As San Francisco's Homeless Population In City-Provided Housing Grows, Few Flow Out

CBS Bay Area

April 7, 2025

San Francisco is certainly not the only city struggling to find answers for homelessness, but the scale and visibility of the problem has now been a source of infamy for decades. Recently, there's been a new focus on how the city's ever-increasing efforts to address homelessness, simply have not kept pace with the challenge.

"And so it's natural for people to go, 'What are we spending all this money on, how is this getting any better?" said Sharky Laguana, the chief data officer for the city's Homeless Oversight Commission.

Laguana has been working to better understand why more people placed in housing—and more spending—hasn't translated into more success. To explain that, he wants people to think of the system a bit like people flowing through a pipe.

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