The Escapade

San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on anti-homelessness initiatives but it has only managed to keep the number of homeless people from growing further. San Francisco has a mental health problem and there are 7500 people most with some degree of mental illness wandering the streets. A Decade Of Homelessness Thousands In S F Remain In Crisis San Francisco Chronicle San Franciscos homeless problem has become so grim that tourists wonder if theyve just wandered into a seedy neighborhood. San francisco homeless problem . People have long known that San Francisco has a homelessness problem but Nigusse Bland discovered a population-within-a-populationthe so-called perilous trifecta. Total population California accounts for between 25 percent and 30 percent of all. Its a byproduct of the citys large homeless population almost 1 percent of the citizenry is homeless. San Francisco has gone beyond having its everyday poop-in-the-streets problem and rampant dr