SF Politics In Fifth (and Probably Final) Mayoral Debate, Sharp Barbs on Homelessness and Corruption The Coalition On Homelessness was the unexpected boogeyman at Thursday night’s SF mayoral debate, but London Breed and Mark Farrell took plenty of heat for their own alleged corruption issues.
SF News SF Will Resume Encampment Clearing For Those Who Refuse Shelter, Breed Says, Based on Court Guidance Mayor London Breed says that new appeals-court guidance allows SF to resume homeless encampment sweeps, based on language about the meaning of "involuntary" homelessness, and a memo Monday announced plans to restart the sweeps.
SF News Ninth Circuit Denies City Request to Modify Lower Court Injunction on Encampment Clearing The Ninth Circuit has ruled on a motion from the city to modify that injunction on homeless encampments, and the wording of the ruling only adds more questions to this debate.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Sends Latest Salvo In Battle With Coalition on Homelessness Regarding Encampments What could end up being a very significant legal battle over homeless encampments and cities' ability to address them is playing out at the Ninth Circuit, and in legal filings by the plaintiff in the case, the Coalition on Homelessness, and the City of San Francisco.
SF News Update: SF Rejects ACLU's Surprise Settlement Offer in Lawsuit Against Homeless Sweeps The ACLU and the Coalition on Homelessness offered SF City Hall a settlement to end their nearly year-long lawsuit against encampment sweeps, but City Attorney David Chiu says no deal.
SF News City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
SF News Federal Judge Temporarily Halts All SF Homeless Sweeps Amid Major Lawsuit Against City The ACLU and Coalition on Homelessness’s lawsuit against the city of San Francisco has brought an emergency order to temporarily halt all encampment sweeps in the city, and Mayor Breed and her allies are furious with the decision.
SF News Advocates for Homeless Population Sue San Francisco to End Encampment Sweeps A coalition of the Coalition on Homelessness, the ACLU, and a handful of unsheltered people have brought a U.S. District Court lawsuit against San Francisco, hoping to halt encampment sweeps under the claim that they are unconstitutional on several levels.
SF News Homeless Coalition Calls For Stop To Homeless Encampment Sweeps During Pandemic The city may not be confiscating tents the way they had been before the coronavirus pandemic, but San Francisco authorities are still telling the homeless to move along and forcing the breakdown of encampments, even though this actively violates CDC guidelines for the unsheltered.
SF News Street Sheet Turns 30 as the Underdog Paper Refuses to Fold It’s the 30th anniversary of Street Sheet, San Francisco’s firsthand chronicle of poverty and homelessness in the city.
SF News Homeless Advocates, NIMBY Neighbors Launch Dueling GoFundMe Campaigns Over Embarcadero Shelter Neighbors in the Rincon Hill / East Cut environs are going toe-to-toe with the Mayor and Coalition on Homelessness over a proposed new Homeless Navigation Center near the intersection of Embarcadero and Bryant, underneath the Bay Bridge.
SF News Waitlist For SF Shelter Beds Surpasses 1,000 People Last night, with today's torrential downpours on the horizon, 1,009 people languished on a waitlist for 90-day shelter beds, a statistic that comes to us via a press release from the Coalition
SF News LGBT Community, GLIDE, And Homeless Advocates Protesting Props Q, R In Castro To protest propositions Q and R, San Francisco LGBT groups, organizations like GLIDE, and advocates for homeless people will come together in the Castro at Harvey Milk Plaza today, Thursday, at 5:30
SF News Out-Of-Town Homeless Migration to SF Down 16% According to the latest biannual census of the city's homeless by the SF Human Services Agency, there are 6,514 homeless living in the city, an overall increase of 2% since 2007. 78%
