| “Instead of lead,” Urban Alchemy says on its website, “we seek to transmute human suffering. Instead of gold, we create peace.”
Urban Alchemy describes itself as a job-creation program for formerly incarcerated people, but when examined more deeply, the nonprofit organization based in the poverty-stricken city of San Francisco seems to be policing public space, stealing wages, and using homelessness to churn a profit. For our latest issue, reporters Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery investigate the organization and reveal it for what it really is. |
