Civic Center Stories 2016

“I didn’t know that certain parts of San Francisco which are supposed to be the beautiful parts of the City had so much hidden hurt.”

“San Francisco is nice. There are resources. If you want to use them. If you know how to use them.”

“I would like to stay here; I just can’t manage my drug habits here. I’ve been here multiple times and every time I always end up using too much hard drugs and it’s not good for me to be here.”

“I like to people watch and evaluate and think. I always taught my kids evaluation is the key to success. When you evaluate certain things, you learn from your mistakes.”

“I wouldn’t have thought that we would spend so much time here!”

“I just graduated.”

“I like something that’s more fun and can make people think about something.”

“You have access to the world.”

“I expected a cosmopolitan society. I didn’t know there were homeless here and no place for them or me to stay. I had visited California over the years three times but that’s as a tourist and you don’t really see the reality.”

“This area was almost unrecognizable when Twitter came in.”