Photojournalist Yesica Prado assembled this resource guide as part of her ongoing project examining the culture of vehicle living in San Francisco and Berkeley. CatchLight, Dysturb, The Everyday Projects and the San Francisco Public Press collaborated to produce this guide for printed posters, which are posted where vehicle dwellers would likely see them. The aim is to improve access to locally relevant public health information as part of the Artists Against an #Infodemic Initiative.
Category: Homelessness
Posted inBay Area, Coronavirus, Driving Home: Surviving the Housing Crisis, Homelessness
Guía de Recursos Sobre el Coronavirus Para Residentes de Vehículos en San Francisco y Berkeley
La fotoperiodista Yesica Prado reunió esta guía de recursos como parte de su proyecto que examina la cultura de vivir en vehículos en San Francisco y Berkeley. CatchLight, Dysturb, The Everyday Projects y San Francisco Public Press colaboraron para producir esta guía y carteles, que se publicaran donde los habitantes de vehículos puedan leerlos. El objetivo es mejorar el acceso a la información de salud pública localmente como parte de la Iniciativa de Artistas Contra una #Infodemia.
Posted in“Civic” Podcast, Coronavirus, Health, Homelessness
Safe Sleeping Site Opens at School for Just Six Weeks
A few days after a new city-approved tent encampment, known as a “safe sleeping village,” had opened at Everett Middle School, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman visited the site and then took a walk around the block to see how the number of encampments had changed. The Everett site is one of three city-approved camps […]
Posted inCity Hall, Coronavirus, Health, Homelessness
Nonprofits Want Added Homeless Protections in UC Hastings Lawsuit Against S.F.
Three nonprofit groups have asked to be included in a lawsuit against San Francisco by the University of California Hastings law school and a Tenderloin business group over the worsening conditions in the neighborhood since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Their aim: ensuring homeless people’s needs are considered during negotiations on how to address the issue. […]
Posted inCoronavirus, Economy & Business, Government & Politics, Homelessness, Law & Justice
Businesses to Drop Lawsuit Against S.F. Over City-Sanctioned Homeless Camp
After backlash from neighbors, activists and others, several Haight-Ashbury businesses plan to drop a federal lawsuit against San Francisco for its placement of an approved homeless encampment at Haight and Stanyan streets. The plaintiffs plan to withdraw the suit Monday or Tuesday, Joe Goldmark, the partner-manager of record vendor Amoeba Music’s Haight-Ashbury location, said by […]
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Homelessness, Public Safety
Homeless Clamor for Safe Camp Sites While Over 1,000 Hotel Rooms Go Unused
Demand among homeless San Franciscans for the 40 slots the city is making available in its Haight-Ashbury safe camping site has outstripped supply, even as more than 1,000 hotel rooms and trailers meant for vulnerable residents sit empty. Around 60 people have requested to stay at the site, which has space for only 40 tents, said Mary Howe, director of the Homeless Youth Alliance.
Posted inCoronavirus, Homelessness, Housing
While S.F. Resists, Seattle Embraces Regulated Homeless Camps
San Francisco has approved temporary encampments to slow the spread of COVID-19. But in Seattle, a half-decade experiment with regulated sites has proved so much more successful at getting people off the streets than other solutions that officials recently voted to expand it fourfold.
Posted inEducation, Homelessness
School Doubles as Home for Some S.F. Students
The San Francisco school district’s Stay Over Program has played a major role in sheltering homeless students and their families and helping them move to more stable situations since the shelter-in-place rules were implemented. Service providers worry they may be joined in a few months by many more newly homeless students as job losses mount and more families get evicted.
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43% of Emergency Hygiene Facilities for S.F. Homeless Lack Essentials
UPDATE 5/20/2020: Adds link to city website showing some open park restrooms in eighth paragraph of “Hygiene” section. More than four in every 10 emergency hygiene facilities the city has set up during the COVID-19 pandemic to serve homeless people lack at least one element essential to handwashing, the Public Press found. A third of […]
Posted inCity Hall, Coronavirus, Homelessness, Housing
Homeless Activists’ Latest Tactic: Occupying Hotel Rooms
Seven protesters from Poor Magazine, a publication and activist organization, attempted to occupy the Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown San Francisco on Monday morning to demand that the city house more homeless residents in the thousands of hotel rooms left vacant during the coronavirus pandemic.