Guest Post by Dan Moore  If you’re not from San Francisco, or if you’re otherwise unfamiliar with life in this city, you might envision the city’s relationship with rain as fundamentally romantic. Perhaps you think of considerate little rain clouds rolling all polite and cottony into the bay, blanketing the

Guest Post by Lucy Kang A version of this story was originally broadcast on KALW’s Crosscurrents. Kat Callaway doesn’t waste words when I ask her if she’s planning to vote next week. Her answer? Hell yes. Kat’s enthusiasm is unsurprising. She has been the picture of political engagement since arriving

We’ve covered how screwed up Prop Q is before and how it only exacerbates the homelessness epidemic. And we also covered it in our 2016 voter guide. If you’re as outraged by the both Props Q & R there’s an action going down on Thursday at Harvey Milk Plaza from

This op-ed is written by Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness A version of this originally ran in the SF Examiner Thursday August 18 A young African American man I talked to recently shared how he is living in an encampment near the now cleared Division Street.

The folks over at the Coalition on Homelessness do really fantastic work. They are “working every day to expand access to housing in one of the richest cities in the country, protect the rights of the poorest people on our streets, and to address the root causes of homelessness and poverty.”

Guest post by Kelley Cutler Human Rights Organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness I woke up that morning to a call from a woman who was living in a tent on the street. Through her tears I could hear the muffled voices of San Francisco police coming through the phone, telling

Hotel taxes in San Francisco were created to fund the arts, but they’ve been stripped away over the last decade. The San Francisco Arts and Families Funding Ordinance just launched a campaign for a new ballot measure that would take those funds back for arts and homelessness initiatives. But first we need 9.5k signatures to get on the ballot in November!

Guest post by Jacob Savage director and cofounder of Concrn We’ve all been there before: You see someone having a mental health crisis, and you want to help, but you don’t know what to do. Luckily, the people of San Francisco can now take direct action to address their frustrations