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The Homelessness Marathon comes to Fresno...

Axis of Love San Francisco is Putting a Call out to all Medical Marijuana Patients, Disability Activists, Aids Activists and Our Allies in San Francisco to Come and Protest the IMMENSE Increase in the FEE for a State Medical Marijuana Card by Over $125 bucks – Ross Mirkarimi has put a resolution to reinstate the city card program that would cost 25-50 bucks. It is facing an uphill battle....

Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....

AB. 2034 currently funded by the state of California is at risk of being cut. Such a program allows social service workers in California to outreach to the homeless of our state. The California Governors office intends to force California counties to fund the AB. 2034 program through Proposition 63 dollars that have been provided to fund mental health outreach for our most marginalized and mentally ill. After reading my piece call the Governors Office and convince the governor to fully fund t...

When I’ve been homeless, the hardest part has been the lack of privacy. The *privilege of privacy* is something many take for granted, but for those of us who have experienced homelessness firsthand, privacy becomes a mindset, rather than a physical reality. And that fortress of privacy within one’s *mind* adds to the wide chasm between the housed and the homeless, often making homeless people seem “crazy” to housed folks. And when one has been forced to make *mental* doors that shut, since p...

1-3 PM Today (Friday February 2nd) A Gathering in the "Free Speech Zone" Outside Vice-Mayor Coonerty's Bookshop Santa Cruz Asking for Answers to Simple Questions About Homeless Survival Shelter and Public Access to Information: Get Fed (Thanks to Jumbogumbo Joe Schult'z Vegan Yumyums), Have Fun, Sing & Sign Petitions! Help the Vice-Mayor hear the voice of those his cops are harassing....

Tents Not Bombs is a project by the new non-profit, "End Poverty Now!" seeking volunteers to help with collection of tents and distribution to those in need of shelter in San Francisco...

San Francisco’s affordable homeownership program requires that condo developers provide 15% of their units at a below market rate (BMR) to those earning no more than 100% of area median income. While the program gets buyers units for under $300,000 that would otherwise sell for $700,000, two recent reports have exposed a potentially fatal flaw in the program: there is no limit on the condo fees charged to the BMR purchasers. A BMR buyer goes into the deal knowing they will pay $350 to $400 a ...

When San Francisco Supervisor Jake McGoldrick opposed the rebuilding of Trinity Plaza Apartments last fall on the grounds that there was not enough affordable units, he did not reveal that he had submitted legislation reducing the affordability requirements from 15% to 12% for similar projects. McGoldrick introduced his legislation on Election Day, the same day when he argued during a special Land Use Committee hearing and full Board meeting that the Trinity project should be rejected for ins...

Kaiser provides healthcare for millions of workers yet it has been charged with negligence and firing workers who are injured or complain about health and safety problems. This forum will provide information about what is really going on at Kaiser and where the Kaiser system is going....