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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
6 July 2016
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Homelessness can make an individual feel alienated and disconnected from society. Street Soccer USA is an annual tournament in which homeless and underprivileged people from the street are invited to participate. Som...
28 June 2016
San Francisco, California, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
San Francisco’s poorly staffed shelters have led many homeless to choose to stay on the street. The Navigation Center, a homeless shelter with many amenities and staff, enables the homeless to keep their personal belo...
6 March 2016
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Removing encampments does not help the San Francisco homeless because there are not enough places for them to live off the streets. The city has had a history of projects that have aided the homeless in the past ten y...
25 September 2015
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Australia, what came to be known as the Big Dry dragged on for 13 punishing years. By the time the rains finally returned in 2010, the country had utterly changed in ways that California — with a similar landscape ...
11 May 2015
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Police in California have begun using body cameras to record their daily interactions with the public, decreasing altercations and misconduct by both officers and citizens.
28 June 2014
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’...
29 October 2006
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chroni...
6 December 2004
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Francisco's Care Not Cash program began in 2004 in response to the city's homelessness crisis. One facet of the program is an outreach team, whose members regularly visit homeless people on the street to connect t...
14 June 2004
New York, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and ...
13 June 2004
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Philadelphia reduced chronic homelessness by coordinating outreach through a centralized office and providing immediate access to housing and services such as counseling and drug rehabilitation. San Francisco is study...
9 May 2004
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In the U.S. most supportive housing programs have a 75 percent turnover rate, meaning people end up in the streets again. Direct Access to Housing in California manages a turnover rate of only 15 percent by providing ...
4 December 2003
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
To combat rampant homelessness, cities like New York are investing in supportive housing and comprehensive, consistent services for the homeless population. Although San Francisco has smaller-scale supportive housing ...
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