Homeless shelter in school a costly failure so far

An experiment to put a homeless shelter in a San Francisco public school gym has so far been a costly failure, with so few families using it that it’s costing taxpayers about $700 for each person who spends the night. School district and city officials cited a critical need when they opened the shelter at Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 Community School in November and expected it to house up to 20 of the school’s families each night. -- More....