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
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
