San Francisco is changing its approach to addressing drug addiction with a new policy emphasizing treatment. Why it matters: ...

Mayor Lurie signs SF's "Recovery First" ordinance to prioritize long-term remission strategies for drug abuse.

He arrived at the height of San Francisco’s so-called doom-loop, as homelessness, addiction and shoplifting rocketed in the ...

San Francisco opens James Baldwin Place, a new sober living facility to support individuals recovering from homelessness and ...

There are hundreds of families on the city’s family shelter waitlist, and nearly 500 people on the adult shelter waitlist. On ...

Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Daniel Lurie are both pushing policies that criminalize homelessness, while the Chan ...

Earlier this month, San Diego Youth Services chief executive officer Walter Philips rode his bicycle 500 miles from San ...

LZ Granderson The first couple of years of the Reagan administration were rough on most Americans. His 1981 cuts to safety net programs led to an additional 6 million people falling into poverty ...

Written off as hopelessly broken, the City by the Bay is recalibrating—fighting back against crime, restoring order, and ...

Not long ago, I visited a public park in San Francisco and witnessed a most astonishing thing: The park was orderly, lots of ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, made homelessness a priority of his administration when he took office in 2019. It had ...

Many Bay Area housing orgs were caught up in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s push to end ‘social advocacy’ grants in the ...