Following an initial drop in tents and improvised shelters on the streets in late 2018 and early 2019, the city’s own data shows a general upward climb, with a 31 percent increase in tents in 2019 from January to October. The number of vehicles used as shelter also rose in 2019 from April to October.
Category: Homelessness
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Elections, Homelessness, Housing
Neighborhood Activist Promotes Safety, Sense of Connection In S.F. Public Housing
“Civic” talks with Uzuri Pease-Greene, executive director of C.A.R.E., Community Awareness Resources Entity, which helps promote safety for public housing residents.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, City Hall, Homelessness
Homelessness: Why Some Called for an Oversight Body for a City Department
San Francisco supervisors recently tabled a proposal that would have put the formation of an oversight body on the city ballot. This body would have overseen the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Sam Lew from the Coalition on Homelessness explains the rationale for such an entity. “It’s one of the largest departments with […]
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A Look at Bay Area Media Coverage of Homelessness
Journalist Sylvie Sturm discusses her analysis of how journalists reported on homelessness starting with what was billed as the S.F. homeless project, annual media blitz coordinated by the San Francisco Chronicle beginning in 2016. One of the upshots of the coverage: Lots of proposed solutions, but scant attention paid to digging into the “whys” of […]
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Counting the City’s Homeless: A First-Hand Account From the Streets
Point-in-Time counts are “snapshots” of a city’s homeless population, relying on volunteers’ perceptions of homelessness. As such, the surveys are prone to error. They also fail to gather specifics about age and ethnicity, and don’t provide a full picture of the most vulnerable growing populations: infants and the elderly.