Manny's organized a four part series on understanding homelessness in San Francisco. The series is designed to inform and empower you to: (1) be able to explain who is homeless in San Francisco and (2) answer questions and perhaps correct misunderstandings about the demographics of the city's homeless community and cogently explain the various ways folks become homeless in our city.
Part 1 addressed the causes of homelessness in San Francisco and beyond. In part 2, we discuss the history of homelessness in San Francisco. Going back all the way to the 1906 earthquake, our guest Randy Shaw, discusses the persistence of the issue, the shelter and housing solutions that have been tried already and the lessons that have (or maybe haven't) been learned.
Randy Shaw may have the deepest understanding of the more recent history of homelessness in San Francisco as the co-founder and executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, the city's leading provider of permanent housing for homeless single adults. He has also co-founded and serves on the board of directors of Uptown Tenderloin, Inc., a nonprofit organization that spearheaded the creation of the national Uptown Tenderloin Historic District in 2009. Uptown Tenderloin, Inc. is the driving force behind the Tenderloin Museum, which opened in the spring of 2015. Randy is also the editor of Beyond Chron, and has written six books on activism.
San Francisco has a history of being a boom town with people coming and going following waves of innovation and the search for gold in its many forms.
Have there always been homeless people in San Francisco? When did homelessness begin as an issue? How did the city shelter the thousands of people who lost their homes after the 1906 earthquake? And why have the great efforts put forth to reduce homelessness not resulted in a major reductions?
22 сен 2024
