Media/Medios de Comunicación

April 11, 2018

SF Mission School Considers Opening Gym To Homeless Students

By: CBS

A school in San Francisco's Mission District is considering a first-of-its-kind plan to tackle the growing housing crisis and help its students and their families who are struggling to find a place to live.

Bold idea: homeless shelter at San Francisco public school for students, families

By: Jill Tucker, S.F. Chronicle

San Francisco city and school officials are looking to open a first-of-its-kind homeless shelter at a public school to provide emergency housing for students and their families.

San Francisco school proposes housing homeless students and families

By: Rob Roth, KTVU

At Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School in San Francisco's Mission District, teachers and administrators say dozens of students are struggling through a problem no child should have to face: homelessness.

Public school in San Francisco wants to provide shelter for some of its families

By: Lyanne Melendez, ABC7

A neighborhood once affordable to families, is now the district with the highest number of evictions in San Francisco. Not being able to afford rent in the Mission, many times, leads to families being left out on the streets.

Proposed program would help 'housing insecure' students at San Francisco school

By: Alexa Mae Asperin, KRON 4

A program to help students and families who are homeless is being proposed at a San Francisco school. It's called the "Stay Over Program," and it has been proposed by administrators at Buena Vista Horace Mann School and District Supervisor Hillary Ronen.

Mission District school plans to open gym to homeless students, families overnight

By: Laura Waxmann, SF Examiner

A Mission District school hoping to address the severe housing crisis affecting dozens of its students is floating plans to convert its gymnasium into an overnight family shelter.

Homeless shelter at SF Mission school met with questions, optimism from parents

By: Julian Mark, Mission Local

Buena Vista Horace Mann School could be hosting 20 homeless families in one of its gyms come October as part an ambitious - and some would say a controversial - proposal to help the high number of homeless students at the school.

April 16, 2018

Plan to house homeless families at San Francisco school needs parental buy-in

By: Andrea Castro and Johanna Lopez, S.F. Chronicle

San Francisco’s affordable housing is a human tragedy that no one can ignore — particularly when children are involved. But in the rush to help homeless families, the school board and some city officials appear to have gotten ahead of themselves, advocating for a family shelter at a Mission District elementary school without buy-in from parents and the broader school district community.

April 24, 2018

Buena Vista school can meet its homeless students’ needs now

By: Irma Nuñez, Efraín Barrera and Annie Jupiter-Jones

We are two moms and a dad trying to raise kids in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Every day we see the effect this is having on families at all income levels at our children’s school — and how devastating it is to our most low-income families.