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Letter from Lisbon: Healthcare, housing, and ham sandwiches

Tim Redmond -
Portugal's relatively high tax rate helps keeps homelessness and housing prices relatively low. And the beer is good
Homelessness

Mayor drags feet on alternatives to calling cops on homeless people

Tim Redmond -
It's been a year since the supes funded Compassionate Alternative Response Teams. It will be another six months before it happens.
Opinion

Academia, displacement, and the dorm-industrial complex

Tiny -
From Columbia's Manhattanville to UC Berkeley in People's Park, luxury student housing can lead to gentrification
Homelessness

Homeless numbers are declining—despite what the Breed Administration has done

Tim Redmond -
Progressive initiatives, opposed by the mayor, seem to be working.
Homelessness

Crack down on homeless people—or prevent people from becoming homeless?

Tim Redmond -
Two very different approaches to housing policy were under discussion this week.
Opinion

Mandelman’s shelter expansion plan isn’t a long-term solution to homelessness

Sara Shortt -
It would just take funds away from permanent housing—and allow even more sweeps.
Homelessness

SF to close four more SIP hotels, putting hundreds of unhoused at risk

TJ Johnston -
The feds are still paying, so why the rush to put people on the streets or in congregate shelters?
Homelessness

A houseless woman gives birth in a porta potty in Oakland—and the baby lives

Tiny -
No pre-natal care. Nowhere to go. And yet, thanks to community action, mama and child are okay.
Homelessness

Why SF needs to implement the homeless CART team—now

Erika Siao -
A community-based alternative response for homeless people —instead of the cops—is an inexpensive and better idea than the mayor's Tenderloin plan.
News + Politics

Breed’s office denies reality in hearing on Tenderloin state of emergency

Tim Redmond -
There's not much available housing. There's not enough medical care. And the mayor's staff denies that the city even does homeless sweeps. Oh: But the cops are making more busts.

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