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One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels
For homeless people, a place to live is life changing to a degree that almost no other intervention can provide.
Gregory Sanchez outside the Hotel Diva in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Mr. Sanchez lived in a tent for six months before moving into the hotel in November.Credit.Bryan Meltz for The New York Times
April 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO The inside of the van was lined with plastic. The driver was masked and ready to go. There was a seat for just one passenger.
Gregory Sanchez eyed the setup warily. Mr. Sanchez was 64 and homeless, and the van was there to ferry him from a sidewalk tent to a room where he could shelter from the pandemic. It was good news,