SF News Advocates for Homeless Population Sue San Francisco to End Encampment Sweeps A coalition of the Coalition on Homelessness, the ACLU, and a handful of unsheltered people have brought a U.S. District Court lawsuit against San Francisco, hoping to halt encampment sweeps under the claim that they are unconstitutional on several levels.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF News Oakland Audit Blasts Inability to Account for What Happened With $70 Million In Homeless Funding The city of Oakland spent $69 million over four years housing unsheltered people, but has no idea if any of those nearly 9,000 people ever found permanent housing, according to a new report from the City Auditor.
SF News Homeless Shelter Proposals Across California Taking Flak, Advocates Call for More ‘Gap Housing’ Like Tiny Houses Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s “A Place for All” legislation is just one of many California proposals being criticized for rounding people up into shelters instead of setting people up for permanent housing.
SF News Sausalito Cleared Homeless Out Of Marinship Park — By Paying Them Each $18,000 to Leave Sausalito managed to clear a sprawling encampment in Marinship Park this month that had been growing more unsanitary and problematic over the last two years, but they did it via a court settlement that included cash payments.
SF News San Rafael Police Officer Seen Dropping Off Homeless, Mentally Ill Man In San Francisco A San Rafael police officer was caught on camera dropping off a homeless man and handing him his belongings in the area of Lake Street and 14th Avenue — clearly having just come across the Golden Gate Bridge to offload the man and make him San Francisco's problem.
SF News Report: An Estimated 20,000 San Franciscans Will Experience Homelessness In 2022 A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.
SF Politics Special Hearing on Mental Health Emergency Care In SF Brings Proposal for New Long-Term Care Hospital San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman held a special hearing Thursday on the mental health crisis in the city, discussing ways it might be addressed with representatives from the Department of Public Health, the police, and others.
SF News As Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winds Down, Residents and Managers Look Back on Whether it Actually Worked San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place Hotel program is roughly 75% finished, with the remaining 25% to expire in the weeks to come. Let’s check in on the statistics — and people — who can say whether it was effective.
SF News Tenderloin Tennis Coach Declares Tennis Court Untenable, Because, You Know, the Tenderloin A built-in tennis court may sound like a heavenly amenity in San Francisco, but when it’s located near Van Ness Avenue and Eddy Street, you’ll have some problems lobbed at you.
SF News Wealthy East Bay Town of Piedmont Confused By Official Count of 42 Homeless There. Where'd They Go? Residents of Piedmont, the tiny enclave that's entirely surrounded by Oakland and largely populated by millionaires, don't understand where homeless census counters were looking when they found 42 homeless people there earlier this year.
SF News Sacramento Leapfrogs San Francisco In Size of Its Homeless Population It’s probably not going to change our city’s reputational stereotypes, but Sacramento now has a larger homelessness problem than SF, and a higher percentage of unsheltered people living there.
SF News Mandelman’s Shelter-for-All Plan Passes Board Unanimously, Though Many Are Skeptical It Will Do Anything Supervisor Rafael Mandelman says his freshly passed “Place for All Program” is “maniacally focused” on ending homelessness in San Francisco, but the city has seen these slogan-driven plans have had little effect in the past.
SF News With Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winding Down, Some Hotels Are Suing the City for Damages The owners of multiple hotels that were leased by the city for its pandemic housing program are reportedly filing or planning to file lawsuits over damages they claim were done to their buildings as a result of the program.
SF Politics Former Panoramic Development In SoMa Reborn as 160 Units of Supportive Housing A 160-unit building that was purchased by the City of San Francisco in part thanks to the state's Homekey program, the former Panoramic development at 1321 Mission Street in SoMa, is reopening as supportive housing for the formerly homeless.
SF News SF's Homeless Population Actually Declined During the Pandemic, and Nearly 20% More Are Sheltered The data from San Francisco's latest point-in-time homeless "census," taken one night in February 2022, shows the first decline in the number of homeless individuals in the city in seven years — countering the age-old narrative that homelessness is "worse than it's ever been."
SF News Beleaguered Oakland Encampment Getting $4.7 Million Grant From State to Try ‘New Model’ West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.
SF News A Huge Number of SF's Supportive Housing Units Are In Run-Down, Vermin-Infested SROs, and It's Barely Better Than Being Homeless The Chronicle has crunched some numbers and gone inside a handful of the SROs dotting the Tenderloin and SOMA to show just how terrible the situation really is for SF's supportive housing stock.
SF News New Report Details Curious ‘Algorithm’ That Decides Who Gets Homeless Housing Based on How Much Trauma They’ve Endured There are some pretty personal questions that go into deciding who gets supportive housing in this town, as a new report details the “algorithm” that sizes up how much trauma applicants have endured.
SF Politics Business Leaders’ Poll Claims 70% of Bay Area Demands ‘Get Tough’ Approach on Homelessness A poll commissioned by a local business group contends that 70% of the Bay Area wants to see the homeless population forced into conservatorships (or something) if they won’t take shelter, and claims their results should be seen as “a screaming wake-up call.”
SF News Surge of Street Blight in the Mission Spurs Neighborhood Outcry; Action Plan Hopes to Remedy It Mission conditions have deteriorated noticeably in the last few months, with street vendors hawking hot merchandise, encampments, and trash galore, but the neighborhood is on a mission to fix it.
SF News Vacant Minna Street Hotel to Become 75 Units of Transitional Housing A new transitional housing and treatment program in SoMa aims to help people who struggle with homelessness, mental illness, and addiction, leading them to stints in the criminal justice system.
SF Politics Mandelman Reintroduces Shelter-for-All Proposal at Board of Supervisors, Hopes to Get It to a Vote This Time Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is reviving, for a second time, proposed legislation that would require the city of San Francisco to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — something that has been established law in New York City for decades.
SF News Breed’s Tenderloin Linkage Center Closed for One Day for Privacy Additions, and It’s Now Back Open The Tenderloin Linkage Center took a one-day break to re-fence the area for privacy, but opened again Saturday, and now looks like it will stay in place for the rest of the year.
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
