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While Mayor Vows to Reduce Homeless Population, City Eyes Cutting Shelter Bedsnew

Gavin Newsom has earned a reputation as someone willing to make passionate statements about plans to fix up public housing, reform the civil service system, upgrade parks, or reduce homelessness, and then quickly turn away as if he'd never said anything at all.
SF Weekly  |  Matt Smith  |  01-20-2010  |  Policy Issues

Homeless Outreach Team Benefits from Long-Awaited Fundingnew

It's been three years since the city of San Diego gave the United Way the thumbs up to implement a project to address chronic homelessness, And local homelessness services agencies are finally starting to receive funds.
San Diego CityBeat  |  Kelly Davis  |  06-10-2009  |  Policy Issues

Miami Wants the State to Help with its Growing Sex Offender Colonynew

To sum up the good-intentioned, if somewhat toothless, resolution passed by the city: Miami will ask the state to form a task force to study and solve the public-safety-meets-human-rights nightmare.
Miami New Times  |  Natalie O'Neill  |  02-23-2009  |  Policy Issues

San Francisco's Flawed System for Counting the Homelessnew

San Francisco's biennial homeless count has long been used as an indicator of how well the city is dealing with homelessness, which would all be fine and good, if it weren't for one small and inconvenient fact for everyone involved: It is a meaningless charade.
SF Weekly  |  Ashley Harrell  |  02-04-2009  |  Policy Issues

Out for the Countnew

Many believe that Toronto's planned assessment of how many homeless live in the city might be used to fuel a future crackdown.
NOW Magazine  |  Cathy Crowe  |  04-14-2006  |  Policy Issues

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