HELP (2012 in Silicon Valley)

the QR code scans to read "HELP"

"In 2013, San Jose and the surrounding Santa Clara County estimated almost 7,600 homeless people, more than in San Francisco. And 75% of them were sleeping outside, on sidewalks, in parks and under freeway embankments — a percentage greater than in any other major U.S. metropolitan area." Read more in the LA Times article by Rong-Gong Lin II and Gale Holland from December 2014: "Silicon Valley homeless no longer welcome in 'the Jungle'".

Photography by Chrysta Giffen.