A new department was tasked with using technology to track people across the social services system, but the effort failed expectations.
The city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is the main agency that oversees San Francisco’s shelters and services — and it has little to no oversight.
“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
Hard-earned tips on how to stay nimble when current events supplant your grand reporting plans.
Seven months later, Outsiders is back with a three-episode finale that seeks to answer some of the questions the podcast laid out in the beginning.
This documentary-style podcast give listeners a close-up view of unsheltered homelessness. Episode 9 takes some of the questions posed by listeners throughout the series, and gives people who are homeless a chance to weigh in.
A look inside an expanded syringe program and a new camp.
A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.
Amid the pandemic, changes to the county’s needle exchange programs are on hold.
"The experience of working with our subjects for more than a year changed my own ideas about homelessness and how to report on it."
