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 After Pushback From Chinatown Residents, Breed Cancels Plan For Sober Living Facility at Hotel North Beach Less than two weeks after announcing plans to convert the Hotel North Beach into the city's first sober living facility for formerly homeless people, SF Mayor London Breed has canceled those plans due to community objections.
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 Politics RV Lot Sheltering Dozens of Formerly Unsheltered Homeless People In SF to Remain Open Under Tentative Agreement An RV shelter park that opened early in the pandemic on a lot near the Bayview is now set to remain temporarily open as a shelter for the homeless, despite moves by the Port of SF to reclaim the property.
SF Politics Supervisors Might Spike Plan for Temporary Tiny Homes for Homeless at 'Monster In the Mission' Site A plan to put up 70 temporary tiny homes/cabins in the former Walgreens parking lot behind the 16th and Mission BART plaza, ahead of a planned affordable development, may be getting killed after negative community feedback.
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 Politics Mandelman Reintroduces Shelter-for-All Proposal at Board of Supervisors, Hopes to Get It to a Vote This Time Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is reviving, for a second time, proposed legislation that would require the city of San Francisco to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — something that has been established law in New York City for decades.
SF News Tiny House Village For Oakland Homeless Goes In at Long-Vacant Lot Beside Lake Merritt A village of tiny houses able to give shelter to 79 homeless individuals began construction today on a Lake Merritt-adjacent lot in Oakland, and it should be habitable very quickly.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay High School Student's Nonprofit That Makes Baked Goods for Those In Need Expands to Eight States A high school junior in Fremont who's been giving away her baked goods to local homeless shelters since she was 13 has launched a nonprofit to mobilize other teens to do the same — and it's now grown to 10 chapters in eight states.
SF News Amid Spike In COVID Cases Among Homeless, Supervisors Extend Hotel Room Program San Francisco will continue ushering people off the streets and into shelter-in-place hotel rooms for at least two months, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an extension of a program that would have expired in just two more weeks.
SF Politics Op-Ed: Some Homeless People Prefer the Street to 'Jail Lite' Rules at Hotel Shelters Programs in San Francisco and Alameda counties to house the homeless in hotels tend to have some draconian rules for those who accept shelter, and several individuals who have experienced these hotel accommodations say they're not worth the cost their freedoms.
SF News Salvation Army Community Center On Valencia Street Might Become Homeless Shelter In an effort to mitigate San Francisco homelessness, one district supervisor believes some respite exists in the Mission District — more specifically, inside The Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center at 1156 Valencia Street.
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
