San Francisco Promotes Program to Pay for Homeless to Travel Home

In the last two decades, the city has paid the travel expenses home for about 11,000 homeless individuals, not from the area, to reduce its homeless population.

A mother walks with her son, who is homeless and addicted to fentanyl, in San Francisco on Feb. 23, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Over the last two decades, San Francisco has paid the travel expenses home for about 11,000 homeless individuals, not from the area, to reduce its homeless population on city streets, under a program called Homeward Bound.

But since the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer are taking advantage of the program, perhaps, officials say because of a recent change in how it was administered.