SF News Muni Bus Turned Shower Stalls For The Homeless Starts Running June 28th Lava Mae, the San Francisco startup that has converted a Muni bus into showers for the homeless, is ready to roll out their first mobile washroom in the Mission starting on June 28th.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee, Jane Kim Attend Ribbon Cutting For SoMa Affordable Housing Complex For those who suggest that the only way to build affordable housing is by requiring for-profit developers to include it in their buildings, look no further than today's grand opening of a new
SF News San Francisco's Homeless Support By The Numbers $167,000,000: What San Francisco spends per year on services for homeless people (described by the Chronicle as people "on the streets, in a shelter or in supportive housing") $458,000: What
SF News San Francisco Homeless Man Equipped With A GoPro In the same way that a GoPro camera can take you on a death-defying wingsuit flight or a motorcycle ride with a dog, one San Francisco-based homeless advocate and educational technology entrepreneur hopes
SF News Muni Bus Turned Shower For The Homeless To Hit The Road In May Last April, we reported on a local entrepreneur's plan to convert some old Muni buses to showers for homeless people. Nearly a year later, we have an update: the first shower/bus will
SF News City Parks Are Now Closed After Midnight Supervisor Scott Wiener's controversial legislation to close San Francisco's public parks between the hours of midnight and 5 a.m. was approved by the Board of Supervisors yesterday. The legislation, which was meant
SF News [Updated] Slumber Party In Dolores Park Monday Night! (Psst, It's Actually A Protest.) Wash your Smurfs sleeping bag and brush up on your "light as a feather, stiff as a board" skills, folks. On Monday night, a slumber party will happen in Dolores Park. OK, it's
SF News Maybe The Homeless Soccer Initiative Isn't So Crazy After All? After receiving an ostensibly bizarre press release Tuesday about helping the homeless via street soccer, we scoffed. Many did, in fact. Perhaps too soon and, for worse, inaccurately. In an effort to learn
SF News S.F. Wants To Cure Homelessness With Street Soccer [UPDATE] [UPDATE: After receiving an ostensibly bizarre press release Tuesday about helping the homeless via street soccer, we scoffed. Many did, in fact. Perhaps too soon and, for worse, inaccurately. In an effort to
SF News Homeless Man Les Rowe, Former North Beach Fixture, Returning To Georgia A homeless man known to many North Beach residents just as Les will finally be heading back home to friends and family in Georgia after spending a year hospitalized following a hit-and-run accident.
SF News New Startup Hopes To Create Homeless Showers In Repurposed Muni Buses In the startup world, a "pivot" is what your tech company does when the thing they were built for no longer seems like such a good idea. In San Francisco, one startup founder
SF News Sober Up, People: SFPD Will Start Jailing Chronic Inebriates As part of their ongoing efforts to save us the trouble of stepping over drunks on the sidewalk, San Francisco Police plan to implement a new policy that will lock up the city's
SF News Is the Job Economy To Blame For More Homeless Youths On the Streets? Yesterday we mentioned the growing issue of gutter punks in the Castro, something which may or may not have anything to do with the Sit/Lie ordinance and its enforcement in the Upper
SF News California's Homeless Can Now Get Free Cellphones, 250 Free Text Messages Homeless and impoverished Californians can now receive free cellphones under an expanded program from the California Public Utilities Commission and the FCC. The expansion was approved by the CPUC last week and allows
SF News Somebody Needs to Find Nevius a New Homeless Person to Sponsor By way of griping about the hoodlums and rampant vandalism after Sunday night's World Series victory, Chuck Nevius returned to one of his favorite subjects of recent years, Larry the Shoe Shine Guy
SF News Bevan Dufty Still Wants a 'Wet House' in S.F. Where Homeless Drunks Can Drink In Peace Back in 2010 we first heard about the push to open a 'wet house' in San Francisco, modeled on a similar one in Seattle, in which homeless, chronic drunks can live in peace
SF News How To Shoo Away the Homeless, Vol. 364: Noise Pollution Speaking of being cruel to the homeless, the managers of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium have taken to using loud and offensive noise as a last-ditch effort to shoo homeless people away from
SF News Sit/Lie Law, Not Yet Enforced, Already Changing the Upper Haight? The controversial Sit/Lie law, a.k.a. Prop L, won't be enforced until mid-February, but it already has had a chilling/gloriously cleansing effect on Haight Street, depending on how you see
SF News Sit/Lie in Effect, Not to Be Enforced Until February The Sit/Lie ordinance went into effect on Saturday, but Bay City News reports (via SF Appeal) that SFPD won't begin enforcing it until February after its officers have gone through training in
SF News Assessing Gavin's Record on Homelessness According to the Chron, Gavin may be well known around here for his bold moves on behalf of gay marriage, but among other mayors nationally he's recognized for major achievements in the area
SF News Obama to End Homelessness Via Project Homeless Connect? Today, President Obama announced the launch of Opening Doors, which will, ideally, help prevent homelessness by using a San Francisco-based model. Not so simply put, Opening Doors is "a more targeted approach by
SF News Student Activists Arrested For Loitering Inside Hibernia National Bank Yesterday, several enthusiastic university students broke into the Hibernia National Bank, which was recently smeared this dated, fetishistic bit of graffiti, to protest the way the homeless are treated in the area. Which
SF News Nevius Confirms SFist Story: Haight Cleansed of Bullies Last week, if you recall, SF Chron columnist C.W. Nevius wrote about bullies with pit bull terrorizing the Haight neighborhood. A day later, SFist heard word that SFPD cleaned up said neighborhood
SF News Berkeley Daily Planet: "We Are SO Not Mean to the Homeless" You may recall this study that was released a couple weeks back by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in which San Francisco was named the 7th meanest city to the
SF News San Francisco Mean, But Not as Mean as LA, to the Homeless According to the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and the National Coalition for the Homeless, who just released a report cloyingly titled "Homes Not Handcuffs," San Francisco is the seventh meanest
