San Francisco officials estimate as many as 20,000 people will experience homelessness at some point in the year 2022 — and for every one person housed by a city program, four more will become unhoused.

Those figures contained in a report released Thursday reflect the Sisyphean nature of battling one of the city’s worst crises in some of the strongest terms ever. As dire as those numbers are, though, the report also shows the most significant headway in 17 years in reducing overall homelessness in San Francisco.

The new data is contained in the city’s full Point-in-Time Count, which fleshes out details hinted at in a much briefer summation released in May, when officials announced San Francisco saw a 3.5% drop in homelessness over three years, going from 8,035 to 7,754. That number reflects a snapshot in time — one night — versus the 20,000 people over the course of a year.

The count, normally taken every two years to qualify for federal funding, was conducted in one night in February. The last tally was done in 2019, but the city skipped a year because of the pandemic.

“There’s been some good progress made, but the fact of the matter is that people are falling into homelessness faster than we can house them,” said Tomiquia Moss, founder and CEO of regional housing advocacy group All Home. “We know how to house people, but we have too little of what we need.”

The 20,000 and 1-to-4 numbers — presented as educated estimates, not hard-and-fast figures — are contained in the 70-page report’s forward. According to city officials, they’re based on crunching a variety of figures including those from the city’s homeless information tracking system, the Department of Public Health and a formula used for many years by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nonprofit that studies poverty and promotes housing with services for homeless people.

City public health and homelessness officials have informally been using estimates ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 for many years, but this is the first time one has been placed in such a prominent report.

The 1-to-4 figure is also slightly higher than the 1-to-3 figure commonly used by nonprofits in the region, including Moss’.

“We have included this in the foreward of our report because we think it’s incredibly helpful for understanding the local context of homelessness, not just on Feb. 23, but from what our community experiences over the year,” said Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s an estimate for sure, more art than science.”

She added that the 1-to-4 figure doesn’t mean an immovable stream of homeless people will pour into the streets. Many newcomers in any given year are only unhoused for a brief period and either leave or find their own housing again.

For instance, she said, “this past fiscal year, 2,057 people exited homelessness through an HSH solution like rental assistance or supportive housing, which means about 8,000 others became newly homeless in the same period. The reason we don’t have tens of thousands of homeless people on any given night is that many of those people resolved their homelessness by themselves or with the help of others.

“Remember, this is an estimate.”

Also worrisome was the Point-in-Time count’s revelation — in supplemental figures released to the press — that the number of Latino people living in shelters or on the street has shot up 55% in the past three years from 1,524 to 2,357, reflecting what observers say is the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on lower-income people of color, many of whom lost service jobs during lockdown. Latinos are now a full 30% of the homeless population, compared with being 16% of the general population, according to the report set to be sent out Thursday.

Black people make up 38% of the homeless count compared with being 6% of the general population , a number that has been fairly consistent for many years.

Laura Valdez, director of Dolores Street Community Services, which runs the only Latino-specific shelters in the city, said the coronavirus definitely wreaked havoc on the Latino population, but the disparity predates that. Several factors might have contributed to a more accurate accounting this year, she and others said, including that this year’s count teams included more on-the-ground homeless-aid workers and COVID made it harder for people to move around.

“Our analysis is that the Latinx community has always been undercounted, and we finally have data reflecting the seriousness in the community,” she said. “Black and Latinx people are going to be overrepresented in the numbers of homelessness because of poverty, systemic racism, the historic marginalization of our communities, redlining, lack of affordable housing, gentrification.”

She added that income inequality got worse during the pandemic because of job loss and lack of affordable housing.

“But I do think people are getting reconnected to the human suffering caused by this housing crisis. Everyone in the Mission, everyone in San Francisco — it’s come to the point where you can no longer obscure the magnitude of the vast number of people impacted by homelessness,” she added.

Reflecting the worsening addiction crisis in the streets, particularly with fentanyl, the percentage of homeless people with drug or alcohol problems came in at 52%, up from 42% in 2019.

On the plus side, in addition to the overall homeless count dipping, the number of unsheltered people — those living in tents, vehicles or on the street — dropped 15% compared with 2019, landing at 4,397. People living in vehicles accounted for 24% of the unsheltered count in 2022, a drop from 35% in 2019.

The last time there was such a significant drop in the unsheltered figures was 2005, when the overall count plummeted 28% to 6,248 from 8,640 in 2002, and the unsheltered figure dropped 41% to 2,655.

There’s a parallel between the two dips. In 2005, the city had housed thousands of people through new initiatives, including the Care Not Cash program that swapped welfare checks for housing. And since 2019, the city has devoted millions of dollars in new initiatives that include sheltering people in hotels, safe parking and tent sites, and creating new supportive housing.

The city also found fewer chronically homeless people this year. The federal government defines chronic homelessness as someone who is homeless for more than a year or has four episodes of homelessness adding up to a year over three years, and also has a disabling condition. There were 2,691 chronically homeless people in 2022, an 11% drop since 2019.

The percentage of people who were living in San Francisco when they lost their housing stayed about the same as it has been for many years: 71%.

Officials and experts agree the biannual tally is an undercount that doesn’t track people couch-surfing with friends and family or who are institutionalized. Separately, the city also counts people who are homeless in jails, hospitals and residential treatment facilities. That number dropped 30%, from 1,773 in 2019 to 1,238 in 2022.

The city’s progress on housing and shelter are perhaps most notably reflected in the steep decline of homeless people in San Francisco’s District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point, an area with significant pockets of poverty. The overall numbers there fell 39% from 1,841 to 1,115, and the unsheltered number fell 55% to 687.

Officials attributed the drop to the creation of three navigation center shelters in the district since 2016 — one of which opened during the pandemic — and stepped-up outreach efforts.

“I’m so excited that the numbers are down, and I can see it here,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, executive director of Mother Brown’s, the main homeless services nonprofit in the Bayview. “Some of that is that a lot of the old-timers here found housing units or shelter somewhere. The emergency housing vouchers from the pandemic also helped a lot.”

But Westbrook isn’t sure if the progress is sustainable.

“What I want to know is — is this permanent, or temporary from the things they’ve done during the pandemic, like the hotels they put everyone in? We’ll see.”

Kevin Fagan and Mallory Moench are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com, mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron, @mallorymoench

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — With two kids attending school from home, Simonia Clifton saw her energy bill skyrocket during the pandemic.

Clifton said her bill was “Between $75 and $100 more than usual and that just kind of made it difficult to budget, especially having lost my job from COVID and being on unemployment at the same time.”

She began cutting back elsewhere in order to cover her family’s growing energy costs, including on running heat.

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Clifton isn’t alone, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey from last July through this August, which measures the pandemic’s social and economic impact.

The ABC7 News data team analyzed the survey’s findings for San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley and found that one-fifth of households reduced or forwent basic necessities, such as food or medicine, to pay an energy bill.

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These struggles didn’t fall equally on all residents. Race and ethnicity, education level, income, and households with children all played a factor in higher percentages.

Forty-seven percent of those who identified as Hispanic or Latino reduced or forwent basic necessities, such as food or medicine, to pay an energy bill. Thirty-seven percent of individuals surveyed who identified as Black also forwent basic necessities to pay an energy bill. More than half of those who have less than a high school education faced the same circumstances, along with almost a third of households with children under 18.

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Dennis Osmer, the executive director of the Central Coast and San Francisco Peninsula Energy Services, said the situation could become worse with the moratorium on power shutoffs ending.

“I think it adds numbers to those numbers, this is a lot worse in its effect,” he said.

Help exists. Arthur Higgins receives assistance from the low income home energy assistance program.

“The program made all of the difference in the world. It kept the power on. They made my house more energy efficient,” Higgins said.

Households with a member who lost employment income in the previous month were more than three times as likely to be unable to pay their energy bills as those without income loss.

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Gabriela Sandoval, the director of Race & Equity Policy with The Utility Reform Network (TURN) said, “We went into the pandemic with customers owing in California about $500 million and we know that right now the big four utility company customers owe about $2 billion .”

The big four includes PG&E customers here in the Bay Area, making up approximately $900 million of that debt, according to Sandoval.

By email, a PG&E Spokesperson told ABC7 News customers who are having difficulty paying their bills can be put on a payment plan or possibly qualify for the CARE program which offers a monthly discount of 20% or more on gas and electricity. The Family Electric Rate Assistance Program offers a monthly discount of 18% on electricity only.

“It’s stunning to look at how these costs have increased and the impact on the people who can least afford it is really heartbreaking,” Osmer said.

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Many myths swirl around about San Francisco: Is it a haven for the tech elite or a last bastion for counterculture aesthetics? Is the pandemic driving rent and mortgage prices down, or is a cheap flat and homeownership still a pipe dream? Is everyone working from home or are commuters hopping back on MUNI again?

New numbers from the Census Bureau data might just help clarify some of these conflicting visions of San Francisco.

The Census Bureau released the 2021 data from the American Community Survey (ACS) today, which show local estimates on a wide range of topics—from racial demographics to commuter trends and student enrollment. The ACS data only covers the period from January to December 2021, but it does provide a comprehensive overview of San Francisco’s characteristics during that time.

Comparing 2021 ACS data and more recent stats from other sources, it is possible to prove—and disprove—some of the biggest “truths” and “lies” about San Francisco.

Truth #1: Lots of people moved out of San Francisco

The common pandemic-era refrain about San Francisco has been that it lost a significant portion of its population in 2020 and 2021.

ACS data already proved that point.

Earlier this year, the Census Bureau released preliminary estimates showing San Francisco’s population dropped from over 880,000 to approximately 815,000 between 2019 and 2021, sharpening a population decline that had already started before the pandemic.

New statistics reinforce the image of an empty city: the total number of households decreased by about 15,000 in this period, dropping to approximately 350,000 in 2021. And the percentage of San Franciscans in the labor force declined from about 72% in 2019 to 68% in 2021.

Truth #2: SF is an aging city

Another pre-release of ACS data showed that most of the people who moved out of SF were young adults. In fact, two-thirds of those who moved away in 2021 were between 20 and 34 years old.

The logical consequence? The older folks remain and aging the city’s population. ACS data show the share of adults aged 65 to 74 years grew from 8.5% in 2017 to 10% in 2021. All age ranges above 55 years experienced modest growth, too, indicating that even as younger populations remained more transitory, older folks stayed put in the city.

This statistic reinforces what the San Francisco Human Services Agency says: the population of older adults is the fastest growing age group in San Francisco.

Truth #3: A ton of San Franciscans now work from home

Yes, the ACS data proved San Francisco was the capital of the country’s work-from-home region in 2021.

The number of people mainly working from home tripled between 2019 and 2021 in the United States. But for San Francisco, the number of people primarily working from home increased by nearly seven times in the same time period, going from 7% in 2019 to 46% in 2021.

Compared to the rest of the Bay Area, SF also led the pack: over 200,000 people worked from home in SF, while Oakland and Berkeley reported about 73,000 and 27,000 at-home workers respectively.

But a 46% share of people working at home leaves another 54% not working from home. In more recent months, return-to-office data shows people are embracing hybrid work schedules and dusting off their desks in SF’s brick-and-mortar offices. Read more analysis of the ACS data on work-from-home here.

Truth #4: Use of public transit took a dive

The total number of people commuting to work decreased by nearly 100,000 people in San Francisco, and only 11% of San Franciscans used public transportation to commute to work in 2021, compared to 36% in 2019.

Though recent data suggests that the city’s residents are starting to trickle back onto public transport with more people riding BART, its ridership remains stuck below 40% of pre-pandemic levels.

Given the ACS data show San Franciscans have more cars per person than ever before, it might make sense that monthly traffic volume on the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge has nearly returned to pre-pandemic levels. Maybe commuters are returning to the office driving new Subarus and Teslas instead of catching BART or MUNI.

Lie #1: The pandemic caused a baby boom

nope The ACS findings show the Big 2020 Baby Bust hit SF—hard.

As stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines stretched on for months, many (cheekily) predicted a baby boom in 2021. What else were young couples supposed to do with all that free time?

But the ACS data reinforces what many economists expected would happen: that the pandemic actually prevented baby births, largely due to economic constraints and the uncertainty of the period.

The number of San Franciscans between 15 and 50 years who gave birth in 2021 dropped significantly from previous years: an estimated 8,600 individuals gave birth in 2019, compared to only 6,800 in 2021. The fertility rate per 1,000 women also declined in SF, going from 40 in 2017 to 33 in 2021, according to the ACS.

When compared to the rest of California, the Bay Area experienced a slightly larger baby bust. The Bay Area saw an 18% decline in births in early 2021, right when early pandemic babies might have been due, compared to a 15% decline in California.

A group of children play at Helen Diller Playground located in Dolores Park in San Francisco Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. | Benjamin Fanjoy for The Standard

The city’s decline in young adults aged 20-34 might just represent one of the factors driving the baby bust. And a declining birth rate impacts schools: ACS data shows nursery school and preschool enrollment dipped significantly which will worsen SF Unified School District’s enrollment decline.

Lie #2: Only the wealthy saw a change in their share of the SF population

Previous analyzes show wealthy San Franciscans did leave the city more than any other group: the percent share of people earning more than $200,000 per year dropped to 31% in 2021, down from 33% in 2019. As they left, they took $7 billion in adjusted gross income with them, according to IRS tax return data.

But the most dramatic change in population share came from the low-income grouping of San Francisco residents, which expanded during the pandemic.

ACS data released today show the number of households with incomes under $10,000 per year increased by 2 percentage points, growing from 3.8% in 2019 to 5.8% in 2021. The number of city residents relying on food stamps or SNAP benefits also ballooned during the pandemic : nearly 12% of San Franciscans had Food Stamp/SNAP benefits in 2021, compared to 5.5% just two years prior.

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The new data show San Francisco has earned its reputation as the “poster child” for income inequality—a statistic that has only worsened across the United States, with national income inequality rising 1.2% between 2020 and 2021.

Lie #3: SF’s middle class shrank during the pandemic

Many say that the city has a “missing middle” problem, in part due to a city housing market that excludes many middle-class families from home ownership and drives away many of the same individuals with high rent prices.

ACS economic data shows that the middle class in San Francisco was one of the few income groups that did not experience a significant increase or decrease in population share.

Lie #4: San Francisco is now a cheaper place to live

During the pandemic, the tight housing market loosened and rents even came down a touch.

Unfortunately, ACS housing data show that both high rent and expensive mortgages remain the norm in SF. In 2021, the median rent in San Francisco was higher than many other California counties, clocking in at $2,167. California, on the other hand, reported an average median rent of $1,750.

When considering rent as a share of income, many San Franciscans devote a significant chunk of their income to their apartments and homes. Of the occupied units paying rent in 2021, 34% of renters paid more than 35% of their income on rent.

Housing values ​​in San Francisco far outstrip other counties, too, with nearly three-fourths of all SF housing units worth $1 million or more. The housing cost distribution does not get much better when looking at lower-priced units: nearly 20% of homes are still worth more than $500,000 in SF.

Outside of housing, the city’s high prices and living costs secured San Francisco’s spot as the most expensive place to live in 2020—a title the city won for the sixth year in a row, as average prices for goods and services were more than 17% higher than the national average.

So if the cost of living was ever a bit less during the pandemic in San Francisco, those days are now long gone.

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San Francisco officials estimate as many as 20,000 people will experience homelessness at some point in the year 2022 — and for every one person housed by a city program, four more will become unhoused.

Those figures contained in a report set to be released Thursday reflect the Sisyphean nature of battling one of the city’s worst crises in some of the strongest terms ever. As dire as those numbers are, though, the report also shows the most significant headway in 17 years in reducing overall homelessness in San Francisco.

The new data is contained in the city’s full Point-in-Time Count, which fleshes out details hinted at in a much briefer summation released in May, when officials announced San Francisco saw a 3.5% drop in homelessness over three years, going from 8,035 to 7,754. That number reflects a snapshot in time — one night — versus the 20,000 people over the course of a year.

The count, normally taken every two years to qualify for federal funding, was conducted in one night in February. The last tally was done in 2019, but the city skipped a year because of the pandemic.

“There’s been some good progress made, but the fact of the matter is that people are falling into homelessness faster than we can house them,” said Tomiquia Moss, founder and CEO of regional housing advocacy group All Home. “We know how to house people, but we have too little of what we need.”

The 20,000 and 1-to-4 numbers — presented as educated estimates, not hard-and-fast figures — are contained in the 70-page report’s forward. According to city officials, they’re based on crunching a variety of figures including those from the city’s homeless information tracking system, the Department of Public Health and a formula used for many years by the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a nonprofit that studies poverty and promotes housing with services for homeless people.

City public health and homelessness officials have informally been using estimates ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 for many years, but this is the first time one has been placed in such a prominent report.

The 1-to-4 figure is also slightly higher than the 1-to-3 figure commonly used by nonprofits in the region, including Moss’.

“We have included this in the forward of our report because we think it’s incredibly helpful for understanding the local context of homelessness, not just on Feb. 23, but from what our community experiences over the year,” said Emily Cohen, a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. “It’s an estimate for sure, more art than science.”

She added that the 1-to-4 figure doesn’t mean an immovable stream of homeless people will pour into the streets. Many newcomers in any given year are only unhoused for a brief period and either leave or find their own housing again.

For instance, she said, “this past fiscal year, 2,057 people exited homelessness through an HSH solution like rental assistance or supportive housing, which means about 8,000 others became newly homeless in the same period. The reason we don’t have tens of thousands of homeless people on any given night is that many of those people resolved their homelessness by themselves or with the help of others.

“Remember, this is an estimate.”

Also worrisome was the Point-in-Time count’s revelation — in supplemental figures released to the press — that the number of Latino people living in shelters or on the street has shot up 55% in the past three years from 1,524 to 2,357, reflecting what observers say is the disproportionate effect of the pandemic on lower-income people of color, many of whom lost service jobs during lockdown. Latinos are now a full 30% of the homeless population, compared with being 16% of the general population, according to the report set to be sent out Thursday.

Black people make up 38% of the homeless count compared with being 6% of the general population , a number that has been fairly consistent for many years.

Laura Valdez, director of Dolores Street Community Services, which runs the only Latino-specific shelters in the city, said the coronavirus definitely wreaked havoc on the Latino population, but the disparity predates that. Several factors might have contributed to a more accurate accounting this year, she and others said, including that this year’s count teams included more on-the-ground homeless-aid workers and COVID made it harder for people to move around.

“Our analysis is that the Latinx community has always been undercounted, and we finally have data reflecting the seriousness in the community,” she said. “Black and Latinx people are going to be overrepresented in the numbers of homelessness because of poverty, systemic racism, the historic marginalization of our communities, redlining, lack of affordable housing, gentrification.”

She added that income inequality got worse during the pandemic because of job loss and lack of affordable housing.

“But I do think people are getting reconnected to the human suffering caused by this housing crisis. Everyone in the Mission, everyone in San Francisco — it’s come to the point where you can no longer obscure the magnitude of the vast number of people impacted by homelessness,” she added.

Reflecting the worsening addiction crisis in the streets, particularly with fentanyl, the percentage of homeless people with drug or alcohol problems came in at 52%, up from 42% in 2019.

On the plus side, in addition to the overall homeless count dipping, the number of unsheltered people — those living in tents, vehicles or on the street — dropped 15% compared with 2019, landing at 4,397. People living in vehicles accounted for 24% of the unsheltered count in 2022, a drop from 35% in 2019.

The last time there was such a significant drop in the unsheltered figures was 2005, when the overall count plummeted 28% to 6,248 from 8,640 in 2002, and the unsheltered figure dropped 41% to 2,655.

There’s a parallel between the two dips. In 2005, the city had housed thousands of people through new initiatives, including the Care Not Cash program that swapped welfare checks for housing. And since 2019, the city has devoted millions of dollars in new initiatives that include sheltering people in hotels, safe parking and tent sites, and creating new supportive housing.

The city also found fewer chronically homeless people this year. The federal government defines chronic homelessness as someone who is homeless for more than a year or has four episodes of homelessness adding up to a year over three years, and also has a disabling condition. There were 2,691 chronically homeless people in 2022, an 11% drop since 2019.

The percentage of people who were living in San Francisco when they lost their housing stayed about the same as it has been for many years: 71%.

Officials and experts agree the biannual tally is an undercount that doesn’t track people couch-surfing with friends and family or who are institutionalized. Separately, the city also counts people who are homeless in jails, hospitals and residential treatment facilities. That number dropped 30%, from 1,773 in 2019 to 1,238 in 2022.

The city’s progress on housing and shelter are perhaps most notably reflected in the steep decline of homeless people in San Francisco’s District 10, which includes Bayview-Hunters Point, an area with significant pockets of poverty. The overall numbers there fell 39% from 1,841 to 1,115, and the unsheltered number fell 55% to 687.

Officials attributed the drop to the creation of three navigation center shelters in the district since 2016 — one of which opened during the pandemic — and stepped-up outreach efforts.

“I’m so excited that the numbers are down, and I can see it here,” said Gwendolyn Westbrook, executive director of Mother Brown’s, the main homeless services nonprofit in the Bayview. “Some of that is that a lot of the old-timers here found housing units or shelter somewhere. The emergency housing vouchers from the pandemic also helped a lot.”

But Westbrook isn’t sure if the progress is sustainable.

“What I want to know is — is this permanent, or temporary from the things they’ve done during the pandemic, like the hotels they put everyone in? We’ll see.”

Kevin Fagan and Mallory Moench are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: kfagan@sfchronicle.com, mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @KevinChron, @mallorymoench

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Despite expert predictions that local homelessness rates have soared due to the pandemic, new data released Monday showed that San Francisco’s unhoused population has fallen 3.5% since 2019, the first such decline the city has reported in years.

The data shows the total number of unhoused residents in San Francisco at 7,754, down from the 8,035 homeless people counted in 2019 when the city saw a 17% spike. The number of unsheltered people in tents and cars dropped 15%.

The data from San Francisco’s point-in-time count, which was conducted during one night in February, is preliminary, pending a more robust analysis to be released in July. But the early findings show a clear reduction in the city’s total homeless population and more homeless people living in shelters rather than on the street or in a vehicle than in 2019.

San Francisco was one of only two counties in the region — along with Sonoma — that saw a dip in its homeless population, though not all counties reported data Monday. Contra Costa saw a 35% jump while Alameda had a 22% uptick. Marin’s unhoused population increased 8%, and Santa Clara’s grew 3%. The number of people who are homeless in Oakland soared 24%.

Even though the numbers reflect a decline in San Francisco’s unhoused population, homelessness remains a highly visible and acute issue in the city, particularly in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, where Mayor London Breed recently declared a three-month state of emergency due to a crisis of overdoses, street crime, open drug dealing and tents.

Breed and other San Francisco leaders, facing intense public pressure to make visible improvements to the city’s streets, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to open new permanent supportive housing units and other resources intended to help people living on the streets move into stable homes.

Experts have long said the point-in-time count does not fully capture the extent of homelessness overall, but it uses consistent methodology that helps local leaders gauge trends in the unhoused population, even if they are undercounted.

Regardless of the official numbers, many San Francisco residents have complained that homelessness appears to be soaring, citing new tents and RVs in their residential neighborhoods during the pandemic, and leaned on officials to respond.

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“We have a lot of work to do, but this shows that we’re moving in the right direction,” Breed said in a news release. “The investments we have made and will continue to make, as well as our improvements in strategy around outreach and connecting people to resources are all working together to help get more people off the street.”

Thousands more will be housed over the next year, high hundreds of people will receive treatment and thousands stabilized in shelter. The promise of Prop C is only just starting to be realized! Fantastic things to come for unhoused San Franciscans!

— Jennifer Friedenbach (@fbach4) May 16, 2022

Breed and other San Francisco officials hailed the latest count as a sign of progress in their efforts to address homelessness.

“Our investments in shelter and housing are showing wonderful results and improvements in the lives of people who have experienced homelessness,” said Shireen McSpadden, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

McSpadden was speaking in the Panoramic building at Mission and Ninth streets, a 160-unit former student housing complex that the city bought to convert into housing for people experiencing homelessness.

In addition to helping thousands of people find housing in recent years, Breed said since 2019 the city has also prevented about 1,800 people from becoming homeless in the first place by paying back rent and providing move-in assistance.

“This is the work that we’re doing in San Francisco that needs to be elevated,” Breed said.

Experts have said that getting an estimate of the number of homeless people in San Francisco is essential for getting those residents housing and support. The point-in-time count is conducted across the country every two years but was delayed due to the pandemic. Both the initial results released in May and a full and final report — set for release in July — are sent to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, which requires the count to determine funding allocation.

The count helps determine how much federal, state and local money is directed to the homelessness crisis.

February’s count was completed using federal guidelines that exclude certain categories of people — such as individuals in hospitals or jails — that San Francisco officials count. But the city tracks those numbers separately and will release them this summer.

When you see Point in Time Count numbers please remember: There is a shortage of 7 million affordable & available homes for renters with the lowest incomes. Find out more. #TheGap22 https://t.co/6BLQOx4FeW

— Sam Dodge (@samueldodge) May 14, 2022

The data also showed the number of homeless families dropped by 1%, unaccompanied homeless youth fell by 6% and the chronically homeless population decreased by 11%. The number of homeless veterans stayed about the same at about 610, but they were more likely to be sheltered this year than in 2019.

San Francisco officials attributed a 15% overall drop in the unsheltered homeless population to a “significant increase in housing and shelter resources,” including a 24% increase in available shelter beds over the past three years. Shelters such as transitional housing, shelter-in-place hotels, navigation centers, stabilization units and emergency shelters have 18% more homeless residents in them than they did three years ago, according to the findings.

Homekey, a state funding program launched in 2020, allows cities to purchase hotels and motels and convert them into permanent homeless housing and has awarded the city more than $100 million since 2020.

After the pandemic began, San Francisco temporarily moved about 3,800 people into shelter-in-place hotel rooms to try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading through group shelters. Breed’s administration is also expanding the supply of permanent supportive housing, with about 1,500 new units opened since summer 2020 and another 1,000 more under contract.

But the city has at the same time failed to properly maintain much of the existing single-room occupancy hotels it has long relied on to house formerly homeless people. After a recent Chronicle investigation documented squalid conditions in many of the aging residential hotels, San Francisco leaders revived discussion of a possible ballot measure to provide better overview of the city homeless department.

The city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing considers the one-night count the “primary source of nationwide data on homelessness,” and experts hold it up as the best data to help determine and analyze trends.

But the count is imperfect, experts have said. It relies on data from a single night of counting and misses people who are staying with friends or family or in hotels. It also does not account for people who are marginally housed or at risk of becoming homeless.

Still, officials cheered on the reduction in the overall numbers. The last time the number of homeless people in San Francisco dropped was in 2015’s point-in-time count.

Andy Picon (he/him) and JD Morris are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: andy.picon@hearst.com jd.morris@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @andpicon @thejdmorris

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A lot has been written about the so-called “Bay Area exodus” during the pandemic — the floods of people who fled the region’s high prices and frenzied lifestyle for places like Bozeman, Montana, and Austin, Texas, for an easier, more affordable life.

The latest data from the US Census Bureau shows that people did indeed leave the San Francisco Bay Area counties during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metro area saw the third-highest number of residents in the country packing up and moving between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021, with a net migration loss of 128,870 people. By comparison, New York-Newark-Jersey City recorded a net migration loss of 385,455, and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim saw 204,776 people leave.

Where did the people in the San Francisco metro area go? The census didn’t specify where people moved from a certain area, but we can assume some of those people may have gone to Texas, Arizona or Florida. The data shows that Texas had “four of the top 10 largest-gaining metro areas.” Of the metro areas, the largest net domestic migration gains were Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler (66,850), Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (54,319), and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater (42,089), the US Census said in a news release.

On a more granular level, San Francisco saw the sixth-highest numeric decline among counties across the country, with its population shrinking from 873,965 in April 2020 to 815,201 in July 2021, marking a 6.7% decline. Numeric decline is “the difference between the population of an area at the beginning and end of a time period,” the US Census said, and it takes into account births and deaths and people moving into and out of an area.

Santa Clara County saw the seventh highest numeric decline with the population dropping by 50,751 residents, and Alameda County the ninth highest with a 33,797 person drop.

Many Bay Area-based companies made it easy for people to pack up and move, allowing employees to relocate and work remotely. Google said last month that more than 14,000 of its workers transferred to a new location or went fully remote during the pandemic, with 85% of applications approved. Google didn’t specify the number of Bay Area employees that left the area, but the company is based in Mountain View with offices all around the region.

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GILROY (KPIX) — Big tech may be making a huge mark on southern Santa Clara County.

The City of Gilroy is soliciting bids in order to determine the environmental impact of Amazon’s Gilroy Data Center, or GDC, one of two major projects the tech giant is pushing forward in the South Bay.

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“Gilroy has put out a request to get consultants outside of the city to come in and assist us with fully understanding what the benefits of such a project might be, as well as some as what the drawbacks might be, and what opportunities we have as a city to try to mitigate some of those negative impacts,” said Gilroy Vice Mayor Peter Leroe-Munoz.

Leroe-Munoz, who is also General Counsel and Senior Vice President at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, said the city has been working behind the scenes for years to attract tech companies into the city, but added city leaders would not be “rubber stamping” projects.

“We certainly want to be very thoughtful, as we are with every applicant that comes to our city. We have a lot of resources that we offer here. We have a very diverse, young and growing workforce. So there are benefits that we offer to innovation industries that want to locate here in Gilroy. And we certainly want to work with them, but we want to make sure it’s a good fit for both partners,” said Leroe-Munoz.

The GDC would sit atop a 66-acre parcel behind the Gilroy Unified School District, along the eastern side of Highway 101.

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The details are still being worked out, but the data center would likely consist of several buildings totaling around 500,000 square feet, to “reliably meet the increased demand of the digital economy,” the company said in a statement.

Less than a mile south, Amazon is also moving forward with plans to build a large distribution center and warehouse, dubbed “Project Garlic,” on a 60-acre parcel located at the northeast corner of Camino Arroyo and Highway 152. The company is also working out plans that would total 400,000 square feet, along with a six-acre commercial development.

Less than a mile south of Project Garlic is yet another project from another tech giant. In 2019, Google purchased a 40-acre rectangular plot to build a nursery in order to grow their own trees for the company’s real estate developments.

“I think Gilroy has had a moment for quite some time. I think it’s time that Silicon Valley finally recognized that the southernmost city in Silicon Valley is certainly open for business and has so much to offer,” said Leroe-Munoz.

The vice-mayor assured citizens that the city would not abandon its agricultural roots.

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“We recognize that history. We recognize its importance to our local economy and it is something that we are going to protect, in addition to bringing a diversity of jobs and economic opportunities to our communities,” said Leroe-Munoz.

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There were eight anti-AAPI hate crimes reported to the San Francisco police in 2019 and nine in 2020. In 2021, there were 60. These numbers are considered preliminary until the California Department of Justice makes its final determination on hate-crime statistics throughout the state, police said.

San Francisco’s police chief, Bill Scott, said at a Tuesday news conference that one man was believed to be responsible for half of the incidents reported last year. Scott said the man who was not named, was arrested in August and could face enhanced hate-crime charges.

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“We will do everything we can to make those arrests, to hold perpetrators accountable,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) said Tuesday. “I’m angry about the violence that has continued to impact many of the people who are part of our Asian community but especially our seniors,” she added.

The United States is no stranger to anti-Asian racism. As early as 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act banned Chinese immigration for 10 years. (Monica Rodman, Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post)

Reports of anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than any other category of hate crime last year, according to the preliminary police report. The city recorded a slight decrease in reports of hate crimes against Arabs or Muslims and Latinos. Anti-Jewish hate crimes were up, from five to eight reports in 2021.

At the news conference, Scott said law enforcement would be present at public celebrations of Lunar New Year, which officially begin next week and will include the yearly parade the city is known for. “If anybody thinks that San Francisco is an easy place to come in and terrorize our Asian communities, you are sadly mistaken — and you will be held accountable,” Scott said.

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The jump in hate-crime reports comes against the backdrop of a rise in anti-Asian hate across the United States that some experts say is fueled in part by the coronavirus pandemic.

In a survey conducted in April 2021 by the Pew Research Center, 81 percent of Asian American adults said violence against them is increasing. Nearly half said they experienced at least one of five types of situations — ranging from feeling like someone was about to attack them to being blamed for the pandemic or being the subject of a racial slur — since the start of the pandemic. Only 32 percent reported that someone expressed support for them in that same period.

California is home to four of the five cities with the largest share of Asian Americans in the United States. In San Francisco, a spate of attacks against the elderly in the streets of Chinatown, many caught on camera, fueled fear and put pressure on city officials to do more to prevent them.

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