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In San Francisco’s Castro, a tiny homeless program with massive promise
As San Francisco grapples with a crisis on its streets, a new small-scale initiative has shown impressive results. Can it be expanded?
February 22, 2023
Gabrielle Lurie/The Chronicle
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Over the past five months, a pilot initiative in San Francisco has showered Castro’s most needy homeless residents with services, support and “street magic.”
Reporter Kevin Fagan joins Fifth & Mission host Cecilia Lei to share the amazing success of the program — and why it will be so difficult to expand city-wide.
Photo above: Desean Dixon, who has been homeless for over a decade, has received services under the new intensive care program at the Castro.
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