The unfortunate fact is, city leaders in a lot of cities, including San Francisco, plus state and federal leaders, don’t want to solve the homeless problem. They just want it to dissapear, to make being homeless a crime and shove the homeless into prison or a morgue.

A Letter to Tech Workers on Homelessness

Fellow Tech Workers,

This past week several media outlets (including SFGate, SFist, and SFWeekly locally) ran stories on tech worker Justin Keller’s blog post about homelessness in San Francisco. In the post Keller listed concerns…

I’m from Canada and lived in San Francisco for some time. What was truly amazing wasn’t that there was homelessness or that there were two different SFs (Tenderloin, and then everything else), but just how callous and cold the residents of SF were that I met. Most worked in the tech industry, and when I’d talk about how appalling it was to me that so…

Carry

How is the decision made
about what goes into the backpack
or the shopping cart?
Moving through your house that last time, looking, asking
what will represent, or serve to preserve in your mind, if no one else’s,
the life you had?
How do you, in 30 possessions or less,
remind yourself that you were human?
Do you…

PRESS RELEASE: Supervisor Farrell to Introduce Legislation Calling for Changes in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program

SAN FRANCISCO — At today’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Mark Farrell will introduce legislation…

Everyone’s Child

Your face, smudged with dirt

The street, your playground

Your bed, a dark corner

Yet you can smile

Your face, one among many

The Street with No Name

Everything changed that night, when he found the dead man. It was where the street with no name opened onto the big boulevard near an intersection with another retail street. Traffic screamed by endlessly, even after midnight, while hopeful horndogs threw their keys at the valet in…