Coalition On Homelessness

Advocates for people who are homeless say a decision approved by the San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday to scale back the number of police officers who respond to calls about unsheltered people will help advance the goals of a new campaign they launched this week.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit spoke to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and reviewed thousands of city records to determine what her administration has accomplished, and what it has been unable to achieve over the past year regarding the city’s most pressing issues, including homelessness and the infamous amount of trash, needles, and human waste strewn across streets and...

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit spoke to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and reviewed thousands of city records to determine what her administration has accomplished, and what it has been unable to achieve over the past year regarding the city’s most pressing issues, including homelessness and the infamous amount of trash, needles, and human waste strewn across streets and...

Someone is soaking homeless people in San Francisco with buckets of water, and it’s a move many are calling cruel.

Someone is soaking homeless people in San Francisco with buckets of water, and it’s a move many are calling cruel. Jean Elle reports.

Navigation centers, which San Francisco began opening in 2015, are designed to address shortcomings of the old homeless shelter system. They don’t accept walk-ins, don’t have curfews, and don’t send guests back out on the street in the mornings, so neighbors are less likely to see crowds gathered outside them. Homeless outreach workers invite people into navigation centers for 30...

Navigation centers, which San Francisco began opening in 2015, are designed to address shortcomings of the old homeless shelter system. They don’t accept walk-ins, don’t have curfews, and don’t send guests back out on the street in the mornings, so neighbors are less likely to see crowds gathered outside them. Homeless outreach workers invite people into navigation centers for...

City leaders want to build a 200-bed Navigation Center in San Francisco and the idea has people on opposing sides attacking each other including Mayor London Breed who stepped into the heated debate Wednesday.

City leaders want to build a 200-bed Navigation Center in San Francisco and the idea has people on opposing sides attacking each other including Mayor London Breed who stepped into the heated debate Wednesday. Jean Elle reports.

Though the official count is in the hundreds, it’s been estimated that well over a thousand people in San Francisco go to sleep in their vehicles every night, parked on city streets. The most visible of these people are the ones now at the center of a fiery debate: the residents of an estimated 313 RVs, many of them decades...

Though the official count is in the hundreds, it’s been estimated that well over a thousand people in San Francisco go to sleep in their vehicles every night, parked on city streets. The most visible of these people are the ones now at the center of a fiery debate: the residents of an estimated 313 RVs, many of them decades…

A federal appeals court has found cities cannot criminalize homeless people for sleeping or camping in public places if there is no shelter available.

A federal appeals court has found cities cannot criminalize homeless people for sleeping or camping in public places if there is no shelter available. Christie Smith reports.

A candlelight vigil in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza on Thursday will honor the lives of those who died while homeless this year, but advocates say there are likely many whose names will not make it on to the list.

San Francisco police commissioners voted 4-3 late Friday night in support of a plan to arm all city police officers with Tasers following a raucous six-and-a-half-hour hearing that was at one point shut down and relocated to another room in response to audience protests. The vote means the department will move to develop a policy for the conducted energy devices,...

It wasn’t a typical protest, but it conveyed a message.
On Friday, people took to social media with pictures of themselves eating slices of pizza — with all manner of toppings — at Muni stops across San Francisco. #LegalizePizza, they demanded.

According to the city’s annual homeless count, nearly 7,000 people in San Francisco live without a home.

If anything was going to put on an exclamation mark on San Francisco’s homeless crisis, it was the giant tent city rising on Division Street. The morphing, amoeba-like rainbow of camping equipment was impossible to miss – grocery carts spilling-over with belongings parked alongside piles of debris amassed around cooking stoves.

This year San Francisco will spend a record $241 million on homeless services. Despite the city’s efforts, its famous scenery and topography is filled with numerous visual cues of its tenacious homeless epidemic. Joe Rosato reports.

Some believe the short-lived Division Street camp thrust the homeless issue to the headlines in a way it hadn’t before, revealing the public’s boiling point and renewing calls for more solutions from the city of San Francisco. Joe Rosato reports.