Seventeen questions determine who receives a home in San Francisco and who ends up in “Problem Solving” limbo.
Rudy Batka was tired of sleeping on the streets. He was tired of drugs ravaging his body. His daughter had grown up without him — she had become a mother, with a 3-year-old son whom Rudy had never met. Rudy’s own mother, Mildred, was dying. And his wife was looking for a divorce.
For five years, he had slept on the streets of San Francisco, addicted to fentanyl, as his former life in Weeki Wachee, Florida, went on without him. But in early July, he had a moment of clarity. He stumbled into one of San Francisco’s homeless “access points,” hoping to find a case manager who could help him return to Florida, where an empty trailer in his mother’s backyard awaited him…