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Housing

First sanctioned tent city opens in SF

Garrett Leahy - May 14, 2020

San Francisco's first city-sanctioned safe sleeping site began operations yesterday afternoon. The site, referred to as the Safe Sleeping Village, has 50 spaces for...

Housing

Physicians, advocates stage die-in outside mayor’s house

Garrett Leahy - April 30, 2020

"House us now! House us now!" A group of UCSF physicians associated with the Do No Harm Coalition, activists from the Coalition on Homelessness, the...

COVID

Will COVID kill capitalism?

Tiny - April 20, 2020

“I have a Case of Toilet Paper, I’ll bring it over tomorrow,” said Reena, a now-unemployed accountant from Alameda. “I have a box of organic...

News + Politics

Campaign seeks to close jail at Hall of Justice

Garrett Leahy - April 16, 2020

On Wednesday, the NoNewSFJail Coalition and its member organizations asked San Franciscans via social media and on their website to participate in a “Digital...

News + Politics

Can hotels become permanent housing for homeless people?

Tim Redmond - April 15, 2020

There are ways to describe the logistics of moving thousands of homeless people into hotel rooms. It’s not going to be simple. But referring to...

News + Politics

‘Terrible, devastating, and preventable.’

Tim Redmond - April 10, 2020

This is what the supervisors were afraid of. Seventy people have tested positive for COVID-19 at the largest homeless shelter in San Francisco. This could have...

COVID

First COVID case in homeless shelter; supes demand hotel rooms

Tim Redmond - April 2, 2020

The first resident of a local homeless shelter tested positive for COVID today, and five supervisors upped their demand that the city move immediately...

Culture

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Marke B. - April 2, 2020

As tragic stories about COVID cluster deaths in Black communities begin to emerge from New York and Detroit to Georgia and beyond, many are...

Housing

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

Sam Lew - April 1, 2020

UPDATE: The first case of COVID in a homeless shelter has been reported. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday to place sheltered...

Housing

SF cops keep telling homeless people to move

Garrett Leahy - March 26, 2020

At 10:11 pm on March 17, five SFPD officers approached a man sitting on the sidewalk at Stockton and Union Streets, according to a...

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First sanctioned tent city opens in SF

Physicians, advocates stage die-in outside mayor’s house

Will COVID kill capitalism?

Campaign seeks to close jail at Hall of Justice

Can hotels become permanent housing for homeless people?

‘Terrible, devastating, and preventable.’

First COVID case in homeless shelter; supes demand hotel rooms

With Black community hard-hit by COVID, Bayview groups demand aid

Mayor, supervisors at odds over hotel rooms for homeless

SF cops keep telling homeless people to move

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