Homeward Bound gets no respect 3

Rachel Garner

Call it a myth or call it an unexamined assumption that's held mostly by city progressives about the homeless on our streets---that they are in any meaningful sense San Franciscans.

To the extent the myth has any factual basis, it's based on a limited survey of the homeless themselves! Why would a homeless person being interviewed by a city worker, with possible city benefits on the line, say anything else but, yes, I'm a city resident?

My deconstruction of this bullshit here: District 5, Sit-Lie, and the Homeless.

A recent Chronicle editorial recognizes that Homeward Bound is a necessary program:

For starters, every arriving homeless person will be assessed for the Homeward Bound program, which attempts to help reunite people with friends and relatives who can offer shelter and support. As Kositsky noted, sometimes a newly homeless person can return to his or her place of residence with a relatively small amount of rental assistance.

Homeward Bound has bused more than 10,000 of the homeless out of San Francisco since 2005.

See also City attracts homeless for more than one reason/They come for its tolerance, diversity as well as programs.