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Astrid Kane

San Francisco’s rising anti-homeless sentiment is costing those on the streets

News

The intensification of San Francisco’s homelessness emergency has coincided with a number of other trends that unhoused people say mean fewer of the once-reliable dollars from passersby and less positive interactions more generally. 

News Reporter

David Sjostedt

Gold chains, designer clothes, family heirlooms: Homeless San Franciscans sue the city for thousands in lost property

One person claims they had to resort to sex work after the city allegedly destroyed their encampment. 

Mary Kate Bacalao

Opinion: We should be outraged about the conditions in SROs. SF must rethink what ‘getting people off the streets’ means

Opinion

For supportive housing to fulfill its mission, the city will have to make up for decades of underinvestment and neglect.

Manuela Tobias at CalMatters

California homeless population grew by 22,000 over pandemic

Politics

The first statewide snapshot of California’s homelessness crisis since the pandemic hit reveals that the number of people without a stable place to call home increased by at least 22,500 over the past three years, to 173,800. That’s based on a CalMatters analysis of the federal government’s point-in-time count, a biennial headcount of people sleeping on…

Vince Bielski

CARE Courts—the controversial plan to compel people into drug, mental health treatment—set to become law

Gov. Gavin Newsom is poised to sign the sweeping CARE Court bill to address the state’s mounting homelessness and mental health crisis by allowing judges to order residents deemed unable to make medical decisions for themselves into treatment. The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which the state legislature passed overwhelmingly Wednesday, targets people…

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San Francisco’s rising anti-homeless sentiment is costing those on the streets

Gold chains, designer clothes, family heirlooms: Homeless San Franciscans sue the city for thousands in lost property

Opinion: We should be outraged about the conditions in SROs. SF must rethink what ‘getting people off the streets’ means

California homeless population grew by 22,000 over pandemic

CARE Courts—the controversial plan to compel people into drug, mental health treatment—set to become law