SAN FRANCISCO -- City officials in San Francisco are preparing to resume sweeping homeless encampments after receiving the latest legal guidance amid a year-long battle over the issue ...

An estimated 8,300 people are living homeless in San Francisco, about half of them sleeping in parks and on sidewalks in makeshift shelters. Despite a years-long effort to move people into ...

As storm neared, San Francisco cleared out homeless camps, group alleges. The Coalition on Homelessness says the city’s sweeps ahead of severe storms in California violated a recent court order.

On Thursday, Breed put weight behind another approach. She issued an executive directive requiring outreach workers to offer homeless people who aren’t from San Francisco free transportation out ...

San Francisco's homeless residents struggle to access enough water to live and stay healthy, according to a grim report released Tuesday by the nonprofit Coalition on Homelessness.

The city of San Francisco released data last week showing that 55% of homeless individuals rejected shelter when offered it. Days earlier a giant fire destroyed a housing complex under ...

A San Francisco Police Department officer asks two people sitting on the sidewalk to move during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ week in San Francisco, California, on ...