Real Change rounds the corner this month to celebrate 23 years of love and community. Our first issue was released on Aug. 20, 1994, with cover art by Dr. Wes Browning and a feature story on the clearance of The Jungle.
This was back when the one-night unsheltered count, then conducted by Operation Nightwatch, had yet to reach 1,000 people outside.
Over the past two decades, the number of unsheltered homeless people has risen approximately five-fold, and the count of all homeless people countywide has quintupled. ...