KALW – Finding an apartment in San Francisco these days is an uphill battle on any kind of budget. Craigslist ads and open houses can provoke hundreds of responses from people ready to compete for their share of the city’s scarce square footage, even at times willing to pay for months of rent in advance. [...]
Why Unprecedented Collaboration isn’t Enough – Despite unprecedented collaboration between key players in San Francisco, a City-wide goal to secure permanent housing for 50 homeless veterans in 100 days will likely not be met. The bottom line is we have a problem and it deserves ongoing attention. But in places like San Francisco, it [...]
Op Ed by Ed Lee (SF Examiner) – I can’t think of a more patriotic thing to do than to find a homeless veteran a home. I’ll be the first to say that despite all our successes — our economy is growing, unemployment is down — housing is expensive. In order to house our [...]
Thank you for your interest in renting to veterans using housing vouchers, known as HUD VASH. You may be aware that Swords to Plowshares, the City of San Francisco, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and HUD are asking property owners to consider renting to veterans using housing vouchers as part of a 100-Day [...]
SF Gate – Brett Smith’s buddies don’t visit him in his new apartment, three blocks from Ocean Beach and a world away from his old stomping grounds in the Tenderloin. And Smith couldn’t be more pleased about the solitude. “If they come out here, they have to really want to come out here,” he [...]
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