About 50 people, unhoused families and supporters, marched on the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to protest the department's system of resource allocation.
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The skits featured a robot that turned away an 87 year old person for not being homeless long enough to qualify for housing, a pregnant woman who was told"come back after six months" and a mom who had slept at a friends' house the night before. Apart from housing,"problem solving" resources can look like a small stipend for costs like utility bills or a bus ticket, or conflict mediation, which aims to address interpersonal issues that could be barriers to a stable home environment.
According to the Coalition on Homelessness, the nonprofit that advocates for homeless and housing-insecure residents of San Francisco, families have an abysmal success rate with Coordinated Entry. In 2020 through 2021, only one percent of families who were prescribed"problem solving" by the system ended up reaching a solution.
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