A volunteer-based project providing free veterinary care for the
companion animals of homeless San Franciscans
| Project Homeless Connect turns 5 in S.F. |
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courtesy of SFGate.com and Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer It started in October 2004 with Mayor Gavin Newsom and other city workers walking the streets of the Tenderloin and asking homeless people what they needed. Their goal was to convince those living on the streets to walk into the lobbies of a handful of nearby residential hotels where social workers were waiting to help them sign up for welfare checks, detox programs or housing. Read the full article at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/28/BA9J1ABUFB.DTL#ixzz0VcorwBQ2 |




