Bay Area Cities Expand Homeless Shelters. Winning Over Neighbors Is the Hard Part

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Sarah Spillane is a proud native of San Francisco’s Sunset District. “Born and raised, Sunset,” she said while standing outside of her current residence, a modest, tiny cabin near Mid-Market, several miles from the foggy avenues where she grew up.

Spillane has lived in this homeless shelter with 70 private cabins for nearly two years, since being picked up by the city’s Homeless Outreach Team nearly a decade after she lost her housing on the westside.

Before that, “I did primarily stay in the Sunset when I was homeless,” Spillane said…

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