SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Fed-Up Neighbors Place Planters On Harrison Street Sidewalks to Deter Encampments The 1,400-pound metal planters seem to have done the job thus far at preventing encampments from returning after the large plant pots were installed after Carnaval, but have started another round of “hostile architecture” debate.
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 Politics Richmond Mayor Tells Homeless to Camp In Front of Political Rivals’ Houses, Gives Out Their Addresses Here's a political dirty trick we haven’t seen before, though it’s drawing comparisons to Ron DeSantis’s Martha’s Vineyard stunt; the mayor of Richmond revealed the home addresses of city councilmembers, and told RV dwellers to set up camp in front of those officials’ houses.
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 Sausalito Cleared Homeless Out Of Marinship Park — By Paying Them Each $18,000 to Leave Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
SF News Federal Judge Hands Another Reprieve to Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment Residents A three-day restraining order on the clearing of the West Oakland encampment has been extended for a month, as a judge rules that Caltrans must provide residents with relocation plans by August 26 before they can clear any more of the site.
SF News Federal Judge Halts Clearing of Oakland’s Wood Street Encampment, Though It Might Resume Friday It’s probably no comfort to the couple dozen people whose camps have already been removed, but a federal judge has halted Caltrans’ clearing of the Wood Street encampment, though that decision could be reversed as early as Friday.
SF News Another Person Has Died In an Encampment Fire, This Time In West Oakland One person has been reported dead in an encampment fire at a longstanding West Oakland encampment involving several RVs.
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF News Late-Night Glen Park Encampment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Critically Injured Four people were trapped inside a confined space within the I-280 overpass near Bosworth Street when an encampment fire broke out early Wednesday morning, and one of them perished as SF Fire crews were able to save the other three.
SF News Event Company at Former Market Street Honda Dealership Seen Conducting Unsanctioned Sweep of Homeless Camp A private company allegedly took it upon themselves last week to clear out an encampment that had been established for about six months outside the former Honda dealership on Market Street at South Van Ness.
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 Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run
SF News This Plaintive Tweet From 311 Feels Like SF's Homeless Services Problem In A Nutshell Where were the encampments? ^KH— SF311 (@SF311) February 26, 2016 "Where were the encampments?" tweeted San Francisco's Information and Services hotline at 4:21 this morning...to no one? To us all? Sure,
SF News Homeless Encampments: Yes/No? This cozy one-bedroom encampment was found at a dog park in (Cole Valley?) San Francisco. People need to sleep, and since not everyone has a home in SF, why not just allow a
