SF News Photos: San Francisco Stands Against Sit / Lie Everything from yoga near the beach to a hot tub party to comics performing while lying down on the sidewalk (including Nato Green and Kamau Bell) occurred on Saturday during a large sit/
SF News Haight Sit/Lie Debate at City Hall Sparks Protest This morning, there was a sit/lie rally happening at City Hall -- a protest against a law that would, if all goes according to plan, preemptively stop crimes from happening in the
SF News Tenderloin Housing Clinic Set to Receive $82 Million? As SFist commenter auweia1 pointed out on his blog, San Francisco homeless ilk could receive $82 million. The cash would go to BeyondChron's Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic for the next five
SF News Cat and Owner Reunited Daniel Harlan, the homeless man who had been searching for his cat Samantha for weeks, was reunited with her this evening. Tom Neville had rescued the cat from what he perceived as a
SF News Homeless Person Offering Reward for Lost Cat This morning, Carl Nolte of the Chronicle brings our attention to the tale of a man's (adorable) missing cat. Daniel Harlan, 58, a homeless man and pan handler, had his "pug-nosed Himalayan cat
SF News Man Arrested In Connection with Mission Apartment Fire Police arrested Willie Tucker, 56, yesterday for allegedly setting fire to an apartment building at 2949 18th St. at about 8 a.m. on Jan. 28. Tucker, a transient gentleman, it seems, set
SF News Student Activists Arrested For Loitering Inside Hibernia National Bank Yesterday, several enthusiastic university students broke into the Hibernia National Bank, which was recently smeared this dated, fetishistic bit of graffiti, to protest the way the homeless are treated in the area. Which
misc Ask SFist: Homeless Folks And Their Pets SFist received a pressing (albeit insensitive and Nevius-esque) question in the editor's inbox this afternoon. Perhaps you can help? A reader (who asked to remain anonymous) writes: There are these two horrible drunk
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Brian Monnier: "Just saw a homeless guy bum $2 from someone and then burn it in front of the guy. Just awesome, I love sf."
SF News Cleansing Sixth Street? Not likely. But a new effort to sanitize Sixth Street is underway, starting this month, care of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. And what, exactly, will clean up San Francisco's scariest and urineiest
misc Photo du Jour 494 "A Sad State of Affairs In the City of San Francisco" by Plug1. (Image shot dangerously close to SFist HQ. This is the neighborhood on a good day, folks.)
SF News Berkeley Daily Planet: "We Are SO Not Mean to the Homeless" You may recall this study that was released a couple weeks back by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in which San Francisco was named the 7th meanest city to the
SF News County Official: "Budget Will Mean More Mentally Ill On Streets" You've probably heard that some California counties are fuming over the new state budget, which borrows $4 billion from county budgets and will mean major cuts in local services from health care to
SF News Help for Renters Arrives While looking at this tasty bit of insanity over at Curbed, we came across this bit of good news for renters in need. It seems, according to , that the U.S. Department of
SF News San Francisco Mean, But Not as Mean as LA, to the Homeless According to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless, who just released a report cloyingly titled "Homes Not Handcuffs," San Francisco is the seventh meanest
SF News Skateboard Attack Ends Homeless Man's Quantum Physics Discussion A San Mateo man is currently on trial for allegedly putting a beatdown on another homeless man. Why? Well, according to SFGate, Jason Everett Keller, 40, reportedly attacked fellow happy-wanderer Stephan Fava in
SF News San Francisco Homeless Stay Connected The Wall Street Journal reports that many of San Francisco's homeless are savvy at finding ways to go online regularly. Shelter attendants say the number of overnight visitors with laptops is growing, and
misc Photo du Jour 312 Think twice, is right. How very bad you must feel right about now. You can always try helping her, and many like her, by donating to the Coalition on Hobos (keep the Street
SF News Dalai Lama Visits SF Soup Kitchen After speaking in Berkeley on Saturday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Martin's Soup Kitchen, which primarily serves food to the homeless. Protected by heavy security and traveling in a long armored motorcade,
SF News Out-Of-Town Homeless Migration to SF Down 16% According to the latest biannual census of the city's homeless by the SF Human Services Agency, there are 6,514 homeless living in the city, an overall increase of 2% since 2007. 78%
SF News Help One Woman and Her Family Find a Home While Gavin Newsom tours California to tout his successes as mayor of San Francisco -- not to mention spending the weekend at the insider-baseball-y Democratic Convention in Sacramento, along with practically every other
