SF News Unsheltered Homeless Population In SF Nearly Unchanged Since 2022, Overall Number Rises 7% Despite spending many millions of dollars to address the issue of homelessness in San Francisco, the city got some disappointing news Thursday with the release of the latest (preliminary) point-in-time census count of the homeless.
SF News Number of Homeless In Berkeley Drops 45% In Promising Sign; Oakland's Number Still On the Rise, Though The number of unsheltered homeless people in Berkeley dropped by nearly half in the two years between the biennial point-in-time homeless censuses in 2022 and 2024, according to a preliminary report.
SF News New Homeless Census to Be Conducted Tuesday In San Francisco; Oakland and Berkeley Did Theirs Today The biennial Point-in-Time Count of San Francisco's homeless population is happening Tuesday, January 30, and it's the first time since 2022 that the city will get a semi-accurate picture of how many people are living here unsheltered.
SF News SF Does Not Have Highest Homelessness Rate In California — We’re No. 3 A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
SF News Biden Administration Claims It Will Cut Homelessness By 25% In Two Years, Offers Little Detail On How An ambitious plan to reduce homelessness by 25% seems to lack the “plan” part in the Biden administration’s new effort to house people, as homelessness has ticked up nationally by 3.4% this year.
SF News Report: An Estimated 20,000 San Franciscans Will Experience Homelessness In 2022 A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.
SF News Wealthy East Bay Town of Piedmont Confused By Official Count of 42 Homeless There. Where'd They Go? Residents of Piedmont, the tiny enclave that's entirely surrounded by Oakland and largely populated by millionaires, don't understand where homeless census counters were looking when they found 42 homeless people there earlier this year.
SF News Sacramento Leapfrogs San Francisco In Size of Its Homeless Population It’s probably not going to change our city’s reputational stereotypes, but Sacramento now has a larger homelessness problem than SF, and a higher percentage of unsheltered people living there.
SF News SF's Homeless Population Actually Declined During the Pandemic, and Nearly 20% More Are Sheltered The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."
SF News SF Finally Conducts Delayed Homeless Census, Rest of Bay Area to Finish Theirs Tonight How much has homelessness increased during the pandemic? We’ll have hard numbers soon, as Bay Area cities conduct their first official “homeless census” in three years.
SF News Many Bay Area Counties Delay Homeless Count Because of Omicron, SF Poised to Do the Same The odd-numbered-year “homeless census” did not happen at all in 2021, and its delayed return has been pushed out a month in pretty much every Bay Area county, with SF likely making that call Friday.
SF News San Francisco and Other Cities Seek to Cancel Homeless Census Due to Pandemic Surge The biennial "Point in Time Count" of the homeless, typically conducted in January of odd-numbered years in San Francisco, is likely to be canceled or postponed this year due to concerns about putting front-line census-takers and other at risk of contracted COVID-19.
SF Politics Ben Carson Blames California For Rise In Homelessness, Calls On States and Cities to Handle Crisis Just before the holidays, HUD Secretary Ben Carson issued an annual report on homelessness nationwide in which he called on state and local leaders on the West Coast to address the issue with "crisis-like urgency."
SF News Number Of Homeless In SF Could Be More Than Double the Point-In-Time Count According to city data on individuals who seek healthcare and other services, the number of homeless in San Francisco jumped 30 percent between 2018 and 2019 — and the total number was more than twice the number counted in the January homeless census.
SF News SF Homeless Number Nearly 1,800 People Higher If Same Criteria Used As 2017 Following the quiet Friday release of the new point-in-time homeless census for San Francisco, it's come to light that the count is actually not an apples-to-apples comparison of the 2017 number. And this means that the city's homeless population has increased 30%, not 17% as previously reported.
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 Los Angeles Homeless Census Number Echoes San Francisco's, With 16 Percent Increase New numbers released Tuesday for Los Angeles County and the city proper show sharp increases in the homeless population there, with a figure for the city that tracks with San Francisco's.
SF News Bevan Dufty Out As City's 'Homeless Czar' For Reasons Unknown Former Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty has left his role as Director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a.k.a. the city's "homeless czar," but a brief release from
SF News SF Streets Are Extra Poopy Thanks To Drought? Remember how last year it seemed like the local media couldn't stop talking about poop? Even though the discussion of feces gumming up our BART escalators dates back a couple of years, the
