San Francisco Homeless Man Was Studying to Be Chiropractor Before Getting Evicted

Vincent has lived homeless on the streets of San Francisco since 2017. He got in a fight with his landlord and lost the place where he was living. Vincent says when he first became homeless in the Tenderloin, he didn’t give it the attention it deserved to get back into housing. Vincent says he didn’t realize the streets: “sucked you in and kept you there. It’s like crabs in a bucket trying to get out of the streets.“ Prior to homelessness, Vicent was two quarters away from receiving a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in California. Now he’s fighting for survival just trying to keep his head above water. Vincent says social services have been great. He says the biggest challenge is other homeless people. Live on the streets is hard so everyone is in survival mode! Many are just looking out for themselves. They have to. Vincent has tried to keep working but people keep stealing his stuff. He says four times people walked off with his phone! Vincent d