San Francisco is seeing its lowest homicide rate since the 1960s, according to city officials.During a press conference at San Francisco Police Headquarters on Tuesday, Police Chief Bill Scott said there have been 33 homicides citywide in 2024, so far.At the same time last year, there were ...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Monday announced that preliminary results of the city's biennial homelessness count showed a 15 percent decrease in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5 percent decrease in overall homelessness. The Point in Time (PIT...
San Francisco's Homeless Outreach Team faces a tough task: persuading people to leave their tents and move indoors. But the city has a shortage of shelter beds.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 (Xinhua) -- The homeless population in San Francisco has increased by double digits over the past two years, despite the city's huge efforts to combat homelessness, said the Office of Mayor London Breed on Thursday. The initial results of the two-year Homelessness Poi...
San Francisco is aggressively clearing its streets of homeless encampments after the Supreme Court empowered cities to enforce anti-camping laws. The city has increased shelter beds and supportive housing, but still has a shortage. (AP Video/Terry Chea)...
The annual point-in-time survey is done by the county's health department and focuses on counting Contra Costa County's homeless population on a single night. In 2023, the count was 4% higher than in 2022. The team and its community partners, including hundreds of volunteers, canvas...
“The initial results of this count show we have more to do to provide more shelter, more exits from homelessness, and to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place,” said San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The San Francisco Bay Area is grappling with a homelessness crisis dri...
Faced with the highest per-capita rate of homelessness in the country, San Francisco has struggled to address its homeless problem for more than twenty years. Until recently, the city relied primarily upon criminalization tactics to manage the problem, issuing criminal citations for sleeping out...
San Francisco,unofficially regarded as one of the homeless capitals of the US,counts nearly 6,500 homeless people, with 4,300 living on the street. Among the many problems that the homeless face is little or no access to showers.San Francisco only has about 16 to 20 shower stations to ac...
Like other cities in California, San Francisco has long been plagued by homelessness and the crime and sanitary issues that come with people living on the streets. Efforts to house them have been mixed. More than 100 people fatally overdosed on fentanyl in San Francisco hotels used to house...