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Homelessness

Lawsuit challenges SF’s homeless policies and seeks to stop sweeps

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2022

Data shows how the city repeatedly violates its own policies and federal Constitutional rights.

News + Politics

The big debates: Changing the mayoral election date, a homeless oversight commission …

Tim Redmond - July 17, 2022

The Board of Supes has two more meetings to finalize the fall ballot, and while some measures are clearly going to be approved, at...

Homelessness

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

Tim Redmond - May 12, 2022

Two very different approaches to housing policy were under discussion this week.

Opinion

Flush with significance: Why reopening a BART bathroom is a very big deal

Marke B. - February 3, 2022

Surveillance state overreach, homophobia, anti-homeless hysteria—sometimes a toilet isn't just a toilet.

News + Politics

Supes approve mayor’s emergency declaration for Tenderloin

Tim Redmond - December 24, 2021

Breed didn't show up. Her staff contradicted her public statements. There is no real plan. But the board approved it anyway.

Homelessness

A scathing report says SF fails to give services to people in homeless camps

Garrett Leahy - October 7, 2021

Study shows that most unhoused people never get shelter—but many lose all of their belongings.

Homelessness

Keep the SIP hotels open to save lives, demonstrators tell Mayor Breed

Garrett Leahy - September 7, 2021

Sup. Haney says feds will probably keep paying—but in the end, the city needs to buy these hotels as permanent housing.

City Hall

The budget’s not perfect — but it’s a lot better than what the mayor offered

Tim Redmond - July 11, 2021

Plus: Parklets, small business -- and the terrible mess that is public housing in the Western Addition. That's The Agenda for July 11-18

Homelessness

SF could cut homelessness in half, quickly, new report shows

Tim Redmond - May 24, 2021

Coalition on Homelessness identifies money to move 3,800 people off the streets -- now -- if the mayor would go along.

Homelessness

Caltrans evicts rent-paying tenants from mostly empty parking lot

Garrett Leahy - May 17, 2021

People living in vehicles tossed from under a downtown freeway despite possible legal rights of tenancy.

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Lawsuit challenges SF’s homeless policies and seeks to stop sweeps

The big debates: Changing the mayoral election date, a homeless oversight commission …

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

Flush with significance: Why reopening a BART bathroom is a very big deal

Supes approve mayor’s emergency declaration for Tenderloin

A scathing report says SF fails to give services to people in homeless camps

Keep the SIP hotels open to save lives, demonstrators tell Mayor Breed

The budget’s not perfect — but it’s a lot better than what the mayor offered

SF could cut homelessness in half, quickly, new report shows

Caltrans evicts rent-paying tenants from mostly empty parking lot

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