Article written by Chance Martin concerning the media coverage by San Francisco, California newspapers regarding homelessness as well as certain propositions up before the voters of that city in the coming election on November 5th.



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Media Alliance
MediaFile
[San Francisco, California]
Fall 2002
Volume 21, Number 4
S.F. Daily Newspapers Distort Homeless Issues
Propositions N & R Benefit from Slanted Coverage
by Chance Martin
The implicit promise of financial support from those downtown interests motivates political candidates and officeholders to propose legislation that treats the social malady of homelessness as a criminal justice issue and drives the content of the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner. Nowhere is this more apparent than in their lack of critical coverage of San Francisco ballot propositions N and R.


Chance Martin is editor of the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness' Street Sheet and a graduate of Media Alliance's Raising Our Voices Program.

An article and also a report which helps to illustrate how, like with many areas elsewhere in New England as well as other parts of the nation, Connecticut's supply of affordable housing and then its scarcity of empty beds within homeless shelters has not been able to keep up with and accommodate the long standing need which exists.

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Friday, October 11, 2002
Norwich Bulletin
[Norwich, Connecticut]
Local News section
Shelters turn homeless away



To read the press release as well as access the PDF versions of either the executive summary or the summary of the housing related report mentioned in the news article, go to:

United Way of Southeastern Connecticut
Southeastern Connecticut Housing Study Released to Public
Compilation and Analysis of Key Social and Economic Factors Related to Housing