Homeless People Descending On San Francisco Airport For Temporary Shelter

A flood of homeless people have been descending on San Francisco International Airport (SFO) for temporary shelter, "especially in the early morning hours after the last BART train has pulled into the airport," according to KTVU. Jennifer Freidenbach of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness says this comes as no surprise, as there is a massive lack of affordable housing in the city.

"I mean, there's just nowhere else for people to go," said Friedenbach. "So, we're going to see them at the airport, we're going to see them on the busses we're going to see them out. There's just literally nowhere else for people to go.

As KTVU noted earlier this month, the Bay Area's homeless crisis is among the nation's worst, and would require $12.7 billion in funding to build enough housing to meet their needs, according to one estimate.

A report from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute revealed that the Bay Area's homeless population is over 28,000 strong - the third largest in the US behind New York and Los Angeles.

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