SF News Nevius Thinks You Should Stop Buying Tents For The Homeless Here at SFist we can sometimes go months without paying much attention to the thrice weekly rantings of prickly local character and Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius. But between the Mario Woods case,
SF News Tent City Residents Fear City Efforts To Corral Them Ahead Of Super Bowl Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood — the tent city located on Division Street under the overpass — are worried. But as the Super Bowl approaches and the city swells with tourists, the homeless living
SF News Amid Storms And Super Bowl Displacement, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched To Buy Tents For Homeless Shaun Osburn, a fourth-generation Bay Area resident, knows what it's like to live on the streets. After experiencing homelessness himself he's become a strong advocate for poor and marginally housed people, even working
SF News Uproar Begins As Supervisor Wiener Tries To Enforce Tent Ban On Homeless Postcards from SF: Our homeless camp stretching 0.8 mile, both sides of the street from 13th/Otis to 13th/San Bruno. pic.twitter.com/JIMGn7L7Fi— Violet Blue ® (@violetblue) January 22, 2016 Three
SF News For SF Homeless, Just 75 Of Possible 1,300 'El Niño Beds' Added While Mayor Ed Lee vowed last month that up to 1,300 temporary shelter beds might be added during this season's El Niño weather pattern, by the Examiner's count just 75 have been
SF News Video: Sheriff's Deputy Who Attacked Homeless SF General Patient Will Serve No Jail Time The Sheriff's deputy whose unprovoked attack of a homeless man sleeping in an SF General waiting room was caught on video was sentenced yesterday in what the victim's lawyer characterizes as a slap
SF News Watch This Inspiring Mini-Doc Series About Activists Helping Homeless San Franciscans The Bay Area's own Natasha Giraudie reckons to the Chronicle that she's produced more than 2,000 short films in 30 countries while working for humanitarian organizations like the Clinton Global Initiative. But
SF News Stranger Helps Man On Floor Of BART Train While Everyone Else Stands Around One man's story of helping a stranger in need is receiving a lot of attention this week. It seems that a BART passenger, noticing a man passed out on the floor of the
SF News Jane Kim Looks To Increase Taxes On Short-Term Rentals, Hotels Supervisor Jane Kim today announced two future ballot measures that aim to increase both the hotel tax and taxes on certain real estate transfers. The hotel tax measure, which would be voted on
SF News Berkeley City Council Approves Laws Targeting Homeless In a contentious public meeting that went well into the night, the City Council of Berkeley Tuesday passed a set of laws specifically designed to target the city's homeless population. The laws, which
SF News Video: Homeless Woman Gives Birth At Muni Stop, Anonymous Bike Messenger Hailed As Hero The surprise birth of a baby under a Muni bus shelter that we mentioned in brief on Wednesday turns out to have been a surprise to the mother herself. As the Chronicle reports,
SF News In Expanded Relief Effort, Mission Episcopal Church Will Let Homeless People Rest Inside During The Day "Well, it looks like the work, and the Spirit, have made it happen," wrote Laura Slattery, Executive Director of the Gubbio Project, which has provided shelter to homeless San Franciscans during the day
SF News Homeless Are Staying Too Long At Navigation Center The experiment that is SF's Homeless Navigation Center (1950 Mission Street) has taught city workers at least one thing so far, and that is that helping the homeless navigate their way to a
SF News Humorist Proposes Putting SF's Homeless In Vacant Vacation Rentals In an essay titled Shall We House The Homeless in Vacation Rentals?, a resident of San Francisco has suggested that the city's vacation rental companies might be a great resource in the fight
SF News Alleged Killer Drifters Spark Heightened Outrage Against Haight Street Vagrants A community meeting last week in the Upper Haight may have marked just the beginning of a new wave of anger about the homeless youth who have been a constant sight in the
SF News Bevan Dufty Out As City's 'Homeless Czar' For Reasons Unknown Former Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty has left his role as Director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a.k.a. the city's "homeless czar," but a brief release from
SF News Nevada To Cough Up $400K For Dumping Its Mentally Ill Patients On Us A case that was brought back in 2013 by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, complaining that a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital had systematically put mentally ill people on Greyhound busses to Los Angeles and
SF News Jane Kim Wants To Fence Off McCoppin Plaza After Complaints About The Homeless Hangout As you're well aware if you've strolled or biked by the intersection of McCoppin and Valencia Streets on the cusp of Market Street, McCoppin Plaza rarely resembles the above promotional photo. Instead, the
SF News Homeless Bashing Tech Exec Turned Would-Be Homeless Savior Greg Gopman Flees On 'Eat, Pray, Love' Vacation Greg Gopman, the erstwhile CEO of hackathon organizing company AngelHack, has once again revealed himself to be far from angelic. After his 2013 screed against homeless "degenerates" brought him internet infamy, the 'reformed'
SF News Nevius Loves The Mayor's Super Bowl Plan For The Homeless There have been a lot of eyebrow raises amongst the media regarding the mayor's as-yet unexplained plan to clear all the homeless out of the vicinity of the Super Bowl fan village at
SF News During The Super Bowl Mayor Lee Says City's Homeless Will Have To Leave by Jack Morse In an apparent doubling down on his controversial April comment that "there won’t be any room" for San Francisco's homeless once the Super Bowl 50 Fan Village is up
SF News San Francisco's Sh** Still Stinks, But Is This Summer The Worst Ever? Let's take it as a given that the status quo of San Francisco streets is crap. But is 2015 the worst "summer of muck" on record? Certainly Debra Saunders thought so when she
SF News Basically Homeless Couple Discovers RV Living 'Rocks,' But Why Are They 'Hackers?' In what SFGate calls an "unusual odyssey out of homelessness," a couple from Los Angeles has, in the words of that blog, "hacked" housing and travel with an RV and a new club
SF News Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in
SF News Homeless Navigation Center To Become 165-Unit Affordable Building; Will There Be More Navigation Centers? Affordable housing advocates in the Mission District have something to celebrate: The development rights for what's currently the temporary Homeless Navigation Center at the former Phoenix Continuation High School site have been awarded
