December 8, 2024 / 11:17 PM PST / CBS San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO – The City of San Francisco is set to close its only safe parking site for homeless people living out of their vehicles in early 2025. The Bayview Vehicle Triage Center opened in January of 2022 and since then...
A budget analyst report in 2023 estimates the cost per vehicle at the site to be about $140,000 per year. Despite that, city officials just managed to connect reliable power in October, nearly three years after opening. New light poles were installed afterward, and in just a couple ...
San Francisco Tries Tough Love by Tying Welfare to Drug Rehab Public assistance recipients who screen positive for addiction on a 10-question drug use test will be referred to treatment. Is Housing Health Care? State Medicaid Programs Increasingly Say ‘Yes’ ...
Homeless people are pictured in San Francisco, California, the United States, Dec. 23, 2023. The number of homeless people in the United States has increased by 12 percent to a record high, showed a government report on Dec. 15. (Photo by Li Jianguo/Xinhua) Homeless people are pictured i...
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.
A view of San Francisco atop a city street with cars parked on the side.(iStock / iStock) The annual tech conference happens annually. For 2023, it is slated for Sept. 12-14, with the Moscone Center in downtownSan Franciscoholding the events that draw a wide array o...
A woman gathers possessions to take before a homeless encampment was cleaned up in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Cities across the U.S. are struggling with and cracking down on tent encampments as the number of homeless people grows, largely due to ...
LOS ANGELES - The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count results were released Thursday, showing a 9% rise in homelessness on any given night in Los Angeles County and a 10% rise in the City of Los Angeles. The county's homeless numbers rose to an estimated 75,518 people, while ...
Giti Mayton remembers a meth addict who was hospitalized with frostbitten, gangrenous hands, yet who left the hospital in midwinter to find more dope. San Francisco and Philadelphia, two cities with years of experience with heroin, are seeing users homeless and dying like never before. The dope...
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 u...