A 2015 apartment building fire at Mission and 22nd streets killed one person and displaced 50. Seven years later, there’s an empty lot, gathering trash and growing weeds. In the middle of a housing crisis. Why has nothing been built in the years since? The answers to that question are painfully emblematic of some of the biggest problems facing San Francisco. In this debut episode, Fixing Our City host <a href="https://twitter.com/laurawenus">Laura Wenus</a> and producer-reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/CintiaLopez916">Cintia Lopez</a> begin their search for solutions. | <a href="https://sfchronicle.com/pod">Unlimited Chronicle access</a>: sfchronicle.com/podGot a tip, question, comment? Email us at <a href="mailto:sfnext@sfchronicle.com">sfnext@sfchronicle.com</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

“Urgent Care” for Preventing Homelessness

Like any big city, San Francisco has big problems. Rampant homelessness, an opioid epidemic, widening income equality and deep political divisions. What’s stopping the city from fixing itself? Where are the creative solutions? And what happens when one person’s solution is another’s root of the problem? Host Laura Wenus and producer Cintia Lopez are on a quest to find out, one San Francisco story at a time.
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