San Francisco has become a symbol of California’s inability to counter rising homelessness. City attorneys deny that city workers illegally force people to move or throw out personal items.

San Francisco reports a decline in homeless tents, with some criticizing the metric's accuracy for reflecting homelessness.

Mayor Dan Lurie ran on a promise to build 1,500 additional shelter beds in the city, complete with supportive services. Now, his office says they are “shifting strategy” to focus on prevention and ...

A San Francisco International Airport official says the city's aggressive homeless crackdown is pushing the unhoused population to neighboring locations, including the airport.

Up to 20,000 people experience homelessness in San Francisco over the course of a year. ... 331, occurred during the peak of the Covid lockdowns, from March 2020 to March 2021, ...

Until 2020, homelessness had not been a primary concern for Marina residents. ... San Francisco counts its homeless population once every two years, usually on a single night in January.

San Francisco’s latest homeless count shows the consolidated city-county’s street homelessness at a 10 year low. ... slightly growing after falling from 874,000 in 2020 to 808,000 in 2022. ...

It’s a strange city that bans plastic straws but permits plastic needles. Yet that’s San Francisco today. Between 2020 and 2022, 1,985 people here have died from drug overdoses compared to ...

California has spent more than $20 billion on housing for the homeless since 2020, yet public encampments continue to grow. As San Francisco progressives are learning, government can build more ...

Top executives at several San Francisco nonprofit organizations tasked with tackling the area’s growing homelessness issue are making more than twice as much as the city’s average household income, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — On a frosty December morning, Victoria Solomon recounted how San Francisco police had rousted her awake hours earlier, and threatened to take her to jail if she didn’t ...