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For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
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.
Between 2005 and 2017, San Francisco's "Homeward Bound" program sent 10,500 homeless people out of town by bus. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] A 2019 New York Times article 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.
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