Madison Alvarado is a reporter at the San Francisco Public Press who covers California’s homelessness crisis, conditions in public housing, and reparations for African Americans. In addition to her recent reporting at the Public Press, she has covered issues related to the coronavirus pandemic, housing and city government for San Francisco news site Mission Local. She won an award for her reporting along with former colleague Noah Arroyo for community-focused reporting from the Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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A reporter finds that San Francisco's data dashboards on homelessness obscured more than they revealed.
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Outreach by the city’s premier team for helping people living on the streets has declined for years and could continue falling.
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Experts note an uptick in families fleeing their home countries to San Francisco, only to end up on the streets.
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San Francisco grapples with a surge in migrant families falling into homelessness amid inadequate shelter and support systems.
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A new data project will seek to provide fresh answers to that question.