Living Without a Home in San Francisco: 3 stories and 4 questions

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Since Bay Curious first answered your questions on homelessness in 2017, the cost of living has continued to rise in the Bay Area and with it, the number of people living without a home. In the nine county Bay Area, just over 34,000 people are experiencing homelessness, according to point-in-time counts conducted in January by most counties In at least five of the nine counties, the recent count revealed an increase in the number of homeless people from the last time the count was done in 2017. In this episode, we explore four common questions about homelessness with Audrey Cooper, editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle and Kevin Fagan, a reporter with The San Francisco Chronicle who has covered homelessness for more than two decades. More resources: * 89 answers to your questions from The San Francisco Chronicle * One Day, One City, No Relief: 24 hours inside San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis * Homelessness in SF is Complex. Here Are Answers to the Most Common Questions == Produced by

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	A couple of months ago, more than 35 reporters and photographers from the San Francisco Chronicle
0:08.8	spent 24 hours talking with people living on the streets. One of the people they met was Rob Dowd.
0:15.0	I've been homeless since November 2015. I worked right from the apartment to the street.
0:22.0	Dowd was busking at the Civic Center BART Station.
0:25.0	He says he comes here nearly every day to play his guitar.
0:28.0	It's one stop on the journey he makes through the city.
0:32.0	I kind of use routines to keep myself from getting to Hobo-esque.
0:38.0	You know, I sleep on Guerrero.
0:41.0	This little place that lets me sleep under the awning. I just kind of watch the place there.
0:44.4	And then I go to my coffee shop in the church and market to get a cup of coffee and use their
0:49.6	bathroom because there's no bathrooms where I sleep.
0:52.6	And then I come here and I play until about 9.30.
0:56.3	And that's when my storage opens.
0:58.4	I go to my storage, put this away.
1:00.8	And then I go to my gym and clean up,
1:02.4	and I go to the library to charge my phone and do my busy work and at night I'll go to the mall and kind of hang out until it's 8 o'clock and I get to go back to the facility. That's kind of my routine.
1:16.4	Dowd is one of 34,000 people living without a home
1:20.1	in the nine county Bay Area. Try and picture that. 34,000 people.
1:27.3	That's more than can fit in Oracle Arena, more than the number of students at
1:31.4	San Francisco State.
1:33.3	It's also a number that has risen since officials last counted in 2017.
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