Gavin Newsom's controversial 'Care Not Cash' program begins.
San Francisco to offer housing and counseling instead of cash to its 2,500 homeless people.
Homeless people in San Francisco applying to welfare or renewing welfare will see their checks cut down from $410 to as little as $59 and will in return be offered a place to live. "The city hopes to have 939 new permanent rooms available by the end of the year as well as 60 new slots in residential and nonresidential drug-treatment programs. The program has many opponents. "Donna Gates, who lives in a shelter, dressed in a monkey suit to demonstrate that 'homeless people are being used like lab animals in experiments. Care Not Cash is the experiment."
Thanks to Ratna Amin
Published on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 in
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