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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- Several dozen homeless advocates rallied at San Francisco City Hall today to protest the impending closure of an emergency drop-in center.
Buster’s Place is the only 24-hour homeless drop-in center in San Francisco, but budget cuts have forced it to close down.
”Many of these people will be sent out on the streets for the first time in their lives, and many of them are seniors, and very frail,” said Jennifer Friedenbach who heads up the city’s Coalition on Homelessness.
A couple of dozen Buster’s advocates staged a protest in front of the mayor’s office hoping he would save the facility, but a spokesman for the mayor said that they decided instead to move many of the residents to a new facility on Otis. The city owns the building at 150 Otis, meaning there will be no leasing costs.
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KCBS' Mark Seelig reports
