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SF Supervisor Says Drug-Free Supportive Housing Would Allow Relapses If They Don’t Disrupt Others’ Sobriety

Dorsey, who struggles with his own substance use disorder, introduced legislation calling for future city-funded supportive housing to be drug-free, which he says would allow for relapses if they don’t put fellow residents’ sobriety at risk, but some advocates remain skeptical.

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SF Has a New Homelessness 'Czar,' and He Comes to the Job From Massachusetts

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced the appointment of a new director of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing on Wednesday, following the recent resignation announcement by current director Shireen McSpadden.

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SF Homelessness 'Czar' Shireen McSpadden Announces She Is Stepping Down

After five years leading San Francisco's homelessness department and 23 years working in City Hall, Shireen McSpadden announced Monday that she will be leaving her role on June 30.

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Day Around the Bay: Over 200 California State Parks Will Be Free on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Boudin Bakery’s master chef is preparing an 8-foot-long sourdough alligator for Claude the albino alligator’s memorial Sunday; Matthew McConaughey trademarked his likeness from being used by AI without permission; and Newsom announced that 200 state parks will be free Monday.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.