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The beach city of Santa Cruz reported a 49% decline in people sleeping unsheltered this year, while Los Angeles recorded a 10% drop. San Francisco has increased the number of shelter beds and permanent supportive housing units by more than 50% over the past six years.
A homeless camp in San Francisco, 2017. San Francisco has a significant and visible homelessness problem, with an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people experiencing homelessness. Most of them—61%—became homeless while living and working in San Francisco. [123] Many avoid shelters due to concerns about violence and discrimination.
In the 1960s, San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area cities enacted strict zoning regulations. [53] Zoning is the legal restriction of parts of a city to particular uses, such as residential, industrial, or commercial. In San Francisco, it also includes limitations on building height, density, and shape, and banning the demolition of old buildings.
In 2017, San Francisco police responded to nearly 100,000 resident complaints regarding "homeless concerns." In 2020, mayor London Breed personally directed the police chief "to clear specific people in her line of sight." [75] After the Supreme Court's ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson, San Francisco ramped up its enforcement of anti-camping ...
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The beach city of Santa Cruz reported a 49% decline in people sleeping unsheltered this year, while Los Angeles recorded a 10% drop. San Francisco has increased the number of shelter beds and permanent supportive housing units by more than 50% over the past six years.
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In the 2010s, the high cost of housing in cities such as San Francisco saw an increase in the number of flophouses. The modern flophouses, sometimes marketed as co-living "pods", usually have partitions between beds for privacy, and are created from existing houses or apartments. They are often marketed toward commuters who stay in the city ...