SF News Mayor Breed Touts 60% Drop in Tents on Streets, Mandelmans’s District 8 Supposedly Has Just One Tent Some very encouraging new statistics saying the number of tents on San Francisco streets is at a six-year low, including there being only one tent counted in District 8, but this does not seem to have meaningfully lowered SF’s homeless population.
SF News State Audit Blasts California for Spending $24 Billion on Homelessness, But Not Tracking Whether Much of It Works A new report from the California State Auditor finds the state has spent $24 billion on homelessness since 2018, only to see things get worse, and dings the state for not keeping track of whether much of this money is even accomplishing anything.
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 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 News San Francisco Will Continue With Late Night Homeless Count After Proposal to Change Hours Garners Criticism Presented with a request by the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (SF HSH) to perform the City's mandated biennial homeless count at earlier hours than normal, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board (LHCB) voted Friday afternoon to keep its late evening hours.
SF News The Bay Area May Not Have the Nation's Largest Homeless Population, But We Have The Most Unsheltered One San Francisco’s homeless account for only one-fourth of the greater Bay Area homeless population, and the broader Bay Area ranks pretty terribly at providing supportive housing.
SF News 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF There's a lot to learn form the Homeless Point-In-Time Count & Survey Comprehensive Report of 2015, which is online in its entirety, but one detail to which Socketsite draws attention is the percent
SF News Overall Homeless Count Doesn't Change Dramatically, But Huge Spike In Bayview San Francisco's biennial census of the homeless population gets released today, and the numbers are predictably depressing. Though the overall number of homeless people went down by a paltry 60 (from 6,514
SF News City Still Seeking Volunteers to Count the Homeless The city's annual Homeless Count is coming up this week but CBS5 reports today that the project is still short about 150 volunteers. Last year's census of our city's vibrant, address-free population counted
