SF News Mayor Breed Discusses Her $5 Million 'Rapid Re-Housing' And Eviction Prevention Budget Perhaps in an attempt to get ahead of the story, discussed over the weekend, about the pushback she's getting from the Board of Supervisors for her affordable housing-expediting City Charter amendment, Mayor London
SF News 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.
SF News SF Supes Vote To Force Treatment On The Mentally Ill And Drug Addicted Following some compromise in the legislation, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a potentially game-changing pilot program that could significantly alter the way authorities handle homeless people in crisis.
SF News 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.
SF News Marc and Lynne Benioff Fund $30M Study On Homelessness Marc and Lynne Benioff are giving $30 million to fund a five-year study on homelessness — its root causes and potential solutions.
SF News Homeless Couple Lives the Dream, Moves Into $4 Million Piedmont Home A good samaritan welcomes an unhoused couple into his posh suburban Oakland home, neighbors predictably call police on the regular.
SF News Embarcadero Homeless Shelter Approved, Opponents Vow To Challenge It In Court The debate over the Embarcadero homeless Navigation Center is surely not over, but the city officially gave it the green light Tuesday night.
SF News 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.
SF News 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.
SF News Homeless Advocates, NIMBY Neighbors Launch Dueling GoFundMe Campaigns Over Embarcadero Shelter Neighbors in the Rincon Hill / East Cut environs are going toe-to-toe with the Mayor and Coalition on Homelessness over a proposed new Homeless Navigation Center near the intersection of Embarcadero and Bryant, underneath the Bay Bridge.
SF News Breed Signs Off On City’s Largest Homeless Navigation Center On The Embarcadero The 200-bed center would allow pets and partners, and be a 24-hour facility.
SF News Some Facts About SF's Homeless Population Ahead of the 2019 Point-in-Time Census Locals and tourists alike are quick to complain about San Francisco's very visible homeless problem. But apart from pat phrases like "it's gotten so much worse," very few people can quote any hard
SF News Bartender At Popular Oakland Restaurant Allegedly Beats Homeless Man To Death With Bat A bartender an an upscale Oakland restaurant is behind bars today, after witnesses say they watched him beat a homeless man to death outside his place of business. The alleged homicide happened outside
SF News 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
SF News 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
SF News Smoke From NorCal Fires Gives SF Gorgeous Sunrise, Health Hazards Galore A post shared by Bruce Getty (@gettyphotography) on Oct 10, 2017 at 8:12am PDT As we head into a second full day of out-of-control wildfires across Northern California, residents in areas of
SF News 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
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 Outraged Commuter Records BART Rider Using Train As Restroom We all know that BART elevators (and escalators!) are frequently used as restrooms. According to a regular BART rider, the trains are also at risk, and he has video of one such incident
SF News Photo Of Driver Who Allegedly Crushed Homeless Person's Tent For SF Parking Space Goes Viral A homeless person's tent was in a parking space, which this driver ran over, then parked on. pic.twitter.com/FyLLTsGeri— Joe Fitz Rodriguez (@FitzTheReporter) September 14, 2017 SF Examiner reporter Joe Fitzgerald
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 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 Fire At Mission Bay Homeless Encampment Sends Dark Smoke Into SF Skies Fire in San Francisco believed to have ignited at homeless encampment; blaze has since been extinguished. https://t.co/V3X2cL8V1E pic.twitter.com/1FYVHdgPEM— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) July 19, 2017 The San
