Bay Area homelessness

City officials in Oakland are set to consider a new homeless encampment policy that would address where people can and cannot set up encampments.

That's about $76.5 million out of $600 million to be awarded. That money will go to build 579 units at 10 projects in seven jurisdictions across the state. Those jurisdictions are: Tahoe, Lake Elsinore, El Centro, Mendocino, Kern County and San Jose.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on Wednesday announced the city can now start receiving funds from the November 2018 voter-approved Proposition C after the California Supreme Court declined to review the case.

A public health officer ordered Hashiri, a high-end Japanese restaurant, to remove the domes “due to the enclosed nature of the structure, which may not allow for adequate air flow,” the Chronicle reported.

While shelters saw some large COVID-19 outbreaks, the virus so far doesn't appear to have brought devastation to the homeless population as many feared.

San Francisco city officials on Friday announced a temporary, four-block stretch of Jones Street in the city's Tenderloin will increase physical distancing as the district struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The closure of Forever 21 and the generosity of the Bay Street Mall in Emeryville made magic for a group of homeless and underprivileged youth.

The Santa Rosa Police Department warned the 100 campers who live there they have to leave or they could be cited. 

A San Francisco advocacy group for homeless people warned Monday that more than 50 people living in their vehicles near the TPC Harding Park golf course would be displaced as a result of parking restrictions during the upcoming PGA Championship.

The residence is located in the 37000 block of 3rd Street in Niles.

As of Tuesday, there were 13 tents at the Athol Plaza Courts, causing neighbors to complain. 

Activists marched through the Tenderloin to denounce a plan by the city to remove hundreds of homeless people from the area in accordance with a legal settlement brought on by UC Hastings, among others.

A resident heard noises in her home about 3:30 p.m. and came downstairs to see the interior ransacked and a man fleeing.

The program will provide temporary free hotel rooms to San Francisco essential workers living with others in neighborhoods with higher COVID-19 rates. 

As of last week, hotel rooms designated to shelter homeless people in San Francisco from COVID-19 were less than half full.

According to Mission Local, text messages from July and August of last year between Breed and Chief Bill Scott, show the mayor urging Scott to roust homeless people from their encampments despite her repeated denials.