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
SF News As New Department Of Homelessness Takes Shape, Report Advocates For Tracking System Recall that San Francisco distributes around $241 million in more than 400 contracts with 76 private organizations that provide services to homeless people with no unified system to track the effects of that
SF News Design District Business Denies Intentionally Spraying Sleeping Homeless With Sprinklers A spokesperson for an auction house located in San Francisco's Design District issued a statement denying that the company intentionally sprays sleeping homeless with water from a rooftop sprinkler in an attempt to
SF News Alarming Video Shows Beating, Torture Of Homeless Man Later Found Dead In Golden Gate Park Disturbing video obtained by NBC Bay Area appears to show — in (be warned) shocking detail — one of several incidents of abuse that may have eventually killed 66-year-old homeless transient Stephen Williams, a man
SF News [Update] Homeless Man Found Dead In Golden Gate Park Allegedly Tortured For Three Days Possible Homicide victim found in @GoldenGatePark was assaulted by 3 men yesterday @SFPD looking for them now #ktvu pic.twitter.com/KR41FlDOx6— taramoriarty (@taramoriarty1) May 24, 2016 A 66-year-old man found dead in
SF News How Are San Francisco's Homeless Voting Today? Over the course of the last six months, we've heard a lot about what politicians think of the homeless who live on San Francisco's streets. What we haven't heard so much of, on
SF News Pier 80 Shelter To Close July 1 The temporary, emergency shelter at Pier 80 will be shut down by the city after a two-month extension, on July 1, and as SF Weekly reports, there's no immediate plan for where to
SF News Another Man Lit On Fire In Bizarre Polk Street Attack For the second time in just over two weeks, someone has lit an unsuspecting man on fire in or near the Tenderloin. KRON 4 brings news of this morning's incident, which reportedly went
SF News City Report: 'Quality Of Life' Laws Are Costly, Ineffective So called "Quality of life" laws like the controversial sit/lie law are costly and ineffective, according to a new report issued by the city's Budget Analyst Wednesday. The Examiner picked up the
SF News Mayor Ups Proposed Budget To $9.6 Billion With Emphasis On Cleanliness, Homelessness Spending For the fiscal year starting on July 1, Mayor Lee has proposed that San Francisco's budget increase, mostly on the back of property taxes, by around $700 million to reach $9.6 billion.
SF News SF's New Homelessness Department Head Wants To Leverage Tech To House 8,000 By End Of Mayor's Term On July 1st, much of San Francisco's spending on homelessness, a total of $241 million distributed among more than 400 contracts with 76 mostly nonprofit private organizations, will at long last be corralled
SF News Video: Bernie Sanders Calls Out SF Homeless Crisis In Impromptu Union Rally Speech Senator Bernie Sanders thanked a crowd of labor protestors Wednesday afternoon "for standing up, right here in San-Fran-Cisco," emphatically pronouncing each syllable of our city's name in his heavy Brooklyn accident — though not,
SF News 'Unknown Suspect' Catches Homeless Man On Fire The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a most worrisome blaze, after an unknown suspect tried to catch a homeless man on fire as he slept yesterday afternoon. According to the SFPD, officers
SF News City Clears 100-Person Homeless Encampment On Cesar Chavez Homeless camp swept from #SF's Cesar Chavez St. https://t.co/7NcILnIAMU pic.twitter.com/7sSq6x3zZd— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 11, 2016 A large and "complex" tent city centered around the 101 freeway overpass
SF News Big Rig Topples Tree Onto Tent On Folsom, Injuring Two Homeless Men A white big-rig truck struck a tree early Tuesday morning and toppled it onto a tent where two homeless men were sleeping, on Folsom Street in the Mission District. The truck then fled
SF News San Francisco's Homeless Navigation Center Plan, By The Numbers It was early March when San Francisco Supervisor David Campos pushed for an official declaration of homelessness emergency and called for for the city to "build six additional Navigation Centers in the next
SF News Nevius Attacks Avalos's Homeless Tent Protection Plan As you know, there have been various small battles being waged following the mayor's announced plan to tackle "hot spots" among homeless encampments citywide and systematically "clear" them, which typically just leads to
SF News Eighth Witness Disputes SFPD Account Of Gongora Shooting, Says He Was Using Knife On Tree #mymission. Five shots fired a homeless man with a knife is down. pic.twitter.com/Ras4wXYdBm— Laura Sydell (@Sydell) April 7, 2016 Yet another witness, a fellow homeless person who was living at
SF News Manspreaders Beware: BART 'Seat Hog' Ordinance Passes Keep those knees together, ladies and gentlemen, and for heaven's sake put that bag on your lap — BART police are on the prowl. With a 5-to-4 vote yesterday, the BART board approved what
SF News SPFD Town Hall On Mission Homeless Shooting Filled With Anger, Mistrust An angry crowd gathered yesterday at the Laborers International Union on the corner of 18th and Shotwell Streets, less than a block from where a week ago San Francisco Police Officers shot and
SF News No, San Francisco Does Not Spend $36,000 Per Year On Every Homeless Person After making note of the $241 million the city now allocates to homeless services yearly, a figure published in the Chronicle that represents a new high, not to mention $84 million more than
