SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News SFO Stabbing Renews Concerns About Homelessness At Airport Tuesday’s stabbing of a police officer at San Francisco International Airport could have been a lot worse, as the officer’s injuries were minor enough that he was released from the hospital
SF News City Opens Small Homeless Navigation Center For Mentally Ill At SF General Navigation Center is a respite from the streets for mentally ill, addicted. via @DominicFracassa https://t.co/ggrHMsEWrg pic.twitter.com/Yygv0I3BRI— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 30, 2017 The latest homeless Navigation Center to
SF News Some SF 'Homeless Moms' Neither Homeless Nor Moms, Chronicle Finds Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 Pitchforks
SF News Lady Gaga Passed Out Money To Homeless People After Her SF Concert Benevolent and wealthy musical sensation Lady Gaga apparently handed out money to homeless people after performing to a sold-out crowd at AT&T Park on Sunday night. According to Twitter user @dinogaga16
SF News Supervisor Floats Wildly Expensive Plan To Move The 'Hairball' Underground #SF Supervisor Hillary Ronen pushes to untangle freeway Hairball: “It’s a mess.” https://t.co/mX30fHDVHu via @rachelswan pic.twitter.com/FGaWs1McyM— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) August 4, 2017 What's it going to take
SF News Homeless Mom And Her Newborn Attract Much Attention On Market Street Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 34-year-old
SF News Terrible Person Creates Facebook Page Just To Mock SF's Homeless A person going by the name Julie Zberg allegedly created a Facebook page called "Manpiles of SF" in order to denigrate the homeless she sees around her neighborhood. We don't know why. BrokeAss
SF News BART Directors Take Urine-Stained Tour Of Powell Station Approximately 50 BART officials and directors toured the Powell Street BART Station Thursday as part of an official look at what Macy's Union Square employees apparently call "The Toilet." The San Francisco Chronicle's
SF News Report: Navigation Centers Doing A Lot More 'Navigating' SF's Homeless Onto Buses Out Of Town The much ballyhooed vision of San Francisco's pioneering Navigation Centers for the homeless which were originally touted as allowing people to stay for indefinite periods in a non-traditional shelter setting until they could
SF News Latest Mission Homeless Navigation Center Stalled By Construction Delay A new homeless Navigation Center was scheduled to open Monday at the 1515 South Van Ness location at 26th Street, providing 120 beds just a few blocks from the persistent homeless encampment beneath
SF News 2017 San Francisco 'Homeless Census' Reveals That Despite Numbers, Things Are Worse, Not Better Every two years since 2005, the City of San Francisco performs a "homeless census" that is officially called the "Homeless Point-In-Time Count and Survey." The 2017 results were released a couple of weeks
SF News SF 'Homeless Census' Shows Slight Decline, But Uptick In Unexpected Neighborhoods The city of San Francisco performs a “homeless census” every other year, and SFist joined in on this year's count on a chilly night back in January. More than 750 volunteers combed every
SF News Everything You Need To Know About SF's Heroin Addiction Epidemic Every conversation about San Francisco's homeless problem needs to include an understanding of the growing injection drug problem that's affecting not only our city, but many around the nation in recent years. Addiction,
SF News Some Mission Bay Homeowners Up In Arms Over Homeless Housing Proposal A proposal for a 120-unit supportive housing facility for formerly homeless people in the Mission Bay neighborhood brought a flurry of public comment on the "no" side Thursday evening. KRON 4 attending the
SF News Federally Owned Parking Lot Behind Ninth Circuit Could Become Housing For Homeless Mayor Lee has introduced plans to convert a federally owned surface parking lot, so owned because it's behind a federal courthouse, into the city's largest supportive housing development for formerly homeless people. That
SF News Video: Tent Encampment At 16th And Potrero Frustrates Nearby Workers, Drives Out Company A tent encampment lining the street at 16th and Potrero one of the more consistent locations of a sizable tent city that tends to return quickly following city cleanup efforts has been a
SF News Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run
SF News Homelessness Department Head Asks For Budget Bump Of $16.5M This Year And $21.6M Next Year Jeff Kositsky, the man Mayor Lee put in charge of the newly formed Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) last year, has just submitted his first budget proposal for the coming fiscal
SF News Mayor Doubles Down On Enforcing Quality-Of-Life Citations City officials determined in June that enforcing quality-of-life citations is both expensive and ineffective, costing $20.6 million annually without reducing the number of homeless on San Francisco's streets. Having sat on this
SF News There Are Close To 1,500 Homeless Youth Living On San Francisco Streets That San Francisco has a homelessness problem is not news — indeed, since Supervisor David Campos declared the situation a crisis last spring, six new Navigation Centers were approved in June, and the city's
SF News Mission District Neighbors Are Now Opposing Nuns Trying To Feed The Homeless It was right out of a Lifetime movie plot; A group of nuns, facing eviction from their Tenderloin soup kitchen and home, are saved when a charismatic multimillionaire self-help guru purchases them a
SF News City Drug-Injection Sites Endorsed By Department Of Public Health Director The city's senior health official endorsed the idea of establishing safe-injection sites for intravenous drug users yesterday at a Board of Supervisors meeting, aligning herself with what she says is clear scientific evidence
SF News Petition Demands More Public Toilets For Homeless In The Tenderloin San Francisco is home to roughly 7,000 homeless residents, and, just like the rest of us, those individuals need to use the restroom. Instead of griping about this fact and blaming the
