The State - News from Aug. 17, 1989
San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos announced a master plan for the homeless that calls for more than 1,500 additional short-term and permanent housing units. The city already places about 2,900 of the homeless in emergency shelters and hotels. The new plan includes a round-the-clock drop-in center in a building loaned to the city by the Hastings College of Law that would give the homeless an alternative to squatting in the nearby Civic Center Plaza.
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