Today he's using that experience to offer a helping hand to people experiencing homelessness. "I was a destroyer. I was destroying our community and now I have opportunity to build up our community," Franklin explained. He's doing that by serving on the city of San Francisco's Homeless ...
In a remarkable new study, researchers at the University of California San Francisco surveyed thousands of the homeless in California. Nearly 90% of survey participants indicated high housing costs as a barrier to their moving into permanent housing. In the majority of those surveyed, mo...
The TikTok account of San Francisco bakery Brioche S.F. posted a video Monday of Collier Gwin, owner and operator of Foster Gwin Gallery on Montgomery Street in the city's Financial District, nonchalantly spraying a homeless woman that morning while she was sitting down...
One of7,000-10,000 homeless residentsof San Francisco, Nathaniel, or “Nate the Great,” as his mother once called him, is particularly worn down tonight, and at the end of his wits. “I’m tired, my feet hurt, my shoes got holes in them,” he says without an iota of self-pity...
Locally, the issue is front and center, too: 70 percent of San Francisco residents cite homelessness among the top three problems in the city.1 And while California is on track to become the fourth-largest economy in the world,2 it also hosts half of the un...
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - S.F.’s Stonestown to become west side’s largest residential development in 50 years (SF Chronicle): The plan to convert the Stonestown...more Supreme Court Expands Available Government Strategies to Respond to...
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The writer is a partner at Sequoia Capital 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 1,143 from Covid-19. Tomorrow, San Francisco’s mayo...
It is now well known that the homeless are a heterogeneous population, and the homeless in San Francisco are no exception. The street people that Gowan spent a considerable amount of time with were recyclers. Perhaps the most interesting and perceptive parts of the book focus on men who walk...