SAN FRANCISCO

2017 HOMELESS POINT-IN-TIME

COUNT AND SURVEY
Every two years, during the last 10 days of January, communities across the country conduct comprehensive counts of the
local homeless populations in order to measure the prevalence of homelessness in each local Continuum of Care.

The 2017 City and County of San Francisco Point-in-Time Count was a community-wide effort conducted on January 26, 2017.
The entire county was canvassed by teams of volunteers. In the weeks following the street count, a survey was administered
to 1,104 unsheltered and sheltered homeless individuals, in order to profile their experience and characteristics.

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2017 Homeless Count Population 2017 Total Sheltered/Unsheltered Population
by District

SIX
60 THREE
Total Single Adults 25+ Persons in Families Unaccompanied Youth
TWO
500
2013 Total
7,350 Single Adults
4,769 25+ Persons in
679Families Unaccompied
1,902 Youth
2013
2015 7,350
7,539 4,769
5,342 679
630 1,902
1,567 ONE
2015
2017
7,539
7,499 5,342
5,518 630
618 1,567
1,363
136 396 3,655
2017 7,499 5,518 618 1,363
GOLDEN GATE PARK 313 SIX
FIVE

2017 Sheltered/Unsheltered Population 446

31
TEN

42%
EIGHT

Sheltered
58% FOUR

91
510 1,245
Unsheltered
(n=3,146) (n=4,353) NINE
48
SEVEN ELEVEN
Age Race/Ethnicity
(Top Responses)
Under
18-24 25-40 Residence Prior Length of Time in
35% 34% 75% San Francisco County
18
to Homelessness
2% 19% 28% White Black
Not Hispanic/
Latino
years
3%
< 1 year 1-4

41-60 61+ 22% 22% Don’t know/ 8% 19%

Multi-racial Hispanic/Latino Refuse
San Francisco
69%
40% 11%
County 5-9 years 10 years +

Gender LGBTQ Status 17% 55%

61%
Male

Subpopulations
33%
Female
5%
Transgender
1%
Genderqueer/
Gender Non-Binary
No 70%
30+70 30% Yes
Household Breakdown
Single Adults | 5,518 Households

42%
Sheltered
58%
Unsheltered

Chronically Homeless | 2,138 Individuals Families | 198 Families with 618 members

27% 73% 97% 3%

Sheltered Unsheltered Sheltered Unsheltered

Chronically Homeless Veterans | 137 Individuals Unaccompanied Youth | 1,363 Individuals

17% 83% 18% 82%

Sheltered Unsheltered Sheltered Unsheltered
 Contributing Casues to Youth
59%
Duration of
Current Episode 8% 34% Homelessness
(Top 5 Responses)
of Homelessness 30 days or less 1-11 months One year or more 1 year or more

First Homelessness Episode Foster Care

39% Yes 29% 26% 25%

19% of survey
respondents have Emotional Financial
Fight or conflict

61% No been in the foster

system.
abuse issues
with parent/
guardian

Unemployment 24% 23%

Mental health Physical
Primary Cause of Homelessness
87%
issues abuse
(Top 6 Responses) of

38%
respondents
were currently of youth report having a supportive
unemployed. adult in the Bay Area

Justice System Youth Foster Care Youth Employment

22% 15% 13% Involvement
20% 68%
Lost job Drug or Argument/family

26%
or friend asked
alcohol abuse to leave of
youth survey
of respondents respondents
12% 10% 7% spent one or more
nights in jail/prison/juvenile of youth survey were currently
Eviction Divorce or Illness or
hall in the past year.
respondents have been employed or
spearation medical problem
in the foster system. enrolled in school.

Self Reported
Health
Current health
PTSD
conditions affecting

41% 39% 31% 29% 23% 12% 11%

housing stability or
employment of the

(Note: Multiple response Drug or Psychiatric or Chronic health Post-Traumatic Physical Traumatic AIDS/HIV
question, numbers will not
alcohol abuse emotional conditions problems Stress Disorder disability brain injury related
total to 100%)

Disabling Services and Services Currently Accessing

(Top 6 Responses)
Conditions Assistance
Respondents reported
the number of condtions
53% of
35%
Food Stamps/SNAP/
25% 20%
73%
survey respondents GA/CAAP/CAPI SSI/SSDI
that limited their ability to WIC/CalFresh
reported having one
maintain work or housing.
disabling condition.
Many reported multiple
conditions.
of survey respondents
reported receiving
19% 8% 5%
MediCal/Medicare Social security CalWorks/TANF
benefits

*Subpopulation Definitions
Chronically Homeless Veterans Families Unaccompanied Children
& Youth
An individual with one or more disabling conditions or a Persons who have served on active A household with at Children under the age of 18 and
family with a head of household with a disabling condition duty in the Armed Forces of the least one adult member young adults between the ages
who: United States. This does not include (persons 18 or older) of 18 and 24 years old who are
»» Has been continuously homeless for 1 year or more and/or; inactive military reserves or the and at least one child homeless and living without a
»» Has experienced 4 or more episodes of homelessness National Guard unless the person member (persons under parent or legal guardian.
within the past 3 years. was called up to active duty. 18).

For more information about the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and efforts to address homelessness in San
Francisco, please visit HSH.SFGov.org

Source: Applied Survey Research. (2017). San Francisco County Homeless Count & Survey. Watsonville, CA.