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 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
SF News Bayview Residents File Lawsuit To Block Proposed Homeless Shelter Next To Mother Brown's Kitchen The city wants to build a 100-bed homeless shelter next to Mother Brown's Kitchen (2111 Jennings Street), a Bayview drop-in center that feeds about 300 a night, but residents and business owners have
SF News BART Cops Will Now Begin Harassing Homeless People In Powell Station Per a press release from BART police regarding "evacuation safety," BART has launched a policy effective today that will no longer permit anyone to lie down or even sit with feet extended in
SF News Mayor's Report Says 19,000 Homeless Off SF Streets, But 8,000 Were Just Bused Out Of Town Mayor Ed Lee's progress report on homelessness was released Thursday—and if you've got a few hours to kill, you can read the 40-page document here—but one of the city's biggest accomplishments
SF News Mayor Ed Lee, Jane Kim Attend Ribbon Cutting For SoMa Affordable Housing Complex For those who suggest that the only way to build affordable housing is by requiring for-profit developers to include it in their buildings, look no further than today's grand opening of a new
SF News Should San Francisco Be Spending More Money On Homeless Services? According to a new report requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell, there are (at least) 915 homeless youths on the streets of San Francisco these days, and that number may very well be higher
SF News Familiar Neighborhood Homeless Man Mourned In Castro A familiar face on the streets of the Castro over the years has died. His name was Barry LeBlanc, and you may know him as the gray-bearded guy who would often pull up
SF News Several Suggestions For Where Tech Jerks Can Donate Their Tech Money This Holiday Season Christmas should be a time for giving, and generosity of spirit, as most of understand. But since Greg Gopman, and presumably many of his tech-industry friends, find the scene on Market Street "grotesque"
SF News Hawaii State Rep Cleans Up Homeless Problem By Sledgehammering Their Shopping Carts Perhaps those getting fed up with the homeless problem in cities like San Francisco and New York should take a page out of the playbook of Hawaii state representative Tom Brower... not. Brower
SF News City Parks Are Now Closed After Midnight Supervisor Scott Wiener's controversial legislation to close San Francisco's public parks between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. was approved by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. The legislation, which was meant
SF News Woman Convicted In Infamous 2007 Burning Death Of Homeless Woman Mia Sagote, 36, was found guilty today of first-degree murder with special circumstances for kidnapping and torture in a crime that made national headlines in 2007. She and another woman were responsible for
SF News SFPD Shuts Down Sidewalk Chess Games Well, this is a pathetic development in the War on Fun: The SFPD has confiscated all the game tables, chairs, and chess boards that have been used for at least three decades for
SF News Startup Bro Backlash Leaps Off The Internet, Into Real Life [Updates] Yesterday's bro-tastic, anti-San Francisco screed did wonders to unite the various factions of the city's usually fractured internet commentariat. In fact, the ire directed at local entrepreneur and venture-funded hater Peter Shih reached
SF News Startup Bro Not Completely Stoked On S.F.'s Startup Bro Scene After slogging through the tech vs. art and rich vs. poor rhetoric swimming around San Francisco, we thought this trend of anti-San Francisco hate blogging had reached it's logical conclusion with that Gen-X
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-run accident.
SF News Man Fatally Crushed By BART/Muni Elevator ID'd Remember the gruesome story last month about the guy who seemed to have been sleeping on top of a BART elevator at Montgomery Station and got crushed when someone tried to use it?
SF News Santa Cruz Homeless Man Threatens To Blow Up Congressman Over Rejected Lunch Date Santa Cruz homeless person Stephen Brown, seen here photographed in his county orange by the local sheriff's department, was arrested earlier this week after threatening to blow up Congressman Sam Farr's office because
SF News People Upset Over New Anti-Violence Rule For Homeless Shelters Photo by Brandon Doran Some homeless advocates are crying foul over a new, perfectly reasonable rule that has gone into effect allowing S.F.'s homeless shelters to deny services to individuals who
SF News Homeless Man Killed in Santa Cruz Campsite; Three People Arrested A 51-year-old homeless man was found dead Friday in a park in Santa Cruz, and three people have been jailed in connection with his murder. The victim was found dead at a campsite
SF News An Open Letter to C.W. Nevius Regarding His Third Recent Column About the Same Shoeshine Guy We don't even know where to start. We know, Mr. Nevius, that the pressures of coming up with something new to complain about, analyze, or denigrate three times a week for your opinion
SF News Cops Injured By Stick-Wielding Homeless Man Contracted A Nasty Case Of Poison Oak This story of the stick-wielding homeless man who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon just won't go away — and neither will the three responding officers' case of poison oak apparently. According
SF News As in S.F., Homeless Camp Cleanup in San Jose Kind of Useless A cleanup effort that cost the city of San Jose $700,000 has not succeeded in keeping several homeless encampments from springing back up pretty much where they were pre-cleanup, as the Mercury
SF News Homeless Guy Attacks Golden Gate Park Ranger With A Stick This morning around 10 a.m., a homeless man in Golden Gate Park became violent when a park ranger approached him in the park. The homeless man apparently did not like being hassled
