April 2026 - Beyond Chron

What Is San Francisco’s Homeless Strategy?

Posted April 13, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Shifting Away from Permanent Supportive Housing San Francisco will soon announce plans to “decommission” four city-funded permanent supportive housing sites. The city plans to reveal specifics by April 30 but it appears the Lurie Administration is more focused on scaling Read More »

Has San Francisco Really Sobered Up?

Posted April 13, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Visitor’s Misleading Account of SF Last week the NY Times featured an op-ed titled, “San Francisco Sobers Up.” The piece credited Mayor Daniel Lurie with transforming the city’s culture. Former President Bill Clinton tweeted the op-ed, calling it “A great Read More »

Santa Rosa Veterans Say They Won’t Be Fooled by the False Promise of VA Privatization

Posted April 13, 2026 by Suzanne Gordon

On April Fool’s Day, over a hundred veterans, former VA employees and local healthcare activists met at a Veterans Town Hall in the Veterans’ Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, California. The meeting was called to alert veterans and the local Read More »

Interview With Carl Deal And Tia Lessen, Directors Of “Steal This Story, Please!”

Posted April 13, 2026 by Peter Wong

Directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (and Lessin in particular) are not strangers to the pages of Beyond Chron. The documentaries “Trouble The Water” and “The Janes” (co-directed by Lessin but not Deal) have been previously discussed here. Opening Read More »

Court Backs SF’s Support for Nonprofits Handout of Pipes, Foil in Tenderloin

Posted April 6, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Big Victory for Harm Reduction In a victory for Mayor Lurie and City Attorney Chiu, a federal judge has rejected a lawsuit by Tenderloin families and businesses to stop nonprofits from handing out drug paraphernalia to addicts. The court found Read More »

California’s Confusing Governor’s Race

Posted April 6, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Can Democrats Make It Into Top-Two? (UPDATE: This story appeared before the April 10 revelations about Eric Swalwell’s sexual harassment of a staffer. This information will clearly weaken his campaign) Two months before the primary election, millions of California Democrats Read More »

A Labor Organizer’s Response to Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Revelations

Posted April 6, 2026 by Yvonne Martinez

I walked a picket line with Dolores Huerta. It was just the two of us walking back and forth in front of a Safeway in Oregon in the 80’s. She was in Oregon to visit one of her children and Read More »