SF Welcomes ‘Spare Room’ Program to Help Formerly Incarcerated People Find Housing

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Surmiche “Memi” Vaughn had doubts about opening up her home to a stranger who had been formerly incarcerated.

“ I was super skeptical,” she said.

At the time, Vaughn was a single mother of twins who were headed to college, and wanted her kids to graduate with no student debt. She said her father suggested she sign up for The Homecoming Project, which offers $50 a day to people who are willing to rent out a room to someone who has recently been released from prison…

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