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The pandemic is making it even harder to be young and homeless By Shwanika Narayan © Nick Otto / Special To The Chronicle Greg Ritzinger visits San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, where he used to use drugs and sleep in his car. Ritzinger is a now a student at UC Berkeley who plans to go into law after he graduates. From the ages of 23 to 26, Greg Ritzinger mostly lived out of his car in San Francisco. Struggling with substance abuse and estranged from his family, Ritzinger tried to save up enough money to stay at a motel once a week. Most days he wasn’t so lucky. H...
When Greg Ritzinger was in his early 20s, he found himself without permanent housing and unable to fully access public facilities or amenities, while facing other difficulties as a former youth experiencing homelessness, or YEH. Now, at the age of 29, Ritzinger is a UC Berkeley student and a member of Youth and Allies Against Homelessness, or YAAH, a group committed to ending homelessness. Considered to be an overlooked population, YEH are generally individuals under the age of 26 who are experiencing homelessness. The COVID-19 pandemic has positioned YEH to be at the greatest risk of being a...