A preliminary release of the biennial point-in-time homeless count on Thursday showed that there has been a 13 percent decrease in the number of people living on the streets or in tents in San Francisco since 2022 — meaning the city has the lowest number of unsheltered homeless people on its streets in 10 years.
Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, said it was “not surprising that the street count is down,” pointing to a voter initiative, But the true need may be much larger than what is captured in the count, which is not an accurate gauge of homelessness. The count relies on an army of volunteers who fan out across the city on the same night every year, hand-counting the numbers of tents and vehicles they believe are housing homeless people. Added to that figure are those staying in city shelters or jails.
Paul Boden, executive director of Western Regional Advocacy Project, who was himself homeless as a juvenile, said he believes that the city’s policy to improve homelessness has taken a turn for the worse since the city started to do point-in-time counts The count is federally mandated, a requirement for cities like San Francisco that receive federal funding in homelessness services.
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