Jenkins says the solution to homelessness is to make the unhoused ‘uncomfortable’

Jenkins says the solution to homelessness is to make the unhoused ‘uncomfortable’

DA also goes all in on blaming judges for the city’s overdose problems. By TIM REDMOND DECEMBER 14, 2023 (48hills.org)  Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on LinkedIn Share on RedditShare on Email Mayor London Breed, Police Chief Bill Scott, and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins sat down last week for an… Continue reading

It’s not just The City: US homelessness highest since ’07

It’s not just The City: US homelessness highest since ’07

It’s not just San Francisco. National homelessness rose 12% between 2022 and 2023, according to an annual federal report submitted to Congress on Friday, up to its highest level since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development started recording data in 2007. Federal housing officials estimated that, on any given… Continue reading

City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams

City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams

8 NOVEMBER 2023/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (sfist.com) San Francisco has not one but 11 homeless outreach teams to provide services for people living on the streets, and a new city audit finds they don’t communicate with one another and often have poor oversight of their contracts and responsibilities. You may have… Continue reading

New website seeks to create unified list of Bay Area resources to keep people housed

Kevin Fagan Oct. 26, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) A new website that was slated to launch Thursday seeks to help people on the brink of homelessness access a wide range of resources meant to keep them housed.   Called Stay Housed Bay Area, the site is operated by the nonprofit All Home in an effort to break down… Continue reading

San Francisco could get 90% of its homeless off the streets with the country’s fiercest housing speculation tax, but landlords are already fighting it tooth and nail

BY IRINA IVANOVA (Fortune.com) October 21, 2023 at 2:00 AM PDT Homeless people seen in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco in California, United States on September 24, 2022. TAYFUN COSKUN/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES Most cities have homeless problems and lots of vacant housing units, but everything is magnified… Continue reading