Tag: homeless

SF Plans To Convert Granada Hotel To Supportive Housing

SAN FRANCISCO—The city of San Francisco is looking to turn the Granada Hotel, located in Nob Hill, into a permanently supportive housing property. The...

SF Overdose Deaths Rise In 2019

SAN FRANCISCO—Citywide substance use trends show that overdose deaths totaled 441 in 2019, an increase from 259 deaths in 2018, according to an annual...

Tenderloin Sidewalks To Be Cleared After Settlement

SAN FRANCISCO—A settlement filed by the University of California Hastings College of the Law called for the clearing of Tenderloin’s sidewalks which was passed...

Homeless Shelter Program Creates Problems

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco City's homeless shelter program turned out to be a "complete disaster", according to a City Journal contributor Erica Sandberg's report on...

Mayor London Breed Announces Budget Plan For A Street Crisis Response...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A budget for fiscal years 2020-21 and 2021-22 was released today and includes $4 million from the general fund to pilot a...

Proposed Budget Plan Announced For Street Crisis Response Team

SAN FRANCISCO—A budget for Fiscal Years 2020-21 and 2021-22 was released on Tuesday, August 11 which includes $4 million from the General Fund to...

SF Revises Health And Safety Protocols After Hotel Drug Bust

SAN FRANCISCO—The city of San Francisco is revising some of its health and safety protocols at facilities housing homeless people, after a meth lab...

City Clears Homeless Encampments In Response To Lawsuits

SAN FRANCISCO—The city of San Francisco cleared 70 percent of the homeless’ tents in the Tenderloin District . Officials are clearing these homeless encampments...

City Offers Hotel Rooms To Homeless

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco’s Healthy Streets Operation Center is offering shelter assistance and hotel rooms to people living in homeless tent encampments.  According to its website,...

COVID-19 May Not Be The Reason Homeless Death Rise

SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, May 26, details from the coronavirus pandemic noted that the rise in death rates for the homeless is a not a...