San Francisco mayor announces new program to address homelessness in the city

San Francisco pilot program diverts 911 calls about homeless from police to new street crisis team

San Francisco has a new approach in dealing with non-emergency calls involving the homeless. Instead of police, a street crisis team will now respond.

San Francisco mayor announces new program to address homelessness in the city

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a new pilot program on Tuesday to address the city’s homelessness issues. The program will serve as an alternate to law enforcement responses for non-emergency calls involving people experiencing homelessness, according to a release from the mayor’s office. The program, which has been named the […]

The New Partisan Lines on Homelessness

This post originally published in the May 27 Politics Report. San Diego Republicans this week landed on a clear, consistent message in defining their opposition to the region’s consensus approach to homelessness. “Housing first” is the problem, they said. Their opposition to the wonky policy term that has for years been debated among bureaucrats, service providers, advocates and elected officials felt notable, though, both because it was so con…

San Francisco Mayor to Allocate More Than $692M to Battle Homelessness in the City

Despite facing a budget deficit, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is looking to allocate more than $692 million toward helping the city’s large homeless population.