Talking to children about homelessness and addiction is part of parenthood in S.F.

Walking through San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, Tatiana Alabsi and her 11-year-old son, Sami, often must navigate tents, people in drug-induced stupors, and groups congregating over stolen goods or drugs.

For Alabsi’s family, who immigrated from Yemen to San Francisco in 2014, the city’s struggles to address its homelessness and drug crises are ever present in their lives.