Students had nowhere to sleep, so a San Francisco school opened the gym: ‘How could we not?’ [theguardian.com]

Lara Kain 3/25/228:56 AM

By Gail Cornwall, Photo: Marissa Leshnov/the Hechinger Report, The Guardian, March 17, 2022

On a Friday evening in the fall of 2019, Maria Flores stood waiting with her “crazy heavy” duffel bag and her teenage son outside the office of a man whose home she cleaned.

After being evicted, “every single day I was looking for a place to live”, Flores said.

The man had offered two air mattresses, keys to his office, and permission to sleep there on weekends. But on this Friday, someone was working late. If Flores and her son went to a motel, they’d have no money for food, but she didn’t want to go to a shelter.

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