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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.

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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.

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Activist Behind Moms 4 Housing Sets Her Eyes on Oakland City Council Run

Carroll Fife, alongside the other Moms 4 Housing members, took hold of the country's attention last year after occupying an empty West Oakland abode, helping make the case that housing rights are human rights. Now, Fife is funneling that philanthropic notoriety into a run for Oakland City Council.

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Sunshine Ordinance Dump of Mayor Breed’s Texts Shows She Orders Lots of Homeless Sweeps

Gobs of Mayor London Breed’s text messages were posted online Monday, and they display some serious micromanaging of SFPD’s homeless sweeps.

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Tenderloin’s ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ Has Been Opened, Though Allows But 50 Tents

The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.

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‘Moms 4 Housing’-Style Demonstration Occupies Vacant Castro House

As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.

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Bayview’s Pier 94 to Become COVID-19 RV Homeless Shelter

More than 100 shelter RVs provided by the city and state will become temporary shelter with counseling for people with underlying health conditions experiencing homelessness.

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Navigation Center Resident Tests Positive, Supervisors Clamor To Open More Hotel Rooms for Them

As the dread first COVID-19 case at a Navigation Center has arrived, several supervisors are fuming that transition of unhoused people to safe hotels has barely started.

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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.

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Tracy Mayor Calls for Busing His City's Homeless Off to Stockton

Not even hiding it, the mayor of Tracy says “I know they just built a nice big shelter in Stockton” and “get a bus ticket to some of these shelters.”

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Oakland Kicks Off ‘Homelessness Audit’ In Hopes of Better Managing Encampments

One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.

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Street Sheet Turns 30 as the Underdog Paper Refuses to Fold

It’s the 30th anniversary of Street Sheet, San Francisco’s firsthand chronicle of poverty and homelessness in the city.

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NorCal City Asks Permission to Essentially Incarcerate Homeless Population

A spike in unsheltered people camping along Shasta County’s Sacramento River has the mayor of Redding requesting a “low-security facility” in which to round them up and detain them involuntarily.

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Low-Budget Version of Clinton Park Rocks Roils Ingleside, Wall Gets Removed

A plywood wall blocking a pedestrian walkway in Ingleside hs been taken down for now, but exasperated neighbors vow to replace it with a gate or some other manner of barrier.

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SF Woman Livid After Homeless Man Who Allegedly Accosted Her Is Released From Jail

A woman who was assaulted by a homeless and apparently unstable man Saturday night outside her building in SoMa is outraged after the suspect was released from jail on his own recognizance by a judge.

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Number of Mentally Ill Homeless In SF Involuntarily Committed For Long-Term Stays Sank 50% In Last Six Years

A new report by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office finds that the city has been involuntarily committing about half the number of mentally ill individuals as it did half a decade ago, partly due to a lack of inpatient beds.

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Los Angeles Homeless Census Number Echoes San Francisco's, With 16 Percent Increase

New numbers released Tuesday for Los Angeles County and the city proper show sharp increases in the homeless population there, with a figure for the city that tracks with San Francisco's.

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San Francisco Homeless Count Jumps Double Digits; More People Living In Cars

Though we are still over a month away from the release of the finalized 2019 point-in-time homeless census that is mandated by the federal government, preliminary numbers for homeless populations across the Bay Area were released late Thursday. And overall they're way up since 2017.

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City Downsizes Embarcadero Homeless Shelter Proposal, NIMBYs Still Not Having It

A reduction of more than 100 shelter beds fails to satisfy waterfront homeowners, who still say they’ll sue to prevent a homeless Navigation Center.

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The Bay Area May Not Have the Nation's Largest Homeless Population, But We Have The Most Unsheltered One

San Francisco’s homeless account for only one-fourth of the greater Bay Area homeless population, and the broader Bay Area ranks pretty terribly at providing supportive housing.

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Berkeley Homeless Encampment Near BART Tracks Cleared Out, While Here/There Encampment Stays

Residents of the "Here/There" homeless encampment in Berkeley are celebrating today as they were granted a temporary reprieve by a judge, who blocked an attempt by BART police to evict the residents

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Large Homeless Encampment At 'Hairball' Gets Cleared

One of the last large homeless encampments in the city is being "resolved" according to city officials, and the dozens of people who have been living there for about a year — or in

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SF Moving Forward With Modular Housing To Help City's Homeless

To go with their new plan to help curb homelessness by 50% by 2020, San Francisco is proceeding with a proposal to build modular housing for the homeless at Seventh and Mission. According

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Oakland City Council Debates Declaring Another Homeless Shelter Crisis

Following news that San Francisco is working to implement a new plan to help combat homelessness, Oakland is now debating whether to declare their own shelter crisis. Oakland North reports that the city

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SF Now Plans To Reduce Homeless Population By 50% In Five Years

San Francisco is set to enact some new plans to help the homeless population currently living in the city, with an ambitious goal to reduce the number of people on the streets by