San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood harbors the weight of the city’s ongoing drug and homelessness crisis, and the City and County of San Francisco has failed to deliver substantial and long-lasting government policies to address the neighborhood’s plight. From police sweeps to coordinated entry, harm reduction to interim shelters, the City of San Francisco has consistently […]
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A Tale of Two Cities and Their Homelessness Crises During COVID-19
New York and San Francisco have quite the reputations for their homeless populations, but there is one key difference between these two cities. Although New York City has a similar rate of homelessness to San Francisco, only 5% of homeless New Yorkers were unsheltered in 2020. On the other hand, nearly 75% of San Francisco’s […]