SF News It’s Curtains for the Bayview RV Triage Center, Closing Today After Blowing Through $15 Million Once dubbed "by far the most expensive homeless response intervention” in SF history, the Bayview RV Triage Center is being shut down today, after a three-year run of pricey logistical snafus and frankly very little usage.
SF News The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center Will Close Up for Good In March The Bayview RV triage site that’s been dubbed the “most expensive homeless response” in SF history has been deemed a failure and will wind down operations in a few months, after blowing through $15 million and only accommodating about one-fifth of the people it was supposed to.
SF News Tenderloin Residents and Businesses Pushing Back Against Proposed Turk Street Homeless Shelter A proposal to turn three vacant storefronts at Turk and Hyde streets into a homeless services center has some Tenderloin residents and businesses fuming, and saying that the Tenderloin is bearing the burden of too many of these facilities.
SF News San Mateo County Will Charge Unhoused People With a Crime If They Refuse Shelter While it only applies to unincorporated areas of the county, a new law just passed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors will make it a misdemeanor to refuse shelter if you’re homeless.
SF News Bayview RV Triage Center Extension Approved, But Critics Howling Over Its Very High Cost Headlines are blaring that the SF Board of Supervisors just approved the “most expensive homeless response” ever with $140,000-a-year RV parking spots at a Bayview RV triage center, but PG&E and Urban Alchemy are a big chunk of those costs.
SF News Oakland Audit Blasts Inability to Account for What Happened With $70 Million In Homeless Funding The city of Oakland spent $69 million over four years housing unsheltered people, but has no idea if any of those nearly 9,000 people ever found permanent housing, according to a new report from the City Auditor.
SF News New Report Details Curious ‘Algorithm’ That Decides Who Gets Homeless Housing Based on How Much Trauma They’ve Endured There are some pretty personal questions that go into deciding who gets supportive housing in this town, as a new report details the “algorithm” that sizes up how much trauma applicants have endured.
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 SF Supervisors Propose Expanding SF's Hotel Program to Shelter 500 More Homeless After FEMA's announcement that approved shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels would be entirely reimbursed with federal funds, five SF supervisors have now introduced legislation to expand the City's SIP hotel program and house some 500 more homeless San Franciscans.
SF News Hotel Diva in San Francisco Will Become Supportive Housing for Homeless California on Friday gave grant funding to four more homeless housing projects in the Bay Area. Those allocated resources will help Hotel Diva, a three-star lodge near Union Square, transform into supportive housing for the city's homeless.
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 News Mayor Breed Announces She's Added 1,065 New Shelter Beds Since 2018 With the declaration of a yet-opened SAFE Navigation Center in the Upper Market area — a community touchstone that'll add up to 200 shelter beds — this week, Mayor Breed will fulfill her 2018 promise of bringing a thousand new shelter beds to San Francisco. But is that enough?
SF News US Marshals Catch Fugitive Sex Offender At SoMa Homeless Shelter A convicted sex offender who'd been sought by US Marshals since 2014 was finally arrested this week, after investigators received a tip that the man was hiding out in San Francisco. According to
