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Friday 22 May 2020

'It's barely a Band-Aid': life inside San Francisco's first sanctioned tent camp

Residents have access to meals, electricity to charge phones, toilets and healthcare. But for many it’s too little too late

Jasmine Villereal needed a shower, and on the other side of this chain-link fence in the middle of San Francisco there were showers.

It should have been perfect: these showers were for homeless individuals living in tents. Villereal was a homeless individual living in a tent. But while her tent sat crammed on a narrow sidewalk alongside more than a dozen others three blocks north, considered a blight by officials and neighborhood residents, the tents surrounded by this chain-link fence were city-approved.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/36tJMqU

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