To protect homeless from coronavirus, Bay Area may need to spend hundreds of millions

The Bay Area will need thousands of new beds at a potential cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to get homeless residents off the streets, out of crowded shelters and into relative safety from coronavirus, according to a recent study.

Santa Clara County would need 11,635 new beds at a cost of $327 million per year — with similarly high figures for San Francisco and Alameda counties, according to the research by professors from UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University...