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 Day Around The Bay: Homeless Cleared From Civic Center BART Entrances Two restaurants in a Daly City strip mall, Upside Down Burger and House of Sisig, had a bit of a rat problem recently, and House of Sisig consequently got shut down by the
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 Non-Profit Pledges $100 Million To SF's Homeless Problem A local non-profit called the Tipping Point Community announced Sunday that it is pledging $100 million to the city of San Francisco to help address the problem of homelessness over the next five
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 City's Homelessness Department And Public Works Are Officially At Odds Over Encampments A quiet war seems to be brewing within City Hall over the handling of homeless encampments, marking yet another chapter in a multi-year saga involving police, sanitation workers, homeless advocates, outreach workers, politicians,
SF News Protesters Are Eating Pizza In Muni Shelters After A Citation Was Given To Homeless Person For Doing That Solidarity can be as simple as eating pizza, or so a lighthearted protest organized for today seems to suggest. The action comes in response to a police officer who gave an elderly homeless
SF News Prop Q, Voter-Approved Anti-Homeless Encampment Law, Hasn't Been Used Once A measure passed by San Francisco voters in November to give city officials the power to clear clusters of tents on city streets and sidewalks after providing 24-hours notice and offering services including
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 Video: Homeless Woman In The Mission Says If These Are End Times, The Homeless Will Be The Survivors Yet another tent encampment at 14th and Mission got cleared Wednesday by the city's Department of Public Works in an ongoing game of musical tent cities that is one way your local tax
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 Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning
SF News Map Of Police Citations Shows Odd Prevalence Of Antiquated 'Immoral Life' Offense The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project's latest interactive map illustrates the incidences of police citations for minor quality-of-life crimes, an effort from that progressive-leaning group to emphasize the ways that begging and living on the
SF News SF Homeless Czar Apologizes For Remarks Overheard, Publicized By Lyft Driver Kevin Ebach, a 25-year-old San Francisco Lyft driver and educator who overheard comments from two male passengers that he considered to be harsh and disparaging toward others, including homeless people, posted about the
SF News McCoppin Plaza Fenced Off, Declared Construction Zone McCoppin Hub Plaza, a minor land use nightmare near where Valencia meets Market Street, beside a U-Haul store, and adjacent to where the 101 meets Octavia, is now fenced off according to Hoodline.
SF News SF's Homeless Census Is Literally, At Times, A Drive-By Operation Last Thursday night, January 26, from the passenger seat of a friend's Prius, I examined a paper map of Russian Hill and Fisherman's Wharf, giving sometimes confusing and wrong directions to her while
SF News First Homeless Navigation Center Abandons Permanent Housing Placement Promise The city's first Navigation Center for the homeless, launched in 2015 in the Mission District, is shifting its mandate amid the harsh realities of the homelessness crisis. Originally designed to house its clients
SF News Fox News Gloats That San Francisco Is Going Down The Toilet With Higher Crime, Etc. As they enjoy doing about once every six months, Fox News has done a piece about how San Francisco's "liberal policies" are going to be the city's undoing, and how they're directly to
