Today families, teachers, children, and friends organized through the activist group Faith in Action rallied outside Cesar Chavez School to highlight how San Francisco city policies are failing students like Samara.
Samara is a 7-year-old girl with complex medical conditions, who has spent the last 2 years living in homeless shelters with her family. She’s had multiple surgeries over the past month and is getting ready to leave the hospital soon. But according to the City, Samara and her family do not qualify for any housing assistance because a computer says they do not have enough points and therefore they are not “homeless enough”.
The families described their predicament. Where are they supposed to go if turned down by a city computer?
... safe, decent homes, and the dignity of our families cannot be determined by points on a computer.
San Franciscans are urged to call the mayor -- this is no way to run a city that prides itself on its heart.
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