Posted: Thursday, 04 October 2007 4:56PM
SF Homeless Program Hits New Milestone
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 SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- San Francisco’s Care Not Cash program, designed to get homeless people into permanent housing, has reached a new milestone. The Newsom Administration announced that over 2,000 people who were once homeless now have a steady roof over their heads.
“If it weren’t for the mayor and his program I’d probably be out on the sidewalk somewhere. Still on drugs, no roof, I may be dead,” said Joseph Brown, who recently moved into the Pierre Hotel on Jones Street.
Still, there is a long way to go, according to Director so Human Services, Trent Rhorer. “We haven’t solved homelessness. You can walk down the streets and you still see the despair. Still people out there who are in dire need of our help,” he said.
Critics claim Care Not Cash has fallen short of the mark, and that the number of people still huddled in sleeping bags in parks, under freeways and on sidewalks is evidence of that shortcoming.
Supervisor Chris Daly, Mayor Gavin Newsom’s chief opponent, has proposed setting aside another $5 million for affordable housing. Newsom nixed a similar proposal a few months ago.
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KCBS’ Barbara Taylor reports
