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[7] [8] Between 2005 and 2017, the city of San Francisco sent 10,500 homeless people out of town by bus. [1] A 2019 article in The New York Times reported that many bus ticket recipients were missing, unreachable, in jail, or homeless within a month after leaving San Francisco, and one out of eight returned to the city within a year. [7 ...
In what is commonly referred to as a variation on Greyhound therapy, many cities in the United States, including the city of San Francisco, buy homeless persons free one-way bus tickets to reduce the visibility of homeless populations within the city. This has been occurring over the last three decades.
The program isn't new — San Francisco has bussed 857 homeless people to other California counties and other states under its Homeward Bound program since 2022, according to The San Francisco ...
With shelters near capacity, Mayor London Breed is ramping up a program to offer homeless people who aren't from San Francisco transportation and relocation services to other cities.
Also in 1995, at the request of and with funding from the San Francisco Human Services Agency, [13] the agency began Connecting Point (CP), which serves as the central intake and assessment center for any family in San Francisco needing to access the city's shelter system. In 2007, CP was awarded a contract in partnership with the Eviction ...
Just a few months after Gavin Newsom was sworn in as mayor of San Francisco in 2004, he announced a plan to get all of the city’s chronically homeless residents off the streets within 10 years.
Advocates for homeless people say encampment sweeps that force people off the streets are an easy way to hide homelessness from public view. “Shelter should always be transitional,” said Lukas Illa, an organizer with San Francisco's Coalition on Homelessness. “We shouldn’t have folks be in there as the long-lasting solution.”
The SFMTA handles rail, bus, and other public transportation under its Transit division (the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as "Muni"). The SFMTA handles over 700,000 weekday boardings (707,590 in fiscal year 2017 [ 4 ] ) on its public transit services and serves 90 routes. [ 5 ]