More than three years and a pandemic after San Francisco created a new organization to coordinate The City's response to homelessness, critics say the promise of the program remains largely unfulfilled.
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Tents may be cleared, but that doesn't mean the people who live in them end up housed.
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The reality, though, is that many San Francisco residents who experience homelessness find themselves in a revolving door between outreach programs and life on the streets.
When the Healthly Streets Operations Center (HSOC) was founded in 2018, it was billed as the best way to remedy some of these challenges.
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When HSOC clears an encampment, they call it "resolved."
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Even those who accepted shelter often returned to the streets eventually.
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Critics of HSOC say these results demonstrate that the initiative fails to address the root causes of extreme poverty and homelessness.Rather, they say it simply makes the homeless population - and the reality of their conditions - less visible to the public.
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