SF Homeless Project

A few months ago I came across a letter to the San Francisco Business Times. The author, an understandably frustrated San Francisco resident named Richard Kales, went on at length about the perils of working downtown with its throngs of drug addicted, mentally ill, and sometimes violent denizens.... Read More

Supervisor's Report

Homelessness in the city of St. Francis: Problems and solutions

By Supervisor Mark E. Farrell

Homelessness is an intractable issue that has plagued San Francisco and cities and countries across the world for decades. Poverty, housing shortages, growing income inequality, s... Read More

Supervisor's Report

How we fight back: accountability and love

By Aaron Peskin

At the Board of Supervisors meeting following the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the worst mass shooting in our nation’s history, my colleagues and I re... Read More

North Beach Journal

Homeless people: Yes, they are our problem

By Ernest Beyl

The last time I saw Alphonsus McCourt was at the memorial for his celebrity bartender brother, Michael. Alphie, as everyone calls him, came out from New York and read one of his p... Read More

SF Homeless Project

Some of the homeless people you pass have been in your shoes

Homelessness in the city of St. Francis: Problems and solutions

How we fight back: accountability and love

Homeless people: Yes, they are our problem

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