SF Politics Hotels-for-Homeless Program Begins Wind-Down Next Week With 500 Moving Out San Francisco's lauded but temporary program of housing vulnerable and elderly homeless individuals in hotel rooms during the pandemic is set to wind down over the next seven to eight months, and next week the first wave of hotel closures begins.
SF News Club Owner Blamed In Encampment Sweep Corrects Report, Says the Homeless Issue Can't Be Solved With 'Hysterical' Crusades Following a story about a sidewalk homeless encampment in SoMa that was cleared one night in September by a private company, the man behind the situation wants to clear the air and tell his side of what happened.
SF News City Looks to Buy 232-Unit Lower Nob Hill SRO and Turn It Into Supportive Housing With the help of a state grant, San Francisco may purchase a large single-room-occupancy hotel building that for years has been a senior-housing complex.
SF News Event Company at Former Market Street Honda Dealership Seen Conducting Unsanctioned Sweep of Homeless Camp A private company allegedly took it upon themselves last week to clear out an encampment that had been established for about six months outside the former Honda dealership on Market Street at South Van Ness.
SF News San Francisco Takes Steps To Find Long-Term Housing For Some Homeless Now In Hotels At least 200 of the homeless people currently residing in hotels due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be placed in long-term housing, subsidized by philanthropic funds for 18 months.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Everett Middle School 'Sleeping Village' To Be Removed Former Chronicle editor Audrey Cooper is facing some stiff backlash after taking a job at WNYC — being white, not from New York, and never having worked in radio — and the SF police union is threatening legal action over a use-of-force policy proposal.
SF News UC Hastings Proves That If You Want Homeless Moved Off the Streets in SF (During the Pandemic), You Should Sue The effort that began two weeks ago to move hundreds of homeless tent-dwellers off the sidewalks of the Tenderloin has succeeded in relocating at least 388 people — thanks to threats of legal action by UC Hastings.
SF Politics Hotel Relocations for Tenderloin Homeless Part of Lawsuit Settlement Between City and UC Hastings The relocation of at least a dozen people living in tents on sidewalks on Thursday appears to be part of a settlement just announced between UC Hastings — which sued the city last month over the increasing level of squalor in the neighborhood — and the City of San Francisco.
SF News Homeless Moved Into Hotels In Coordinated City Operation In the Tenderloin SF's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and the Department of Public Works were approaching about a dozen homeless people on the streets of the Tenderloin on Thursday, and offering them shuttle bus rides to a nearby hotel.
SF News Haight Neighborhood Group Sues City Over Sanctioned Homeless Camp A group calling themselves Concerned Citizens of the Haight is suing the City of San Francisco in federal court over a sanctioned "Safe Sleeping Village" that is set to open Friday on the former McDonald's lot at Haight and Stanyan.
SF Politics Sunshine Ordinance Dump of Mayor Breed’s Texts Shows She Orders Lots of Homeless Sweeps Gobs of Mayor London Breed’s text messages were posted online Monday, and they display some serious micromanaging of SFPD’s homeless sweeps.
SF News Tenderloin’s ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ Has Been Opened, Though Allows But 50 Tents The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.
SF News SF Launches New Plan To Address Tenderloin Homeless, Relocate Tents "Some people say the city’s not doing anything around homelessness — but now you can see how much we were doing," says San Francisco's former homeless czar Jeff Kositsky, who's now taken charge of the city's program to tackle tent encampments.
SF News Fire Chief: Civic Center Encampment Is Mostly Out-of-Town Homeless Who Heard They Could Get Free Hotel Rooms SF Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, whose paramedic teams often interact with the city's homeless population, says that three-quarters of the homeless people in a tent encampment that recently sprang up along one side of the Asian Art Museum are new arrivals from out of town.
SF News ‘Moms 4 Housing’-Style Demonstration Occupies Vacant Castro House As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.
SF Politics Protesters Stage 'Die-In' Over Homeless Hotel Issue Outside Mayor's Home A group of faith leaders and protesters from the Do No Harm Coalition staged a "die-in" outside of Mayor London Breed's Lower Haight apartment on Thursday evening, in order to put further pressure on the mayor to house the homeless in empty hotel rooms.
SF News Bayview’s Pier 94 to Become COVID-19 RV Homeless Shelter More than 100 shelter RVs provided by the city and state will become temporary shelter with counseling for people with underlying health conditions experiencing homelessness.
SF Politics Battle Continues Between SF Supes and Mayor After Unanimous Board Vote to House All Homeless in Hotels The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, as expected, unanimously voted to approve an emergency ordinance that calls on the city to put all currently homeless individuals in leased hotel rooms within two weeks.
SF News New COVID-19 Cluster At SoMa Homeless Shelter Will Add 70 New Cases to SF Tally Prepare for San Francisco's confirmed coronavirus case count to jump on Saturday as we're now getting word of a 70-person outbreak (and counting) at the city's largest homeless shelter.
SF News Homeless Coalition Calls For Stop To Homeless Encampment Sweeps During Pandemic The city may not be confiscating tents the way they had been before the coronavirus pandemic, but San Francisco authorities are still telling the homeless to move along and forcing the breakdown of encampments, even though this actively violates CDC guidelines for the unsheltered.
SF News Op-Ed: UCSF Doctor Blasts City For Not Putting Homeless In Hotels After Discharging Patient Onto the Street As city officials continue to debate the feasibility and prudence of trying to provide hotel rooms as shelter for San Francisco's approximately 8,000 homeless people, a doctor at UCSF has a personal tale of having to discharge a homeless patient who tested negative for COVID-19.
SF Politics SF Turns Moscone Center and Palace of Fine Arts Into Homeless Shelters; Supes Decry Subpar Conditions The Moscone Center and the Palace of Fine Arts have been transformed into ersatz homeless shelters with bed mats on the floor and minimal social distance. After some photos came out of the grim Moscone setup, several supervisors are making more noise about the potentially unsafe situation.
SF News Navigation Center Resident Tests Positive, Supervisors Clamor To Open More Hotel Rooms for Them As the dread first COVID-19 case at a Navigation Center has arrived, several supervisors are fuming that transition of unhoused people to safe hotels has barely started.
SF News SoMa Tennis Club To Be Used as Temporary Homeless Shelter While Las Vegas forces its homeless to sleep six feet apart in a parking lot while 150,000 hotel rooms sit empty, SF is so far doing slightly better and providing a roof over the heads of some unsheltered people, courtesy of the swanky Bay Club location at Fifth and Brannan.
Business & Tech San Francisco To Press Hotels Into Service For Healthcare Workers and Homeless The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
