SF News City Vows to Crack Down on Bernal Heights RV Encampment, Which Has Been Growing In Recent Months A smattering of RVs permanently camped on Bernal Heights Boulevard has grown larger, and now City Hall says they’ll enforce a long-forgotten 27-year-old ban on overnight parking on the street.
SF Politics Embarcadero Navigation Center, Once the Focus of Much Rage From Neighbors, Quietly Gets Two-Year Extension One would assume that the most vocal of the neighbors who objected to the Embarcadero Navigation Center knew that an extension was on the table for public comment. But apparently the two-year extension went through with very little opposition.
SF News New Shelter for Homeless and Mentally Ill Opens on Valencia Street Today They prefer to call it a “Behavioral Health Beds” facility, but a new shelter and drop-in site opened today at the former Salvation Army Community Center after a year of community pushback and pandemic delays.
SF News New Facility at Moscone Center to Open Over Social Distancing Concerns in Shelters The City of San Francisco is set to open a new shelter at the Moscone Center next week to help "create more space in [SF's] existing shelters and Navigation Centers," which will allow for proper social distancing in the midst of the ballooning coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Valencia Street Salvation Army Poised to Become Homeless Shelter, But Residents Remain Split A new Hummingbird Place homeless drop-in center could spring up at Valencia Street’s current Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center, and while some neighbors are skeptical, the opposition is nowhere near as fierce as the Embarcadero Navigation Center's was.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
SF Politics SF Unlikely To Get Navigation Centers In Every District Despite Supervisor's Push Supervisor Matt Haney has been saying for over a year that there ought to be a homeless Navigation Center in each of San Francisco's 11 supervisorial districts. But legislation Haney has drafted that would make this a mandate appears to have been stalled in committee.
SF News Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center Opens Despite Neighbors' $250K War Chest to Fight It The residents of lower Embarcadero and eastern SoMa along with much of City Hall are all hoping that everything goes smoothly with the high-profile opening of the new homeless Navigation Center, which Mayor Breed will lead a tour of Tuesday.
SF Politics Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center May Open By December After an appeals court judge ruled against the neighborhood group that has been fighting the new Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, the mayor says it could open for its first homeless guests sometime next month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Rules Against Neighborhood Group Trying To Stop Homeless Navigation Center Surveillance video shows the moment two young boys were shot early Saturday in Union City, Oakland police arrested 22 people at a recently erected encampment outside City Hall, and the Embarcadero Navigation Center clears its last hurdle.
SF News Judge Lets Embarcadero Navigation Center Move Forward, Denying Homeowners' Restraining Order So far the legal maneuvers of that group of Embarcadero residents who really don't want more homeless people in their midst have not gotten them anywhere.
SF News Lot Next To Balboa Park BART Proposed As SF's First 'Triage' Center For Homeless Living In Cars and RVs A 1.8-acre parking lot that sits at the intersection of Geneva and San Jose Avenues, next to I-280 and across the street from the Balboa Park BART station, has been proposed by the city to be used temporarily as a vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless.
SF News Residents Opposed To Embarcadero Navigation Center Bring Appeal To Supervisors Today The residents who staunchly oppose the mayor's plan to construct a temporary homeless Navigation Center in their neighborhood, along the Embarcadero, will be appearing at today's Board of Supervisors meeting to appeal the Port of SF's decision to allow the project to move forward.
SF News Mayor London Breed Shouted Down At Community Meeting On Embarcadero Navigation Center Mayor Breed made an apparently unexpected appearance at a planned community meeting Wednesday night and not everyone was glad to see her.
SF News Report: Navigation Centers Doing A Lot More 'Navigating' SF's Homeless Onto Buses Out Of Town The much ballyhooed vision of San Francisco's pioneering Navigation Centers for the homeless which were originally touted as allowing people to stay for indefinite periods in a non-traditional shelter setting until they could
SF News Latest Mission Homeless Navigation Center Stalled By Construction Delay A new homeless Navigation Center was scheduled to open Monday at the 1515 South Van Ness location at 26th Street, providing 120 beds just a few blocks from the persistent homeless encampment beneath
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 PG&E, PUC Feud Could Be Keeping The Lights Off At Completed Projects Supervisor Jeff Sheehy is accusing PG&E of intentionally dragging its feet in a way that's keeping the lights off at two sites in his district, the newly renovated Randall Museum and
SF News First Homeless Navigation Center Abandons Permanent Housing Placement Promise The city's first Navigation Center for the homeless, launched in 2015 in the Mission District, is shifting its mandate amid the harsh realities of the homelessness crisis. Originally designed to house its clients
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 San Francisco's Homeless Navigation Center Plan, By The Numbers It was early March when San Francisco Supervisor David Campos pushed for an official declaration of homelessness emergency and called for for the city to "build six additional Navigation Centers in the next
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Will Be An SRO At 12th And Market A year after opening the city's first "Navigation Center" for the homeless at 16th and Mission Streets, a project heralded as a new approach to a persistent issue that would be replicated if
SF News Homelessness Debate Between Mayor's Office And Supervisor Campos Continues The debate on how to best serve the homeless of San Francisco wages on this week in the form of an open letter by Supervisor David Campos and an interview given by Sam
SF News Mayor Lee Defends Homeless Sweeps, Goes After Supervisor Campos Mayor Ed Lee yesterday took the unusual step of saying something of note at the typically staid Board of Supervisors meeting question time — simultaneously defending his efforts to combat homelessness in San Francisco
SF News Another Homeless Navigation Center Will Take 6 Months, Mayor Says The first Homeless Navigation Center, a pilot project originally funded by a $3 million anonymous donation via the SF Interfaith council, opened up after some delays last year in the Mission. It's seen
