By Ted Goldberg, KQED News Fix
San Francisco’s Navigation Center is a new kind of homeless shelter, attempting to help people living on the streets find homes, and Mayor Ed Lee believes it could help solve one of San Francisco’s longest and most intractable problems.
The center differs from traditional shelters in that it allows active drug users and places no rules on when people can come and go. It also aims to help clients navigate the city’s bureaucracy to get benefits. At the same time, San Francisco’s top official tasked with reducing homelessness actively works to find the center’s clients permanent new homes.
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