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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 ...
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.
Both Humboldt County and San Francisco have programs to relocate homeless people to other cities and states where they have ties. But Humboldt leaders contend San Francisco's approach is just ...
The prevalence of homelessness grew both in San Francisco and throughout the United States in the late 1970s and early '80s. [10] Jennifer Wolch identifies some of these factors to include the loss of jobs from deindustrialization, a rapid rise in housing prices, and the elimination of social welfare programs. [11]
The Coalition was formed in 1987 from a collaboration of San Francisco service providers and homeless people. It was created in reaction to cuts of social service programs by the Reagan administration. [2] The original idea for the Coalition on Homelessness was shared at Hospitality House and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. [citation needed]
The program came under scrutiny from San Francisco homeless advocates for its proposed program rules requiring all families referred to the program to provide proof of their legal status in the U.S. [11] This stipulation was added because under the recently adopted Proposition 187 undocumented individuals were barred from publicly financed ...
Most cities have homeless problems and lots of vacant housing units, but everything is magnified in San Francisco. Last year, there were 7,700 people living in shelters or on the street in the ...