SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF News New Squad of Community Ambassadors Hopes To Clean Up Mission District Blight A new group of “Mission Community Connector” ambassadors is being deployed starting today in the Mission District, in an effort to abate the neighborhood's rampant tent camping, street vending, and sidewalk drug use.
SF News Federal Judge Temporarily Halts All SF Homeless Sweeps Amid Major Lawsuit Against City The ACLU and Coalition on Homelessness’s lawsuit against the city of San Francisco has brought an emergency order to temporarily halt all encampment sweeps in the city, and Mayor Breed and her allies are furious with the decision.
SF News Oakland Kicks Off ‘Homelessness Audit’ In Hopes of Better Managing Encampments One of Moms 4 Housing’s biggest advocates at Oakland City Hall is demanding answers on how many encampments are in Oakland, and whether the city’s $32 million annual investment is even making a dent.
SF News The Other Homeless Count: How Many Have Died? On December 31, 2014, longtime homeless Castro figure "Anastasia" was found dead on Market Street. A rare event it was not, but people knew Anastasia — the scarves, the coffee cups — so perhaps it
SF News City's Homeless Census Finds A Shift In Demographics Although San Francisco's total population of homeless people hasn't changed much since the Human Services Agency last did their census in 2011, the agency included additional details in the demographic survey for the
SF News Care Not Cash Celebrates Five Years Did anyone else read this weekend's article in The Chronicle, celebrating the five-year anniversary of Care Not Cash? SF Mayor Newsom, who jump started the program that cut monthly $422 welfare checks to
