In the past month, city workers have cleared out 167 camps in Golden Gate Park and have provided services as small as hot showers and as big as housing to 164 homeless people, Newsom administration officials say.And it's not just homeless people receiving services - 30 dogs living in the park have been moved into housing, too.
Every day for a month, a team of police officers, city officials, health workers and members of the city's Homeless Outreach Team has visited the park at 4 a.m., looking for camps and rousting homeless people living in them. City officials say that while it's a seemingly endless task - more homeless people move in just as old camps are cleared out - they are making progress.
"Everything we're doing in Golden Gate Park is about connecting homeless people with the services that they need to get back on their feet," Mayor Gavin Newsom's press secretary, Nathan Ballard, said Tuesday. "That's how we measure success."
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