SF News Mayor Breed Touts 60% Drop in Tents on Streets, Mandelmans’s District 8 Supposedly Has Just One Tent Some very encouraging new statistics saying the number of tents on San Francisco streets is at a six-year low, including there being only one tent counted in District 8, but this does not seem to have meaningfully lowered SF’s homeless population.
SF News City's Homelessness Department And Public Works Are Officially At Odds Over Encampments A quiet war seems to be brewing within City Hall over the handling of homeless encampments, marking yet another chapter in a multi-year saga involving police, sanitation workers, homeless advocates, outreach workers, politicians,
SF News Video: Tent Encampment At 16th And Potrero Frustrates Nearby Workers, Drives Out Company A tent encampment lining the street at 16th and Potrero one of the more consistent locations of a sizable tent city that tends to return quickly following city cleanup efforts has been a
SF News Frustrated By Filth, SF's Public Works Goes Rogue On Homeless Encampment Cleanups Frustrated by how slowly the city is finding housing solutions for homeless people, the head of San Francisco's Public Works Department has reportedly authorized unofficial removals of encampments, and is mulling a DPW-run
SF News Video: Homeless Woman In The Mission Says If These Are End Times, The Homeless Will Be The Survivors Yet another tent encampment at 14th and Mission got cleared Wednesday by the city's Department of Public Works in an ongoing game of musical tent cities that is one way your local tax
SF News Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning
SF News Private Social Network For Businesses Being Used To Track Homeless Encampments With the issue of homelessness featuring so prominently in the news this year, and with multiple proposed measures for clearing homeless encampments circulating, it has become more crucial than ever to have some
SF News City Clears 100-Person Homeless Encampment On Cesar Chavez Homeless camp swept from #SF's Cesar Chavez St. https://t.co/7NcILnIAMU pic.twitter.com/7sSq6x3zZd— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 11, 2016 A large and "complex" tent city centered around the 101 freeway overpass
SF News Nevius Attacks Avalos's Homeless Tent Protection Plan As you know, there have been various small battles being waged following the mayor's announced plan to tackle "hot spots" among homeless encampments citywide and systematically "clear" them, which typically just leads to
SF News Following Shooting By Police, Mayor Lee Announces Plan To Clear All Homeless Camps Citywide In a move that is certain to anger homeless advocates even further in a year when conspicuous homelessness has become a primary topic of debate in SF Mayor Ed Lee announced this weekend
SF News Another Homeless Navigation Center Will Take 6 Months, Mayor Says The first Homeless Navigation Center, a pilot project originally funded by a $3 million anonymous donation via the SF Interfaith council, opened up after some delays last year in the Mission. It's seen
SF News Remaining 50 (Or So) Tents Forced Off Division Street Early Tuesday San Francisco crews are not negotiating w/the homeless around Division St. anymore. Today is clear out day. pic.twitter.com/UO8eaiFYb1— Amy Hollyfield (@amyhollyfield) March 1, 2016 Monday morning we noted how
SF News A 'Few Dozen' Tent City Homeless Remain, Some Trickling Back It appears that the city's strategy of issuing a 72-hour notice to vacate last week around the tent city that had ballooned in January and February under the freeway viaduct along Division Street
SF News This Plaintive Tweet From 311 Feels Like SF's Homeless Services Problem In A Nutshell Where were the encampments? ^KH— SF311 (@SF311) February 26, 2016 "Where were the encampments?" tweeted San Francisco's Information and Services hotline at 4:21 this morning...to no one? To us all? Sure,
SF News Will The Remaining Tent City Homeless Get Arrested On Friday? In a pair of competing pieces this morning, the Chronicle is saying both that the tent-dwellers on Division Street are all packing up and leaving, as demanded by the city with a deadline
SF News Pier 80 Shelter Fills Up As Tent City Sweeps Continue Even staff at the historic worker-owned Rainbow Grocery have had enough. Located at 13th and Folsom near "Tent City," a sprawling homeless encampment, members of the co-op have seen worsening conditions and are
SF News City To Clear 'Tent City' Homeless Encampment Within 72 Hours Division Street's tent city, a sizable homeless encampment beneath a section of the Central Freeway that has grown in size over the last two winters, will be cleared by city agencies within 72
SF News SoMa Gym Owner Fed Up With Tent City Homeless, Prints Flyers Demanding City Action A SoMa business owner is fed up with the homeless camped near his business, and has printed flyers urging his customers to contact San Francisco elected officials in order to demand some sort
SF News New Pier 80 Homeless Shelter Lacks Flush Toilets, Showers When residents of the tent city along Division Street voiced concern earlier this month about city officials attempting to force them from from their encampments actions that the Department of Public Works, for
SF News Tent City Residents Fear City Efforts To Corral Them Ahead Of Super Bowl Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood — the tent city located on Division Street under the overpass — are worried. But as the Super Bowl approaches and the city swells with tourists, the homeless living
SF News Amid Storms And Super Bowl Displacement, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched To Buy Tents For Homeless Shaun Osburn, a fourth-generation Bay Area resident, knows what it's like to live on the streets. After experiencing homelessness himself he's become a strong advocate for poor and marginally housed people, even working
