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
SF News Man Claims Restraining Order From Zuckerberg's Mansion Security Left Him Homeless Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million Dolores Heights fixer-upper has caused its fair share of problems over the past two years of fixer-upping. Neighbors were pissy due to construction and noise, which drove reporters with
SF News Video: Step Inside The New Homeless Navigation Center In The Mission We heard a lot about this pilot project over the last year called the Homeless Navigation Center, which is an innovative shelter concept that allows homeless people living in communities with others, pets
SF News Why Is Berkeley Installing Cash Donation Boxes To Support The Homeless? A very Berkeley initiative approved by the Berkeley City Council called The Positive Change program aims to make giving to resources for the homeless as easy as it is to give to them
SF News Man Accused Of Attack On 5-Year-Old Might Not Face Charges After All The man accused of attacking a 5-year-old girl as she walked with her mother on Union Street might not face criminal proceedings after all, as his mental competency has been put into question.
SF News 5-Year-Old Injured In Unprovoked Marina District Attack A homeless man has been arrested after allegedly attacking a 5-year-old girl as she passed him on a Marina sidewalk. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, 31-year-old Adras Kosdi
SF News Poor Planning Delays Opening Of Homeless 'Navigation Center' Though it was set to open today, The Navigation Center — San Francisco's newest project to curb homelessness by relocating entire encampments of people with pets, tents, and all — has been delayed for two
SF News Clearing SF's Homeless Encampments, By The Numbers Though a new Homeless "Navigation Center," intended to move entire encampments into housing, was announced with much fanfare last week, the Chron's Matier and Ross is a bit more skeptical. Describing camp clearing
SF News New Homeless 'Navigation Center' Will Seek To Move Whole Encampments, Pets And All The former site of the Phoenix Continuation High School at 1950 Mission Street has been abandoned for years. Soon, it will see 125 below-market-rate housing units, but for now, it is to serve
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Pepper Sprays, Beats Homeless Man After Verbal Confrontation On Bus [Updated] San Francisco's Public Defender is calling for better training for San Francisco Police Department officers after a local cop was caught on video beating and pepper spraying a homeless man who'd fallen asleep
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Abandoning Housing For A Tent Well, for this edition of Apartment Sadness, I bring you not another Craigslist ad for a ridiculously sad living space, but a tale of sadness from a "full-time employed programmer" on Reddit who
SF News Election 2015: Former Homeless Hater Fibs About Mayoral Pow-Wow, Lee's War Chest Grows And Grows President Obama might be struggling to raise dough, but I can think of one guy, a man who's facing a lot less opposition, who isn't. You guessed it! I'm talking about San Francisco
SF News Once Home To Nudists, Castro Plaza Now Just A Magnet For Unruly Homeless Youths Jane Warner Plaza, the small plaza that began as a temporary parklet in 2009 after the city closed off the intersection where 17th Street meets Market and Castro, is drawing negative attention from
SF News Tech CEO Who Referred To Homeless As 'Hyenas' Now Has Solution For Homelessness Does everybody remember Greg Gopman, the former CEO of AngelHack who wrote an angry screed a year ago about how Market Street is a "grotesque" carnival full of "crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts,
SF News This Is How We Count Homeless People At last count there were 6,400 homeless people living in San Francisco. But where does that figure come from, and is it reliable? That's of particular importance since the number determines the
SF News PLEASE Let's Stop Talking Sh*t About SF's 'Poop Problem' San Francisco's "poop problem" has become the conversation topic we can't stop stepping in. Yes, it's real, both anecdotally and by the numbers. Everyone has covered it, and now it's become the social-media-clickbaitiest
SF News [Update] Police Unsure How Long People Were Stepping Over Dead Homeless Person In Front Of Market Street Coffee Shop Unfortunately one of the n'hoods homeless just passed away in front of Peet's coffee just now. Saw him every day on Mkt. St. @Castro_Biscuit— Dennis Richards (@PlnCom_Richards) December 31, 2014 A
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Wraps Up Her Mini Busking Tour For The Homeless Back in mid-November we told you about how locally born comedian Margaret Cho had returned to SF for a while and was busking (and stripping) on the streets to raise money and collect
SF News Second Sleeping Man Killed In Deadly SoMa Driveway Two years ago, a 55-year-old homeless man named Elvis Presley was sleeping in a SoMa driveway when a driver who was pulling out of her garage ran over and killed him. In a
SF News Video: Homeless Man Beaten To Death In SF Alley Was Carrying $1000 The homeless man who was beaten to death by a group of three men had over a thousand dollars on his person, a San Francisco Police Department investigator says, making it clear that
SF News Video: Gang Who Beat Homeless Man To Death Chatted With Crocker Galleria Security Guard Right Before The Attack In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Police department released video footage of a group of suspects of three men who beat a homeless man to death last week in the
