As an indication of its reach, ShelterTech’s SF Service Guide receives over 2,800 unique visitors per month, a number th

By the time I discovered the organization recently, it had been years since anyone had heard from him. This was particularly disconcerting since from everything I’d read and heard, Jackson was a rabble-rouser in his heyday.

I absorbed the irony — that technology often doesn’t serve those it should and that my connection with Jackson would remain insecure without a digital crutch. He could vanish into thin air the same way the people on the streets he was so keen to help seem to do night after night, off-the-grid in ways that require much more than a single app to address.

The US Stock Market is detached from the economic reality. This can only last for so long. Eventually, the stock market and the economy will align again. It happened in 2008 and it will happen again in 2021 and beyond.

Aaron Mendez, a former shelter resident and a ShelterTech advocate, says that a portal like SF Service Guide provides options for people facing housing insecurity that they may never have considered previously. “All you need is a cellphone to start the process of getting back on your feet,” he told me when I visited him in his SoMA single-room occupancy residence in the days before Covid-19.

In some ways, the virus was a catalyst for progress: When it first struck, the city moved thousands of vulnerable homeless people into newly vacant hotels. Unfortunately, however, the city is reportedly planning to move these residents out due to funding issues.

I absorbed the irony — that technology often doesn’t serve those it should and that my connection with Jackson would remain insecure without a digital crutch. He could vanish into thin air the same way the people on the streets he was so keen to help seem to do night after night, off-the-grid in ways that require much more than a single app to address.

2020 has been, in most ways, a disaster, an annum to forget. It’s also not over and the holidays could be a chance for a tiny bit of redemption. Even if we’re not all together, we can deliver cheer through carefully selected gifts. This is why it’s so important to make the right choices because none of us can deal with any more disappointment, and, no, it’s not just the thought that counts.

As we finished, I asked him if he had a cellphone or other way to reach him. He handed me a slim black device from his bedside table, but I couldn’t turn it on — the phone was dead. I asked the attendants if they had a charging cord, but no one seemed to have one handy, and Jackson didn’t remember the number.

Without change, humanity stays the same and our plight as a species is threatened by the Earth we occupy and the collective human psychology that can force us to fire bombs at each other.

After some digging, I was able to find Jackson at the Good Samaritan Rehab and Care Center in Stockton and was able to go before the pandemic would make such a trip impossible. I joined the residents watching a movie in the common room, where I was told to wait while Jackson finished a dialysis treatment. Eventually, he joined me for an interview, and I was struck by his condition. He was not doing well.

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While ShelterTech’s current leaders hail from high-tech backgrounds, its founder is anything but the typical Silicon Valley luminary. Darcel Jackson, an Oakland native and former construction worker, conjured up ShelterTech after he became homeless due to suffering a minor stroke in his mid-fifties and then losing his job and apartment. The idea gained momentum when he met a crop of techies with ties to the Global Shapers Community, a World Economic Forum initiative to nurture civic-minded young people.

One thing was obvious to me: nothing stays the same when it comes to finance. Blatantly stating that the US stock market has always gone up, and will continue to do so, is ignoring what has happened in places like Japan and what history shows through Ray’s research.

“Darcel is really a connector — every time he went to an event, he would end up with 15 business cards of people who wanted to have something to do with him,” says Hicham Sabir, one of the early ShelterTech crew. “He would say if you’re a Black male in San Francisco, you’re basically at the bottom of the list of priorities — I think it took him six months to see a social worker.”

As ShelterTech began taking shape, however, Jackson’s personal situation worsened to the point where he could no longer continue living in San Francisco. Money was a perennial issue, especially as his health deteriorated. Eventually, he moved to Texas, where he scaled back his involvement with ShelterTech and gradually cut ties.