(But This Problem Runs Much Deeper) “If the Mayor wants the city to be tent-free, we need to make some policy decisions … San Francisco attracts unsheltered people to our city due to a lack of real enforcement and the many amenities we provide to folks.” “Advocacy groups have been expressing concerns about HSOC’s efforts, demanding…

2021 Homeless Hotels and the Pandemic — Hotel Acquisition for Long Term Success Introduction As San Francisco moves cautiously into a “post-pandemic” reality, it’s crucial that we act on the lessons our City has learned, at such great cost, during this time of COVID. The pandemic exposed long-standing inequalities — racial, economic, and even between zip codes — that have been corrosive to…

This is an open letter to Mayor London Breed, signed by 50 local organizations, urging a plan for SIP hotel residents that does not mean a return to the streets. February 10, 2021 Honorable London Breed Mayor of San Francisco 1 Dr. Carlton Goodlett Place, room 200 San Francisco, CA…

The ongoing violence of encampment sweeps in San Francisco By Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness This story is reposted from the Street Sheet website: www.streetsheet.org Linda is a young, petite, Black woman who had just lost her boyfriend to an overdose. This tragic, preventable death is…

City May Abandon Housing for Thousands of Unhoused Residents While Removing Tents — San Francisco, CA — As thousands protest to end police violence during a pandemic, disproportionately black homeless residents may face massive police enforcement in a settlement reached between the City of San Francisco and UC Hastings College of Law. …

Since Mayor London Breed declared a State of Emergency on February 26th, we have urgently called on the city to offer medically-indicated shelter and services to our unhoused people. As medical professionals, community health workers, homeless activists, formerly and currently unhoused people and members of a vast mutual aid network…

by Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness “After all, every homeless Californian, living on a boulevard of broken dreams, is a casualty of institutional failures — a person who’s fallen through every possible hole in the safety net.” On February 19, 2020 California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave…

story by TJ Johnston Toilets and small shelters for San Francisco’s unhoused folk are part of a federal probe on corruption involving a City official. The U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 27 that Mohammed Nuru, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, has been charged with…

by Sam Lew Following the November 5 election, moderates and progressives held their breath at 4 p.m. for several days, anxiously awaiting election results as ballots were counted. It was a low-voter turnout election, with less than 42% of registered San Francisco voters voting, and for two races — the…