For the past decade, you could find Victoria Solomon on the streets of San Francisco’s The Castro neighborhood, pacing and screaming to no one in particular, or camping on the sidewalk, spurning the offers of would-be helping hands
A targeted, one-on-one homeless outreach in the program has gotten nearly half of the neighborhood’s “hard-core unhoused people” into shelter, and may be replicable elsewhere in the city, but requires significant staff and budget.
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On a frosty December morning, Victoria Solomon recounted how San Francisco police had rousted her awake hours earlier, and threatened to take her to jail if she didn’t clear out within 10 minutes.