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 Federally Owned Parking Lot Behind Ninth Circuit Could Become Housing For Homeless Mayor Lee has introduced plans to convert a federally owned surface parking lot, so owned because it's behind a federal courthouse, into the city's largest supportive housing development for formerly homeless people. That
SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF News Micro-Unit Developer Suggests Shipping Container-Based Supportive Housing For SF Homeless Patrick Kennedy, the developer of micro-unit apartment complexes like this one we just wrote about the other week, now has his sights set on developing inexpensive, modular supportive housing for the homeless which
SF News Homeless Volunteers Are Cleaning Downtown Streets For Stipends, Services, And Self-Confidence Downtown Streets Team, a program in which homeless volunteers clean streets, receiving services and vouchers at stores like Safeway and Target, was created in Palo Alto by Eileen Richardson, a venture capitalist who
SF News Former Mayor Art Agnos Floats Idea For Homeless Shelter Aboard Navy Ship Speaking with SFist in June on the topic of the enduring homelessness crisis in San Francisco, Art Agnos, who served as mayor from 1988 to 1992, classified "the development... of supportive and permanent
SF News Bay Area To Be Voting On Multiple Ballot Measures Relating To Homeless Problem In November At the ballot box this fall, residents of multiple Bay Area cities can expect to be voting on a record number of local ballot measures aiming to build more affordable housing for the
SF News How The Closure Of Goodwill Impacts The Homeless, And More Stories From The SF Homeless Project As the week winds down, we have another wave of pieces from the SF Homeless Project, covering a variety of subjects. Here are some highlights: KRON 4 has a piece about family homelessness,
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Opens With 93 Beds In Civic Center Hotel Timed neatly to the crest of homelessness coverage being released this week by local outlets in an effort called the SF Homeless Project a push to shine a brighter media light on an
SF News Department of Public Health Puts Last Year's Homeless Count Closer To 10,000 Starting yesterday with an open letter to the city, more than 70 publications have begun to release focused, extended coverage on the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. While we framed some questions
SF News We've Been Talking About Homelessness Like It's New And Like It's The 'Worst Ever' For 30 Years "The annual homeless crisis came to San Francisco early this year," the Chronicle's Abe Mellinkoff wrote on October 16th, 1986. "Usually we don't hear much about it until the weather really turns cold.
SF News Why San Francisco's Homeless Became A Problem In 1982 As part of the SF Homeless Project today we have two good retrospective pieces with archival footage from the early 1980's in San Francisco that trace the sudden visibility of hundreds (or thousands)
SF News SF Homeless Project Kicks Off With Open Letter To The City, Look Back At The Last 30 Years As announced last month in the New York Times, over 70 different media organizations in San Francisco, including SFist, are participating a broad-ranging effort this week to shine new lights on the issue
SF News Supervisors Approve Six New Homeless Navigation Centers (Without Booze Or Drugs) Supervisor David Campos's previously announced legislation that mandates the creation of six new homeless navigation centers like the one already in the Mission, all within two years, received unanimous support from the Board
SF News As New Department Of Homelessness Takes Shape, Report Advocates For Tracking System Recall that San Francisco distributes around $241 million in more than 400 contracts with 76 private organizations that provide services to homeless people with no unified system to track the effects of that
SF News SF's New Homelessness Department Head Wants To Leverage Tech To House 8,000 By End Of Mayor's Term On July 1st, much of San Francisco's spending on homelessness, a total of $241 million distributed among more than 400 contracts with 76 mostly nonprofit private organizations, will at long last be corralled
SF News Video: Bernie Sanders Calls Out SF Homeless Crisis In Impromptu Union Rally Speech Senator Bernie Sanders thanked a crowd of labor protestors Wednesday afternoon "for standing up, right here in San-Fran-Cisco," emphatically pronouncing each syllable of our city's name in his heavy Brooklyn accident — though not,
