SF Politics SF Supe Wants to Turn Vacant Building at Center of Scandal Into Homeless Shelter; Newsom Leases Two Oakland Hotels for Shelters Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing more than 900 hotels statewide to house the homeless and halt the spread of coronavirus, while Supervisor Dean Preston has a similar plan for the scandal-plagued 555 Fulton development.
SF News California to Use Hotels and Motels to Shelter Homeless During Pandemic Without offering many specifics about the plan, Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday said that private hotels and motels were being "procured" in order to provide emergency shelter and isolation space for the homeless amid the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Valencia Street Salvation Army Poised to Become Homeless Shelter, But Residents Remain Split A new Hummingbird Place homeless drop-in center could spring up at Valencia Street’s current Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center, and while some neighbors are skeptical, the opposition is nowhere near as fierce as the Embarcadero Navigation Center's was.
SF News Salvation Army Community Center On Valencia Street Might Become Homeless Shelter In an effort to mitigate San Francisco homelessness, one district supervisor believes some respite exists in the Mission District — more specifically, inside The Salvation Army Mission Corps Community Center at 1156 Valencia Street.
SF Politics Local Republicans File Ballot Measure To Limit New Navigation Centers A couple of rare San Francisco Republicans have drafted a measure for the November ballot that would significantly limit the city's ability to open more homeless Navigation Centers, and limit the operation of all Navigation Centers to a maximum of two years.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF Politics SF Unlikely To Get Navigation Centers In Every District Despite Supervisor's Push Supervisor Matt Haney has been saying for over a year that there ought to be a homeless Navigation Center in each of San Francisco's 11 supervisorial districts. But legislation Haney has drafted that would make this a mandate appears to have been stalled in committee.
SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Oakland Homeless Group 'The Village' Constructs Tiny House Community On Median Over the MLK Day weekend, a group that has previously constructed unsanctioned "villages" of makeshift tiny houses as homeless encampments built another one on a strip of land in Oakland, calling it the Right to Exist Curbside Community.
SF News Newsom Pledges 'Wonderful Things' For Moms 4 Housing Group As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
SF News Newsom Wraps Up Homeless Tour Today In Oakland With Showcase Of Trailers Governor Gavin Newsom is concluding a four-day tour of homelessness outreach operations across the state with a stop near the Oakland Coliseum where he'll be showing off a key component of his new state program.
SF News SamTrans Being Blamed For Dumping SFO's Homeless On Embarcadero There's a weird story today in which a San Francisco supervisor is pointing the finger at San Mateo County and the SamTrans bus agency for intentionally shuttling homeless people out of SFO and dropping them off at 2 a.m. at the new "end of the line" near the Embarcadero.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Group Evicted and 3 Arrested In Dramatic Pre-Dawn Raid Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
SF News Newsom Creates $750M Homeless Housing Fund, Directs Cities To Build Shelters On Vacant Land California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing an executive order Wednesday creating a new fund that will provide rent assistance to homeless people and fund emergency shelters throughout the state.
SF Politics Ben Carson Blames California For Rise In Homelessness, Calls On States and Cities to Handle Crisis Just before the holidays, HUD Secretary Ben Carson issued an annual report on homelessness nationwide in which he called on state and local leaders on the West Coast to address the issue with "crisis-like urgency."
SF News Oakland Man Accused Of Attempted Murder In Attack on Homeless Woman at Richmond BART Station A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder following an attack on a homeless woman on the BART platform at Richmond Station.
SF News Oakland Homeless Encampments Compared To Mexico City and Delhi Slums A new interactive piece from the New York Times' San Francisco bureau chief explores the High Street homeless encampment in East Oakland, and includes interviews with residents there who are simply trying to survive after falling on hard times.
SF News Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center Opens Despite Neighbors' $250K War Chest to Fight It The residents of lower Embarcadero and eastern SoMa along with much of City Hall are all hoping that everything goes smoothly with the high-profile opening of the new homeless Navigation Center, which Mayor Breed will lead a tour of Tuesday.
SF News Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Ruling Permitting Homeless To Sleep Outside The Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that originated in Boise, Idaho several years ago concerning the constitutionality of laws that prohibit sleeping or camping in parks or on public streets when no shelter space is available.
SF News Castro Merchants Have Filed Restraining Orders Against Two Harassing Individuals Two presumably homeless individuals who frequent the Castro neighborhood have been ordered to stay away from two area businesses in the last several months, and those orders last for four years.
SF News Oakland Councilwoman Suggests Housing 1,000 Homeless on Cruise Ship Oakland city councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan wants to employ a novel method of quickly creating emergency housing that has previously been used after natural disasters: cruise ships docked at the Port of Oakland.
SF Politics Embarcadero Homeless Navigation Center May Open By December After an appeals court judge ruled against the neighborhood group that has been fighting the new Navigation Center on the Embarcadero, the mayor says it could open for its first homeless guests sometime next month.
SF News Number Of Homeless In SF Could Be More Than Double the Point-In-Time Count According to city data on individuals who seek healthcare and other services, the number of homeless in San Francisco jumped 30 percent between 2018 and 2019 — and the total number was more than twice the number counted in the January homeless census.
SF News Massive Junk Lot and Encampment In West Oakland Gets Cleaned Out, Evicting 100 Homeless A major project began Tuesday morning to transform a four-acre parcel of private land in West Oakland from a homeless encampment and automotive dumping ground into a city-sanctioned RV- and vehicle-parking area for the homeless.
SF News Arizona Baptist Church Makes YouTube Doc About San Francisco Being A Filthy '#Sodom' The pastor of a Baptist church in Tempe, Arizona has created a Biblical word salad of a sermon, with accompanying YouTube "documentary," about how dirty and crime-ridden San Francisco is and how this represents some nationally important sin against God.
