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 Supervisors Might Spike Plan for Temporary Tiny Homes for Homeless at 'Monster In the Mission' Site A plan to put up 70 temporary tiny homes/cabins in the former Walgreens parking lot behind the 16th and Mission BART plaza, ahead of a planned affordable development, may be getting killed after negative community feedback.
SF News Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.
SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
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 Mandelman’s Shelter-for-All Plan Passes Board Unanimously, Though Many Are Skeptical It Will Do Anything Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his freshly passed “Place for All Program” is “maniacally focused” on ending homelessness in San Francisco, but the city has seen these slogan-driven plans have had little effect in the past.
SF Politics Former Panoramic Development In SoMa Reborn as 160 Units of Supportive Housing A 160-unit building that was purchased by the City of San Francisco in part thanks to the state's Homekey program, the former Panoramic development at 1321 Mission Street in SoMa, is reopening as supportive housing for the formerly homeless.
SF Politics SF's Department of Homelessness May Finally Get an Oversight Commission A city department with an increasingly massive budget has no commission providing oversight or holding it to account. The SF Board of Supervisors may be about to change that.
SF News Vacant Minna Street Hotel to Become 75 Units of Transitional Housing A new transitional housing and treatment program in SoMa aims to help people who struggle with homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, leading them to stints in the criminal justice system.
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 Politics Supervisors Put Off Proposed Homelessness Commission Under pressure from the mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to approve a ballot measure that would have asked voters if they believe there should be a commission overseeing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
SF Politics Supervisors Debate Putting More Oversight For City’s Homeless Department On November Ballot Voters may get to decide whether an oversight commission for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness would bring more accountability, or just create more red tape.
SF News San Francisco Homeless Census Finds Over 8,000 On Streets, Majority From SF The official results of San Francisco's point-in-time homeless count for 2019 were quietly released by the city Friday, and the numbers confirm the 17% uptick we learned about in May.
SF News Director Of New Homelessness Department Keeps It 100 On Reddit AMA We had a great time at @reddit answering some great questions from t he community about homelessness. @JeffKositsky https://t.co/rt4Q9G9QzU pic.twitter.com/inNS94Daz3— SF DHSH (@SF_DHSH) September 23, 2016
SF News Campos Promises To Rid Mission District Of Homeless Encampments Within 4 Months Following statements last week by the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing indicating that officials intend to remove all homeless encampments within the city once and for all, we now get confirmation that
