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San Francisco Opens Homeless Shelter for People Forced to Move During Super Bowl

Sydney Johnso

On Monday night, Thomas slept at the Gubbio Project. The nonprofit typically only offers respite and services for people who are unhoused during the day. But the week of the Super Bowl, the city is helping the program operate 24 hours a day to prepare meals for guests and oversee 80 beds (60 beds for people who drop in themselves, and 20 reserved for people dropped off by police or the city’s street response teams).

Mission Local

100+ unhoused people died in S.F. last year. A memorial service tries to remember all of them.

by Abigail Vân Neely

Losing someone you’ve been trying to support can harden your heart, Lydia Bransten said to the group of about 40 people gathered inside the airy church. But, she added, that loss can also open it. Bransten is executive director of The Gubbio Project, a nonprofit that operates out of the church, which offers a place to sleep during the day.   

Mission Local

Mission Local

When someone overdoses outside St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, the team inside is prepared. 

Staff at the Gubbio Project, a Mission District nonprofit housed in St. John’s on Julian Avenue, carry Narcan, an opioid antagonist, at all times. They say they respond to between three and five overdoses every week on the streets surrounding the church. 

It’s all in a day’s work at the Gubbio Project, which receives $2.3 million a year from San Francisco’s Department of Public Health to assist people struggling with homelessness and substance abuse around 16th and Mission streets.

2021

2021

San Franciscans, let’s save this lovely, important program. Let’s help the Gubbio Project not just squeak by, but thrive.

With so much uncertainty regarding San Francisco’s reopening and what that means for the more than 2,000 homeless people living in hotels and safe sleeping sites — not to mention all those left on the streets — preserving proven nonprofits that help them is essential. We’ve lost so much already.

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