Leilani makes the commute to SF every day from her new apartment in Vallejo.
We just wrapped post-production on a short doc by Director Natasha Florentino called Rising Up. The film explores the initiative, also called Rising Up, that was started by Mayor London Breed to reduce youth homelessness in San Francisco by 50% by 2023. The program provides short term support to prevent entry into homelessness and then offers up to three years of rent subsidy with intensive case management, so youth like Leilani, the featured character in this film, can gradually become independent. We got to cut beautiful footage into a moving story and at the same time learn all about this innovative effort to tackle the problem of youth homelessness.