Candidates for Mayor Vow to House the Homeless
Chris Block and Steven J. Moss In his recent “State of the City” speech, Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garrett, stated that “homelessness isn’t an issue, homelessness is the issue.” Candidates to become San Francisco’s next mayor…
Chris Block and Steven J. Moss
San Diego Appears to Shelter More Homeless Faster, and at Lower Cost, than San Francisco
Last fall, the late Mayor Ed Lee announced that this winter San Francisco would help an additional 1,000 homeless people secure shelter. However, according to Jeff Kositsky, head of the…
City Continues to Grapple with Homelessness
Last fall, Randy Quesada, Communications and Community Relations Manager for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (DHSH), provided the View with a tour of the Central Waterfront Navigation Center,…
City Releases “Framework” to Address Homelessness
Last month, the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing released a “Five-Year Strategic Framework” to address rootlessness. Under the Framework, chronic homelessness would be halved by December 2022,…
Sanctioned Encampments a Success in Seattle
Faced with a similar emergence of widespread homeless encampments as San Francisco, the City of Seattle responded, in part, by allowing – “sanctioning” – a number of camps, so long…
San Francisco’s Homeless Population Slightly Declines Since 2015
Earlier this summer, the City and County of San Francisco published the results of its point-in-time census and survey of homeless people. The “PIT count,” a comprehensive tally of sheltered…
City Adds Shelter Beds
District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronan is pushing to open a 100-plus bed Navigation Center near the corner of South Van Ness Avenue and Cesar Chavez Street this month. At two…
Sanctioned Encampments Successfully Operating in Florida, Washington
Popular opinion has it that homeless encampments should be removed from San Francisco’s streets, though often such action results in the scattering of a single camp into many smaller ones.…
Box City Shredded
A block long collection of tents and rudimentary shelters made of boxes located near an Interstate 280 overpass and Caltrain tracks in Mission Bay, which served as home to upwards…
Election Produces Mixed Results for Housing and Homeless
In the View’s October issue, as part of its election recommendations the paper stated that “Rather than ad hoc solutions, or untethered mayoral promises about creating 10,000 new affordable units,…
Data Provide Insight into Progress with Homelessness
In a series of articles this year, the View reported that the City’s response to homeless encampments is often reactionary. For instance, earlier this year District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener…
Dogpatch Neighborhood Association Votes to Support Navigation Center
Last month, the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association (DNA) voted to endorse the siting of a Navigation Center at the end of 25th Street, just beyond the MUNI Metro East Maintenance Facility.…
Still No Consistent Government Response to Homeless Camps
The City and County estimates that there are roughly 100 encampments – two or more people living without a structured home, typically in tents – and 700 campers at any…