this is my friend lyanne melendez. are you doing okay?>> there's emergency shelters so we can get you in somewhere if you want to get out of the rain. do you think you might be open to that? >> yeah, i'll be okay. >> she told us she'll be okay. my name is leanne. row. >> row. >> row. okay. nice to meet you. row. but perhaps a bigger issue is that the city doesn't always have enough spaces to take care of people in her position. >> if we are going to assert ourselves and say we are going to act as a parent for this person who can't take care of herself, clearly then we have to have a place to put her, and she's probably pretty expensive. >> right now, the city has 140 psychiatric locked beds, presumably all in use. here's a psychiatric room at sf general hospital. the city says it needs at least 100 more rooms like this at any given time. mayor daniel lurie is no stranger to the problem of chronic homelessness. in 2017, as ceo of the nonprofit tipping point, he vowed to raise $100 million to cut chronic homelessness in half over five years

this is my friend lyanne melendez. are you doing okay?okay. >> there's emergency shelter so we can get you in somewhere if you want to get out of the rain. do you think you might be open to that? >> yeah, i'll be okay. >> she told us she'll be okay. my name is leanne. >> row row row. >> okay. nice to meet you. row. but perhaps a bigger issue is that the city doesn't always have enough spaces to take care of people in her position. >> if we are going to assert ourselves and say we are going to act as a parent for this person who can't take care of herself, clearly then we have to have a place to put her, and she's probably pretty expensive. >> right now, the city has 140 psychiatric locked beds, presumably all in use. here's a psychiatric room at sf general hospital. the city says it needs at least 100 more rooms like this at any given time. mayor daniel lurie is no stranger to the problem of chronic homelessness in 2017. as ceo of the nonprofit tipping point, he vowed to raise $100 million to cut chronic homelessness in half over five yea

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