The last homeless tally in San Francisco put the count at about 7,500, with about one-third of those individuals being thirty years of age or younger and almost 50 percent being forty years or younger. In 2016, voters passed a ballot measure banning tents on city sidewalks, but failed to pass the ballot measures that would have funded more housing for the homeless—meaning that while voters supported getting the homeless off the streets, they didn’t particularly care about where they’d go after that.
