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.
SF News San Mateo County Convinced It Can Reach ‘Zero’ Homelessness in 2022 The Project Homekey bonanza has San Mateo County officials talking as if they will solve homelessness in their county in 2022, though their homeless population is a fraction of San Francisco’s.
SF Politics Critics Agree That Newsom's CARE Court Plan Won't Work Without Huge Investment In New Psych Treatment Beds Governor Gavin Newsom last week unveiled an ambitious-seeming plan to push more of the state's severely mentally ill into treatment. But forced psychiatric treatment requires locked wards and hospital beds that the state has been short on for decades, so how is this all going to work?
SF News Tiny House Village for the Homeless Opens at the Foot of Gough Street San Francisco's first tiny-home village for the homeless, a pilot project using prefab tiny houses, has just welcomed its first dozen residents at the foot of Gough Street, on a lot owned by a developer waiting for construction permits to build a condo tower.
SF News SF Finally Conducts Delayed Homeless Census, Rest of Bay Area to Finish Theirs Tonight How much has homelessness increased during the pandemic? We’ll have hard numbers soon, as Bay Area cities conduct their first official “homeless census” in three years.
SF News Many Bay Area Counties Delay Homeless Count Because of Omicron, SF Poised to Do the Same The odd-numbered-year “homeless census” did not happen at all in 2021, and its delayed return has been pushed out a month in pretty much every Bay Area county, with SF likely making that call Friday.
SF Politics Embarcadero Navigation Center, Once the Focus of Much Rage From Neighbors, Quietly Gets Two-Year Extension One would assume that the most vocal of the neighbors who objected to the Embarcadero Navigation Center knew that an extension was on the table for public comment. But apparently the two-year extension went through with very little opposition.
SF News Omicron Outbreaks Hit Multiple Bay Area Homeless Shelters, Including Two In SF Two years into this pandemic, the Bay Area is facing yet another crisis involving the homeless and COVID-19.
SF News City Plans to Buy 114-Room Fillmore District Hotel to House Formerly Homeless After a deal to purchase a tourist hotel in Japantown was met with loud pushback from the the community, the SF Board of Supervisors is now looking to buy the former Gotham Hotel, lately known as Vantaggio Suites, at 835 Turk Street.
SF Politics Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Groups Taking Credit/Shifting Blame For Former McDonald’s Site Remaining Empty One neighborhood group is taking credit for killing off plans for a homeless drop-in center at the blighted Stanyan Street ex-McDonald’s site, others are baffled that the city may let it sit empty for years.
SF News Bayview Neighbors Push Back on Plan to Create RV Parking Lot for Homeless at Candlestick A proposed new "Vehicle Triage Center" out at Candlestick Point has some NIMBY neighbors angry, but Supervisor Shamann Walton is reminding everyone that the homeless and their cars and RVs are already in the area anyway.
SF News Some Neighbors Bristle as Former McDonald's Site In Haight Goes From Tent Village to Homeless Drop-In Center The notorious former McDonald's property at 730 Stanyan hasn't exactly been less of nuisance to the neighborhood since the McDonald's was torn down last year.
SF News SF Plans to Buy Four More Hotels to Shelter Homeless Population Four hotels and a total of 368 units will be opened as permanent housing for the unsheltered population, as that sweet Prop. C “homeless tax” money starts rolling in.
SF News Tiny House Village For Oakland Homeless Goes In at Long-Vacant Lot Beside Lake Merritt A village of tiny houses able to give shelter to 79 homeless individuals began construction today on a Lake Merritt-adjacent lot in Oakland, and it should be habitable very quickly.
SF News Sausalito Police Bulldoze Tent Encampment at Formerly Ritzy Park Dunphy Park had typically been home to kayakers and an outdoor art festival, but the 35 unsheltered people who'd set up an encampment there were very unceremoniously given the boot early Tuesday morning.
SF Politics Breed’s New Budget Commits $1 Billion to Fighting Homlesseness Amidst Unexpected Surplus Mayor Breed announced her $13 billion budget Tuesday, with a surprise $157 million surplus, and a billion-dollar pledge to housing the homeless population.
Arts & Entertainment Sausalito's Famed Labor Day Art Festival Getting Canceled Over Homeless Encampment An impasse over a homeless encampment in a downtown Sausalito park has led organizers of the city's annual art festival over Labor Day Weekend to say the festival is being canceled for the second year in a row.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Taps New Director of Department of Homelessness As Crisis Continues Spiraling Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
