Californian streets lay witness to 25 percent of the country’s total homeless population, with 42 percent of those being chronically homeless — federallydefined as a homeless individual with a disabling condition who has been homeless for over a year or having at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years. From 2016 to 2017, the state also saw the largest increase in the number of residents who are homeless — more than 16,000 people.
While homelessness in San Francisco is a human tragedy that San Franciscans can hardly ignore, some city officials have been in conversation with the school board of a Mission District elementary school in an effort to advocate for a family shelter at the school. However, the school would need the buy-in from parents and the broader school district community to move forward with the proposed plan.
Public Schools as Emergency Shelters
Buena Vista Horace Mann, the K-8 public school in the Mission District, has identified 64 school families without stable housing in its approximately 600-student population.
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