San Francisco Homeless Problem 2025. San francisco — a week into what mayor london breed has called a “very aggressive” effort to clear homeless encampments across san francisco, a key question looms: San francisco (ap) — sidewalks once teeming with tents, tarps and people passed out next to heaps of trash have largely disappeared from great swaths of san francisco, a city widely known for its visible homeless.

With a total population of about 860,000, roughly 2.2 percent of san francisco residents are homeless, which is over 12 times the national average. Between 2019 and 2022, san francisco saw a 15% decrease in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5% decrease in overall homelessness.