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‘This is what equity looks like': Roving teams deliver COVID vaccines around the Tenderloin

Kevin Fagan

August 25, 2022 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Roving coronavirus vaccination teams walk around the Tenderloin district of San Francisco to provide COVID-19 vaccines to people who want one. The medical professionals focus on providing vaccines to people experiencing homelessness, people who are marginally housed, isolated, or who have other obstacles to accessing care. In addition to some pop-up clinics they set up in parking lots and other centralized areas, they also administer vaccines right on the spot, where ever they find people who want one.

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Homeless soccer players will shoot for their goal in downtown SF

Kevin Fagan

July 06, 2016 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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. Some participants have been inspired to turn their lives around through the team relationships and support.

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SF opens new full-service shelter to get homeless off streets

Kevin Fagan

June 28, 2016 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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 belongings with them and accepts romantic partners as well as pets. Successfully implemented in the Mission District, San Francisco has opened a second Navigation Center on Market Street and has hopes to continue to scale the project.

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With tent city cleared, no shortage of ideas — or homeless

Kevin Fagan

March 06, 2016 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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 years, and currently in works the works is the creation of the Department of Homelessness. The Department will streamline programs such as housing, counseling, street outreach and other services, while managing government funds to improve allocations of spending.

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Drought survival: What Australia's changes can teach California

Kevin Fagan

September 25, 2015 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria

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 and economy, struggling to cope after four years of its own epic drought — could learn from.

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With bodies cameras rolling, police use less force

Kevin Fagan

May 11, 2015 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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.

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Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

Kevin Fagan

June 28, 2014 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

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’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

Kevin Fagan Brent Ward

October 29, 2006 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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 chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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Reaching into a void: For mayor's team of street crusaders, getting the chronically homeless into housing requires patience as they battle their addictions -- and persistence if they relapse

Kevin Fagan

December 06, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

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 them to resources such as housing and drug rehabilitation.

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Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

Kevin Fagan

June 14, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

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 has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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