“California has systemic issues in terms of its housing affordability,' one advocate tells ABC News.
An unhoused former restaurant worker packs up his tent on the streets of San Francisco.In parts of San Francisco, unhoused Americans like Anthony, a former restaurant worker, regularly move street to street as city officials come in to clean up their encampments.
Sorto says she lived in an RV with her children for over a year before recently obtaining rental assistance from the city and moving into an apartment. President Joe Biden announced over the summer an extra $3 billion in investment focusing on veterans and including rental assistance, legal help and job search support.
“Very rarely are candidates centering unhoused people's needs in when they develop platforms before they're making statements,” Friedenbach said. In a statement, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management told ABC News, “San Francisco outreach teams do an exceptional job of placing people who are interested in going inside into shelter or housing. Unfortunately, most people either decline to engage, decline offers of shelter, or have shelter already and we cannot compel to come inside.”
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