SF News Bevan Dufty Still Wants a 'Wet House' in S.F. Where Homeless Drunks Can Drink In Peace Back in 2010 we first heard about the push to open a 'wet house' in San Francisco, modeled on a similar one in Seattle, in which homeless, chronic drunks can live in peace
SF News City Clears Out Huge Homeless Encampment at Fifth and King An army of city workers from various agencies descended on San Francisco's biggest street camp yesterday morning and cleared out about 50 people and their various belongings, carts, trailers, and a community garden
SF News Berkeley Mayor Wants His Own Sit-Lie Ordinance Even the hippies in Berkeley want the hippies to stop plopping themselves down all day on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley mayor Tom Bates is asking the City Council to consider putting a sit-lie ordinance
SF News Man Occupies BART Track, Almost Dies A fellow named Michael, who may or may not be officially affiliated with the Occupy movement, jumped down onto the BART tracks at 24th Street Station yesterday afternoon and was almost hit by
SF News Jane Kim Spends Night In Tenderloin Homeless Shelter District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim spent last Wednesday night in a homeless shelter, on an evening when she was technically serving as Acting Mayor while Ed Lee was out of state. Kim has
SF News Unload Your Tenderloin 'Pooplet' Opinions Tonight Recall back in September when we stepped in a proposed plan to install streetside public toilets in the Tenderloin. At the time the plan promised to bring eco-friendly, drug use-free johns to some
SF News 'Pooplets' May Soon Take Over Street Parking Spaces, Providing Toilets for Homeless A plan which the Bay Citizen says is still in "early development" would take street parking spaces in neighborhoods where the homeless tend to defecate (the T-loin, alleys in SoMa) and turn them
SF News Oakland Man Shot In Head While He and Family Were Trying to Feed Homeless Just to give you an idea of the tenor of things in East Oakland this summer: An Oakland man and his family were shot at just after midnight last night while trying to
SF News Online Tour Site Hawking 'Homeless for a Day' Tour in S.F., Led By Homeless Man Remember how the NYT told us the Tenderloin was becoming a tourist attraction? New online activity and tour purveyors Vayable.com has a terrific idea! They want to give tourists to San Francisco
SF News Jane Kim, Supervisors, Quietly Trying to Rewrite Care Not Cash A ballot measure spearheaded by District 6's Jane Kim was "quietly" added to the November ballot yesterday, setting the stage for the first revision -- and arguable dismantling -- of Gavin Newsom's controversial
SF News Overall Homeless Count Doesn't Change Dramatically, But Huge Spike In Bayview San Francisco's biennial census of the homeless population gets released today, and the numbers are predictably depressing. Though the overall number of homeless people went down by a paltry 60 (from 6,514
SF News Assessing Gavin's Record on Homelessness According to the Chron, Gavin may be well known around here for his bold moves on behalf of gay marriage, but among other mayors nationally he's recognized for major achievements in the area
misc This Is Why People Hate San Francisco: Volume 3 Once again it's time for an installment of this mildly confusing feature, in which we ask those ensconced too cozily in your SF bubbles to take a step back, summon your inner C.
misc Even the Homeless Hate Muni Overheard on the Muni underground while idling in the tunnel between Church and Van Ness for 5+ minutes. The speaker was a possibly home-challenged fellow in his mid-fifties, dirt under the fingernails, shaggy
SF News Should the Mentally Ill Homeless Be Forced to Take Their Medication? Laura's Law so named after a mentally ill man shot college student Laura Wilcox in Nevada County in 2001 allows a judge more quickly to put a severely mentally ill person under supervised
SF News Activists Storm Vacant Mission Duplex, Declare It Public Property Certainly in times of such crazy rental rates (which are lower than they used to be but not by much) it's frustrating to see perfectly nice residential properties sit vacant while people remain
SF News Two Homeless Haight Twentysomethings Steal a Golf Cart, Go on Crime Spree File under Fun Crime News: Two homeless ne'er-do-wells who've been bumming around the Haight of late stole a U.S. Park Police golf cart from Fort Mason last week and went on an
SF News Newsom Says We've Reached Halfway Mark On Homelessness For the first time in 30 years, says Gavin, the chronically homeless population has decreased for the first time. Over 1,600 units of permanent housing for the chronically homeless have been created
SF News Homeless Person Offering Reward for Lost Cat This morning, Carl Nolte of the Chronicle brings our attention to the tale of a man's (adorable) missing cat. Daniel Harlan, 58, a homeless man and pan handler, had his "pug-nosed Himalayan cat
SF News Student Activists Arrested For Loitering Inside Hibernia National Bank Yesterday, several enthusiastic university students broke into the Hibernia National Bank, which was recently smeared this dated, fetishistic bit of graffiti, to protest the way the homeless are treated in the area. Which
SF News WRAP Marches Up Market Street For Affordable Housing Carrying signs that said "House Keys Not Handcuffs," an advocacy organization for homeless people called WRAP (Western Regional Advocacy Project) had a hundred or so couple hundred people marching up the uptown lanes
