Both Humboldt County and San Francisco have programs to relocate homeless people to other cities and states where they have ties. But Humboldt leaders contend San Francisco’s approach is just shifting the problem across county lines.
By Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles TimesTents line a sidewalk on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, 2020.
The supervisors were responding to a recent report in The San Francisco Standard that found the counties of Sacramento, Los Angeles and Humboldt were the top three destinations for homeless people bused out of San Francisco since September 2023. The program is a critical component of Breed’s high-profile campaign to more forcefully clear out the sprawling tent encampments that have mushroomed across the city in recent years. The effort, launched in July, is buoyed by a pivotal June 28 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gave local communities greater legal standing to ban homeless people from sleeping in public spaces.
An estimated 8,300 people are living homeless in San Francisco, about half of them sleeping in parks and on sidewalks in makeshift shelters, according to the city Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. According to the city’s 2024 homeless survey, about 40% of people living on the streets said they were not from San Francisco.
As part of its efforts to move people into housing, Humboldt County also operates a relocation assistance program. Over the last year, the county has helped 142 people travel to locations throughout the country, Messinger said, including the four who relocated to San Francisco. They have denied assistance to nearly 100 more.
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