Starving In The Financial District: Ken and food insecurity

This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying [...]

Living and dying in the Tenderloin: Substance Abuse and Nate

This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, and Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, and Hidden in plain [...]

Be selfish, give a gift to a homeless person

Both gratitude and altruism are good for your health and there’s nothing like giving a gift to a homeless person to help you experience both. Her are some easy, practical, cheap ways to be selfish and give a gift to a homless person.

This time of year, no matter what your worldview, religion or culture, [...]