SF Politics SF Supervisor Dorsey, Mayor Breed, Propose 'Cash Not Drugs' Plan to Encourage Sobriety A San Francisco Supervisor has some new proposed legislation that would pay an extra $100/week incentive to city welfare recipients if they are in substance-abuse treatment and succeed in staying clean.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Proposes Linking Cash Assistance With Compelling Recipients Into Drug Treatment "SF is a city of compassion, but we also need accountability," Mayor London Breed said on Tuesday, announcing a new proposed policy of withholding cash assistance payments to addicts unless they agree to undergo drug treatment.
SF News Jane Kim, Supervisors, Quietly Trying to Rewrite Care Not Cash A ballot measure spearheaded by District 6's Jane Kim was "quietly" added to the November ballot yesterday, setting the stage for the first revision -- and arguable dismantling -- of Gavin Newsom's controversial
SF News Assessing Gavin's Record on Homelessness According to the Chron, Gavin may be well known around here for his bold moves on behalf of gay marriage, but among other mayors nationally he's recognized for major achievements in the area
SF News Care Not Cash Celebrates Five Years Did anyone else read this weekend's article in The Chronicle, celebrating the five-year anniversary of Care Not Cash? SF Mayor Newsom, who jump started the program that cut monthly $422 welfare checks to
SF News Citation, All I Ever Wanted. Citation, Having to Get Away With Gavin caught up in a tough re-election campaign against...ummm...well...huh.... he's started playing up his street people street cred. Recently, he announced a plan to deal with all the vagrants
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: Tim Redmond asks why's everything got to be a public/private thing around here. Also, they hate the new Don Fisher museum. A poignant letter about the failures
SF News Happy Birthday, Care Not Cash In honor of the anniversary, Team Gavin has launched a full court press showing that despite appearances, things have improved. Question: what is the proof? Answer: according to Trent Roher, about 1,800
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
Arts & Entertainment Help Homeless Connect Connect The problem is that under the rules of Care Not Cash, most of their welfare money goes to their rooms with only a little bit left over to make ends meet. The eighty
SF News SFist Book Report: The Chron's Homelessness Series Where we summarize reports written by actual media sources because they're really important but we don't feel like we're in any position to be able to comment on them! The Chron revived its
SF News Care Not Cash Results Well, we suppose he has every right to crow about it -- Gavin Newsom announced to a cheering crowd of social service providers and homeless people that the number of homeless people on
SF News Fourth Runner-Up Gavin's number five! Gavin's number five! Mayor Newsom came in fifth in this year's World Mayor Awards -- a markedly better showing than last year, where he came in "less than 1500 votes
SF News Just Say No For Now Today, Gavin Newsom put a lid on places that sell lids and called for a moratorium on marijuana clubs. And we bet we're the only one's in the -ist family who'll ever have
SF News Political Junkie: Gossip Talk Oh, what the heck, let's go so-best one more time! Tongues are a-waggin' in town (and not just like that, you sick pervs) over the Gavin-x-Kim news and we're here to give you
SF News Oil Money, Part Two [Ed. Note: This story is just too, um, important to cover from only one perspective. Contributor Rita Hao helps take on the major issue of the day.] This morning, while paging leisurely to
