SF Politics 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.
SF News Another Encampment Fire Sends Smoke Over Bayview A fire at a homeless encampment in the Bayview on Wednesday sent a plume of smoke over the city, and it's the second time in four months that an encampment in the neighborhood has burned.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Some Homeless People Prefer the Street to 'Jail Lite' Rules at Hotel Shelters Programs in San Francisco and Alameda counties to house the homeless in hotels tend to have some draconian rules for those who accept shelter, and several individuals who have experienced these hotel accommodations say they're not worth the cost their freedoms.
SF News SF Firefighters Contain Blaze That Erupted at Bayview Homeless Encampment Next to Caltrain Tracks Smoke was rising from an encampment fire in San Francisco's Bayview District on Friday morning, after a fire erupted at what's being described as a "treehouse" that was built into a hillside beside the Caltrain tracks.
SF News Insane Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of Upper Haight; Neighbor Group Blames Encampments A brawl broke out Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Clayton and Haight streets, and a neighborhood group that lobbied against the city establishing a sanctioned tent encampment nearby posted video to Twitter and implies homeless campers are to blame.
SF News Haight Neighborhood Group Sues City Over Sanctioned Homeless Camp A group calling themselves Concerned Citizens of the Haight is suing the City of San Francisco in federal court over a sanctioned "Safe Sleeping Village" that is set to open Friday on the former McDonald's lot at Haight and Stanyan.
SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Oakland Homeless Group 'The Village' Constructs Tiny House Community On Median Over the MLK Day weekend, a group that has previously constructed unsanctioned "villages" of makeshift tiny houses as homeless encampments built another one on a strip of land in Oakland, calling it the Right to Exist Curbside Community.
SF News Anti-Homeless Boulders Appear In the Mission, Residents Admit To Putting Them There Residents placed giant rocks along the sidewalks of Mission District street Clinton Park, in an apparent attempt to deter homeless people from sleeping on that street.
SF News Berkeley Homeless Encampment Near BART Tracks Cleared Out, While Here/There Encampment Stays Residents of the "Here/There" homeless encampment in Berkeley are celebrating today as they were granted a temporary reprieve by a judge, who blocked an attempt by BART police to evict the residents
SF News Large Homeless Encampment At 'Hairball' Gets Cleared One of the last large homeless encampments in the city is being "resolved" according to city officials, and the dozens of people who have been living there for about a year or in
SF News Land Under SF Freeway Overpasses Could Soon Become Parks San Francisco might have more than a few new parks in its future as 10 plots of land located underneath the city's elevated freeways could potentially be converted to parks and open-air recreation
SF News Homeless Encampment Continues To Render Cesar Chavez Bike Bridge Virtually Unusable One part of town that has seen persistent homeless encampments over the past year is the area around Cesar Chavez and the 101/Potrero interchange, sometimes referred to as "The Hairball." About 100
SF News Small Fire At Castro Building Believed Caused By Homeless Encampment #10012WF1 FIRE CONTAINED NO INJURY NO DISPLACED 1229 Hrs pic.twitter.com/iVRwCHQ9CW— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 12, 2016 Fresh concerns about homeless campers in the Castro are being raised after one
SF News Regarding The 20-Person 'Box City' That Is One Advocacy Group's Pilot Encampent Project The civic motto for Anthony and Eddie, who are resident leaders and artists in a place they call Box City, is simple: "These may look like boxes, for us poor they are homes.
SF News Private Social Network For Businesses Being Used To Track Homeless Encampments With the issue of homelessness featuring so prominently in the news this year, and with multiple proposed measures for clearing homeless encampments circulating, it has become more crucial than ever to have some
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 Pier 80 Shelter To Close July 1 The temporary, emergency shelter at Pier 80 will be shut down by the city after a two-month extension, on July 1, and as SF Weekly reports, there's no immediate plan for where to
SF News City Clears 100-Person Homeless Encampment On Cesar Chavez Homeless camp swept from #SF's Cesar Chavez St. https://t.co/7NcILnIAMU pic.twitter.com/7sSq6x3zZd— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 11, 2016 A large and "complex" tent city centered around the 101 freeway overpass
SF News Big Rig Topples Tree Onto Tent On Folsom, Injuring Two Homeless Men A white big-rig truck struck a tree early Tuesday morning and toppled it onto a tent where two homeless men were sleeping, on Folsom Street in the Mission District. The truck then fled
SF News Nevius Attacks Avalos's Homeless Tent Protection Plan As you know, there have been various small battles being waged following the mayor's announced plan to tackle "hot spots" among homeless encampments citywide and systematically "clear" them, which typically just leads to
SF News Eighth Witness Disputes SFPD Account Of Gongora Shooting, Says He Was Using Knife On Tree #mymission. Five shots fired a homeless man with a knife is down. pic.twitter.com/Ras4wXYdBm— Laura Sydell (@Sydell) April 7, 2016 Yet another witness, a fellow homeless person who was living at
SF News No, San Francisco Does Not Spend $36,000 Per Year On Every Homeless Person After making note of the $241 million the city now allocates to homeless services yearly, a figure published in the Chronicle that represents a new high, not to mention $84 million more than
