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Homelessness can take many forms and is often a temporary status, making it hard to reliably track.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city hopes to build a more comprehensive information system, making it easier to count and provide assistance to homeless people. Currently, however, estimates on the number of people living on San Francisco’s streets — and the costs associated with them — vary dramatically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The figure 6,686 is the most widely circulated approximation of those who are homeless in the city. That number comes from a count made on a single night in January 2015, when volunteers fanned out across San Francisco and identified people who appeared to be sleeping on the streets, in parks, in cars, or anywhere else not meant for human habitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those staying in a temporary shelter that evening were also counted to come up with the final estimate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biennial survey -- conducted in cities across the country at the behest of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development -- provides the only consistent and uniform data enumerating street people. The information from those counts influences everything from federal funding for homeless services to newspaper headlines to discussions at City Hall. But they stem from an imprecise science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11002534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg\" alt=\"homeless_data_web\" width=\"568\" height=\"1145\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web.jpg 568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_data_web-400x806.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cities, including San Francisco, volunteers are told not to speak with the people they’re counting for safety reasons, forcing them to rely on visual cues. Some, like a person curled up in a sleeping bag on the street, are pretty clear. Others, like someone pushing a cart full of recyclables, are less definitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big undercount, because they just look at someone and assume a housing status,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the San Francisco advocacy group Coalition to End Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The HUD survey also excludes people in jail, in hospitals, sleeping on a friend’s couch or waiting for a shelter bed, as well as individuals who evaded the canvassers. The thousands of formerly homeless residing in permanent supportive housing -- which offers a suite of services along with an apartment room for life -- are also excluded from the figure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s a good snapshot in time of the homeless,” said Eduardo Cabrera, a spokesman for HUD who participated in San Francisco’s most recent survey. “At this point, it’s the best tool we have to measure the extent of homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000275\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_03_1671.jpg 1671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless person sleeps on Market St. in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9,975 Homeless in the City?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health maintains a robust database that accounts for every homeless person that uses medical, mental health or substance abuse services in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the HUD count, which takes place over just a few hours, Public Health’s database, called the Coordinated Care Management System, tracks people who have experienced homelessness at any point during an entire fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for getting a sense of how many people in a community are touched by homelessness over a longer time span,” said Barry Lee, a Penn State sociology professor familiar with similar tracking systems. “By its nature, homelessness is episodic, it’s fluid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fiscal 2014-15, Public Health’s CCMS reported 9,975 homeless individuals in the city, a figure nearly 50 percent higher than the biennial homeless count’s estimate (32 percent higher when including the supplemental youth count). The database, which provides a detailed breakdown of the health conditions and demographics of the people it tracks, paints a stark picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014-15 fiscal year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than half of the homeless people in CCMS had a history of depression or psychoses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly 60 percent had, at some point, abused drugs or alcohol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A third had been intermittently homeless for longer than a decade, up from 9 percent in 2007. Nearly half of those individuals were African American. Just 6 percent of the city’s general population is black.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The number of homeless people age 60 or older jumped 30 percent, from 856 individuals in 2007 to 1,103 last year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>79 homeless people died in 2014-15. As of April, 87 homeless individuals had died in 2015-16, with three months left in the fiscal year.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Homeless people cost the city more than $150 million in emergency health care last year, including ambulance rides, emergency room visits, placements in sobering centers and other services. A relatively small number accrued significantly high care costs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 1,320 homeless people needing the most aid required $108 million in emergency medical and mental health services last year -- or roughly $80,000 on average -- accounting for nearly a quarter of all such costs in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“They’re a very vulnerable, very sick, and very high-cost group,” said Maria X. Martinez, a Public Health director who helps oversee CCMS. “They’re the people you’re stepping over on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health’s information system has helped San Francisco target and track its most needy residents, but it has a practical limitation: It only captures those using medical, mental health or substance abuse services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger street people, who are typically healthier, are under-represented, according to Friedenbach. The more than 2,000 schoolchildren living without a stable home, according to the San Francisco Unified School District, are also probably missing from the database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedenbach estimates there are closer to 13,000 homeless people in the city over the course of an entire year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000277\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-800x480.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-400x240.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-1180x707.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_02_1920-960x576.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man, uses a pew to catch up on some sleep recently at St. Boniface Catholic church. The highly-regarded Gubbio project at St. Boniface church in San Francisco's Tenderloin community is facing hard times. Nearly 100 homeless men and women, who are now able to sleep in the pews and use the church bathroom, are being forced back onto the streets early next week due to shortened hours and a lack of funding. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing or Shrinking?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Public Health’s database shows the homeless population is getting older, sicker, and spending more time on the streets, it also suggests there are now fewer of them in San Francisco. In 2007, the city health department recorded nearly 12,000 homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data run counter to the point-in-time estimates. Both HUD and the biennial count show the number of homeless, particularly those without shelter, has grown over the past decade -- a trend that matches public perception in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here 26 years, and the homeless problem is worse than it has ever been,” said Candace Combs, a massage studio owner and president of the Mission Creek Merchants Association. “When I walk by these encampments, as a woman, it doesn’t feel safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combs isn’t the only person concerned about the growing number of tarps and tents on the sidewalks; there has been a surge in 311 complaints regarding encampments in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the city’s 311 line recorded 898 encampment-related grievances, or between two and three per day, according to a Chronicle analysis. As of mid-May this year, there had been 6,982 complaints about homeless camps, or more than 50 per day. (Andy Maimoni, deputy director of 311, attributed some of the growth to a new category for homeless camps added to the mobile app in October.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>311 complaints, of course, don’t measure the number of homeless people, but public sentiment. The spike in such grievances may not reflect a growing homeless population, just a more visible one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There used to a be a lot of marginal space, but that has become valuable real estate in a lot of places,” Lee, of Penn State, said, referring not just to the situation in San Francisco, but many parts of the nation. “You might be seeing more people out and about, but it could be because they have nowhere else to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000285\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \" width=\"800\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-800x511.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-400x256.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-1180x754.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500-960x614.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_08_1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless man shows his rings he has collected over the past 5 years. He spends his days sitting in the branches of an Australian Tea Tree reading books and taking with passers by in Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Creating a Better System\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The difficulty of accurately tracking how many people are homeless isn’t unique to San Francisco. Due to its often transient and temporary nature, it’s virtually impossible to make a precise count of homeless individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think any city will ever say, ‘We feel confident that we have counted every single homeless person,’” said Nan Roman, president of National Alliance to End Homelessness in Washington, D.C. “But you can get close, you can get the dimensions, and if you’re consistent in the count methodology, you can measure progress from year to year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, San Francisco doesn’t have a single information network to track homeless people, but rather a number of separate databases managed by different service providers. Jeff Kositsky, director of San Francisco’s new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, hopes to solve that problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky plans to unite the disparate homeless information systems, including the Department of Public Health’s CCMS, allowing the city to better track its neediest residents and connect them to appropriate services -- whether that’s housing, a shelter bed or medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting all services under one roof should not only make it easier for the city to track the number of people living on the streets, it should also make it simpler for homeless people to access care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re homeless, you may need to be assessed three, four different times, answering the same questions each time; it’s unfair, inefficient and not respectful of people we’re trying to serve,” Kositsky said. “Clients have to get into many different lines to access services, and we’re going to ask them to get into one line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kositsky anticipates the new homeless system will be partially running by next October, and fully functional by the fall of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Joaquin Palomino is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. 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. 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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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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 10:30am, Tuesday.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's transit agency plans to spend more than $22 million to install more than 1,000 new fareboxes on the city's buses, trolley coaches, light-rail vehicles and historic streetcars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move will do away with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.munidiaries.com/2012/06/04/transfers-tell-stories-of-muni-history/\" target=\"_blank\">paper transfers\u003c/a> that riders have used since the Municipal Railway's inception more than a century ago. Muni says the new system will be more convenient for the tens of thousands of passengers who still pay cash to ride the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the future bus drivers will no longer rip transfers from packets and riders wouldn't need to guess precisely when they expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This new receipt, which is provided to a customer in real time, shows exactly how much time they have and will help resolve any confusion that exists today,\" Muni spokesman Paul Rose said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Municipal Transportation Agency's Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/agendaitems/2016/6-28-16%20Item%2011%20Contract%20-%20fareboxes.pdf\">five-year contract\u003c/a> with Illinois-based SPX Genfare for the fareboxes and their installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's current fareboxes were installed a quarter of a century ago. Although the fareboxes were refurbished in 2008, Muni officials say the devices are nearing the end of their useful lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes will not affect the growing number of Muni riders who use Clipper cards. Around 45 percent of the agency's passengers use the card that most other local transit systems take, Rose said. But between 12 percent and 14 percent of Muni riders still pay with cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rider advocates say the system needs to move faster toward a digital fare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In other cities around the world, those transit systems were able to transition riders off of cash,\" said Mark Ballew, a board member of transit advocacy group \u003ca href=\"http://www.rescuemuni.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Rescue Muni\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the agency launched a service that allows passengers to buy and use tickets using their smartphones. Ballew said Clipper and the new service, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/transit/munimobile\" target=\"_blank\">MuniMobile\u003c/a>, are the kinds of programs that decrease boarding times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With digital payment systems ... riders can pay and board on both doors, increasing Muni's ability to deliver service,\" Ballew said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new fareboxes will mean the paper packets that operators use to hand out 90-minute transfers would disappear. Union officials who represent Muni operators have complained in the past that the packets place drivers in danger, Rose said. In some cases people have stolen the books \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Enjoy-em-while-you-can-Muni-getting-rid-of-6462937.php\">when drivers aren't looking\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The machines will also help transit planners learn more about the demographics of some of their passengers. Muni officials say the fareboxes will provide better revenue data and help them learn which riders take certain bus and light-rail lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These new fareboxes will be able to show who's still paying with cash on specific routes,\" Rose said. \"We'll be able to see how much people are paying, where they are in their route, what routes they're taking and this will help us communicate with our riders more efficiently.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the contract has been approved by the SFMTA board, the Board of Supervisors is expected to vote on it next month. If the supes approve, the agency plans to start a public awareness campaign about the new fareboxes in September.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Once upon a time there were no homeless people in San Francisco. Or California. Or the country, for that matter. Really. At least not in the way we have come to define “the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember when I first saw homeless people on the streets of San Francisco. It was fall of 1982 and I was producing a local documentary for KQED called “To Have and Have Not” about the growing gap between rich and poor in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Recession, unemployment, cutbacks in federal support and a breakdown in mental health services -- all this formed a perfect storm.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sound familiar?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Tenderloin and other run-down corners of the city, my TV crew and I began to notice and speak with people who told us they had nowhere to live. I’d been renting a place in the city for five years. I was accustomed to a few panhandlers downtown, winos and derelicts in the Tenderloin, some runaways in the Haight. But this was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, St. Anthony’s Dining Hall was swamped with people needing a free meal. Emergency shelters were overrun. At night, people huddled in storefronts in the rain.\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>“We’re seeing more and more women and children,” Clare Doyle, the director of a Catholic-run soup kitchen in the Mission, told us. “More families. More children who come in here by themselves, sometimes with jars saying, ‘Can I have some soup to take home to my mom?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10998213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10998213 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"tohaveandhavenot\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the 1983 KQED documentary. (KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This was shocking and it was new. Homeless people in San Francisco. No one was sure how many, but emergency shelters were taking in close to a thousand, while many more eked out a life in the alleys and the parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why was this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, we were in the middle of a recession. Twelve million people were unemployed across the country, 1.5 million in California, and 150,000 in the Bay Area. Manufacturing plants were shutting down, people were hurting. It was the beginning of what we now know as “the de-industrialization of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsweek declared it “The Hard-Luck Christmas of ’82,” saying “with 12 million unemployed and 2 million homeless, private charity cannot make up for federal cutbacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the other reason: cutbacks. Under President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980, the government had slashed federal housing subsidies and poverty programs, including food stamps. 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This process had begun in the '70s but deepened every year. “We have a lot more people with emotional problems,” Doyle told us at her shelter in the Mission. “A lot of people who have been dumped out of the mental health system literally with a handful of Thorazine and dumped on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recession, unemployment, cutbacks in federal support for housing and the poor, and a breakdown in mental health services -- all this formed a perfect storm, and the victims were people we began to call “the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s, when a third of the country was unemployed, and sprawling camps of the hungry and desperate – “Hoovervilles” – emerged everywhere from New York’s Central Park to downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some ways it had a nastier edge. The homeless in San Francisco in the early 1980s lived in the midst of recession-proof wealth. They were surrounded by those with old Pacific Heights money and the new prosperity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. In Los Gatos, a Ferrari dealer told me he was experiencing record sales. Sometimes customers forked over $80,000 in cash for a new sports car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my lifetime, which began in the postwar prosperity of the ’50s and '60s, this “tale of two cities” clash was the beginning of the long era of “income inequality” that has so divided our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10998256,10998255\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are scenes in “To Have and Have Not” of homeless people and their advocates starting to organize and march on City Hall to demand and receive emergency shelter. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why was this happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, we were in the middle of a recession. Twelve million people were unemployed across the country, 1.5 million in California, and 150,000 in the Bay Area. Manufacturing plants were shutting down, people were hurting. It was the beginning of what we now know as “the de-industrialization of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsweek declared it “The Hard-Luck Christmas of ’82,” saying “with 12 million unemployed and 2 million homeless, private charity cannot make up for federal cutbacks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was the other reason: cutbacks. Under President Ronald Reagan, who was elected in 1980, the government had slashed federal housing subsidies and poverty programs, including food stamps. Low-cost housing was vanishing, especially in cities like San Francisco, where the housing market was already tight and expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10998258\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10998258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2.jpg\" alt='A still from the 1983 KQED documentary, \"To Have and Have Not.\"' width=\"1418\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2.jpg 1418w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-1180x899.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/tohaveandhavenot_1-2-960x731.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the 1983 KQED documentary, \"To Have and Have Not.\" \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There was at least one more cause of this new homeless calamity: the closing of mental health hospitals without creating an adequate safety net of neighborhood clinics and support services. This process had begun in the '70s but deepened every year. “We have a lot more people with emotional problems,” Doyle told us at her shelter in the Mission. “A lot of people who have been dumped out of the mental health system literally with a handful of Thorazine and dumped on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recession, unemployment, cutbacks in federal support for housing and the poor, and a breakdown in mental health services -- all this formed a perfect storm, and the victims were people we began to call “the homeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930s, when a third of the country was unemployed, and sprawling camps of the hungry and desperate – “Hoovervilles” – emerged everywhere from New York’s Central Park to downtown L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some ways it had a nastier edge. The homeless in San Francisco in the early 1980s lived in the midst of recession-proof wealth. They were surrounded by those with old Pacific Heights money and the new prosperity of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. In Los Gatos, a Ferrari dealer told me he was experiencing record sales. Sometimes customers forked over $80,000 in cash for a new sports car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my lifetime, which began in the postwar prosperity of the ’50s and '60s, this “tale of two cities” clash was the beginning of the long era of “income inequality” that has so divided our country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fifty years ago, the destitute figures who dotted America’s streets were called winos and hobos, and in San Francisco they mainly stuck to Third Street’s Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, with the end of the Vietnam War, battle-shocked veterans began filling urban alleyways. The 1980s brought Reaganomics’ decimation of federal social and housing programs, and a cascade of the poor and mentally ill landed on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of that decade, a new term had entered the lexicon of San Francisco and the rest of the nation: homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271154169\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, despite the efforts of six mayoral administrations dating back to Dianne Feinstein, homelessness is stamped into the city so deeply it has become a defining characteristic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco initially responded by providing temporary, spartan shelters. Now, it permanently houses thousands of people salvaged from the streets through multimillion-dollar residential and counseling programs. But still, the city remains home to sprawling tent cities, junkies squatting on blankets shooting heroin, and all manner of anguished destitute people and beggars holding out hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city’s last official one-day count, in 2015, put the adult homeless population at 6,686. But another city survey puts the total closer to 10,000, and many officials and advocates for homeless people say the number may be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case, homelessness in San Francisco doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago. Or 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money has always been part of the problem -- no matter how much the city has spent, it has never been enough. But homelessness has also persisted because of a lack of focus and because good intentions have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-960x649.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shelters Weren’t Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1980s, as a growing number of street people began living out of shopping carts downtown, Mayor Feinstein joined the rest of the country in adopting the shelter-bed-and-a-sandwich approach. Offer a place of respite, the thought was, and they can turn it around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities from San Francisco to New York learned that without dealing with the underlying factors that cause the most acutely troubled people to lose their housing -- mental illness, substance abuse, disabilities and joblessness -- temporary shelters accomplish little. That realization led to another: Doing more than just providing a cot for the night is incredibly expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been a national leader in getting people off the streets and into housing where they receive the counseling services they need. Since 2004, it has put more than 22,000 people under roofs. But it now spends $241 million a year on homeless programs -- more than double the budget for the city Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such spending can seem like sand shoveled into a tide. Workers at the eight city departments and 76 private and nonprofit organizations who devote themselves to restoring street-ravaged lives say there has been a lot of progress, but no end of frustration and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I shake my head and think, ‘What are we trying to do here?’” Mayor Ed Lee said one day as he watched a homeless camp being disassembled and its inhabitants moved into the city’s one-stop Navigation Center of homeless housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying everything we can,” Lee said. “It takes time. It is not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Can’t They Do More?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalid Abdul-Rahim, who works as a security guard along the Embarcadero, regularly has to shoo homeless people away from Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do new shelters like that Navigation Center, but why can’t they do more real housing permanently?” he asked one rainy night last winter as he watched three people shiver under thin blankets in a bus shelter. “I had one guy pull a fork on me to stab me once out here. I see people all the time hungry, sleeping outside, miserable. How can this be in a city this rich? It’s about humanity. Shouldn’t be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few understand the misery of homelessness better than Daniel Pledger. Born and raised in San Francisco, he’s been without a roof off and on for many of his 65 years -- a notable exception being when he played bass in the locally popular punk band Seizure in the 1970s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pledger has spent most of the past year sleeping on the streets around Potrero Hill. He kicked heroin five years ago, but his struggles with alcohol have gotten him evicted from one place after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a wife,” he said recently, sitting on a Tenderloin sidewalk with a Hefty bag full of his clothes. “I had a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I am the invisible man. People walk right by me. I have to get control of this demon -- of the booze -- but there are a lot of guys like me out here. Have they given up on us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Innovation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Art Agnos took the first step in San Francisco to move beyond overnight shelters. In the late 1980s, he created two large complexes with not just beds, but also mental health and substance-abuse counselors on site -- what have come to be called supportive services. He envisioned a program that would direct street people from there into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there wasn’t enough housing available. As Agnos struggled to ramp up his plans, a colony of homeless people in front of City Hall grew into the hundreds and was derisively dubbed “Camp Agnos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 1990, Agnos finally ordered police to sweep out the Civic Center squatters, abandoning his promise to transition them inside. Yet the stench of civic ineffectiveness had set in. The homelessness issue Agnos had taken on with such hope sank his bid for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the shelter-counseling complexes that Agnos created are mere shelters -- and he remains frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what to do, but we haven’t had the conviction or the commitment to make it happen,” Agnos said. “We could end homelessness as a commonplace occurrence in American cities if we adopted the same kind of commitment we did in addressing World War II: if we treat it like we want to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But until the public and the politicians who serve them say we are going to win this, we won’t. There is a bright spot here and there, and bleakness in everything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who succeeded Agnos as mayor, former Police Chief Frank Jordan, changed tactics, using police as outreach workers as well as enforcers. Under his Matrix program, their job was to clear the streets of homeless camps and aggressive panhandlers and steer them into housing and counseling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, there weren’t enough programs to handle the thousands of indigents on the streets. And enlisting police as social workers drew ceaseless attacks from the city’s progressives, torpedoing Jordan’s re-election bid as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Willie Brown followed with efforts at supportive housing, but ultimately -- and famously -- declared the homeless problem unsolvable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His successor, Gavin Newsom, took the most aggressive stance yet toward tackling the issue. In 2004, he announced a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it failed to reach that goal, it did result in moving 22,000 homeless people off the streets into either housing or onto buses headed home. And in the past few years, the majority of the city’s destitute military veterans -- many suffering post-traumatic stress from as far back as the 1970s -- have been moved indoors, thanks in part to a national effort led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the city’s streets look the same today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mythology that you can, quote unquote, end homelessness at any moment,” Newsom said in 2014. “But there are new people coming in, suffering through the cycles of their lives. It’s the manifestation of complete, abject failure as a society. We’ll never solve this at City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Angela Alioto, who was in charge of crafting the 10-year plan, says it failed because it didn’t create enough counseling and engagement, not just for street people, but for those already housed -- some of whom still panhandle, making the homeless landscape look even worse than it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to do housing, what I call ‘minute clinics’ for health and counseling in every building, and get the homeless involved in things that make them feel good about themselves -- volunteer work, charity, whatever,” Alioto said recently as she handed out dollar bills to a couple of panhandlers in North Beach. “It’s about dignity. Housing is not the end, it’s the beginning, if you really want to get everyone off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Types of Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What became clear over all the years is that the city’s homeless population is anything but homogeneous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are about 1,300 homeless people in San Francisco in either individual or family shelters, and another 1,500 in jail, transitional housing, hospitals or otherwise indoors. Some 3,500 are estimated to be “unsheltered,” and about half of those make up the hard-core street population -- the most obvious, most troubled and most expensive homeless people in the city to care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates by San Francisco officials and by the Silicon Valley Economic Roundtable are that each of those chronic cases costs about $80,000 a year in police, jail, ambulance and other tabs. By contrast, it costs about $20,000 a year to keep a person in a supportive environment -- the permanent housing where on-site mental therapists, substance abuse counselors and other social workers can help keep a person off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many chronically homeless people crowd into the Tenderloin, where soup kitchens, rehab clinics and poverty-aid organizations are centered. Homeless drug addicts have spread into areas where their dealers are easiest to find: heroin in the Mission District, methamphetamine around Division Street, crack in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mental Illness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most heart-rending subpopulation is made up of the mentally ill. Here, good intentions are at the heart of how San Francisco’s streets became an open-air mental ward, with deranged people railing at telephone poles or passersby, or muttering to themselves for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1960s and ’70s, state-run mental institutions, where troubled people were once committed against their will, came to be seen by advocates as a means of violating individuals’ rights. Closing them saved money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their demise, the plan, supported by both conservatives and liberals, was for community-based centers across the country to help people instead -- but those were underfunded. The result: A growing population of mentally ill people were turned loose to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s estimated that a third or more of homeless people in San Francisco and nationally suffer from mental illness. The city would need hundreds of new psychiatric-care beds to get them off the sidewalks -- the current inventory of fewer than 1,000 is not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it created those beds, getting people into them is difficult. Unless they are judged a danger to themselves or others, the mentally ill can’t be forced into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: Tatiana and Oksana, Ukrainian immigrants who speak little English and give no last name. Believed to be mother and daughter, they’ve been on the streets for at least a decade, with brief stints in emergency housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair pose no threat as they push their heaped shopping cart through downtown and the Mission, sleeping in doorways and glancing suspiciously at everyone who passes by, so they can’t be compelled to leave the streets. Any conversation with them veers quickly, wildly off track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two social workers, barred by state privacy rules from being identified, interviewed them several times. They concluded that Tatiana is in her 50s and Oksana is in her 30s, and that they are probably mentally ill or impaired. For three years, social workers have tried to get them to give their required permission for psychiatric care -- but the pair won’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Afraid of the ‘Russkies’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women have repeatedly told The Chronicle through Ukrainian interpreters they don’t need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re afraid of everyone, afraid we’ll be sent back to the old country,” Tatiana said. “Russians want us to leave the city, they are bad, they are everywhere, but we won’t go. We’re not homeless. We are just on the street. We will not go inside where the Russkies can get us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health programs weren’t the only ones bludgeoned by budget cuts. Federal housing aid and social programs were slashed by as much as 80 percent in the 1980s, and state and local governments couldn’t catch up. Many of the people who wound up homeless that decade have never left the street, pushing the average age among the street population to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Millions in Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the minimum wage supplying about half or less of the buying power it did in 1980 and about 30 percent of Americans living at or near poverty level, there is a continual flow of people becoming homeless, said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University law professor specializing in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never even replaced the affordable-housing support that was destroyed in the 1980s, so if you want to solve homelessness, you need to not have so much poverty,” Edelman said. “What we’ve got is a problem of homelessness created because we haven’t done what we should have in the first place, so now we have to handle it in the second place -- with techniques like supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one area in which San Francisco, with among the highest rents and greatest gulfs between rich and poor in the country, is actually a leader in innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the city has refined a system of sending outreach counselors into the street to persuade the chronically indigent to accept housing, shelter, employment or medical help -- and then move into permanent supportive housing before they can wander off again. In the past 12 years, San Francisco has put about 12,000 people into such housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is that the city is at least 2,500 supportive-housing units short of what it needs to clear the streets of the most expensive and visible chronically homeless people -- about 1,500 of them -- and to stay ahead of the incoming chronic population every year. But that’s not insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation could be dramatically improved through new private-public funding models, cheaper forms of modular housing, and streamlining techniques for helping people move out of supportive housing after they’ve been stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city’s shelters were expanded by hundreds of beds, and fashioned more along the lines of the 15-month-old Navigation Center, they could finally become the routing tools into housing that Agnos envisioned a quarter-century ago. The center at Mission and 16th streets takes in street campers with their partners, pets and gear and surrounds them with case managers to help them get their lives together quickly. The city is already heading that way: A second center is scheduled to open at Market and 12th streets this week, and the Board of Supervisors has voted to open five more Navigation Centers over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city’s establishment of a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, streamlining city services for street people under one roof into a more direct focus on housing and counseling, San Francisco has its best opportunity in years to clear the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do what we need to do,” said Jeff Kositsky, head of the new department. “The approach now is the same -- we just have to be creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bit of Optimism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, whose Coalition on Homelessness advocacy group has spent decades pushing the city to create more housing and services for the indigent, is skeptically optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Matrix is in the trash bin of history and police leaders insist cracking down isn’t the way to solve homelessness, Friedenbach said, the city still puts too much emphasis on breaking up camps whose residents have nowhere good to go and issuing tickets for quality-of-life violations like sitting on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Wasting Money’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city report in May that found taxpayers spend $20 million a year enforcing such laws quantifies the futility of the effort, she said. To Friedenbach, ticketing street people boils down to just two things: “San Francisco is either ruining homeless people’s lives and wasting money, or harassing homeless people and wasting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With little to show for it, it is time for a new approach,” she said. For Friedenbach, “new” actually means ramping up old concepts -- more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about money,” she said. “We need a sustained revenue source to double the housing units for homeless people, and to do prevention to keep people in their homes and to not become homeless to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that complicated,” she said. “I think in San Francisco, people are ready to do something different. But then, I’ve seen that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About this project: This week, the Chronicle will join more than 70 other news organizations to focus San Francisco’s attention on the seemingly intractable problem of homelessness in our city. The S.F. Homeless Project aims to explore possible solutions that might ease, if not end, the suffering of so many thousands of unfortunate people living on our streets, and improve the quality of life for all residents. The project’s primary day of coverage is June 29, but the Chronicle will publish stories and editorials all week. Videos, interactive graphics, and coverage from other media can be found online at \u003ca href=\"http://sfchronicle.com/homeless\">sfchronicle.com/homeless\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://medium.com/sfhomelessproject\">sfhomelessproject\u003c/a>.com, and on Twitter at @bayareahomeless. Join the online conversation at #sfhomelessproject.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco initially responded by providing temporary, spartan shelters. Now, it permanently houses thousands of people salvaged from the streets through multimillion-dollar residential and counseling programs. But still, the city remains home to sprawling tent cities, junkies squatting on blankets shooting heroin, and all manner of anguished destitute people and beggars holding out hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city’s last official one-day count, in 2015, put the adult homeless population at 6,686. But another city survey puts the total closer to 10,000, and many officials and advocates for homeless people say the number may be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case, homelessness in San Francisco doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago. Or 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Money has always been part of the problem -- no matter how much the city has spent, it has never been enough. But homelessness has also persisted because of a lack of focus and because good intentions have fallen short.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000154\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-800x541.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-1180x798.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_01_1920-960x649.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless woman from the encampment on 5th Street near the Bay Bridge entrance laid in the sidewalk and street Tuesday March 3, 2015. Homeless encampments are still prevalent in San Francisco, Calif. and their locations are becoming more apparent. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shelters Weren’t Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the mid-1980s, as a growing number of street people began living out of shopping carts downtown, Mayor Feinstein joined the rest of the country in adopting the shelter-bed-and-a-sandwich approach. Offer a place of respite, the thought was, and they can turn it around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities from San Francisco to New York learned that without dealing with the underlying factors that cause the most acutely troubled people to lose their housing -- mental illness, substance abuse, disabilities and joblessness -- temporary shelters accomplish little. That realization led to another: Doing more than just providing a cot for the night is incredibly expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has been a national leader in getting people off the streets and into housing where they receive the counseling services they need. Since 2004, it has put more than 22,000 people under roofs. But it now spends $241 million a year on homeless programs -- more than double the budget for the city Recreation and Park Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such spending can seem like sand shoveled into a tide. Workers at the eight city departments and 76 private and nonprofit organizations who devote themselves to restoring street-ravaged lives say there has been a lot of progress, but no end of frustration and criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes I shake my head and think, ‘What are we trying to do here?’” Mayor Ed Lee said one day as he watched a homeless camp being disassembled and its inhabitants moved into the city’s one-stop Navigation Center of homeless housing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying everything we can,” Lee said. “It takes time. It is not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Why Can’t They Do More?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khalid Abdul-Rahim, who works as a security guard along the Embarcadero, regularly has to shoo homeless people away from Justin Herman Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do new shelters like that Navigation Center, but why can’t they do more real housing permanently?” he asked one rainy night last winter as he watched three people shiver under thin blankets in a bus shelter. “I had one guy pull a fork on me to stab me once out here. I see people all the time hungry, sleeping outside, miserable. How can this be in a city this rich? It’s about humanity. Shouldn’t be this way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few understand the misery of homelessness better than Daniel Pledger. Born and raised in San Francisco, he’s been without a roof off and on for many of his 65 years -- a notable exception being when he played bass in the locally popular punk band Seizure in the 1970s and ’80s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pledger has spent most of the past year sleeping on the streets around Potrero Hill. He kicked heroin five years ago, but his struggles with alcohol have gotten him evicted from one place after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to have a wife,” he said recently, sitting on a Tenderloin sidewalk with a Hefty bag full of his clothes. “I had a place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I am the invisible man. People walk right by me. I have to get control of this demon -- of the booze -- but there are a lot of guys like me out here. Have they given up on us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>First Innovation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Art Agnos took the first step in San Francisco to move beyond overnight shelters. In the late 1980s, he created two large complexes with not just beds, but also mental health and substance-abuse counselors on site -- what have come to be called supportive services. He envisioned a program that would direct street people from there into permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there wasn’t enough housing available. As Agnos struggled to ramp up his plans, a colony of homeless people in front of City Hall grew into the hundreds and was derisively dubbed “Camp Agnos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 1990, Agnos finally ordered police to sweep out the Civic Center squatters, abandoning his promise to transition them inside. Yet the stench of civic ineffectiveness had set in. The homelessness issue Agnos had taken on with such hope sank his bid for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the shelter-counseling complexes that Agnos created are mere shelters -- and he remains frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do know what to do, but we haven’t had the conviction or the commitment to make it happen,” Agnos said. “We could end homelessness as a commonplace occurrence in American cities if we adopted the same kind of commitment we did in addressing World War II: if we treat it like we want to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But until the public and the politicians who serve them say we are going to win this, we won’t. There is a bright spot here and there, and bleakness in everything else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man who succeeded Agnos as mayor, former Police Chief Frank Jordan, changed tactics, using police as outreach workers as well as enforcers. Under his Matrix program, their job was to clear the streets of homeless camps and aggressive panhandlers and steer them into housing and counseling programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But again, there weren’t enough programs to handle the thousands of indigents on the streets. And enlisting police as social workers drew ceaseless attacks from the city’s progressives, torpedoing Jordan’s re-election bid as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Willie Brown followed with efforts at supportive housing, but ultimately -- and famously -- declared the homeless problem unsolvable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His successor, Gavin Newsom, took the most aggressive stance yet toward tackling the issue. In 2004, he announced a 10-year plan to end chronic homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it failed to reach that goal, it did result in moving 22,000 homeless people off the streets into either housing or onto buses headed home. And in the past few years, the majority of the city’s destitute military veterans -- many suffering post-traumatic stress from as far back as the 1970s -- have been moved indoors, thanks in part to a national effort led by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet the city’s streets look the same today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mythology that you can, quote unquote, end homelessness at any moment,” Newsom said in 2014. “But there are new people coming in, suffering through the cycles of their lives. It’s the manifestation of complete, abject failure as a society. We’ll never solve this at City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Angela Alioto, who was in charge of crafting the 10-year plan, says it failed because it didn’t create enough counseling and engagement, not just for street people, but for those already housed -- some of whom still panhandle, making the homeless landscape look even worse than it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to do housing, what I call ‘minute clinics’ for health and counseling in every building, and get the homeless involved in things that make them feel good about themselves -- volunteer work, charity, whatever,” Alioto said recently as she handed out dollar bills to a couple of panhandlers in North Beach. “It’s about dignity. Housing is not the end, it’s the beginning, if you really want to get everyone off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11000156\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000156\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/homeless_share_06_1920-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A homeless panhandler plied his trade as traffic came off the freeway near 13th Street Wednesday July 15, 2015. Although San Francisco housed over 3,000 homeless people in the last two years, the overall homeless count stubbornly remains about the same. \u003ccite>(Brant Ward/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Types of Homeless\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What became clear over all the years is that the city’s homeless population is anything but homogeneous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, there are about 1,300 homeless people in San Francisco in either individual or family shelters, and another 1,500 in jail, transitional housing, hospitals or otherwise indoors. Some 3,500 are estimated to be “unsheltered,” and about half of those make up the hard-core street population -- the most obvious, most troubled and most expensive homeless people in the city to care for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates by San Francisco officials and by the Silicon Valley Economic Roundtable are that each of those chronic cases costs about $80,000 a year in police, jail, ambulance and other tabs. By contrast, it costs about $20,000 a year to keep a person in a supportive environment -- the permanent housing where on-site mental therapists, substance abuse counselors and other social workers can help keep a person off the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many chronically homeless people crowd into the Tenderloin, where soup kitchens, rehab clinics and poverty-aid organizations are centered. Homeless drug addicts have spread into areas where their dealers are easiest to find: heroin in the Mission District, methamphetamine around Division Street, crack in the Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mental Illness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most heart-rending subpopulation is made up of the mentally ill. Here, good intentions are at the heart of how San Francisco’s streets became an open-air mental ward, with deranged people railing at telephone poles or passersby, or muttering to themselves for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1960s and ’70s, state-run mental institutions, where troubled people were once committed against their will, came to be seen by advocates as a means of violating individuals’ rights. Closing them saved money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their demise, the plan, supported by both conservatives and liberals, was for community-based centers across the country to help people instead -- but those were underfunded. The result: A growing population of mentally ill people were turned loose to fend for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, it’s estimated that a third or more of homeless people in San Francisco and nationally suffer from mental illness. The city would need hundreds of new psychiatric-care beds to get them off the sidewalks -- the current inventory of fewer than 1,000 is not nearly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if it created those beds, getting people into them is difficult. Unless they are judged a danger to themselves or others, the mentally ill can’t be forced into care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example: Tatiana and Oksana, Ukrainian immigrants who speak little English and give no last name. Believed to be mother and daughter, they’ve been on the streets for at least a decade, with brief stints in emergency housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pair pose no threat as they push their heaped shopping cart through downtown and the Mission, sleeping in doorways and glancing suspiciously at everyone who passes by, so they can’t be compelled to leave the streets. Any conversation with them veers quickly, wildly off track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two social workers, barred by state privacy rules from being identified, interviewed them several times. They concluded that Tatiana is in her 50s and Oksana is in her 30s, and that they are probably mentally ill or impaired. For three years, social workers have tried to get them to give their required permission for psychiatric care -- but the pair won’t commit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Afraid of the ‘Russkies’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women have repeatedly told The Chronicle through Ukrainian interpreters they don’t need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re afraid of everyone, afraid we’ll be sent back to the old country,” Tatiana said. “Russians want us to leave the city, they are bad, they are everywhere, but we won’t go. We’re not homeless. We are just on the street. We will not go inside where the Russkies can get us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health programs weren’t the only ones bludgeoned by budget cuts. Federal housing aid and social programs were slashed by as much as 80 percent in the 1980s, and state and local governments couldn’t catch up. Many of the people who wound up homeless that decade have never left the street, pushing the average age among the street population to 58.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Millions in Poverty\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, with the minimum wage supplying about half or less of the buying power it did in 1980 and about 30 percent of Americans living at or near poverty level, there is a continual flow of people becoming homeless, said Peter Edelman, a Georgetown University law professor specializing in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never even replaced the affordable-housing support that was destroyed in the 1980s, so if you want to solve homelessness, you need to not have so much poverty,” Edelman said. “What we’ve got is a problem of homelessness created because we haven’t done what we should have in the first place, so now we have to handle it in the second place -- with techniques like supportive housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one area in which San Francisco, with among the highest rents and greatest gulfs between rich and poor in the country, is actually a leader in innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the city has refined a system of sending outreach counselors into the street to persuade the chronically indigent to accept housing, shelter, employment or medical help -- and then move into permanent supportive housing before they can wander off again. In the past 12 years, San Francisco has put about 12,000 people into such housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trouble is that the city is at least 2,500 supportive-housing units short of what it needs to clear the streets of the most expensive and visible chronically homeless people -- about 1,500 of them -- and to stay ahead of the incoming chronic population every year. But that’s not insurmountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation could be dramatically improved through new private-public funding models, cheaper forms of modular housing, and streamlining techniques for helping people move out of supportive housing after they’ve been stabilized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city’s shelters were expanded by hundreds of beds, and fashioned more along the lines of the 15-month-old Navigation Center, they could finally become the routing tools into housing that Agnos envisioned a quarter-century ago. The center at Mission and 16th streets takes in street campers with their partners, pets and gear and surrounds them with case managers to help them get their lives together quickly. The city is already heading that way: A second center is scheduled to open at Market and 12th streets this week, and the Board of Supervisors has voted to open five more Navigation Centers over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the city’s establishment of a new Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, streamlining city services for street people under one roof into a more direct focus on housing and counseling, San Francisco has its best opportunity in years to clear the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to do what we need to do,” said Jeff Kositsky, head of the new department. “The approach now is the same -- we just have to be creative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bit of Optimism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Friedenbach, whose Coalition on Homelessness advocacy group has spent decades pushing the city to create more housing and services for the indigent, is skeptically optimistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Matrix is in the trash bin of history and police leaders insist cracking down isn’t the way to solve homelessness, Friedenbach said, the city still puts too much emphasis on breaking up camps whose residents have nowhere good to go and issuing tickets for quality-of-life violations like sitting on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Wasting Money’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A city report in May that found taxpayers spend $20 million a year enforcing such laws quantifies the futility of the effort, she said. To Friedenbach, ticketing street people boils down to just two things: “San Francisco is either ruining homeless people’s lives and wasting money, or harassing homeless people and wasting money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With little to show for it, it is time for a new approach,” she said. For Friedenbach, “new” actually means ramping up old concepts -- more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about money,” she said. “We need a sustained revenue source to double the housing units for homeless people, and to do prevention to keep people in their homes and to not become homeless to begin with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that complicated,” she said. “I think in San Francisco, people are ready to do something different. But then, I’ve seen that before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kevin Fagan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee expressed anger about \"illegal, irresponsible, outrageous\" motorist behavior that resulted in the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists on city streets Wednesday evening -- a statement bicycle safety advocates criticized as \"hollow words\" that aren't being backed up with effective action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women killed Wednesday -- \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/improving-our-cities/a-list-of-people-killed-while-riding-a-bicycle-in-san-francisco-1456bbd017d9#.wum4jo542\" target=\"_blank\">listed unofficially\u003c/a> as the 14th and 15th cyclists to be struck and killed on San Francisco streets since 2011 -- died in collisions in Golden Gate Park and South of Market. In the second case, passers-by reportedly detained the driver believed to be involved in the crash. (More details on the fatalities \u003ca href=\"#hitrundeaths\">below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park victim was identified as Heather Miller, 41. The woman killed at Seventh and Howard was Katherine Slattery, 26. Both were San Francisco residents. Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Two-bicyclists-killed-in-separate-SF-hit-and-run-8321105.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's account\u003c/a> of how the fatal episodes unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Miller was killed around 6 p.m. Wednesday while bicycling east on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. Police said a man driving a stolen white Honda in the westbound direction hit her when he veered into the opposite lane while attempting to speed around slower cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver of the Honda fled the scene, officials said. The vehicle was later found abandoned at the Anglers Lodge in Golden Gate Park. Authorities said the car had been reported stolen and that they are in communication with the registered owner. They were still searching for the suspect Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 8:30 p.m., Slattery was killed when a man in a black BMW SUV headed west on Howard Street sped through a red light and struck her as she was pedaling north on Seventh Street, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That driver continued on to a gas station at Ninth and Howard streets, where he hit a parked vehicle and stopped, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A citizen spotted the driver and made him to stay at the scene until police arrived and took him into custody. Officials do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved. The driver ... was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police have identified the driver as Farrukh Mushtaq, 32, of San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday morning press conference at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency headquarters, Lee called the incidents \"the consequences of total irresponsibility. We cannot have that in our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city's \u003ca href=\"http://visionzerosf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program to eliminate traffic deaths is showing progress and vowed to work along with groups representing pedestrians, cyclists and seniors to get the city to \"come together even stronger to reinforce the standards of using our streets appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee returned repeatedly to the suggestion that individuals driving on city streets are not behaving responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as we are doing to educate the public, whether it's through signage, through education, we have to also do a level of enforcement to hold these individuals accountable and make sure that they are using our streets safely,\" Lee said. \"These are totally avoidable tragedies. Totally avoidable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, the communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, called the Wednesday night fatalities \"an unprecedented night of tragedy for people biking in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that Lee's remarks fail to address the ongoing death toll, which \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/scorecards/traffic-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\">according to city statistics\u003c/a> includes 110 pedestrians killed in traffic collisions since July 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what we heard this morning from city leaders was hollow words without any detail,\" Cassidy said. \"The people of San Francisco deserve safer streets. That's the end of the discussion. They deserved them yesterday, and they deserve urgent steps and specific plans today by city leaders to deliver safer streets as soon as humanly possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike coalition noted that the sites of Wednesday fatalities, on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park and at Seventh and Howard streets South of Market, are located in high-injury corridors identified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The coalition and other street safety advocates have called for the creation of more protected bike lanes -- lanes that are physically separated from motorized traffic -- to help prevent collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see protected bike lanes across San Francisco,\" Cassidy said. \"We need to see them on JFK Drive, where they could have prevented the fatality that occurred yesterday. We need to see them in SoMa, which is a neighborhood crisscrossed by high-injury corridors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition released a list of more than 60 streets identified as high-injury corridors that the city has no immediate plans to make safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin appeared at Lee's press conference and agreed that the city's most dangerous locations and the causes of most accidents are well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know why they're happening, we know where they're happening, and we know what things we can do to make them least likely to happen,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is coming to the most hazardous locales -- including Seventh and Howard, where one of Thursday's victims was killed by a driver who reportedly ran a red light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin said that crosswalks were recently upgraded to make pedestrians more visible to drivers and that traffic signals have been mounted on long arms across the intersection where motorists can see them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last night's episode showed design alone isn't sufficient if somebody is speeding through the streets and disobeying the laws,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hitrundeaths\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police are investigating two hit-and-run collisions on Wednesday evening in which motorists struck and killed cyclists, then fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area reports details of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Female-Cyclist-Killed-in-Hit-and-Run-in-Golden-Gate-Park-384063951.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first incident\u003c/a>, which took place about 6 p.m. on John F. Kennedy Drive near 30th Avenue. A woman riding her bike there was struck by a white Honda Fit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Witnesses said the vehicle was traveling about 50-60 mph when it crossed over into oncoming traffic to pass another vehicle and hit the bicycle head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard an impact, and I look and see the woman who had just passed us fly up, and I saw the bike fly the other direction,\" said Timmory Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said the driver slowed momentarily after the impact then took off in a hurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, in her 20s, was not responsive at the scene, despite the efforts of emergency crews to revive her. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle, which had paper dealership plates, was found a few blocks away with a shattered windshield. Police said at least two people were in the vehicle, and they are searching for a second vehicle that may lead them to the person or persons responsible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The second fatal collision occurred about 8:30 p.m. at Seventh and Howard streets in the SoMa neighborhood. In that incident, witnesses said, a driver ran a red light, struck a female cyclist, and drove on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they were able to locate and arrest the driver, apparently after other cyclists spotted the male driver just blocks west of the collision scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4pfjey/i_caught_a_driver_fleeing_a_hit_and_run_on_howard/\" target=\"_blank\">a post\u003c/a> on Reddit's San Francisco subreddit, the driver was seen trying to walk away from his vehicle after a second collision, this time with another vehicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I saw a man flee a car with airbags opened and signs of a fresh accident, as the car hit into another car. Called 911 and tried to get the attention of other driving passerbys that paused but kept going. As the guy tried to blend in with others on the street, I chased him down with another pedestrian and demanded he sit and wait for the police, he obliged. Definitely not sober. F'ing guy killed someone due to his recklessness. Witnesses said he blew through a red light when he struck the girl. His car told the same story.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Neither the woman killed in Golden Gate Park nor the one killed South of Market had been identified as of early Thursday. According to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/improving-our-cities/a-list-of-people-killed-while-riding-a-bicycle-in-san-francisco-1456bbd017d9#.wum4jo542\" target=\"_blank\">an unofficial list\u003c/a> of cyclists killed in San Francisco (h/t \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HoodlineSF\" target=\"_blank\">HoodlineSF\u003c/a>), Wednesday's fatalities were the 14th and 15th since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cyclists died the same day the Police Department was publicizing an effort to crack down on motorists who fail to yield to pedestrians on the streets. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFPD\" target=\"_blank\">@SFPD tweeted\u003c/a> that 32 drivers were cited Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee expressed anger about \"illegal, irresponsible, outrageous\" motorist behavior that resulted in the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists on city streets Wednesday evening -- a statement bicycle safety advocates criticized as \"hollow words\" that aren't being backed up with effective action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women killed Wednesday -- \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/improving-our-cities/a-list-of-people-killed-while-riding-a-bicycle-in-san-francisco-1456bbd017d9#.wum4jo542\" target=\"_blank\">listed unofficially\u003c/a> as the 14th and 15th cyclists to be struck and killed on San Francisco streets since 2011 -- died in collisions in Golden Gate Park and South of Market. In the second case, passers-by reportedly detained the driver believed to be involved in the crash. (More details on the fatalities \u003ca href=\"#hitrundeaths\">below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park victim was identified as Heather Miller, 41. The woman killed at Seventh and Howard was Katherine Slattery, 26. Both were San Francisco residents. Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Two-bicyclists-killed-in-separate-SF-hit-and-run-8321105.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's account\u003c/a> of how the fatal episodes unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Miller was killed around 6 p.m. Wednesday while bicycling east on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. Police said a man driving a stolen white Honda in the westbound direction hit her when he veered into the opposite lane while attempting to speed around slower cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver of the Honda fled the scene, officials said. The vehicle was later found abandoned at the Anglers Lodge in Golden Gate Park. Authorities said the car had been reported stolen and that they are in communication with the registered owner. They were still searching for the suspect Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 8:30 p.m., Slattery was killed when a man in a black BMW SUV headed west on Howard Street sped through a red light and struck her as she was pedaling north on Seventh Street, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That driver continued on to a gas station at Ninth and Howard streets, where he hit a parked vehicle and stopped, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A citizen spotted the driver and made him to stay at the scene until police arrived and took him into custody. Officials do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved. The driver ... was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police have identified the driver as Farrukh Mushtaq, 32, of San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday morning press conference at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency headquarters, Lee called the incidents \"the consequences of total irresponsibility. We cannot have that in our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city's \u003ca href=\"http://visionzerosf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program to eliminate traffic deaths is showing progress and vowed to work along with groups representing pedestrians, cyclists and seniors to get the city to \"come together even stronger to reinforce the standards of using our streets appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee returned repeatedly to the suggestion that individuals driving on city streets are not behaving responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as we are doing to educate the public, whether it's through signage, through education, we have to also do a level of enforcement to hold these individuals accountable and make sure that they are using our streets safely,\" Lee said. \"These are totally avoidable tragedies. Totally avoidable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, the communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, called the Wednesday night fatalities \"an unprecedented night of tragedy for people biking in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that Lee's remarks fail to address the ongoing death toll, which \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/scorecards/traffic-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\">according to city statistics\u003c/a> includes 110 pedestrians killed in traffic collisions since July 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what we heard this morning from city leaders was hollow words without any detail,\" Cassidy said. \"The people of San Francisco deserve safer streets. That's the end of the discussion. They deserved them yesterday, and they deserve urgent steps and specific plans today by city leaders to deliver safer streets as soon as humanly possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike coalition noted that the sites of Wednesday fatalities, on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park and at Seventh and Howard streets South of Market, are located in high-injury corridors identified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The coalition and other street safety advocates have called for the creation of more protected bike lanes -- lanes that are physically separated from motorized traffic -- to help prevent collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see protected bike lanes across San Francisco,\" Cassidy said. \"We need to see them on JFK Drive, where they could have prevented the fatality that occurred yesterday. We need to see them in SoMa, which is a neighborhood crisscrossed by high-injury corridors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition released a list of more than 60 streets identified as high-injury corridors that the city has no immediate plans to make safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin appeared at Lee's press conference and agreed that the city's most dangerous locations and the causes of most accidents are well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know why they're happening, we know where they're happening, and we know what things we can do to make them least likely to happen,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is coming to the most hazardous locales -- including Seventh and Howard, where one of Thursday's victims was killed by a driver who reportedly ran a red light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin said that crosswalks were recently upgraded to make pedestrians more visible to drivers and that traffic signals have been mounted on long arms across the intersection where motorists can see them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last night's episode showed design alone isn't sufficient if somebody is speeding through the streets and disobeying the laws,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hitrundeaths\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police are investigating two hit-and-run collisions on Wednesday evening in which motorists struck and killed cyclists, then fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area reports details of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Female-Cyclist-Killed-in-Hit-and-Run-in-Golden-Gate-Park-384063951.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first incident\u003c/a>, which took place about 6 p.m. on John F. Kennedy Drive near 30th Avenue. A woman riding her bike there was struck by a white Honda Fit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Witnesses said the vehicle was traveling about 50-60 mph when it crossed over into oncoming traffic to pass another vehicle and hit the bicycle head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard an impact, and I look and see the woman who had just passed us fly up, and I saw the bike fly the other direction,\" said Timmory Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said the driver slowed momentarily after the impact then took off in a hurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, in her 20s, was not responsive at the scene, despite the efforts of emergency crews to revive her. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle, which had paper dealership plates, was found a few blocks away with a shattered windshield. Police said at least two people were in the vehicle, and they are searching for a second vehicle that may lead them to the person or persons responsible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The second fatal collision occurred about 8:30 p.m. at Seventh and Howard streets in the SoMa neighborhood. In that incident, witnesses said, a driver ran a red light, struck a female cyclist, and drove on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they were able to locate and arrest the driver, apparently after other cyclists spotted the male driver just blocks west of the collision scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4pfjey/i_caught_a_driver_fleeing_a_hit_and_run_on_howard/\" target=\"_blank\">a post\u003c/a> on Reddit's San Francisco subreddit, the driver was seen trying to walk away from his vehicle after a second collision, this time with another vehicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I saw a man flee a car with airbags opened and signs of a fresh accident, as the car hit into another car. Called 911 and tried to get the attention of other driving passerbys that paused but kept going. As the guy tried to blend in with others on the street, I chased him down with another pedestrian and demanded he sit and wait for the police, he obliged. Definitely not sober. F'ing guy killed someone due to his recklessness. Witnesses said he blew through a red light when he struck the girl. His car told the same story.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Neither the woman killed in Golden Gate Park nor the one killed South of Market had been identified as of early Thursday. According to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/improving-our-cities/a-list-of-people-killed-while-riding-a-bicycle-in-san-francisco-1456bbd017d9#.wum4jo542\" target=\"_blank\">an unofficial list\u003c/a> of cyclists killed in San Francisco (h/t \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HoodlineSF\" target=\"_blank\">HoodlineSF\u003c/a>), Wednesday's fatalities were the 14th and 15th since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We're sure you remember San Francisco's great \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/s-f-clearing-homeless-holdouts-from-division-street-neighborhood\" target=\"_blank\">homeless tent sweep of 2016\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, city officials decided \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wiener-city-needs-fast-response-to-homeless-tent-camps\" target=\"_blank\">they'd had it\u003c/a> with the growing presence of tent encampments along \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/01/life-on-division-street-i-never-thought-it-would-be-part-of-my-walk?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=kqedmain\" target=\"_blank\">Division Street\u003c/a>, beneath the elevated 101 freeway, and forced the street dwellers to move.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While some of the people living in tents went to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/04/a-visit-to-pier-80-s-f-s-temporary-homeless-shelter-in-remote-corner-of-city\" target=\"_blank\">a temporary shelter\u003c/a> at Pier 80, most of the tent residents appear to have merely carried their belongings to new locations, as they have for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So now comes the next step in the city's campaign to make the tents vanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Supervisor Mark Farrell submitted a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=19368\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Not Tents\u003c/a>\" measure for the November ballot that will make it easier for public officials to clear camps from the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The laws that are on the books are not directly applicable to our tent encampments right now,\" said Farrell, whose District 2 includes Pacific Heights, Sea Cliff and the Marina. \"They are used -- our police code is used, and blocking the right-of-way laws are used -- to really enforce the encampments and make sure they don't grow, but this is something that we wanted to make very specific.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure would permit the city to remove tents, provided it offers specific shelter or housing opportunities to the people living there. A tent camp could also be removed if a resident participates in the city's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfhsa.org/79.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Homeward Bound\u003c/a> program -- an initiative under which the city pays for bus tickets for homeless residents who have out-of-town family or friends willing to take them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"Housing Not Tents\" proposal would require the city to give 24 hours' notice that it intends to remove an encampment. 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