Legal advocates give San Francisco low marks for penalizing homeless people
A national homeless advocacy organization says San Francisco continues to make criminals out its homeless population. The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty reported recently that the...
View ArticleOrdinance would put restrictions on Castro District plazas
A proposal to regulate two popular Castro District hangouts by restricting chairs and shopping carts is a step closer to becoming city law.The Board of Supervisors will decide Tuesday on an ordinance,...
View ArticleAgency gets state funding to build homeless shelter in Bayview
The San Francisco Human Services Agency has won a state grant to refurbish a building in the Bayview district next to the United Council of Homeless Services, a community-based organization, that could...
View ArticleThousands of tickets handed out to homeless
San Francisco is an expensive place to find an apartment, sure. But it can also be a costly place to live outside.Police served homeless people in the city with almost 40,000 citations over a five-year...
View ArticleS.F. to tackle shelter waiting game for disabled and older homeless
UPDATE: Listen to reporter T.J. Johnston's updated report on this story at KQED news here.The health of homeless people — especially older and disabled ones — is endangered by a time-consuming wait...
View ArticleCity postpones vote to allow apartments with only 150 square feet of living...
The idea of allowing smaller apartments in San Francisco — as little as 150 square feet of living space for an “efficiency” — is still under consideration after the Board of Supervisors Tuesday pushed...
View ArticleMost Haight merchants say nothing changed on street after ‘sit-lie’ prohibition
A majority of retailers surveyed last November in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood said the enactment of San Francisco’s sit-lie law hasn’t worked as expected: Homeless people still hang out in front of...
View ArticlePlan to shrink minimum S.F. apartment size hits political snag
A developer-backed proposal to shrink the minimum living space of a San Francisco apartment to 150 square feet faces a delay of at least a month, while the supervisor who floated the plan scrambles to...
View ArticleAs Long Lines Form Daily Outside Homeless Shelters, City to Eject Disorderly...
Frequent calls to the police to respond to disturbances outside a South of Market homeless shelter have prompted the city to crack down on misbehavior and make it easier for shelters to summarily...
View ArticleState Homeless ‘Bill of Rights’ Put on Hold Until Next Year
A “homeless bill of rights” in California must wait until next year for a vote in the full Assembly after clearing its first hurdle.Advocates say the legislation would protect homeless people from...
View ArticleActivists Call for Revival of Harvey Milk’s Anti-Speculation Proposal
If Harvey Milk had not been assassinated in 1978, the rampant speculation raging across San Francisco might not have become the problem it is today. Or at least that is the perspective brought into...
View ArticleNew In-Law Suite Rules Boost Affordable Housing in San Francisco
Hacking the Housing Crisis: Creative Ideas for Affordability. See other stories in this reporting project. | Attend the Hack the Housing Crisis conference June 13, 2014.The San Francisco Board of...
View ArticlePitching Visions of an Affordable San Francisco at ‘Hack the Housing Crisis’
Part of a special report on solutions for housing affordability in San Francisco. A version of this story ran in the summer 2014 print edition.San Francisco has become the epicenter of the Bay Area’s...
View ArticleNew York Reform Effort Shows How San Francisco Rent Control Dialogue Lags
Reforms to rent control are finally a topic of hot debate — but not in San Francisco.Last year Public Press reporter Harry Gibbons wrote about the city’s curious rental laws, which somewhat arbitrarily...
View ArticleChange of Address: Voices Humanize Homelessness
The city estimates that 7,539 San Franciscans lack stable housing. Lumped in a statistic, 7,539 individuals easily blur into one homogeneous identity, a single misleading notion of what it means to be...
View ArticleLegal advocates give San Francisco low marks for penalizing homeless people
A national homeless advocacy organization says San Francisco continues to make criminals out its homeless population. The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty reported recently that the...
View ArticleOrdinance would put restrictions on Castro District plazas
A proposal to regulate two popular Castro District hangouts by restricting chairs and shopping carts is a step closer to becoming city law.The Board of Supervisors will decide Tuesday on an ordinance,...
View ArticleAgency gets state funding to build homeless shelter in Bayview
The San Francisco Human Services Agency has won a state grant to refurbish a building in the Bayview district next to the United Council of Homeless Services, a community-based organization, that could...
View ArticleThousands of tickets handed out to homeless
San Francisco is an expensive place to find an apartment, sure. But it can also be a costly place to live outside.Police served homeless people in the city with almost 40,000 citations over a five-year...
View ArticleS.F. to tackle shelter waiting game for disabled and older homeless
UPDATE: Listen to reporter T.J. Johnston's updated report on this story at KQED news here.The health of homeless people — especially older and disabled ones — is endangered by a time-consuming wait...
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