SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
SF News San Francisco Will Continue With Late Night Homeless Count After Proposal to Change Hours Garners Criticism Presented with a request by the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (SF HSH) to perform the City's mandated biennial homeless count at earlier hours than normal, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board (LHCB) voted Friday afternoon to keep its late evening hours.
SF News Property Occupied By Moms 4 Housing Activists Has Been Sold — and Will Become Sanctuary for the Homeless Nearly a year after the Moms 4 Housing created a national dialogue around housing rights, the West Oakland property the activists once occupied has now been purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust (OakCLT) — and will be converted into a shelter for mothers experiencing homelessness.
SF News San Francisco Man Wants To Give A Slice Of Pizza To Each Of The City's 8,000 Homeless In a bid to inspire others to treat our city's homeless with more compassion and empathy, one Alexander Debelov wants to do something novel for his birthday this year: put a slice of pizza in each homeless San Franciscan's hands.
SF News Disability Rights Advocates Sue BART For Broken, Gross Elevators, BART Blames Homelessness Crisis A lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court yesterday points out what any BART rider already knows: Elevators and escalators on the regional transit system are chronically broken or unusably filthy. But for