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A young girl carefully sweeps her front sidewalk next to a foreclosed home that has become a haven...

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A needle, presumably used for drug usage, litters a back window of a foreclosed property in Oakland,...

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Boarded windows and unmoved grass lead a trail a blighted property in Oakland Calif., Oakland Police...

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Oakland Police Officer, Mark Castillo, peeps through the mail slot of a blighted property...

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Alfonso Granera, 71, is startled as Oakland Police Officer, Mark Castillo, discovers him sleeping...

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Sings of foreclosure and vagrants litter the floor of a garage in a foreclosed home on 96th Avenue...

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George Bell, 61, waves to a young observer as he finishes his window washing duties in the aquarium...

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The Ed Steffani Velodrome in San Jose is home to a style of bike racing that has now been eclipsed by road racing.

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Alex Voloshin, data analyst, wearing a Zara suit, Banana Republic shirt and Kenneth Cole Shoes,...

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Somewhere outside Laramie Wyoming, Molly McKay with Marriage Equality California, rolls her eyes...

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Watching from a giant television screen in San Francisco, Calif. Norma Penson and Ron Martin try to...

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A recent Friday 10:28 a.m. "They shouldn't work." said Ray Gordon standing next to his...

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Japanese Geisha Umechika, 20, and Umeha, 25, touch up their makeup in the back seat of a van during a day of San Francisco tourism.

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Sidewalk Sailors A recent Saturday 12:48 a.m. (or do we say Sunday) Wearing dress blues and dixie...

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Inside an Ellis Street Cafe called Nam Thanh, Enioe Ahmed, 6, and his sister Samia Ahmed, 5, take a...

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Not long after the sun winked above the morning fog, Robert Martin, dressed as Charlie Chaplin,...

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“I call him Princess,” said a woman in a skin-tight latex dress, as she pulled a chain connected to...

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Playing for tourists and commuters in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building, Renée de la Prade...

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