Reporting on Homelessness During Coronavirus Pandemic

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Courtesy of Brian Howey

How to best support the thousands of people who are homeless in San Francisco, and prevent the spread of the new coronavirus among them, during this pandemic has been a point of contention for months. San Francisco Public Press reporter Brian Howey has been covering everything from a scuttled initiative to test everyone in the shelter system to how the city would use RVs it had secured for people without housing to self-isolate.

“Both activists and unhoused people alike have expressed that they would prefer to be in a hotel room than in a tent. There are some groups, however, of homeless folks that I’ve spoken to who have expressed reservations about going into the hotel rooms…And I think that a lot of this reticence from the unhoused community comes from a long-standing and deep-seated distrust of city agencies.”

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