policy director

New “no panhandling” sings are being posted on Bart trains which is causing backlash from riders and the transit agency says they will be taking down, but only to change one word.

Following weeks of community meetings and public outcry from residents in San Francisco’s South Beach neighborhood over a proposed Navigation Center there, Mayor London Breed has announced a proposal to scale back the number of beds and provide extra security.

A heated conversation is turning hateful, and potentially violent. Several neighbors living in the Rincon Hill area of San Francisco say they have received death threats for donating to a GoFundMe page that opposes a new homeless shelter planned for the waterfront.

At New Design High School in New York, students spend just as much time in their “Design for Life” class as they do in English and math. Students are required to take the class in the fall and spring semesters during all four years of high school. In past semesters, students created suicide prevention posters that lined the schools’ hallways....

California lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown a package of bills Friday aimed at easing the state’s affordable housing crisis, but a boom in building won’t happen immediately.

Many South Bay community groups gathered in San Jose Wednesday for a protest march on renters’ rights.

Doctors, nurses or pharmacy staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals were fired or reprimanded in only a small fraction of thousands of reported cases of opioid theft and missing prescriptions since 2010, according to government data obtained by The Associated Press. About 372 VA employees were disciplined for a drug or alcohol-related issue across a network of 160...

The board that oversees California’s high-speed rail project approved plans Tuesday that pave the way for the first major sale of voter-approved construction bonds for the project in years, as opponents announced the filing of another lawsuit that could again stall its construction.

Two Los Angeles City Council members want to legalize sidewalk vendors, arguing it will help people who fear deportation in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to ship out millions who are in the country illegally.

Former Indy Racing League driver Sam Schmidt has done a lot in the 16 years since an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He runs a racing team and a foundation. He’s raced a sailboat using his chin. But the man who raced in the Indianapolis 500 hasn’t been able to drive around his neighborhood — until now....

California lawmakers approved a $900 million spending package devoted to environmental programs Wednesday, hours after Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders agreed to spend nearly two-thirds of the available money generated by the state’s cap on carbon pollution.

The Texas Supreme Court has issued an emergency order blocking gay couples from obtaining marriage licenses after a lesbian couple wed in Austin.