SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Approve Expansion of Program That Gives Homeless People Bus Tickets Out of Town It was a small political win for Supervisor Ahsha Safaí at the SF Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, as the board voted to approve the expansion of a bus program for the city's homeless that he had earlier proposed.
SF News Supervisor Proposes Expanding ‘Homeward Bound’ Program That Buses Homeless Out of SF An 18-year-old program that offers free bus tickets out of town for unsheltered people to reunite with family is not so well used anymore, but mayoral hopeful Supervisor Ahsha Safai wants to bolster and expand the Homeward Bound initiative.
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 Dog Goes Missing In Tahoe Wilderness, Emerges Relatively Unscathed Two Years Later Today in life imitating Disney movies: a Golden Retriever named Murphy has been reunited with her owners after wandering away from their camp site in the Tahoe National Forest nearly two years ago.
SF News Homeless People Swept Up At Golden Gate Park The city provided a continental breakfast of "coffee, bagels, orange wedges, and blueberries" (delicious!) as well as temporary encampment tents for those that they evicted from Golden Gate Park at 4:30 a.
