Tag: Homelessness
Breed won’t promise to spend real-estate tax money on rent relief
The voters approved Prop. I last fall to support tenants and affordable housing, but the mayor says she will use the money for her own priorities.
Homeless people lack access to water
People on SF's streets can't even access the UN's minimum requirements for potable water, new report shows.
The lessons of the Ferris Wheel
Does SF need to overhaul its City Charter to create better departmental oversight -- and limit the potential for corruption?
Inside the SIP hotels saga
How activists and some supes forced the city to put homeless people in hotel rooms.
Performing poverty in ‘Nomadland’ and ‘White Tiger’
Two acclaimed movies from poverty outsiders don't go far enough in exposing wealth-hoarding and corporate slavery.
Chiu, Wiener attack ‘left-right pincers’ on housing
Legislators decry alliance between progressive housing activists and 'Nimby' homeowners.
The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’
It's an easy way to look away and blame homelessness on poor people.
SF can buy housing for thousands of people, now.
With federal and local money, taking over hotels would cost a fraction of the price of building affordable housing.
Screen Grabs: Elders on the move, in love and crisis
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci play a couple navigating dementia in 'Supernova'; 'Nomadland' shows Frances McDormand weathering poverty
Leaders under 30: SF Youth Commissioner Jayden Tanaka on valuing diverse young voices
A high school student talks about the role of young people in the political process -- and why we need more affordable housing.
