Bussing the Homeless
I’ve heard the story before, but I never saw anything that indicated it was anything more than an urban legend. But a discussion underway at www.tulsanow.org included a link to the following story at the San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco welfare officials struck an agreement Friday with their counterparts in Humboldt County to reassure them that the city isn’t dumping homeless people in the woodsy, far-northern county — resolving a spat that kicked up this week after Humboldt learned San Francisco had sent 13 homeless people there on one-way bus tickets over the past year.
From now on, the city will inform Humboldt whenever it sends homeless people over its borders through the Homeward Bound program, in which city counselors and police outreach workers give street people one-way tickets home as long as there are family or friends willing to help them on the other end, San Francisco officials said.
Humboldt officials, after reading of the program in The Chronicle, had asked the city last month to tell them how many homeless people were sent to their borders — and then hit the roof after learning this week that the number was 13.
It was the first serious criticism of the bus program since it was created one year ago. On Thursday, city Human Services Director Trent Rhorer got a letter from the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors complaining that the city is sticking the Humboldt area with its problems and dubbing Homeward Bound warmed-over “Greyhound Therapy.”
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