S.F. Pulls Plug on Controversial Bayview Homeless Shelter

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Eddie Jefferson Jr., pictured at Mother Brown's Dining Room in 2014, said: "If I was building shelters, I'd put it here because it's out of the way." Photo by Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED

By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix

San Francisco has dropped a divisive plan to build a shelter in a neighborhood that has the second-highest homeless population in the city.

City officials have withdrawn an application for state funding to help construct a 100-bed shelter in the Bayview-Hunters Point district.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

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