Life and Death at the Ambassador Hotel (1994)

1994 at the Ambassador Hotel 55 Mason Street in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco California From 1978 to 1996 the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson a San Francisco LGBT activist who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing 134 rundown and exhausted rooms populated by homeless men and women sometimes even children All of them in urgent need of care compassion and humanity Nobly provided by voluntarily working professional health care and social workers staff various benefactors volunteers neighbors and community contributions