SF to give up more than 100 shelter beds without a fight

Politics

Despite events that make sheltering homeless people more urgent than ever, the city aims to close a site where 118 people live in trailers.

The mayor wants to persuade voters that the city is on the right track to recovery.

Mandelman says amendments will undermine his effort to get the city to stick to an important deadline.

The city plans to pay $23 million to acquire 77 units in the Mission and Outer Mission neighborhoods for permanent supportive housing.  

San Francisco made hundreds more arrests for illegal lodging. Did it make a meaningful difference? 