City Hall
Daly.jpg

Board struggles to choose an interim mayor

01.05.2011
|
By

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors spent eight hours debating who to select as interim mayor to finish Gavin Newsom’s term and ended up delaying any decision until Friday.

Angry lame-duck Supervisor Chris Daly blamed Board President David Chiu for a potential deal to install City Administrator Ed Lee in the post, vowing to “politically haunt you for the biggest fumble in the history of San Francisco politics.”

He then added: “It’s on, like Donkey Kong.”

Homelessness

Homeless advocates say federal government has key to ending problem

01.03.2011
|
By

San Francisco is not alone in its public housing woes and a homeless activist group’s report said it is up to the federal government to lay groundwork for housing to end homelessness.

Recent attempts by policymakers to create and preserve housing are just the first steps to housing reform, the Western Regional Advocacy Project wrote in an update of its 2006 report, “Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures.” The update was released in July.

City Hall
Campos_051010.jpg

Board delays picking new mayor until January

12.15.2010
|
By

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors decided to put off nominating and picking an interim mayor until early January.
On a 8-3 vote on Tuesday, the board delayed any decision to nominate Mayor Gavin Newsom’s successor until at least Jan. 4, 2011, the day after Newsom is scheduled to be sworn in as the state’s lieutenant governor.
The Jan. 4 meeting would be the last meeting of the current board before four new members take office.

City Hall

Effort to choose new mayor includes social network

12.06.2010
|
By

UPDATE: Assemblyman Tom Ammiano issued a statement saying he will not accept any nomination to be interim San Francisco mayor, according to SF Weekly.

As the San Francisco Board of Supervisors prepares to hear nominations to pick a new mayor, one member of the board is turning to the Web to push his candidate.

Chris Daly posted a petition on the Change.org social network site to draft Assemblyman Tom Ammiano into seeking the mayor’s office that Gavin Newsom’s election to lieutenant governor will leave vacant.

Homelessness
100420_SFPP_CNC_lawsuit_17108_credit_Jackson_Solway.jpg

Reforms aim at saving shelter beds

07.12.2010
|
By

San Francisco’s adult homeless shelter system is seeing fresh attempts at reform on two fronts: one through the settlement of a lawsuit, the other through new legislation. Since July 2004, more than 400 shelter beds have been eliminated, and the lawsuit settlement between the city of San Francisco and the Western Regional Advocacy Project will spare further reduction from budget cuts for this fiscal year.

Read more…

Census
Census_2010_1_3_of_3.jpg

Census methods could provide lift to hidden homeless

02.01.2010
|
By

The 2010 Census may address an old problem in dealing with San Francisco’s homeless population by getting an accurate head count. The city’s homeless figures have ranged between about 6,500 and 8,600 people in the last decade, but the real number is anybody’s guess. The sketchy knowledge of who is living on the street has been a big impediment to perennial attempts to solve the crisis.