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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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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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This Literary Magazine Release Party Will Be Epic!
The Huge Release Party for the Literary Magazine In case you haven’t heard, we just put out an incredible literary magazine called The Dreams I Dreamt: Letters to San Francisco thanks to a grant from the Civic Joy Fund. It’s a gift to San Francisco, where 19 of The City’s
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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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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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The Great Divide: San Francisco Journalist’s Latest Project Aims to Humanize the Homeless
Robert Gumpert moved to the Potrero Hill neighborhood in 1983 and has lived in the same house for 39 years. In his 48 years of journalism, Gumpert gravitated towards long term projects
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Anonymous SoMa Group Fights Permanently Housing The Homeless At The Panoramic Apartments
It seemed lovely news all around back in mid-August when the city of San Francisco announced plans to buy four hotels and convert them to housing for people experiencing homelessness. This will not solve San Francisco’s homelessness problem, which at last count was more than 8,000 unsheltered people, but 368
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WATCH: Moms 4 Housing Struggle Chronicled In Amazing New Documentary
You may remember the December 2019 – January 2020 saga of Moms 4 Housing, where four single mothers experiencing homelessness occupied a West Oakland house that had long been uselessly sitting vacant. Their fight for good over greed drew international attention to the moral outrage that Oakland has four times
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Yes, The Homeless Are Eligible For $1,400 Stimulus Payments
The $1,400 stimulus payments are starting to drop, and they can also drop for people who’ve fallen through the cracks. A viral tweet from over the weekend claimed “I just found this out. If you are homeless, you can go to a tax return office where they will file something