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S.F. touts successes in moving homeless off the streets. But the reality is complicated
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A homeless man carries his belongings after street cleaners arrived on Willow Street in the Tenderloin in May 2020.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Data show
s the number of tents lining San Francisco sidewalks dropped 65% from April 2020 to April 2021, but many of the city’s resources are only temporary because of the pandemic.Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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Tents line a city-sanctioned homeless encampment on Gough Street in March.Noah Berger/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Prop C funds released! San Francisco takes first step to move dial on homelessness
May 2, 2021
The history of housing and homelessness in San Francisco is rife with violence, racism and inhumanity. It is no different today, with sheriff-enforced evictions, DPW and SFPD sweeps of homeless people from their sleep in 2 a.m. raids and systematic gentrification of Black and Brown neighborhoods. So many people born and raised here have been pushed out of their own homes and into the streets to make room for tech oligarchs and their minions to reside alone in remodeled open floor plan one-bedrooms that once housed whole families – an injustice the city has committed against its own. Proposition C funnels $300 million annually towards permanent housing, shelter, mental health care and services for homeless San Francisco residents as a 0.5 percent tax on businesses making over $50 million a year – pennies for them, but potentially shelter for people in desperate need. – Photo: Beth La