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Nowhere to Go
In May 2020, the University of California Hastings Law School filed suit against the City of San Francisco for the “dangerous and illegal conditions in the Tenderloin Neighborhood,” emphasizing the safety needs of businesses and housed residents.
It was only after reaching a settlement in June the the City began relocating select unhoused people from streets surrounding the law school and into Safe Sleeping Sites and hotels, while still requiring others to move to homeless encampments elsewhere int he city.
In April, I began photographing the crisis within a crisis: The crowded, tented streets of SF followed by the overdue and chaotic resettlement of several hundred homeless individuals in the span of a few weeks. These images provide a glimpse into what transpired.