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By providing safe indoor spaces and safe supplies, overdose prevention centers treat overdoses and limit infections, while offering access to primary care services and evidence-based treatment for drug addiction. Leslie Suen, MD, MAS, explains why evidence-based harm reduction strategies like OPCs keep people safe while making treatment readily available to anyone who wants it.

To address intergenerational homelessness and housing insecurity, protecting low-income families and mitigating the risk of their children experiencing homelessness is paramount.

Recently, a spate of assaults and murders have highlighted how people without housing are vulnerable to violence. Margot Kushel, MD, Director of BHHI, sheds light on the longstanding crisis of violence against people who are homeless.

Health impacts of encampment sweeps, racial inequities in harm reduction, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

The asset economy, social housing, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Vehicular homelessness in Oakland, pandemic-era mortality rates in San Francisco, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

A new BHHI report sheds light an oft-misunderstood subpopulation of unhoused people.

CARE Courts, tiny homes in San Francisco, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

A new federal housing bill, unleash the duplex, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

BHHI is hiring, a profile of the San Francisco Community Land Trust, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Social housing, CEQA explained, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.