Lower Nob Hill residents are fighting to shut down a homeless shelter. It’s not going well
After years of seeing homeless shelters open around her since the pandemic, Lower Nob Hill resident Barbara Swan…
Plan to prioritize locals could transform SF homelessness strategy
Are San Francisco’s sidewalks full of out-of-town invaders or down-on-their-luck locals who were priced out of their homes?…
Messy SF homeless count hampered by new rules
Pants torn and face unshaved, folded over on the stoop of a downtown Starbucks, a man stared at…
This New Waterfront High Rise Plan Comes With a Homeless Twist
As 2025 ended, San Francisco housing boosters had little time to savor the December approval of the city’s…
Think you can solve SF’s homelessness crisis? Give it a try
Every San Francisco politician has to pretend to know how to solve the homelessness crisis. Now you can…
San Francisco’s Homeless Count Is Coming As Trump DEI Rules Loom
In three weeks, dozens of volunteers and city workers will fan out across San Francisco before sunrise to…
SF‘s homeless count was broken for years. Now the city is trying a new approach
San Francisco is making sweeping changes to how it counts the number of homeless people on its streets.…
What’s Taking So Long to Fix How SF Finds Housing For Homeless People
[This is a two-part series. For part 1, click here.] Soon after arriving in San Francisco from Honduras…
SF Pledged in 2022 to Fix How It Houses the Homeless. It’s Still Not Done
The magnitude of San Francisco’s homelessness problem — more than 8,300 unhoused people based on the most recent…
Daniel Lurie’s First Year: Homelessness, Drugs, Mental Health
Daniel Lurie took office at the start of 2025 after a campaign full of pledges to overhaul the…
Board of Supervisors OKs Lease for Shelter At 711 Post Street
By Post Staff The City of Oakland announced this week that it is successfully moving forward on the…