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Local Man Pays Homeless Person $1 For Each 'Like' Of Their Picture Together

A San Francisco man named Daniel Polk was explaining homelessness to his children when he decided to take a photo with a homeless man named Edward near the Castro Walgreens, promising to donate

Arts & Entertainment

Video: Margaret Cho Busks On Haight Street and Castro [Updated]

By Rebecca Bowe On Monday afternoon, comedian and San Francisco native Margaret Cho showed up at the corner of Haight and Ashbury with a guitar and started busking. She set up a guitar

Homeless Advocates Protest As BART Continues To Roust Homeless From Powell Station Hallways

As we reported back in July, BART recently began cracking down on the homeless situation in Powell Station. In particular they're citing, and rousting, people trying to sleep in the station's long hallways,

As Shelters Dwindle, The City Focuses On Street Medicine For Homeless

by Eric Wuestewald For the past few years, San Francisco residents have been inundated with stories about housing scarcity, rising property values, and Ellis Act evictions. Now it's reached the point that many

BART Cops Will Now Begin Harassing Homeless People In Powell Station

Per a press release from BART police regarding "evacuation safety," BART has launched a policy effective today that will no longer permit anyone to lie down or even sit with feet extended in

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.

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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