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Farming Hope is a culinary training program in San Francisco that strives to help people from disadvantaged backgrounds regain their footing by teaching them critical workplace skills.

San Francisco used single-room-occupancy hotels to help its homelessness crisis. Yet Mayor London Breed has spent millions to evict people from the same SROs.

Lisa Law and her camera, Dennis Hopper once said, caught “everyone” in the Sixties from the Beatles, Dylan and the Byrds to the Velvet Underground, Kesey, Krassner and the Dead. She was also “everywhere” in that time, from the Sunset Strip to Monterey Pop, the Human Be-In and Woodstock. Since that time, Lisa has continued her photographic work but has also made documentary films and been a tireless environmental and antiwar activist and lecturer. She senses a renewed Sixties spirit with today’s young climate change and anti-gun activists. Benito Vila caught up with Lisa for PKM.

Thousands of people have been left to languish and at times die in hotel rooms overseen by a San Francisco agency that reports to Mayor London Breed. With little oversight or support, these so-called SRO hotels have descended into a pattern of chaos, crime and death — and the city's homelessness crisis has worsened.