The back seat of a Greyhound bus
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Since SF's Mayor London Breed launched a plan in August to bus more homeless people out of San Francisco, many unhoused are taking cross-country overnights to states as far away as Texas and Florida. SF Standard, as always, is on the story.
Of the homeless people who have been relocated under the Journey Home program since Aug. 1, 13 were moved to other cities in California; the rest were moved to Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas.
Officials are not releasing the names of all the cities people were bused to, due to privacy reasons. The remainder of the 55 relocated since Aug.1 used another service that doesn’t have public data showing where they were sent.
In total, the Journey Home program has relocated 111 people since it launched in September 2023. A similar program called Relocation Assistance, or Homeward Bound, has relocated over 13,000 homeless people since 2005 and now operates as part of Journey Home.
Among those relocated within California since Journey Home’s inception, seven people were sent to Sacramento, seven to Los Angeles, six to San Joaquin, and six to Humboldt.
Advocates for homeless people have argued that Breed’s bus ticket plan is a political ploy that isn’t new or effective.
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