A group of San Francisco attorneys, civil-rights advocates, and organizations have filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, arguing that the high court should affirm a 2022 lower-court ruling that the small Oregon city violated Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment when it penalized people for sleeping outside without offering alternative forms of shelter or housing.

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been grappling with the state's growing homeless population since his days as San Francisco's mayor.

California has allocated a staggering $17.5 billion over the past four years to combat homelessness, but the state's homeless population has continued to grow during this period.

San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed delivered her annual State of the City Address at Pier 27, setting forth her vision for San Francisco to be a safer, more welcoming city that drives the economy and future of the Bay Area and California.

San Francisco's Homeward Bound program, which has reunited thousands of homeless individuals with their out-of-town families since 2005, stopped collecting data on the destinations of program participants in early 2022.