By: Brianna Piserchio
Poverty in the Bay Area has always been a problem, especially in certain areas such as: Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco. Today in San Francisco, there is a 'different kind of homelessness' where poverty and homelessness is stretching out of the inner city into suburban outskirts. In 4 years alone (2005-2009) there was a 9% rise in poverty in the suburbs, now 16% poverty in the suburbs. The new, different kind of homelessness would be, "There's fewer chronic homeless and more people just lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up on their home payments." said Capt. Michael Paugh. Poverty now-a-days is formed and brought up mainly because of the drop of the housing bubble, 20,000 individuals have undergone foreclosures.
Poverty in the Bay Area has always been a problem, especially in certain areas such as: Oakland, Richmond and San Francisco. Today in San Francisco, there is a 'different kind of homelessness' where poverty and homelessness is stretching out of the inner city into suburban outskirts. In 4 years alone (2005-2009) there was a 9% rise in poverty in the suburbs, now 16% poverty in the suburbs. The new, different kind of homelessness would be, "There's fewer chronic homeless and more people just lost their jobs and couldn’t keep up on their home payments." said Capt. Michael Paugh. Poverty now-a-days is formed and brought up mainly because of the drop of the housing bubble, 20,000 individuals have undergone foreclosures.
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