It’s nearly 7 a.m, 36° and going up to a sunny 55°. Details are here.
The cold and the homeless: Vero Majano, a filmmaker who works at the Resource Center on Capp Street, arrived an hour late for drinks on Friday. Turns out she was trying to get out the door when Thomas, an 80-year-old Polish immigrant, turned up needing a bed.
No one left until a van picked Thomas up to take him to a shelter — all of the beds were filled, Majano said, but the Center’s director managed to get him into Dolores.
For others, the Resource Center handed out army blankets. It’s a dangerous time, she said. Alcohol already lowers the body temperature, and then the weather’s not helping. “We tell them to cover up, cover their heads,” she said.
Something to think about, especially in the season of budget cuts. Here is a video on five men who struggle, by Fay Abuelgasim. And here are some portraits of men and woman at the drop-in center, by Kari Orvik.
A commenter on Saturday’s story about the homicide at Mission and 17th Street worried about safety. If it makes residents feel any better, this was the neighborhood’s first homicide of the year. We stopped by the Mission District police station, and an officer there said they would have a lot more undercover officers working in that area for the next couple of weeks.