SF News Marchers Disrupt Sunday Streets To Protest SFPD Shooting Of Luis Gongora A group of fifty of so individuals took to the street on Sunday to protest last Thursday's SFPD shooting death of homeless man Luis Gongora. Gathering at 18th and Dolores Street, the group
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
SF News Banned From Numerous SF Streets, Homeless Czar Now Wants RV Park For Homeless Vehicle-Dwellers It was back in 2012 when the city of San Francisco started banning the overnight parking of "oversized" vehicles. The prohibitions were an effort to keep otherwise homeless folks living in RVs from
SF News Tony Robbins Buys Homeless-Serving Nuns A New Soup Kitchen In The Mission Multimillionaire "CEO whisperer" Tony Robbins, who once spent some time homeless himself before striking it rich as a business and self-improvement coach, has for the second time come to the rescue of a
SF News Campos's Shelter-Crisis Declaration Now Has Veto-Proof Majority There's a line wrapping around the Board of Supervisors chambers filled with speakers who are demanding that the City declare a state of emergency to deal with our homeless crisis. A photo posted
SF News Second Homeless Navigation Center Will Be An SRO At 12th And Market A year after opening the city's first "Navigation Center" for the homeless at 16th and Mission Streets, a project heralded as a new approach to a persistent issue that would be replicated if
SF News Poll: 51 Percent Of San Franciscans See City Headed In Wrong Direction Sadly, that New York Times article about the state of affairs in formerly magical San Francisco — a place where longtime residents are now begging for an end to the madness of the boom
SF News Haight Homeless Guy Who Spotted Escaped Prisoners Gets $100K Reward Here's some actual good news. You'll recall the story of 55-year-old Matthew Hay-Chapman, a down-on-his-luck but nonetheless observant semi-homeless guy in the Upper Haight who, back in late January, spotted one of three
SF News Homelessness Debate Between Mayor's Office And Supervisor Campos Continues The debate on how to best serve the homeless of San Francisco wages on this week in the form of an open letter by Supervisor David Campos and an interview given by Sam
SF News Mayor Lee Defends Homeless Sweeps, Goes After Supervisor Campos Mayor Ed Lee yesterday took the unusual step of saying something of note at the typically staid Board of Supervisors meeting question time — simultaneously defending his efforts to combat homelessness in San Francisco
SF News So NOW We Have A Homelessness Crisis, Supervisor Campos Decides After seven years on the Board of Supervisors, David Campos woke up this morning and decided that San Francisco had entered a homelessness crisis. Campos' team was up early, too, calling SFist before
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Francisco's Homeless Population Is Aging San Francisco's homeless population is aging, and experts fear that this could lead to a public health crisis. [Chronicle] The site of the former T-Mobile store at 20th and Mission Streets has been
SF News Another Homeless Navigation Center Will Take 6 Months, Mayor Says The first Homeless Navigation Center, a pilot project originally funded by a $3 million anonymous donation via the SF Interfaith council, opened up after some delays last year in the Mission. It's seen
SF News Remaining 50 (Or So) Tents Forced Off Division Street Early Tuesday San Francisco crews are not negotiating w/the homeless around Division St. anymore. Today is clear out day. pic.twitter.com/UO8eaiFYb1— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 1, 2016 Monday morning we noted how
SF News A 'Few Dozen' Tent City Homeless Remain, Some Trickling Back It appears that the city's strategy of issuing a 72-hour notice to vacate last week around the tent city that had ballooned in January and February under the freeway viaduct along Division Street
SF News This Plaintive Tweet From 311 Feels Like SF's Homeless Services Problem In A Nutshell Where were the encampments? ^KH— SF311 (@SF311) February 26, 2016 "Where were the encampments?" tweeted San Francisco's Information and Services hotline at 4:21 this morning...to no one? To us all? Sure,
SF News Will The Remaining Tent City Homeless Get Arrested On Friday? In a pair of competing pieces this morning, the Chronicle is saying both that the tent-dwellers on Division Street are all packing up and leaving, as demanded by the city with a deadline
SF News Pier 80 Shelter Fills Up As Tent City Sweeps Continue Even staff at the historic worker-owned Rainbow Grocery have had enough. Located at 13th and Folsom near "Tent City," a sprawling homeless encampment, members of the co-op have seen worsening conditions and are
SF News City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies within 72
SF News SF's Latest Startup Founder/Unwise Blogger Calls For Crucifixion Of 'The City' I can only imagine that it's been a whirlwind couple of days for command.io founder Justin Keller! After publishing that now-infamous "open letter" to San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr and
SF News Another Startup Founder Declares He 'Shouldn't Have To See The ... Despair Of Homeless People' At this point it's a tale as old as Glassholes. Tech guy who's lived here three years (!) has several awkward moments involving mentally ill and/or intoxicated homeless people while his family is
SF News Confirmed: Ed Lee's 'Best Friend' From College Is Now A Homeless San Franciscan Two college chums are now on opposite sides of a divided city. A 64-year-old man named Jim Hammond Harding who had the pleasure of meeting the Chronicle's curmudgeon-in-chief Chuck Nevius says that “ Mayor
SF News Breed Staffer Quashes Rumors That Kezar Pavilion Will Become Another Homeless Navigation Center In sharp contrast to the thus-far pricey yet lackluster accommodations for the undomiciled at Pier 80, the Mission's Homeless Navigation Center has been widely hailed as a success (so much so that folks
SF News Sub-Par Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Costs More Per Bed Than An Airbnb Or Hotel Room The much ballyhooed “low-threshold" homeless shelter on Pier 80 is finally up and running, and with the recent addition of toilets and showers, city officials expect San Francisco's homeless to make their way
SF News 71% Of SF Homeless Once Had Homes In SF There's a lot to learn form the Homeless Point-In-Time Count & Survey Comprehensive Report of 2015, which is online in its entirety, but one detail to which Socketsite draws attention is the percent
