San Francisco used to be known as the city with the worst homeless problem in the nation. In only a few years they have changed that reputation.
We spoke with Angela Alioto, who was appointed by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to write the 10-year plan to take 3,000 chronic homeless people off the street. She shares how the city is managing to pull off what was previously thought to be impossible.
- Care Not Cash, Department of Human Services - San Francisco
- Law Offices of Joseph L. Alioto and Angela Alioto
- “Shame of the City,” the San Francisco Chronicle’s special report on homelessness
March 21st, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Lisa,
You claim it is an epic move to get 3000 San Francisco homeless off the streets in a city well over 750,000 in population.
Then you advertise there are 3000 homeless in Santa Barbara a city of 85,000 and expect us to do the same: Take them all in.
Do you understand why we did not like you extending an open invitation in your biased reporting about a failed RV parking program here to bring even more homeless to this small town.
Please don’t do us any more favors publicizing the few efforts we can make, that are already getting badly abused.
Thanks Lisa. Perspective - that is all we are asking. Please don’t make our problems worse. And talk to the neighbors next time, not just the program director who is trying to save his job while he personally lives miles away in a very tony zip code from the problems he created for the rest of us to have to live with.