Grappling With Homelessness, BART Station by BART Station

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Technically, BART has an ordinance that makes it illegal for people to sleep, sit or lie down at stations. Creative Commons image by Flickr user

By Holly McDede, KALW Crosscurrents

There has been a 45 percent increase in mental health-related calls to BART police since 2011. When officers don’t know what to do, they call Armando Sandoval.

As BART’s community outreach liaison, Sandoval spends a big chunk of his mornings walking around downtown San Francisco BART stations waking up homeless people and asking how he can help them.

Read the complete story at KALW Crosscurrents.

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