“I got housed 10 years after I applied for affordable housing.” Charles

Photography by Fran Guijarro

I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer while I was homeless. I used to love San Francisco as a kid, but being sick and living on the streets of this city was terrifying.

My family and I moved to San Francisco when I was 6 years old. We just fell in love with everything: the hills, the crooked streets, the water… Where we lived in LA, we had seen…