SF News Judge Lets Embarcadero Navigation Center Move Forward, Denying Homeowners' Restraining Order So far the legal maneuvers of that group of Embarcadero residents who really don't want more homeless people in their midst have not gotten them anywhere.
SF News Report: Ben Carson Mocked Trans People During SF HUD Office Visit Trump's chosen Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, made some shockingly offensive if unsurprising remarks denigrating trans women while visiting the San Francisco HUD office this week.
SF News Trump Threatens San Francisco With EPA Violation Related To Homelessness The president's latest soundbite for Fox News is that he's putting San Francisco "on notice" over the homelessness problem, claiming the city is violating environmental rules by letting used hypodermic needles end up in the Pacific Ocean.
SF News Lots More Homeless Are Riding BART Trains All Day Than Last Year While complaints about the homeless on trains are not new, the problem appears to have gotten significantly worse on BART this year.
SF News Van Ness Stabbing Suspect Released From Jail; SoMa Murder Suspect Also Freed The cases of two dead homeless men in San Francisco are now both "pending further investigation" as the suspects believed responsible for their deaths have been let out of jail.
SF News Assault Suspect Austin Vincent Ordered To Remain In Jail Despite Second Set of Charges Being Dropped There was some bizarre hot-potato action at the Hall of Justice Thursday morning as a herd of reporters followed along as a hearing in the case of Austin Vincent got bounced to three different courtrooms in less than an hour.
SF News Mayor’s Bed Cuts to Residential Mental Health Program Draws Outrage Even though it’s a trade-off that adds temporary shelter beds for the mentally ill, the mayor’s plan also includes moving many patients out of their permanent facilities.
SF News Homeless Man Accused In Assault To Be Jailed Today On Earlier Arrest Warrant Multiple other victims have come forward with stories of possible threats made by the same homeless man in last week's assault case, and now he's definitely landing in jail.
SF News Judge 'Alarmed' After Seeing Footage of Homeless Man Attacking Woman, Backlash Mounting Prior to releasing James Austin Vincent — the homeless man who, unprovoked, attacked SF resident Paneez Kosarian outside her building — presiding Judge Christine Van Aken had not seen the video footage of the incident. And now that she has, Van Aken is “alarmed.”
SF News SF Woman Livid After Homeless Man Who Allegedly Accosted Her Is Released From Jail A woman who was assaulted by a homeless and apparently unstable man Saturday night outside her building in SoMa is outraged after the suspect was released from jail on his own recognizance by a judge.
SF News Trump Blames California Democrats For Homelessness, Offers No Solutions At a campaign rally in Cincinnati on Thursday, President Trump assailed California for having a homeless problem, specifically San Francisco and Los Angeles, calling it a "disgrace to our country."
SF Politics Number of Mentally Ill Homeless In SF Involuntarily Committed For Long-Term Stays Sank 50% In Last Six Years A new report by the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office finds that the city has been involuntarily committing about half the number of mentally ill individuals as it did half a decade ago, partly due to a lack of inpatient beds.
SF News Does Giving Bus Tickets Out Of Town Really Help The Homeless? The Chronicle Crunches The Numbers More than half of the people who “overcome homelessness” in San Francisco are merely shipped of town on a one-way Greyhound bus ticket, and the track record of this program is a mixed bag.
SF News Oakland’s Homeless Population Has Skyrocketed Nearly 50% In Two Years Per capita homelessness in Oakland is now higher than San Francisco or Berkeley, in one of the biggest spikes in the unsheltered population of any city in California.
SF Politics Supervisors Put Off Proposed Homelessness Commission Under pressure from the mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors on Tuesday declined to approve a ballot measure that would have asked voters if they believe there should be a commission overseeing the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
SF Politics Supervisors Debate Putting More Oversight For City’s Homeless Department On November Ballot Voters may get to decide whether an oversight commission for the San Francisco Department of Homelessness would bring more accountability, or just create more red tape.
SF News SFO and BART To Step Up Security To Curb Nightly Homeless Caravan At Airport BART and SFO are teaming up to address the uptick in homeless individuals who ride the last train to the airport at night and then use the airport for shelter, and for occasional petty crimes.
SF News Lot Next To Balboa Park BART Proposed As SF's First 'Triage' Center For Homeless Living In Cars and RVs A 1.8-acre parking lot that sits at the intersection of Geneva and San Jose Avenues, next to I-280 and across the street from the Balboa Park BART station, has been proposed by the city to be used temporarily as a vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless.
SF News SF Homeless Number Nearly 1,800 People Higher If Same Criteria Used As 2017 Following the quiet Friday release of the new point-in-time homeless census for San Francisco, it's come to light that the count is actually not an apples-to-apples comparison of the 2017 number. And this means that the city's homeless population has increased 30%, not 17% as previously reported.
SF News San Francisco Homeless Census Finds Over 8,000 On Streets, Majority From SF The official results of San Francisco's point-in-time homeless count for 2019 were quietly released by the city Friday, and the numbers confirm the 17% uptick we learned about in May.
SF News Trump Rants On San Francisco’s Homeless Problem, Which He Thinks 'Started Two Years Ago' The president’s latest stream-of-consciousness diatribe touched on San Francisco’s homelessness crisis, with vague claims that “We may intercede” and “We may do something.”
SF News Oakland Official Wants to Shut Down Street By Home Depot That’s Become An RV Magnet Councilmember Noel Gallo is fed up with an RV-packed homeless encampment on a dead-end street in Fruitvale, and has proposed fully closing the street for 18 months.
SF News SFPD Investigating Case of Guy Who Dumped Bucket of Water On Homeless Woman Whoever dumped a bucket of water on a homeless woman has become the wrong kind of social media star, with SFPD investigating him, and private offers of a $1,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Arts & Entertainment John Waters On SF's Homeless: 'Every City Now Is Just Rich People and Very Poor People' The great John Waters returns to Oakland's Mosswood Park next weekend (July 6-7) for his fifth time hosting Burger Boogaloo. And while The Jesus & Mary Chain is headlining, Waters says he's most looking forward to the band called Amyl & the Sniffers.
SF News Residents Opposed To Embarcadero Navigation Center Bring Appeal To Supervisors Today The residents who staunchly oppose the mayor's plan to construct a temporary homeless Navigation Center in their neighborhood, along the Embarcadero, will be appearing at today's Board of Supervisors meeting to appeal the Port of SF's decision to allow the project to move forward.
