Homeless crisis so bad in San Fran area that families are being urged to take in people from the street
February 9, 2022 | Joshua Nybo
As San Francisco makes the news for its ever-worsening problems, some locals are taking steps through charities and placement agencies to shelter the homeless within their own residences. The city has now seized on this idea with its own variant.
As all of San Francisco’s problems seem to be on a non-stop increase, it’s no surprise that homelessness has spiked as well. The number of homeless is currently believed to be 8,000, which is a jump up from the 5,600 estimated homeless ten years ago. The city’s solution has been to ask local residents to take the homeless into their spare rooms with little to no compensation, as an act of charity, according to The Mercury News.
Various charities have long side advocated for people to personally help as best they can. Safe Time is an East Bay nonprofit charity that tries to match up homeless families and students in spare rooms for a few months, typically between one and six. Its executive director, Christi Carpenter, spoke of their mission to the Mercury News:
“This is something that someone can do when they just feel that despair of ‘oh my gosh, I just can’t stand seeing these poor people on the streets near my home,” she said.
Mayor Tom Butt of Richmond, which is located about 20 miles away from San Francisco in the county of Contra Costa, has also set up a program that seeks to place homeless people with local landlords who have vacant apartments. The program’s funding comes from private donations, not taxpayers, and tries to pay for one year’s rent up front, and asks landlords to waive the usual background checks for credit and employment.
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