SF News Sonoma County Sees 22% Drop In Homelessness In Latest Count The results of Sonoma County's point-in-time homeless count from January have just been released, and the county says it has 22 percent fewer people experiencing homelessness compared to the previous year.
SF News Oakland’s Homelessness-Focused Newspaper Street Spirit to Cease Publication After Losing Funding The 28-year-old Oakland newspaper Street Spirit, which chronicles homelessness issues and is sold by unhoused vendors, will publish its last issue on June 1 because they’ve lost their nonprofit funding.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
SF Politics Supervisors Come Out Swinging Against Plan to Shut Down Bayview Homeless RV Site The ‘Pier 94 Backlands’ is currently home to 118 people still waiting for permanent housing placement, and while the SF Department of Homelessness wants to close it ASAP, supervisors are saying place the residents first.
SF News Serial Stabber Has City of Davis On Edge After Two Deaths, and Third Victim Reported Tuesday Two stabbing deaths in Davis last week as well as a third that injured a homeless woman have been attributed to the same male suspect, and the search for him prompted a brief citywide shelter-in-place order early Tuesday.
SF News Charges May Be Dropped Against Homeless Man Who Struck Former Fire Commissioner With Metal Pipe The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
SF News Breed Announces $600 Million Plan To Cut Unsheltered Homelessness In Half Within Five Years Mayor Breed came out with a new $600 million plan to reduce “unsheltered homelessness by 50%” in five years, but the key word there is “unsheltered,” because the details of the plan reveal it would only reduce overall homelessness by 15% over that period.
SF News Supes Hold Hearing on Evictions of Formerly Homeless From SROs, Which Just Makes Them Homeless Again In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population. But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.
SF Politics Newsom Announces Drop-In-the-Bucket Effort to Build 1,200 Tiny Homes for the Homeless, None of Which Will Come to SF Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a new plan to address homelessness across the state, with $30 million in state funds going to construct 1,200 tiny homes to serve as transitional housing in four metro areas. San Francisco isn't one of them.
SF News City's Bill For Shelter-In-Place Hotel Damages Rises With $2.9M Settlement For Hotel Tilden While the City of San Francisco continues to negotiate with hotel owners over what the costs of turning their hotels into ersatz homeless shelters during the pandemic turned out to be, one more hotel has just walked away with a considerable damage settlement.
SF News Newsom’s CARE Court Deadline Looms October 1, But SF Lacks the Beds And Staff to Enforce It Gavin Newsom’s state-mandated CARE Court system is supposed to take effect October 1, but San Francisco doesn’t have the facilities or the staff to make it work, if it works in the first place anyway.
SF News Breed Names Her Nominees to a Homelessness Commission She Preferred Did Not Exist San Francisco voters approved the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing oversight commission in November over Mayor Breed’s objections, but she still gets to pick most of the commission, which she did Tuesday.
SF News SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman Won't Be Arraigned Until Next Month Foster Gwin Gallery owner Collier Gwin, who held the hose in last month’s ‘spray seen ‘round the world,’ was scheduled to appear for his arraignment in San Francisco Superior Court today.
SF News New Castro Homeless Outreach Program Touts Early Results, Might Have a Working Blueprint A targeted, one-on-one homeless outreach in the program has gotten nearly half of the neighborhood’s “hard-core unhoused people” into shelter, and may be replicable elsewhere in the city, but requires significant staff and budget.
SF Politics Supervisors Might Spike Plan for Temporary Tiny Homes for Homeless at 'Monster In the Mission' Site A plan to put up 70 temporary tiny homes/cabins in the former Walgreens parking lot behind the 16th and Mission BART plaza, ahead of a planned affordable development, may be getting killed after negative community feedback.
SF News Oakland Unveils 100-Person Tiny-Home Village at Troubled Wood Street Encampment What was once northern California’s largest homeless encampment at Wood Street in Oakland now has a collection of tiny homes to house 100 people. But on the flip side, the clearing of the encampment continues.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News DA Brooke Jenkins Issues Arrest Warrant for SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman District Attorney Brooke Jenkins may be sensing an opportunity to prove she can be tough not just on drug dealers and car burglars, but also on those who attack the city's unhoused in
SF News SF Gallery Owner Who Sprayed Homeless Woman With Hose Could Face Battery Charge; He Blames the City A viral video that has sparked outrage this week, showing a San Francisco gallery owner spraying a homeless woman with a hose, could wind up resulting in criminal charges, as the SFPD continues investigating.
SF News City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
SF News Nonprofits Lay Out Plan To End Homelessness In California — For $8 Billion a Year An $8.1 billion investment every year for the next 12 years could end homelessness in California, according to a new analysis that says pandemic-era levels of spending sustained over more than a decade would house everyone who needs housing.
SF News Preston Calls for Hearing Into Supportive Housing Evictions Involving Formerly Homeless People SF Supervisor Dean Preston, who worked as an eviction defense attorney before he was elected to the Board of Supervisors, is putting that hat back on and calling for a hearing into the numbers and process of evictions involving formerly homeless people in city-funded supportive housing.
SF News In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.
SF News SF Hotels That Served as Pandemic Homeless Shelters Continue Seeking Millions In Damages From City The full accounting of what it cost the city of San Francisco to provide emergency shelter in the form of hotel rooms to homeless individuals during the height of the pandemic is still likely many months away.
SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
