Medical care and safety net programs are not reaching low-income and immigrant communities in places such as SF.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
The cornerstone of the city’s homelessness fight is to move folks into permanent housing. For Nathan Caine, Cimber Sims, and their baby girl, the waiting is the hardest part.
The drop in the number of new recipients for disability benefits comes in the midst of a devastating public health crisis that has led to massive unmet needs.
Being homeless poses huge daily health risks, and Santa Cruz, California offers no exception.
“Disasters have a way of exposing the most vulnerable among us, and putting them in harm’s way,” a local nonprofit leader told me.
With depression, anxiety, and suicides on the rise, Biden must quickly deliver on his campaign pledge to improve access to treatment.
HB45 proposes a radon task force to study solutions.
The most powerful new weapon in the city’s war on Covid-19 is a mid-sized daily testing site at the 24th Street BART Plaza.
A couple dreamed of having children. But their hopes and plans did not include lockdown, loneliness, and a chaotic, overwhelmed health care system.
Instead of a surge of children entering foster care during the pandemic, the child welfare system has often found itself struggling to help families leave the system.