Ruth Grace Wong
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Effective Altruism and Progress Studies join forces again! Featuring light refreshment and new friends. This will be a casual getting-to-meet each other event, outdoors. Kids are welcome. You're encouraged to bring picnic blankets, drinks, snacks, and desserts. We are meeting at Dolores Park, at the wooden picnic tables facing Dolores Street, on Saturday June 11th, from 2-4pm.
Schedule:
2pm - vegan Chinese food is served
2:30pm - announcements and photo
4pm - event ends (but you're welcome to stay in the park if you'd like)
There was another Point in Time count in 2019, and more recently a preliminary report for the 2022 count was published: https://hsh.sfgov.org/get-involved/2022-pit-count/
Maybe when you say people go from can't afford a home to moving to Boise, you are talking about people who can't afford to buy a home, not people who can't afford to rent a home
It's not true that people move out of the state when they become homeless. Because their friends and family are here, they often stay. 75% of the homeless people in San Francisco are from here. The housing price matters because poor people here are generally only able to stay because of things like rent control, so once they lose their housing (for example through an Ellis eviction or a fire), it's very difficult for them to get housing in the city again. So if they want to live in the city where their support network is, then the only option may be to live unsheltered or in their vehicle.
For those that can... (read more)
I'm interested to see how Prop C changes things. Proposition C was passed in 2018 and taxes companies that made over 50 million dollars a year so that they contributed money into a fund specifically for ending homelessness. Normally the city budget includes money to create a thousand units of housing for homeless exits, whether the city is buying property to convert into permanent supportive housing or putting money into rent subsidies. A year ago the June budget was able to access the prop c money, and the budget included 4,000 units of housing for homeless exits. About 5,000 people a year become homeless in San Francisco. I did a research project... (read more)
There will be a Progress Studies + Effective Altruism meetup in San Francisco on Saturday, Feb 26, 3–5pm. This will be our first in-person meetup in a while! Food will be provided, and kids are welcome. We’re looking for several volunteers to help greet people at the event, as well as two volunteers to make a dozen vegan cookies each (happy to reimburse for ingredients). |
i missed this!! is there gonna be another?
I really enjoyed reading your write-up of your experience. Thanks so much for taking the time and being so thoughtful about it. I'm curious what you think of this article about gradual re-entry of inmates back into civil society. Do you think the system described would be better, both for inmates and also for public safety generally? https://www.vox.com/2015/3/18/8226957/prison-reform-graduated-reentry