"Lyanne Melendez: "How long is that going to take you?" Cory Monroe: "About four days." Melendez: "Where are you going to sleep?" Monroe: On the bus. "I need to see my family. I haven't seen them in awhile," said Cory who is 52 years old. Monroe: "I'm looking forward." Melendez: "Do you think you'll stay there?" Monroe: "Ah, yeah." Melendez: "How do you know?" Monroe: "I don't know.""
"Now we're trying to expand it to 24 hours, in fact we are expanding it to 24 hours a day starting late February. Because the need is out there. So somebody calls us a two o'clock in the morning, we're going to try to sit with them immediately or it might be somebody that just needs that phone call at two in the morning to say, 'hey, I'm going to be there in the morning can somebody be waiting for me?'"
San Francisco operates a relocation program that sends unhoused residents back to their home communities, originally called Homeward Bound and later Journey Home. Over the past three years the program averaged about 37 client relocations per month. Glide Memorial recently assumed operation and is expanding services to 24 hours daily starting late February, staffing nine case managers to respond immediately to late-night calls or provide early-morning coordination. The service aims to reduce street homelessness by offering travel assistance and reassurance. Individual outcomes vary; some participants are eager to reunite with family but express uncertainty about long-term stability.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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