homeless

28 Apr 2025

Could Bilal Mahmood Help The Tenderloin?

For ages, residents of San Francisco’s wealthier, “family-oriented” districts have depended on the Tenderloin to quarantine the homeless. The Tenderloin is by far the highest-density neighborhood in the city, shared predominantly by low-income families of color. Indeed the TL is home to over 4,000 children as of 2023. They are

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22 Apr 2025

California Mayor Says He Wants To Give The Unhoused “all the Fentanyl they want” to Purge Population

Lancaster Mayor Rex Parris, a Republican in overwhelmingly blue Los Angeles County, has suggested providing homeless residents with a steady supply of fentanyl to reduce the city’s number of unhoused residents.

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17 Sep 2024

San Francisco Has Bused Out 55 Unhoused Residents Since August 1st

San Francisco’s Journey Home busing program has relocated 55 homeless people since August 1st, with most heading to other parts of California, but critics have expressed concerns about the city offloading its homeless population onto other counties.

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10 Aug 2024

Journey Home-less: What Really Happens to San Francisco’s Exiled?

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has recently dusted off a Newsom-era homeless relocation policy and rechristened it Journey Home. It began in 2005 under the similarly saccharine-named Homeward Bound. Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas and New York enacted similar policies, sending unhoused people across the United States. According to the SF

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San Francisco Victorian buildings
11 Jun 2024

San Francisco Has Only Approved 16 New Housing Permits In 2024

Back in 2022, it came to my attention that San Francisco had been ordered by the State of California to build roughly 80,000 new housing units by 2031 in order to make rents more affordable, home ownership more attainable and homelessness less prevalent in the City by the Bay. So,

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22 Mar 2024

Oakland’s NEW Non-Violent, Non-Emergency Mobile Response Team

There’s a new number to call in Oakland designed to respond to non-violent, non-emergency calls with a compassionate, care-first approach. The Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) program has hired and begun training MACRO Responders. The program aims to address the needs of the community through empathy, service, and

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21 Nov 2023

San Francisco Business Owners Suffered Due To APEC

I regularly, and loudly point out the hypocrisy in San Francisco on a daily basis, but there are times where I am surprised at just how shitty the political class of the City can be.  The APEC conference undoubtedly had its benefits for the city, with increased tourism and a

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31 Oct 2023

President Biden And China’s President Xi Are Going To Meet In San Francisco

I don’t know what this means in terms of foreign policy, but I do know that San Francisco is likely to sweep the homeless because San Francisco doesn’t want the world to see how dysfunctional we are. We do that every time something big happens in the city. President Joe

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