Downtown Streets Team to End Homeless Outreach Efforts Across Bay Area

Downtown Streets Team to end homeless outreach efforts across Bay Area

A Bay Area nonprofit that helps homeless people across the region find jobs and housing in exchange for volunteering to clean up local streets is abruptly shutting down, citing a loss of millions of dollars in public funding amid a financial and political environment that has “shifted dramatically in recent months.” Downtown Streets Team, known for its homeless volunteers in bright yellow t-shirts who pick up trash along busy thoroughfares, has …

Citing funding crisis, Downtown Streets Team to shut down next month

Downtown Streets Team, a nonprofit organization provides social services for unhoused individuals while helping to keep downtown streets clean, is preparing to shut down next month after 20 years of operations, the nonprofit’s CEO Julia Gardner said. The post Citing funding crisis, Downtown Streets Team to shut down next month appeared first on Palo Alto Online.