SF News With Salvation Army, San Francisco Opens Its First Sober Shelter Those living on the streets of San Francisco who are trying to stay clean and who don't want to stay in shelters around rampant drug use and chaos now have a new option in the city's shelter system.
SF Politics Sup. Jackie Fielder Challenges City Policy That Limits Shelter Stays For Families A progressive supervisor is taking on San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, as well as the moderate-majority board she sits on, with new legislation that could prove politically difficult to oppose.
SF News SF Finally Getting Somewhat Better at Filling Long-Vacant Supportive Housing Units In a city with thousands of unhoused people, it’s pretty aggravating that housing intended for them is just sitting empty. But there’s some comfort in the fact that SF has cut the vacancy rate at supportive housing sites nearly in half.
SF News City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams San Francisco has not one but 11 homeless outreach teams to provide services for people living on the streets, and a new city audit finds they don’t communicate with one another and often have poor oversight of their contracts and responsibilities.
SF News SF Grappling With Encampment Clearing Strategy as APEC Starts This Weekend Ready or not, San Francisco’s moment in the spotlight starts this weekend as the APEC Summit begins Saturday, and the highly visible issue of encampments in public view has City Hall officials fretting over how that’s all going to play out.
SF News Social Worker Stabbed Four Times at Tenderloin SRO Wednesday, Remains Hospitalized A 29-year-old SRO resident is in custody on charges of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing employee Wednesday, and the employee is in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
SF Politics Breed’s Latest Pick For Homelessness Commission Faces Blowback For Having Opposed a Shelter After her last pick for the Homelessness Oversight Commission was tripped up over an accounting scandal, Breed’s newest pick has hit a hurdle over some Nextdoor comments opposing an RV homeless shelter.
SF Politics Supervisors Come Out Swinging Against Plan to Shut Down Bayview Homeless RV Site The ‘Pier 94 Backlands’ is currently home to 118 people still waiting for permanent housing placement, and while the SF Department of Homelessness wants to close it ASAP, supervisors are saying place the residents first.
SF News Breed Announces $600 Million Plan To Cut Unsheltered Homelessness In Half Within Five Years Mayor Breed came out with a new $600 million plan to reduce “unsheltered homelessness by 50%” in five years, but the key word there is “unsheltered,” because the details of the plan reveal it would only reduce overall homelessness by 15% over that period.
SF News Supes Hold Hearing on Evictions of Formerly Homeless From SROs, Which Just Makes Them Homeless Again In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population. But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.
SF Politics Breed’s Pick For Homeless Commission Hits Trouble Over Improper Federal Accounting Scandal A five-year-old scandal over improperly billing $15,000 of taxpayer money, and lying on a resume, is complicating the prospects for Breed’s nominee for the homelessness oversight commission, Vikrum Aiyer.
SF News Breed Names Her Nominees to a Homelessness Commission She Preferred Did Not Exist San Francisco voters approved the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing oversight commission in November over Mayor Breed’s objections, but she still gets to pick most of the commission, which she did Tuesday.
SF Politics Ballot Measure Heads for Approval That Would Create Oversight Commission for SF's Dept. of Homelessness San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), which was created under Mayor Ed Lee's administration less than a decade ago, probably could use more independent oversight. And voters will likely get to decide that this November.
SF News SF Debuts New Initiative That Connects People With Mental Health Disorders to Available Services The Office of Coordinated Care (OCC) — a brand-new program launched Friday by the City — will expand SF's mental health resources and help connect people with available services before they enter into an otherwise avoidable crisis.
SF News Deaths Among Unhoused Individuals in SF Doubled During First Year of COVID-19 Pandemic A new report released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) shows that between March 17, 2020, and March 17, 2021, more than twice the average number of deaths among residents experiencing homelessness in the city were recorded. But not because of fatal COVID infections, mind you.
SF News San Francisco Opens Winter Shelter Program Through March of 2022 Now in its 33rd year, the Interfaith Winter Shelter Program opened Sunday — and is expected to conclude on March 26, 2022 — increasing SF's temporary housing capacity for people experiencing homelessness.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Taps New Director of Department of Homelessness As Crisis Continues Spiraling Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
SF News Second 'Safe Sleeping Village' To Open at Defunct McDonald’s in Haight-Ashbury SF's first "Safe Sleeping Village" opened this week at the Civic Center and was met with a lukewarm reception; it allows for only 50 tents, each set behind a flimsy fence line. Now, there's a second one in the works that will soon occupy the idle McDonald’s across from Golden Gate Park.
SF News Non-Profit Pledges $100 Million To SF's Homeless Problem A local non-profit called the Tipping Point Community announced Sunday that it is pledging $100 million to the city of San Francisco to help address the problem of homelessness over the next five
SF News City's Homelessness Department And Public Works Are Officially At Odds Over Encampments A quiet war seems to be brewing within City Hall over the handling of homeless encampments, marking yet another chapter in a multi-year saga involving police, sanitation workers, homeless advocates, outreach workers, politicians,
SF News Homelessness Department Head Asks For Budget Bump Of $16.5M This Year And $21.6M Next Year Jeff Kositsky, the man Mayor Lee put in charge of the newly formed Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) last year, has just submitted his first budget proposal for the coming fiscal
