Meet 4 People Who Went From Homeless to Jobs in Tech – Business Insider

Some 18,000 people are homeless in San Francisco, according to the city’s health department. Some say gentrification by the prosperous tech industry is a big contributor. Tech also wants to be a solution with free training and services like WiFi. With $5,500 in Daaimah Tibrey’s bank account, the single mother of two moved from Fresno, California, to San Francisco in November 2017. She was a regional manager for Veterans Affairs’ telephone operators, but since she voluntarily relocated she wasn’t given a relocation stipend to help with moving expenses.”When we got to San Francisco it was not enough,” Tibrey said of her savings. “Not at all.”Unable to afford the up-front fees needed to secure an apartment, she lived out of a hotel. Within two weeks her savings were gone and she found herself at a shelter with her two children. At the time her daughter was 5 and her son was 3 months old. She picked up extra income through social-services work programs, including filing papers for a nonprofit and working as a security guard at a flea market. The extra income was still not enough.Tibrey is one of the thousands of ambitious people who move to San Francisco only to…
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