SF News Bevan Dufty Tries To Make Point To BART Management By Cleaning Station Himself In defiance of BART management, BART board member Bevan Dufty has been picking up a broom and helping clean 16th Street Station himself. Dufty has been arguing that the station, one of the
SF News BART Says, Actually, Standing On The Right And Passing On The Left Causes Escalators To Break While it's part of Bay Area gospel and a piece of established etiquette that longtime residents try to drill into the minds of all newcomers to stick to the right side of a
SF News Bevan Dufty Out As City's 'Homeless Czar' For Reasons Unknown Former Supervisor and onetime mayoral candidate Bevan Dufty has left his role as Director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement (HOPE), a.k.a. the city's "homeless czar," but a brief release from
SF News Video: Step Inside The New Homeless Navigation Center In The Mission We heard a lot about this pilot project over the last year called the Homeless Navigation Center, which is an innovative shelter concept that allows homeless people living in communities with others, pets
SF News Tech CEO Who Referred To Homeless As 'Hyenas' Now Has Solution For Homelessness Does everybody remember Greg Gopman, the former CEO of AngelHack who wrote an angry screed a year ago about how Market Street is a "grotesque" carnival full of "crazy, homeless, drug dealers, dropouts,
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 Bevan Dufty Drops Out Of Gay Pride Former D8 supervisor Bevan Dufty has dropped out of this year's San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. He was selected to be grand marshall earlier this year, along with state Attorney Kamala Harris, Perry
SF News New Startup Hopes To Create Homeless Showers In Repurposed Muni Buses In the startup world, a "pivot" is what your tech company does when the thing they were built for no longer seems like such a good idea. In San Francisco, one startup founder
SF News California's Homeless Can Now Get Free Cellphones, 250 Free Text Messages Homeless and impoverished Californians can now receive free cellphones under an expanded program from the California Public Utilities Commission and the FCC. The expansion was approved by the CPUC last week and allows
SF News People Upset Over New Anti-Violence Rule For Homeless Shelters Photo by Brandon Doran Some homeless advocates are crying foul over a new, perfectly reasonable rule that has gone into effect allowing S.F.'s homeless shelters to deny services to individuals who
SF News Bevan Dufty Still Wants a 'Wet House' in S.F. Where Homeless Drunks Can Drink In Peace Back in 2010 we first heard about the push to open a 'wet house' in San Francisco, modeled on a similar one in Seattle, in which homeless, chronic drunks can live in peace
SF News City Clears Out Huge Homeless Encampment at Fifth and King An army of city workers from various agencies descended on San Francisco's biggest street camp yesterday morning and cleared out about 50 people and their various belongings, carts, trailers, and a community garden
SF News City's New Homeless Czar Sure Does Make A Lot Of Money As we mentioned on Friday, former Castro Supervisor Bevan Dufty was brought back in to the CIty Family fold last week after Mayor Lee gave him a new post as San Francisco's Next
SF News Bevan Dufty Named City's New Homeless Czar When former Castro Supervisor Bevan Dufty announced he'd be working a public transit gig down in the peninsula, we guessed it wouldn't be too long before the unsuccessful candidate for mayor bounced back
SF News Bevan Dufty's New Public Transit Gig After an unsuccessful run at the Mayor's office, former District 8 supervisor and Willie Brown staffer Bevan Dufty has a new post with the San Mateo County Transit District. Dufty will be the
SF News Twentysomething: Mayoral Candidate Bevan Dufty Behold Bevan Dufty, your wittiest San Francisco mayoral candidate. The openly Pisces / former District 8 supervisor devoted more than 18 years of service to San Francisco, including eight years on the Board of
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: Bevan Dufty Has More Adorable Children, Lee Sells His Jobs Plan with Google Earth After Bevan Dufty's campaign won our hearts and minds with last week's magical Muni ad, the former D8 supervisor is tugging at our heartstrings again with a new campaign video addressing the city's
Arts & Entertainment Analyzing Campaign Videos: We Love Bevan Dufty's TV Ad! This is how you do a mayoral campaign TV spot, people. While SFist doesn't do political endorsements -- SF politics remain far too inside-baseball to be comprehensively relevant; we trust that most of
Arts & Entertainment Gallery: Scenes from a Mayoral Candidate Car Wash A handful of your favorite candidates for mayor showed up at McKinley Elementary School on this sunny Saturday afternoon to help wash some dirty vehicles, raise money for the school and generally revel
Arts & Entertainment Saturday: Mayoral Candidate Car Wash Jeff Adachi, John Avalos, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting, and Leland Yee will all sport their finest bikinis (or not) during this Saturday's fundraiser car wash for McKinley
SF News SFist Attends: Last Night's SF Mayoral Open Government Forum Arriving late to the Pier 38 offices of Automattic yesterday evening for a mayoral candidate forum on Open Government, we caught the tail end of opening remarks from a panel comprised of the
Arts & Entertainment Weekly Mayoral Candidate Cameos: Dufty Bar Crawl, Progressive Forum, Pancake Breakfast John Avalos: While the progressive's top choice for mayor won't be in attendance, you can check out the first in a series of (presumably pro-Avalosian) SF Bay Guardian-sponsored mayoral forums starting tonight. "The
SF News Mayoral Race Update: Herrera Funding Questioned, Dufty's Top Promise Answered For your wonky pleasure, we have some highs and lows today regarding two mayoral candidates. First, according to Chris Roberts at SF Appeal, City Attorney Dennis Herrera could be in tepid water for
SF News Tuesday Morning Breakfast Links Former supe and current candidate for Mayor Bevan Dufty spoke at the Eagle Tavern last night, and local musicians Ty Segall and John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees showed up as well. [See
SF News Here's Chris Daly Looking Super Pissed As we mentioned earlier, last night's Board of Supervisors meeting got a little hectic. While the real news is that Ed Lee looks to be our man in the Mayor's office for the
