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Up Rhonda Bye packs her cart and glares at a panhandler in her spot. She has been in San Francisco about a year, her husband was arrested and is in prison. She must panhandle in the morning to buy her heroin, her 'wake me up.'

After years of living on the street, Billie finally gets a room at the Bristol Hotel on Eddy Street...she throws up her arms in sheer delight. She is finally inside thanks to San Francisco's Care Not Cash program.

Billie cries while sitting on the street. She sometimes cries when the thinks or talks about her predicament...it has also been a difficult day dealing with beat cops who want her to move all the time.

Billie Burrell, a homeless woman, always carries a broom...here she cleans up her area of Jones Street before going off to panhandle some distance away. She believes keeping the sidewalk neat is a responsability and it keeps the nearby store…

Little Bit' greets a friend as she returns to the life she knows. She has been released from the hospital and now returns to her favorite encampment. She will return to the hospital six months later for another infection.

Her neck abscess in bandages, 'Little Bit' writhes in pain on a hospital bed. She is without her heroin and must wait for a methadone treatment. This is one reason why she and others are reluctant to seek medical attention, because it is difficult to…

Little Bit' stands her ground with a group of homeless men during an argument about money. Despite her small size, Susan is tough. She has been homeless, off and on, for over five years.

Little Bit,' a homeless woman, helps a friend 'fix' near downtown San Francisco. They call her 'Little Bit' because of her small stature. The addicts mostly use a brown heroin from Mexico.

At the San Francisco General hospital morgue, Michelle, right, and Bobby Ray, both homeless, say goodbye to Tommy. They couldn't believe he was gone, so they talked an attendant into letting them see his body. A bad infection on his leg, that went…

After learning of homeless person Tommy's death, Michelle gathers flowers beneath a memorial for her dear friend. They had spent many hours panhandling together. She mourn Tommys' death for days.