A homeless person. (Photo by Wolfgang van de Reydt/Pixabay)

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has pledged $5 million to prevent homelessness in her city as a recent count shows its homeless population on the rise.

Initial results of the count showed a 17 percent increase in homelessness in San Francisco since 2017, though veteran homelessness fell by 14 percent and youth homelessness dropped by 10 percent.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.