Lava Mae founder Doniece Sandoval, who has a background in marketing, community relations, and the arts, was eager to do something about the homelessness she saw every day in San Francisco. She began ...

Doniece Sandoval, 57, and her family used to live in a diverse, middle-class neighborhood in San Francisco. But after the Great Recession, gentrification struck, turning their community into an ...

There are a multitude of modern conveniences that we now take for granted, but perhaps foremost among them is our access to water and sanitation. For the homeless population, that convenience -- the ...

Free hot showers alone won’t solve San Francisco’s homeless problem, but it’s a grand gesture of kindness that could help to restore human dignity to people who are down on their luck. That’s why on ...

"Welcome to the land of broken dreams," Doniece Sandoval’s cab driver said to her over his shoulder as they entered San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the locus of the city’s homeless population ...

It started with a simple idea: that dignity and hygiene are inextricably linked. Doniece Sandoval was convinced homeless people deserve both, so ideas turned to action. Lava Mae has upgraded from its ...

For a sizable number of Los Angeles’ homeless people, opportunities to maintain a personal hygiene schedule can be tricky. That’s where Lava Mae comes in. The San Francisco–based mobile shower and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Immigrant Doctor Is Reimagining Health in the American City With a mission of taking “radical hospitality” to the street, San ...

Studies show this year more than 3.5 million Americans will be homeless at some point. This year, more than 3.5 million Americans will be homeless at some point. They won't know where they will sleep ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- Michael Thornton may have lost his home, but he never lost his self-esteem. The now housed San Francisco resident made staying clean a top priority even when he was living on ...

Mauro Aguilar's girlfriend was banging on the door, trying to rush him out of the shower. But it was the first one he'd had in a long time, so he ignored her as he stood in the steam, savoring the ...