SF News Confirmed: Ed Lee's 'Best Friend' From College Is Now A Homeless San Franciscan Two college chums are now on opposite sides of a divided city. A 64-year-old man named Jim Hammond Harding who had the pleasure of meeting the Chronicle's curmudgeon-in-chief Chuck Nevius says that “ Mayor
SF News Sub-Par Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Costs More Per Bed Than An Airbnb Or Hotel Room The much ballyhooed “low-threshold" homeless shelter on Pier 80 is finally up and running, and with the recent addition of toilets and showers, city officials expect San Francisco's homeless to make their way
SF News SoMa Gym Owner Fed Up With Tent City Homeless, Prints Flyers Demanding City Action A SoMa business owner is fed up with the homeless camped near his business, and has printed flyers urging his customers to contact San Francisco elected officials in order to demand some sort
SF News New Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Lacks Flush Toilets, Showers When residents of the tent city along Division Street voiced concern earlier this month about city officials attempting to force them from from their encampments actions that the Department of Public Works, for
SF News Public Defender Links Super Bowl Tensions With Homeless To CHP Stabbing The man accused of stabbing a California Highway Patrol near a SoMa homeless camp won't be arraigned until next week, but San Francisco's Public Defender is already arguing his case in the court
SF News Satirical App To Report Homeless Mistaken For Genuine A website satirizing the Bay Area's ongoing belief that technology can solve everything apparently hit a little too close to home this week. The app, which purportedly provides users a way to document
SF News Mostly Homeless Haight Denizen To Collect $140,000 Reward For Those Escaped Convicts 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman looks like your average Upper Haight vagabond whom you probably wouldn't let borrow your cell phone if he asked. And that's exactly what happened last Saturday when he was headed
SF News [Update] Protest Over Homeless And Super Bowl City Attracts Many Police, Frank Chu No SFPD patience today. #SB50 homeless protest kettled after ten minutes. pic.twitter.com/EVb8NyDTWg— Chris Roberts (@cbloggy) February 4, 2016 A planned and well publicized protest today next to the Ferry Building,
SF News Nevius Thinks You Should Stop Buying Tents For The Homeless Here at SFist we can sometimes go months without paying much attention to the thrice weekly rantings of prickly local character and Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. But between the Mario Woods case,
SF News Tent City Residents Fear City Efforts To Corral Them Ahead Of Super Bowl Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood — the tent city located on Division Street under the overpass — are worried. But as the Super Bowl approaches and the city swells with tourists, the homeless living
SF News Stranger Helps Man On Floor Of BART Train While Everyone Else Stands Around One man's story of helping a stranger in need is receiving a lot of attention this week. It seems that a BART passenger, noticing a man passed out on the floor of the
SF News Jane Kim Looks To Increase Taxes On Short-Term Rentals, Hotels Supervisor Jane Kim today announced two future ballot measures that aim to increase both the hotel tax and taxes on certain real estate transfers. The hotel tax measure, which would be voted on
SF News Berkeley City Council Approves Laws Targeting Homeless In a contentious public meeting that went well into the night, the City Council of Berkeley Tuesday passed a set of laws specifically designed to target the city's homeless population. The laws, which
SF News After Jury Hangs, Accused Cow Hollow Child Choker Takes Plea Deal A man accused of violently attacking a 5-year-old girl as she walked down a Cow Hollow street will be sentenced to two years in prison, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said Tuesday.
SF News Humorist Proposes Putting SF's Homeless In Vacant Vacation Rentals In an essay titled Shall We House The Homeless in Vacation Rentals?, a resident of San Francisco has suggested that the city's vacation rental companies might be a great resource in the fight
SF News Man Claims Restraining Order From Zuckerberg's Mansion Security Left Him Homeless Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million Dolores Heights fixer-upper has caused its fair share of problems over the past two years of fixer-upping. Neighbors were pissy due to construction and noise, which drove reporters with
SF News Muni Bus Turned Shower Stalls For The Homeless Starts Running June 28th Lava Mae, the San Francisco startup that has converted a Muni bus into showers for the homeless, is ready to roll out their first mobile washroom in the Mission starting on June 28th.
SF News San Francisco Homeless Man Equipped With A GoPro In the same way that a GoPro camera can take you on a death-defying wingsuit flight or a motorcycle ride with a dog, one San Francisco-based homeless advocate and educational technology entrepreneur hopes
SF News Muni Bus Turned Shower For The Homeless To Hit The Road In May Last April, we reported on a local entrepreneur's plan to convert some old Muni buses to showers for homeless people. Nearly a year later, we have an update: the first shower/bus will
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Debate Legal Weed, Homelessness With A 26-Year-Old Alleged Sinatra progeny and 26-year-old MSNBC on-air personality Ronan Farrow is tackling some tough issues on his recently launched talk show Ronan Farrow Daily. He's already asked Kenyans what they think of President
SF News Should San Francisco Be Spending More Money On Homeless Services? According to a new report requested by Supervisor Mark Farrell, there are (at least) 915 homeless youths on the streets of San Francisco these days, and that number may very well be higher
SF News Greg Gopman, Startup Founder Who Lambasted Homeless People, Is Getting Sued Just days after we wondered what despiser of the undomiciled Greg Gopman was up to, we have our answer: he's busy getting sued. Former AngelHack CEO Gopman, as you know, authored a Facebook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crestfallen Cafe Responds To SFist's Criticism See, now that's funny. Almost. Two-year-old Mid-Market cafe and eatery Machine — who, last week, poked fun at area addicts and homeless, among other characters in the changing neighborhood — responded to SFist's criticism via
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Polk Street Blues Photo shot early Tuesday morning by Erik Wilson.
