San Francisco is one of the most beautiful, cultural cities in the world, but it also has an ugly underbelly — homelessness.
There are 6,514 homeless people living in The City, according to the latest count in January, though advocates say the number is much higher — and growing.
Roughly 33 percent are chronically homeless. About half live on the streets or in vehicles and the rest are in shelters or transitional housing.
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That old saw, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” may have first been uttered by a budgeteer because it certainly takes persistence to make budget cuts stick. President Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has tried to prove wrong former President Ronald Reagan’s observation that a government program is the closest thing we get to eternal life on Earth.
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