SF News Homeless Volunteers Are Cleaning Downtown Streets For Stipends, Services, And Self-Confidence Downtown Streets Team, a program in which homeless volunteers clean streets, receiving services and vouchers at stores like Safeway and Target, was created in Palo Alto by Eileen Richardson, a venture capitalist who
SF News Campos Promises To Rid Mission District Of Homeless Encampments Within 4 Months Following statements last week by the Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing indicating that officials intend to remove all homeless encampments within the city once and for all, we now get confirmation that
SF News [Update] Department Of Homelessness Renews Effort To Dismantle Tent Encampments Citywide The newly created Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing is set to begin the process of removing every single homeless encampment in the city — tent by tent. CBS 5 reports that the department's
SF News Former Mayor Art Agnos Floats Idea For Homeless Shelter Aboard Navy Ship Speaking with SFist in June on the topic of the enduring homelessness crisis in San Francisco, Art Agnos, who served as mayor from 1988 to 1992, classified "the development... of supportive and permanent
SF News Bay Area To Be Voting On Multiple Ballot Measures Relating To Homeless Problem In November At the ballot box this fall, residents of multiple Bay Area cities can expect to be voting on a record number of local ballot measures aiming to build more affordable housing for the
SF News Check Yourself, Manspreaders: BART's 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Is Now In Effect Hold onto your butts: BART's new "seat hog" rule is here and it's ready to party. Or be enforced. Whatever. Passed in April, the measure allows BART police to run criminal background checks
SF News 19-Year-Old Woman Arrested In Golden Gate Park Torture And Murder Case A woman who police say was involved with the May torture and murder of a 66-year-old homeless man in Golden Gate Park has been arrested in northern Arizona. The Chronicle reports that the
SF News Private Social Network For Businesses Being Used To Track Homeless Encampments With the issue of homelessness featuring so prominently in the news this year, and with multiple proposed measures for clearing homeless encampments circulating, it has become more crucial than ever to have some
SF News SF General Resident Condemns City's Treatment Of Mentally Ill San Francisco, for all its wealth, is either unwilling or unable to care for its most vulnerable. So argues a SF General psychiatry resident in a recently published op-ed for the Chronicle which
SF News McCoppin Plaza Anti-Homeless Fence Moves Forward With Jane Kim's Support McCoppin Hub Plaza, the recently renovated public space on Valencia at McCoppin Street, is about to get a whole lot less welcoming. Mission Local reports that the plan to erect a giant fence
SF News Kim Proposes Yet Another Measure To Deal With Homeless Encampments Supervisor Jane Kim yesterday introduced a measure that would set terms by which the city engages with tent encampments and the homeless residents who call them home. This, reports the Chronicle, is the
SF News Nevius Solves SF's Homeless Problem: Limit The Number We Help Following last week's blitz of coverage as part of the SF Homeless Project, Chron columnist C.W. Nevius is finally, predictably chiming in with his common-sense, let's-stop-the-nonsense take on what's arguably the city's
SF News Pets Of Homeless People Provide Huge Benefits, But Often Keep Them On The Streets "Rick is the only one who has ever really loved me," a man named Sam told me as he sat on a sidewalk at the end of Judah Street in the Outer Sunset.
SF News How The Closure Of Goodwill Impacts The Homeless, And More Stories From The SF Homeless Project As the week winds down, we have another wave of pieces from the SF Homeless Project, covering a variety of subjects. Here are some highlights: KRON 4 has a piece about family homelessness,
SF News New Homeless Czar Jeff Kositsky Pens Chronicle Credo As a day of devoted homelessness coverage draws to a close — though there will be more articles to come this this week and for many more to come — heads might naturally turn to
SF News 48% Of SF Homeless Youth Are LGBTQ And More Homeless News Today's the big day more than 70 San Francisco media outlets have been waiting for, and as promised, there's a flood of coverage focused on the homeless people of San Francisco, and beyond.
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Opens With 93 Beds In Civic Center Hotel Timed neatly to the crest of homelessness coverage being released this week by local outlets in an effort called the SF Homeless Project a push to shine a brighter media light on an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Insecurity In The City Of Food: How San Francisco Feeds Its Homeless San Francisco is a city in love with food. Known for some of the best restaurants in the country, we pride ourselves on influencing how the rest of the world eats. Frequently lost
SF News Department of Public Health Puts Last Year's Homeless Count Closer To 10,000 Starting yesterday with an open letter to the city, more than 70 publications have begun to release focused, extended coverage on the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. While we framed some questions
SF News We've Been Talking About Homelessness Like It's New And Like It's The 'Worst Ever' For 30 Years "The annual homeless crisis came to San Francisco early this year," the Chronicle's Abe Mellinkoff wrote on October 16th, 1986. "Usually we don't hear much about it until the weather really turns cold.
SF News Why San Francisco's Homeless Became A Problem In 1982 As part of the SF Homeless Project today we have two good retrospective pieces with archival footage from the early 1980's in San Francisco that trace the sudden visibility of hundreds (or thousands)
SF News SF Homeless Project Kicks Off With Open Letter To The City, Look Back At The Last 30 Years As announced last month in the New York Times, over 70 different media organizations in San Francisco, including SFist, are participating a broad-ranging effort this week to shine new lights on the issue
SF News BART Seat Hogging? Expect A Criminal Background Check, Fines Starting this September, BART passengers taking up more than one train seat may be subject to police questioning, criminal background checks, fines, and even arrest. So reports CBS 5 as BART police share
SF News Measure To Allow Forced Clearing Of Homeless Encampments Proposed By Farrell If you can't solve a complicated problem, why not just legislate away its symptoms? That appears to be the thinking of Supervisor Mark Farrell, who the Chronicle reports yesterday introduced an initiative that
SF News Supervisors Approve Six New Homeless Navigation Centers (Without Booze Or Drugs) Supervisor David Campos's previously announced legislation that mandates the creation of six new homeless navigation centers like the one already in the Mission, all within two years, received unanimous support from the Board
