents of Richmond, Rodeo, Benicia and Martinez—cities where local refineries are located—have complained for years about unhealthy air coming from their oil industry neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But residents in large parts of the rest of the region might not feel a refinery can affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, the source at Chevron has had issues like this before. The difference here is that it affected a wider area, including San Francisco,\" said John Gioia, a Contra Costa County supervisor and member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been used to some of these odor issues in Richmond,\" Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center of Biological Diversity's Sullivan says the Chevron incident means there's a bigger risk to a larger part of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've always viewed these refineries as a serious hazard to the people who live around them, often those are low-income people, people of color who seem to bear the brunt of this sort of pollution,\" Sullivan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron questions the air district's findings, in part because its refinery is so far away from San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a complex issue, but given the small amount of H2S (hydrogen sulfide) released, the 11-mile distance across the bay, and the wide geography of the odor complaints, we believe it is unlikely that the flaring was the source of the odors,\" said Chevron spokeswoman Leah Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The distance made it tougher for local air regulators to identify the source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was really a complicated issue, because it did span quite a distance and affect a big part of the Bay Area,\" said Tom Flannigan, an air district spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When such a large area is affected, we really have to look closely at all the sources that could have caused it,\" Flannigan said in an interview. \"In this case, that meant more time, that meant more energy, that meant more analysis. That meant more data review.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials will now tackle the issue. Now that the air district investigation is complete, a Board of Supervisors committee is expected to hold a hearing on the refinery malfunction in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron must be held accountable for the toxic gas that lingered in the air,\" said Supervisor Mark Farrell, who called for the hearing. \"Reforms must be implemented immediately to ensure this never happens again.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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