Published by Fox 2
Advocates are pushing officials in San Francisco to fill the city’s vacant homes with unhoused residents rather than criminalizing homelessness. Community leaders are demanding the city fill the more than 700 vacant homes it controls with unhoused residents.
Julia Arroyo, executive director of the Young Women’s Freedom Center, called San Francisco’s approach inhumane and counterproductive.
“Criminalizing homelessness only exacerbates the problem and fails to address the root causes. These actions are a violation of basic human rights. Sweeps displace individuals without providing any sustainable solutions, leading to further instability, trauma, and often death,” she said.