SF News Homeless Man Does Video Diary; Another Homeless Man Found Dead In Mission Driveway Police find homeless man dead in Mission driveway Thursday morning after receiving a call for service: https://t.co/y12o2snBK8 pic.twitter.com/DHGIrOBKtF— Mission Local (@MLNow) December 23, 2016 The holidays should
SF News At Mission Meeting, SF Homeless Czar Declares 'We Have Completed Our Work Here And I Realize It May Not Look Like That' A meeting of neighbors in the Mission District joined by city leaders such as incoming supervisor Hillary Ronen, who replaces David Campos, and Jeff Kositsky, director of the new Department of Homelessness and
SF News Waitlist For SF Shelter Beds Surpasses 1,000 People Last night, with today's torrential downpours on the horizon, 1,009 people languished on a waitlist for 90-day shelter beds, a statistic that comes to us via a press release from the Coalition
SF News Mayor Doubles Down On Enforcing Quality-Of-Life Citations City officials determined in June that enforcing quality-of-life citations is both expensive and ineffective, costing $20.6 million annually without reducing the number of homeless on San Francisco's streets. Having sat on this
SF News $30 Million Campaign To Reduce Family Homelessness Enjoys Large Donation From Marc Benioff, Private Sector A program announced today whose aim is to curb the number of families experiencing homelessness will benefit from a private-public partnership that includes donations from number of tech companies and luminaries, from Zendesk
SF News 5 Of 7 Division Street Campers Profiled By Chronicle Still Homeless 9 Months After Camp Clearing Though it's been overshadowed this week by the flood of news connected to the Oakland's Ghost Ship fire, a number of news outlets this week are circling back to the SF Homeless Project
SF News There Are Close To 1,500 Homeless Youth Living On San Francisco Streets That San Francisco has a homelessness problem is not news — indeed, since Supervisor David Campos declared the situation a crisis last spring, six new Navigation Centers were approved in June, and the city's
SF News Mission District Neighbors Are Now Opposing Nuns Trying To Feed The Homeless It was right out of a Lifetime movie plot; A group of nuns, facing eviction from their Tenderloin soup kitchen and home, are saved when a charismatic multimillionaire self-help guru purchases them a
SF News Fire Under 880 In Oakland As Homeless Woman's Tent Ignited 880 in #oakland on #fire?! What the hell is going on lately? pic.twitter.com/u3rypsIc15— Ben Larson (@pitchtoben) December 5, 2016 Still grappling with the implications of Oakland's massive warehouse fire this
SF News City Drug-Injection Sites Endorsed By Department Of Public Health Director The city's senior health official endorsed the idea of establishing safe-injection sites for intravenous drug users yesterday at a Board of Supervisors meeting, aligning herself with what she says is clear scientific evidence
SF News Petition Demands More Public Toilets For Homeless In The Tenderloin San Francisco is home to roughly 7,000 homeless residents, and, just like the rest of us, those individuals need to use the restroom. Instead of griping about this fact and blaming the
SF News Homelessness Goes Down Nationwide, Rises On West Coast A new federal point-in-time census of the US homeless population, taken in January 2016 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), found that across the nation even in New York City
SF News Housing Protesters Shut Down Mission Street Thursday @jrivanob Some 150 people here at 22nd and Mission listening to poetry on gentrification, eviction pic.twitter.com/jY5I5F1CDu— Joe Rivano Barros (@jrivanob) November 4, 2016 Traffic came to a halt last night
SF News Suspects Arrested In Fatal Beating Of 67-Year-Old Disabled Homeless Man The senseless, pitiless killing of 67-year-old Tai Lam, a homeless man who suffered from Polio and used crutches to move about, is difficult to contemplate. Lam was beaten to death by a group
SF News New Marina Parking Restrictions Targeting Car-Dwellers Upset Homeless Activists Another in a long line of SFMTA measures restricting large vehicles from parking overnight on certain San Francisco streets was approved on Tuesday, this time focusing on the Marina. The Examiner reports that
SF News Day Around The Bay: In Oakland, A Plan To Make Homeless Encampments More Livable Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. A hotly-debated new program approved by the Oakland City
SF News Small Group Stages One-Day 'Tent-In' Outside City Hall To Protest Treatment Of Homeless, Encampments Demonstrators Pitch Tents Outside San Francisco City Hall « CBS ... - CBS Local https://t.co/Y1XyTA96bZ— San Francisco (@SanFrancisco361) October 18, 2016 A group going by the moniker Civil Disgrace, led by Mission
SF News LGBT Community, GLIDE, And Homeless Advocates Protesting Props Q, R In Castro To protest propositions Q and R, San Francisco LGBT groups, organizations like GLIDE, and advocates for homeless people will come together in the Castro at Harvey Milk Plaza today, Thursday, at 5:30
SF News Growing Number Of RV-Dwellers In Mountain View Have Homeowners Turning Up Their Noses As residents of San Francisco battle it out over various proposals to address homelessness and a dearth of affordable housing in the city, our neighbors to the south are engaged in a debate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deli Board Uses Twitter Account To Post Photos Of Homeless, Drug Use What's completely out of control? @mayoredlee pic.twitter.com/HN4SrG0F2R— Deli Board (@deliboard) October 2, 2016 Deli Board owner Adam Mesnick, who last year gave an interview to C.W. Nevius on the
SF News Regarding The 20-Person 'Box City' That Is One Advocacy Group's Pilot Encampent Project The civic motto for Anthony and Eddie, who are resident leaders and artists in a place they call Box City, is simple: "These may look like boxes, for us poor they are homes.
SF News Director Of New Homelessness Department Keeps It 100 On Reddit AMA We had a great time at @reddit answering some great questions from t he community about homelessness. @JeffKositsky https://t.co/rt4Q9G9QzU pic.twitter.com/inNS94Daz3— SF DHSH (@SF_DHSH) September 23, 2016
SF News Man Robbed During Shakedown At Line For SF Homeless Shelter A man waiting in line at a San Francisco homeless shelter was robbed of his possessions Thursday morning, after a criminal duo restrained and mugged him. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Micro-Unit Developer Suggests Shipping Container-Based Supportive Housing For SF Homeless Patrick Kennedy, the developer of micro-unit apartment complexes like this one we just wrote about the other week, now has his sights set on developing inexpensive, modular supportive housing for the homeless which
SF News NYT Writer Living Abroad For Decades Describes How Crazy San Francisco In 2016 Seems To Him New York Times foreign correspondent Thomas Fuller, who's spent the last 27 years living abroad primarily in Asia, has moved back to States, to the San Francisco of 2016 that we inhabit, and