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.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Wraps Up Her Mini Busking Tour For The Homeless Back in mid-November we told you about how locally born comedian Margaret Cho had returned to SF for a while and was busking (and stripping) on the streets to raise money and collect
SF News Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October
Arts & Entertainment [Semi-NSFW] Margaret Cho Also Stripped To Support The Homeless Actress, comedian, singer, and much more Margaret Cho started busking for the homeless at Haight and Ashbury this week. And she'll keep doing so whenever she can for the next two months in
SF News Homeless Advocates Protest As BART Continues To Roust Homeless From Powell Station Hallways As we reported back in July, BART recently began cracking down on the homeless situation in Powell Station. In particular they're citing, and rousting, people trying to sleep in the station's long hallways,
SF News As Shelters Dwindle, The City Focuses On Street Medicine For Homeless by Eric Wuestewald For the past few years, San Francisco residents have been inundated with stories about housing scarcity, rising property values, and Ellis Act evictions. Now it's reached the point that many
SF News Mother And Child Punched In The Face By Homeless Woman In Union Square A woman and her two-year-old son were violently attacked by a disturbed homeless woman in Union Square in recent weeks, and now she and her husband have spoken to KRON 4 in an
SF News Homeless Google Staffers Have Lived On Mountain View Campus For Weeks, Months At a Time Google may encourage its workers to stay on duty for extended periods by offering three meals a day in the cafeteria, a gym, and plenty of play spaces. But rising rents in Silicon
SF News Potrero Hill's Design District Is Turning Into An RV Park, Neighbors Complain San Francisco’s crackdown on RVs and campers being parked overnight has expanded to 40 neighborhoods since launching in 2013, but it appears that nontargeted areas like Potrero Hill's Design District are now
