billionaire gives $30M to study homelessness

An urban center rich person is donating $30 million to the University of CA, urban center, to analyze root causes of the condition and potential solutions.

Salesforce chief executive officer brandy Benioff, a town native, has embraced condition as a philanthropic cause, pumping millions into a 2018 town live to tax affluent firms to acquire homeless services.

The five-year initiative funded by Benioff and his married woman, Lynne, will conduct academic research, provide testimony and fact sheets, and train people who have been homeless as expert speakers.
The UCSF Benioff condition and Housing Initiative are a part of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, led by Dr.

Margot Kushel.
The $30 million contribution is the largest-ever private donation to fund homelessness research, according to Salesforce.
"The world needs a North Star for truth on homelessness," Benioff said in a statement.
The initiative "will be that lodestar, providing the latest research, data and evidence-based solutions to ensure we're investing in programs that will help solve the homelessness crisis."

Some San Francisco residents are frustrated with technology companies like Salesforce, a cloud-based software business, saying they contribute to inequality with high-paying jobs that drive up housing prices.

More than four,000 people sleep on the streets every night in the city, where the median price of a two-bedroom home is $1.3 million.

A family of four earning $117,400 a year is considered low income in San Francisco.

Benioff approached the university as a result of he needs officers disbursal tax cash to create selections with the most effective information obtainable, Kushel said.
The set up is for researchers analyze the info and supply neutral, trusted analysis.

The initiative can have the flexibility to assist a town, for example, decide whether and how to implement an alcohol management program, study the results of that program and then

broadly share the information.

"We need to be a fast response team to essentially facilitate the general public," Kushel said.
"This is democratizing data; this can be meant to urge the info out there."