Stories about Coalition on Homelessness
Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote
The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.
SF seizes homeless people’s property — and they rarely get it back
Stunning new videos document how the cops and DPW are failing to follow even their own rules as tents, medicine, and personal belongings wind up in the trash.
Tenant representation and spy technology
Supes committee to vote on Breed's Rent Board appointee -- and on a measure to control surveillance in San Francisco (which the cops are trying to derail). That's The Agenda for April 16-21
How to take housing out of the private market
The Agenda: Sup. Fewer has an idea that—with adequate funding—could radically change homelessness, gentrification, and the way the city handles housing.
Rival GoFundMe launched to counter anti-homeless Embarcadero group’s
Seawall navigation center opponents raise big bucks to hire lawyer—but homeless advocate fights back with a successful one of his own.
Homeless people — in cages
A poverty scholars national tour finds people locked up in St. Petersburg.
Cops continue homeless sweeps, even in the cold rain
Tents are still being confiscated despite dangerous weather, police official admits at public hearing.
The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’
When did taking people's possessions, destroying their shelter, and leaving them to suffer in the rain become the new normal?
Has Breed made an impact on homelessness?
The mayor brags that 1,000 people have left the streets since she took office. The real numbers are a bit more complicated.
Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento
Progressives celebrate in Chinatown as Newsom puts out meaningless platitudes that ignore the issue of massive wealth inequality.