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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee plans to send a delegation to Washington, D.C., to meet with federal housing officials who rejected a city measure that would give low-income and minority residents priority in new affordable housing developments in their neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Housing and Urban Development's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Feds-reject-housing-plan-meant-to-help-minorities-9146987.php\" target=\"_blank\">rejection\u003c/a> of the city's neighborhood preference plan was met with anger from San Francisco's African-American leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision led Sen. Dianne Feinstein to call on the department's chief to work out a compromise with city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ask that you personally oversee this partnership to ensure that San Francisco can pursue anti-displacement strategies,\" Feinstein wrote to HUD Secretary Julian Castro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HUD rejected the neighborhood preference program, saying it could violate the 1968 Fair Housing Act by limiting equal access to housing and perpetuating segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's program would have given black seniors in the city's Western Addition preference to move into a 98-unit affordable housing development this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors and Lee enacted the \u003ca href=\"http://sfmohcd.org/neighborhood-resident-housing-preference\">neighborhood preference plan\u003c/a> in part to answer the continuing departure of the city's African-American population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure sets aside 40 percent of the new affordable housing units for qualified residents who already live in the supervisorial district where a new affordable development is being built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials acknowledge that the city's affordable housing lotteries are very competitive -- they emphasize that the legislation improves the chances of residents moving into affordable housing in their own neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee wrote to Castro earlier this month, requesting the agency reconsider its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that the decision is adverse to our mutual goals regarding equity, displacement prevention and the creation of opportunities for vulnerable populations,\" Lee wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the mayor is following up with a delegation to HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are not going to give up as we experience the outmigration of African-Americans and others from San Francisco,\" said mayoral spokeswoman Deirdre Hussey. \"The mayor believes neighborhood preference is an anti-displacement policy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's contingent will \"take HUD up on their challenge to find anti-displacement policies that work for our city and our people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is working with Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Feinstein sent a \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=9F2770A4-7864-413E-9227-FC6D5B8B3CBE&SK=07329CE7D16AD8BF458CFB719EEDD06E\">letter \u003c/a>to Castro on Friday urging him to come to a solution with city officials by the end of President Obama's term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe it is incumbent upon your department to work with cities, particularly those in California that have seen dramatically increasing housing costs in recent years, to develop innovative strategies to prevent residents from being priced out of their historic neighborhoods,\" Feinstein wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco's tech boom has led to increased demand for limited housing, particularly in the Western Addition,\" the California senator wrote. \"I am deeply concerned that, if left unchecked, this trend will destroy the fabric and culture of the individual neighborhoods that make San Francisco so unique. Please let me know if new legislation would be helpful to clarify the law on this issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi's office is also lobbying HUD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We support San Francisco's neighborhood preference and have advocated strongly with HUD,\" said Jorge Aguilar, a Pelosi spokesman. \"We are disappointed by the department's decision and hope they will reconsider.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>London Breed, president of the Board of Supervisors who co-authored the legislation, is calling on Pelosi and other Democrats to fight for the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want action, we want housing,\" Breed, who's running for re-election, said during a news conference last Thursday. \"We're going to fight tooth and nail to make sure that we get it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed was joined by Supervisor Malia Cohen and the Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The soul of San Francisco's neighborhoods are on the line,\" Cohen, also a co-author, said at Thursday's news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only intention of the mayor and the board was to make sure we stop the hemorrhaging and the loss of African-Americans from this city,\" Brown said in an earlier interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western Addition project, known as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tndc.org/indevelopment/1239-turk-street/\">Willie B. 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"content": "\u003cp>A 20-year-old student and baseball player at a community college in Stockton was shot and killed Saturday night while playing \"Pokémon Go\" at Aquatic Park near Ghirardelli Square, authorities say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family friend, John Kirby, told KGO-TV that Calvin Riley, 20, was playing the mobile game with a friend when someone shot him and fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From what we know, there was no confrontation,\" Kirby said. \"There was nothing said back and forth. It was just senseless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kirby said Riley and his friend had noticed someone watching them from the top of a hill that overlooks the park, but it was dark and they were mostly looking at their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Robert Jansing, a detective with the U.S. Park Police, said the gunman did not take any of Riley's belongings or try to rob him. Police say Riley was shot in the torso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National Park Service spokesman Lynn Cullivan said investigators believe there are witnesses to the attack because it happened in an area frequented by tourists. They are seeking information from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riley graduated from high school in San Mateo and pitched for the baseball team at San Joaquin Delta College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a huge loss to everyone,\" the school's head coach, Reed Peters, told KGO-TV. \"He was a great kid, a great competitor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know you moved out [to California] to pursue your dreams of one day making it to the league and you had all the mechanics, talent and dedication to make your dreams a reality,\" wrote friend Gabriel Antonio Morales on \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/27ch3rek\" target=\"_blank\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> set up on behalf of Riley's family. \"But all that was taken by a coward who wanted to shoot up a Poké stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear whether the attack had anything to do with \"Pokémon Go,\" which has become a national sensation this summer as legions of fans visit real-world landmarks in a hunt for digital creatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the game's popularity has created unintended consequences in everyday life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners complain of players trespassing or damaging their grounds, and scores of players have been injured or robbed as they stare at their phones and try to track cartoon monsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials have warned about the game's possible dangers, saying players can become engrossed in it and tune out their surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Sixth and Mission streets is one of San Francisco's meanest intersections. The sidewalks are bustling with pedestrians while the streets are jammed with cars, buses and trucks, especially during commute hours. Many drivers making turns ignore the battered white safety posts and fading pedestrian zones installed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on a recent Friday evening, a trio of safe streets activists wearing brightly colored safety vests arrived on their bicycles with a trailer of orange cones. They spruced up the intersection with an eye toward making it friendlier for those on foot: Cones were placed to slow drivers making the turn and to shorten crossing distances for pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a psychological effect of the orange cone on the automobile driver, and we wanted to bring that to the street,\" said one of the activists, who wants to remain anonymous because the installation isn't legal. \"We want the city to have more urgency protecting bikers and pedestrians in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activists say they're inspired by similar guerrilla actions in \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/04/04/guerrilla-road-safety-group-politely-installs-illegal-bike-lane-protectors-on-cherry-street/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.portlandmercury.com/bike-issue-2016/2016/07/20/18394894/demanding-more-from-the-city\" target=\"_blank\">Portland\u003c/a> and New York, and that they've been spurred to action by the high number of deaths and injuries on San Francisco streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They point out that despite the city's Vision Zero effort, which has a goal of ending all traffic deaths by 2024, 26 people have died in traffic collisions so far in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/scorecards/traffic-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\">City statistics\u003c/a> from the last seven fiscal years -- a period from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2016 -- show a total of 214 fatalities, an average of 30 a year. Pedestrians accounted for 126 of those killed, along with 68 people driving or riding in motor vehicles and 20 riding bicycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety activists came together after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/two-san-francisco-cyclists-killed-in-hit-and-run-crashes/\">the deaths\u003c/a> of two bicyclists, Heather Miller and Kate Slattery, who were killed the evening of June 22 after being struck by hit-and-run motorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to what they saw as a lackluster response by the city, they decided to take action. They call themselves the \"San Francisco Transformation Agency,\" or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFMTrA\">SFMTrA\u003c/a>, after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, taking a page from a similar group in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SF Transformation Agency is the clear voice of San Franciscans who have had it with the cumbersome bureaucratic process, hand-wringing, and lip service to the Vision Zero resolution,\" said Madeleine Savit, a sustainable streets activist who supports the actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only right choice for people of conscience is to take it upon themselves to stop the road carnage and the destruction of our public health that's caused by our streets made for cars, not humans,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11042408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11042408 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-1920x1440.jpeg\" alt=\"Bike activists used cones to spruce up safety features at the intersection of 6th and Mission streets in San Francisco. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/image-2-960x720.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike activists used cones to spruce up safety features at the intersection of Sixth and Mission streets in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group placed orange cones on a section of a buffered bike lane recently installed on Golden Gate Avenue after photos of cars obstructing the lane appeared on Twitter. The group argues the city needs to install more protected bike lanes, with physical barriers that separate bikes and cars, instead of standard bike lanes that are frequently obstructed by double parkers and delivery trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFMTrA/status/750179975668441088\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another installation is meant to help make the street safer for bicyclists at Howard and Seventh streets, where Kate Slattery was killed, and on a section of Folsom near Division Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFMTrA/status/754842015766949888\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The activist group, which says it has no leaders, has held a few gatherings, one of which drew Brad McManus, a 27-year-old software programmer and bike commuter who witnessed the collision that killed Slattery. He says that incident, which involved a driver who sped through a red light, turned him into a bike activist. Shortly after the collision, he wrote \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@bradmcmanus/to-ed-lee-re-vision-zero-86c2bbffd7d5?source=linkShare-68f98a8ba36a-1470427840\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter\u003c/a> to Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's become really clear to me, after seeing that crash, that I need to speak up about this. It's something that I largely didn't really care about,\" said McManus, who adds that he went back to the scene to study the intersection and has become \"obsessed\" with safe streets issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am feeling a real sense of urgency on this cause. I want the city and tacticians such as the SFMTrA to be making incremental improvements so that we can start making our streets safer today,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has not taken part in an action, McManus is planning to donate money to support the SFMTrA's work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has gotten support from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JaneKim/status/755088755820638208\" target=\"_blank\">Supervisor Jane Kim\u003c/a>, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's great what they're doing,\" said Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco. \"The group is looking at some of the inadequacies of our streets and how simple things like cones ... can start to make our streets safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Street safety activists have criticized Mayor Ed Lee and city transportation officials for what they've characterized as an inadequate response to pedestrian and cyclist deaths -- criticism that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/two-san-francisco-cyclists-killed-in-hit-and-run-crashes/\" target=\"_blank\">reached a crescendo\u003c/a> after the deaths of Miller and Slattery in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That tone changed somewhat last week after \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/04/san-francisco-mayor-issues-safe-streets-directive-following-criticism-from-advocates/\" target=\"_blank\">Lee announced\u003c/a> he was \"accelerating\" some Vision Zero projects and ordering improvements in the areas where the two cyclists were recently killed. They include protected bike lanes on Seventh and Eighth streets and improvements on JFK Drive in Golden Park. The San Francisco Bike Coalition called it a \"bold commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the guerrilla street cone project?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Rose, a spokesman for the SFMTA, said the cones would have to be removed because they might cause confusion and because only the transportation agency and its contractors are authorized to place infrastructure on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hear the calls for better bikeways and we couldn't agree more,\" said Rose. \"We do know that we can do more and do it better and faster, and we're getting there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said that since 2010, when a judge \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/08/06/cyclists-cheer-as-judge-finally-frees-san-francisco-from-bike-injunction/\" target=\"_blank\">lifted an injunction\u003c/a> that had stalled a city plan for improved bike infrastructure, the agency has installed more than 13 miles of protected bikeways and 14 miles of buffered lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that progress, the San Francisco Transformation Agency activists say much more needs to be done -- especially when it comes to making the city's many high-injury corridors safer. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's top transportation official is conceding that dozens of \"new\" traffic safety initiatives -- measures Mayor Ed Lee announced amid \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/two-san-francisco-cyclists-killed-in-hit-and-run-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">demands for action\u003c/a> after two cyclists died in hit-and-run crashes last week -- are not so new after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lee announced a “new listing” of 57 high-priority projects that will be initiated this year as part of the city's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/vision-zero\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program, which aims to end traffic deaths in San Francisco by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates jumped on the list almost immediately following its release, calling the mayor's statement \"misleading.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor should not be presenting existing work as new work, as if in response to these fatal collisions,” said Margaret McCarthy, the interim executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition. She was referring to two cyclists, Heather Miller and Kate Slattery, who were killed by hit-and-run motorists just hours apart on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Friday appearance on KQED's \"Forum,\" city Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin took responsibility for the choice of words and clarified the intent behind the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This list is a short list of the many projects that we’re working on,” Reiskin said. “What was new was our commitment to reach the milestones that we identified on this list by the end of 2017.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy was among dozens of bicyclists and advocates who packed Thursday’s Vision Zero committee meeting at City Hall to share their frustration with what they see as a lack of action on the part of city officials to protect bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset District resident Elisabeth Snider told the committee she's worried about the safety of cycling in Golden Gate Park, where Heather Miller was killed last week and where Snider regularly rides with her three young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even on the marked bike routes, there’s no enforcement,” Snider said. “Cars speed, they do not give right of way where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/how-sfmta-invented-%E2%80%93-and-named-%E2%80%93-bike-sharrow\" target=\"_blank\">sharrows\u003c/a> are. 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Citations would not be issued unless a vehicle is traveling at least 10 mph above posted speed limits. And drivers would not be penalized with points on their driving records for the San Francisco speed citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hearing the concerns, trying to address them, trying to work with folks in the Legislature and other stakeholders to get this through,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protected bike lanes have been one of the biggest demands of bike advocates, and Maguire touted the 13 miles of protected bike lanes that have been built since 2010. He said the agency’s bike program is re-evaluating the $90 million set aside for bicycle improvements in the five-year capital plan to see if protected bike lanes are the best tool for increasing safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of the 57 high-priority projects involve protected bike lanes, but McCarthy said on \"Forum\" that it’s not enough. 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The measure is expected to get its first hearing next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Mark Farrell, Scott Wiener, Norman Yee, Jane Kim and London Breed do not plan to vote for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During a time when it’s looking increasingly like we’re heading towards a recession, to put a job-killing tax on the ballot is the worst idea I can think of,” said Supervisor Mark Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An aide to Supervisor Kim, who tends to vote with the more progressive side of the board, said it’s unlikely she’ll vote for the proposal in its current state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Kim, who’s running against Wiener for a seat in the State Senate, said it addresses the kinds of problems that need to be solved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposal reflects the deep divide in our city as a few have prospered while so many are pushed out by rising costs,” Kim said in an email. “There is a growing problem that requires creative solutions that we can all support regardless of the industry in which you work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, one of the most progressive members of the board, has yet to make a decision, according to one of his aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“John plans to make a decision when all of the various proposed taxes are before the Board,” said Jeremy Pollock. “He’s concerned about overloading the ballot with too many taxes and he’s hoping the board can winnow down the list some.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Mayor Ed Lee is adamant in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we punishing businesses for creating jobs?” mayoral spokeswoman Deirdre Hussey asked. “This job-killing ballot measure puts San Francisco’s economic stability at risk and will return this city back to the days of the Great Recession. Rather than scapegoat a sector of our economy, we should be working together to find solutions to housing and homelessness, such as the sales tax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group representing tech companies also criticized the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Supervisor Mar should know better,” said Alex Tourk, a spokesman for \u003ca href=\"https://sfciti.org/\">San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Extorting more money from an industry who has helped ensure that we have the lowest unemployment rate in the country is ludicrous,” Tourk said. “We need engagement and innovative partnerships to solve this problem, not finger-pointing and divisiveness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to the list of forces expected to battle the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This sends a terrible message to the business community that the city is not a good partner,” said Juliana Bunim, a chamber spokeswoman. “Singling out one industry and punishing its success is not the way to create and maintain a thriving economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the proposed tax makes it to the November ballot, it would need a two-thirds majority of votes to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One longtime housing advocate in a neighborhood that’s seen the high-profile arrival of a number of tech firms says it’s unlikely the tax will pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it has no chance,” said Randy Shaw, director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. “It raises questions why we are taxing tech and not large insurance companies, banks and oil companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City tax breaks for some tech companies have been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/04/05/watch-live-sf-supervisors-vote-on-twitter-tax-break\" target=\"_blank\">the subject of controversy\u003c/a> in recent years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 6:15a.m., Friday to include Supervisor London Breed’s position on the proposal and comments by an aide to Supervisor John Avalos.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee, at least five members of the Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and a group that represents the city’s tech sector are opposed to a new proposal to tax the technology industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Supervisor Eric Mar unveiled a measure for the November ballot that would impose a 1.5 percent payroll tax on tech firms, which would be identified by their IRS tax identification codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, co-sponsored by Supervisors David Campos and Aaron Peskin, would affect dozens of large companies. The money would go toward affordable housing and homeless services at a time when many are blaming the tech industry for the city’s affordability crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to require big tech companies to pay their fair share,” Mar said Wednesday. “This is not a measure that is demonizing tech workers. It’s merely asking them … to address the issues that they are a part of causing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. 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Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jpalomino@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JoaquinPalomino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About this project: This week, the Chronicle joins more than 70 other news organizations to focus San Francisco’s attention on the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness in our city. Videos, interactive graphics, and coverage from other media can be found online at sfchronicle.com/homeless and sfhomelessproject.com, and on Twitter at @bayareahomeless. Join the online conversation at #sfhomelessproject.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>How many people are homeless in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is the basis for the most frequent Google search in the city regarding homelessness. The answer, though, is elusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple government agencies have attempted to calculate the scope of homelessness, but accurately measuring it or its social and economic impacts is difficult, if not impossible. Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jpalomino@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JoaquinPalomino\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Private chef Marc Vogel cooks for wealthy clients around the world, and he just returned home from a very long trip to Mali and Turkey. But despite his jet lag, he's dropping off a bag of old clothes at a San Francisco neighborhood homeless resource center called \u003ca href=\"http://northbeachcitizens.org\">North Beach Citizens\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have my assistant go through the house, and I take it over because everybody here can use it,\" Vogel says. He also occasionally cooks at the center's annual fundraiser, an Italian-style dinner hosted by the center's famous founder, film director Francis Ford Coppola. (Until recently, Coppola cooked the meatballs himself.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Say what you want about Coppola,\" gushes Vogel. \"At least he's making it happen!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271265472\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco struggles for solutions to homelessness, North Beach Citizens is viewed by many homeless advocates as a success story, and one that could be replicated in other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. It's a lot to maintain. It's hard to find places. But it's not \u003cem>that\u003c/em> hard. There are places in every neighborhood that can welcome this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says she can't help everyone who lands on her doorstep. The program has strict rules, and some people aren't ready or able to follow them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she doesn't get discouraged. She only wishes more San Francisco communities would leverage their wealth and talent to make ending homelessness a neighborhood priority.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They do really good work. I think they're a beautiful part of that community,\" says Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cohsf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalition on Homelessness\u003c/a>. \"We certainly have a lot of money in San Francisco and a lot of private donors that could invest in (replicating) this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola founded the center about 15 years ago to help the homeless people he encountered on his daily walks through the neighborhood. It is currently housed in a former porn theater on a busy stretch of Kearny Street that includes pizza restaurants, strip clubs, residents and tourists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991441\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10991441 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19858__MG_0649-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideaki Hirama reads the paper and eats his breakfast at the North Beach Citizens center. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a community,\" says Kristie Fairchild, a former ceramics artist who Coppola tapped to be the center's executive director. During morning drop-in hours, clients chat quietly as they sip coffee and eat pizza focaccia donated from a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nativeson/article/Liguria-Bakery-in-North-Beach-makes-focaccia-2368406.php\">local bakery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a really sweet atmosphere -- a gentle, enjoyable kind of coffee shop environment,\" Fairchild says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, North Beach Citizens offers intensive case management to anyone ready to do what it takes to get off the street. The solutions are as individual as the people themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Michael Kelly, 46, who's been homeless for about 15 years. Kelly wants to reconnect with his family. One of Fairchild's community partners, a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.miraclemessages.org/\">Miracle Messages\u003c/a>, is helping him do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They got me in contact with my mom after 10 years on Mother's Day. She freaked out!\" says Kelly. \"Now I have my sister's number. I haven't talked to her in 15 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, North Beach Citizens \u003cem>is\u003c/em> family. Larry Prescott, 75, comes here almost every week to check in with Fairchild and other caseworkers. A few years ago, he was evicted from his apartment and wound up homeless, sleeping on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because of my age, Kristie took really good care of me. And she put me up in a hotel,\" Prescott says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel in the Mission District, and he says caseworkers are helping him navigate public housing waiting lists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a great program,\" Prescott says. \"A lot of these people you see here, any other program would tell them, 'Take a hike.' So, I'm a lucky guy.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10991446\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10991446\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. June 8, 2016\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19857__MG_0640-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A client waits to be let in to North Beach Citizens during morning drop-in hours. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 75 people enrolled in North Beach Citizens' \u003ca href=\"http://www.northbeachcitizens.org/core-program/\">core program\u003c/a>. Twenty are homeless, and the rest are in some type of temporary or permanent housing. Fairchild says that since 2005, her staff has helped more than 300 people out of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes the resource center is one of a kind in some ways. Having a celebrity benefactor like Coppola certainly helped. And while many nonprofits in San Francisco are losing their facilities because of the city's hot real estate market, North Beach Citizens' building was purchased for them by an anonymous donor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fairchild says that with a little creativity, other neighborhoods could adopt the model even without these advantages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He doesn't give us a dime anymore,\" Fairchild says. Coppola always believed that once North Beach Citizens was up and running, it would need to \"sink or swim\" on its own. \"It's my board of directors that engages the community to support us,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says key ingredients needed to replicate the program include a caring staff that knows the neighborhood, a welcoming physical space where clients can engage with caseworkers and one another, and -- perhaps most importantly -- community buy-in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not doing this in a vacuum,\" she says. \"In North Beach, I think people understand what we're doing here benefits the community because we're getting people off the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a solid thing,\" says David Hlopak, a tech executive who lives in the neighborhood. \"I mean, of all the charities that I've seen out there, it's like the rubber hits the road and the money and the resources you donate to it get used.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who directs the mayor's Office of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement), agrees that a program like this \"takes some funds. It's a lot to maintain. It's hard to find places. But it's not \u003cem>that\u003c/em> hard. There are places in every neighborhood that can welcome this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairchild says she can't help everyone who lands on her doorstep. The program has strict rules, and some people aren't ready or able to follow them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she doesn't get discouraged. She only wishes more San Francisco communities would leverage their wealth and talent to make ending homelessness a neighborhood priority.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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