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Gregory Sanchez photographed outside the Hotel Diva in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Gregory was living in a tent on the streets in the Mission for six months before being relocated to a room in the hotel in November. The 130-room former boutique hotel was one of several that the city bought using federal coronavirus relief money in an effort to temporarily house the homeless during COVID. Photographed for The New York Times.