Harnessing Social Media To Reconnect Homeless People With Their Families

(October 16) – San Francisco has made headlines as a hub for technology — giants like Facebook, Apple and Google are headquartered nearby, as are a plethora of tech startups. At the same time, residents complain that those same tech companies are part of the cause of the city’s astronomical cost of living — and in turn, contributing to the city’s big homeless problem. Homelessness in the city is a problem well reported — the San Francisco Chronicle even ran a front page editorial earlier this year calling the “level and pervasiveness of homelessness in San Francisco” a “civic disgrace.”