homeless people - SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports

Mayor Breed Doubles Down on Just Shipping the Homeless Out of Town, as Encampment Sweeps Ratchet Up

SF Mayor London Breed’s new tactic to reduce homelessness won’t be seen as particularly compassionate, as her latest executive order demands encampment sweeps where people are first offered a bus ticket out of town before they’re offered shelter.

San Rafael Police Officer Seen Dropping Off Homeless, Mentally Ill Man In San Francisco

A San Rafael police officer was caught on camera dropping off a homeless man and handing him his belongings in the area of Lake Street and 14th Avenue — clearly having just come across the Golden Gate Bridge to offload the man and make him San Francisco's problem.

Homeless Man Arrested In Connection With Three Suspected Arson Fires In Marin County

For the second time in a week a transient man was arrested in Novato on suspicion of arson — this time it was a string of three suspicious fires, one of which authorities say they saw him light.

Homelessness Goes Down Nationwide, Rises On West Coast

A new federal point-in-time census of the US homeless population, taken in January 2016 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), found that across the nation even in New York City

Video: Pantless Man Smokes Meth (Or Crack) On BART

SOME HOMELESS GUY SMOKIN CRACK ON BART pic.twitter.com/G2Bnh3MzGs— LIKNEM (@SOMESTEEZ) August 28, 2016 A possibly homeless man without shoes, wearing what appears to be a towel draped over his legs

Video: Homeless Woman Gives Birth At Muni Stop, Anonymous Bike Messenger Hailed As Hero

The surprise birth of a baby under a Muni bus shelter that we mentioned in brief on Wednesday turns out to have been a surprise to the mother herself. As the Chronicle reports,

In Expanded Relief Effort, Mission Episcopal Church Will Let Homeless People Rest Inside During The Day

"Well, it looks like the work, and the Spirit, have made it happen," wrote Laura Slattery, Executive Director of the Gubbio Project, which has provided shelter to homeless San Franciscans during the day

Homeless Bashing Tech Exec Turned Would-Be Homeless Savior Greg Gopman Flees On 'Eat, Pray, Love' Vacation

Greg Gopman, the erstwhile CEO of hackathon organizing company AngelHack, has once again revealed himself to be far from angelic. After his 2013 screed against homeless "degenerates" brought him internet infamy, the 'reformed'

During The Super Bowl Mayor Lee Says City's Homeless Will Have To Leave

by Jack Morse In an apparent doubling down on his controversial April comment that "there won’t be any room" for San Francisco's homeless once the Super Bowl 50 Fan Village is up

Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional

A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in

SF Streets Are Extra Poopy Thanks To Drought?

Remember how last year it seemed like the local media couldn't stop talking about poop? Even though the discussion of feces gumming up our BART escalators dates back a couple of years, the

Man Accused Of Knocking Cop Unconscious During Struggle For Shotgun Has Troubled Past With SFPD

A homeless man who said he was beaten by police after a July, 2014 altercation in the Panhandle is back in custody today, this time for allegedly knocking a cop unconscious as he

Why Is Berkeley Installing Cash Donation Boxes To Support The Homeless?

A very Berkeley initiative approved by the Berkeley City Council called The Positive Change program aims to make giving to resources for the homeless as easy as it is to give to them

Arrest Made In Unprovoked Attack Of Homeless Man In The Tenderloin

Police have made an arrested a man in the brutal Wednesday night attack of a beloved homeless man in the Tenderloin. Arthur Lee Jones of Fairfield was arrested by an SFPD officer on

Video: Beloved Tenderloin Fixture Randomly Beaten By Pipe-Wielding Man

The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a suspect in a bizarre, seemingly unprovoked attack that left a popular Tenderloin man seriously injured. You can see the attack in the video below, but

[Update] Evil Archbishop Now Dumping Water On Homeless People To Roust Them From Cathedral Doorways

The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese is not doing themselves any favors, PR-wise, lately, and now we get a story via CBS 5 that they have a policy of showering homeless people with water

New Homeless 'Navigation Center' Will Seek To Move Whole Encampments, Pets And All

The former site of the Phoenix Continuation High School at 1950 Mission Street has been abandoned for years. Soon, it will see 125 below-market-rate housing units, but for now, it is to serve

Former Home Restaurant Has Been Illegal Squat For Homeless

At least someone's been putting that empty eyesore to good use! We learn via Hoodline that the Fire Department was called to the former Home restaurant at Church and Market Tuesday afternoon after

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,

This Is How We Count Homeless People

At last count there were 6,400 homeless people living in San Francisco. But where does that figure come from, and is it reliable? That's of particular importance since the number determines the

Homeless Advocates Protest As BART Continues To Roust Homeless From Powell Station Hallways

As we reported back in July, BART recently began cracking down on the homeless situation in Powell Station. In particular they're citing, and rousting, people trying to sleep in the station's long hallways,