Mission Neighborhood Resource Center

Pressure grows to boost housing, opportunities for young homeless Miller represents an emerging face of the San Francisco’s homeless crisis: the young adult who is squeezed out by high rents and the shifting labor market, forced to surf couches or live outdoors. For years this population took a back seat as the city focused its resources on the chronically homeles...

Thousands of Working New Yorkers Are Living in Homeless Shelters Donna Morgan is one of thousands of New York City residents who are employed, but forced to reside in a shelter because they have low-paying jobs and can’t afford to pay skyrocketing rents.

Homelessness is fundamentally the result of the lack of affordable housing.

Mapping America's Homelessness Crisis A new data project aims to help people understand one of the country’s most complex and enduring challenges.

In Telemundo, MNRC advocates for the opening of Safe Injection Facilities to prevent overdose death, and support injectors who are struggling on the streets

Plantean abrir centros para que adictos se droguen en SF Estos centros contarán con asistencia social y con un médico para atender emergencias.

Harm reduction in action, Mission style

The MNRC team celebrates Alejandro Valadez, Community Programs Advocate, Mission style! Ale, thank you for all the love and work you offered to our communities! We wish you the very best on your new endeavors!

The allure of libraries for people with no permanent home is obvious. There is no cost to enter. They are warm and safe. They offer internet, electrical sockets, and materials that provide a mental escape from everyday life

Homeless people have found safety in a library – but locals want them gone San Francisco branch considers defensive architecture to make it a harder place to spend time as people seek shelter in libraries across the western US

Happy 13th Years Ladies Night! We honor our women and beautiful collaboration tonite with a big party and dance with our Ladies!

Ladies’ Night at a Center for the Homeless Builds Community For many of the Mission’s homeless and marginally housed women, Ladies’ Night at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center are where it’s at. “It” being hot dinner, good company, conversation, and the occasional game. It's a tradition that's been upheld at the center for 14 years. These are fixtures…

The Mission Neighborhood Resource Center honored today the contributions of the African American community to this country and our Center

MNRC had 35% of its patient population with insurance coverage prior to the passage of the ACA. Now, 65% of its patients qualify for Medi-Cal

Obamacare Helped The Homeless, Who Now Worry About Coverage Repeal Among those who benefited from Obamacare are many homeless people who were able to get Medicaid for the first time. Some are worried about what a repeal of the Affordable Care Act could mean.

Thank you David Talbot for highlighting our communities in your Dickens Christmas article

Candle in the dark: a Dickens Christmas in San Francisco Every time I’m in New York during the holiday season, as I was last week, I like to drop by the Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Avenue to take a look at the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.”

Even Marley’s ghost could never pe*****te the heavy ring of security men, lawy...

Thank you 2016 Engagement Class from the California College of the Arts for sharing your design talents with our community and beautifying the Resource Center!

13 years of Ladies Night Capp Street love at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center in collaboration with Women's Community Clinic and Homeless Youth Alliance

Ladies’ Night at a Center for the Homeless Builds Community For many of the Mission’s homeless and marginally housed women, Ladies’ Night at the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center are where it’s at. “It” being hot dinner, good company, conversation, and the occasional game. It's a tradition that's been upheld at the center for 14 years. These are fixtures…

Limon Rotisserie, came give back to the hood today volunteers from "Limon Cares" served 130 plate with dessert to our clients at Mission Neighborhood Recourse Center. Thank you to SF born home girl Laurina Marcic From "Limon Cares" for organize. There is good people doing good things Yo!

Boston doctor says homeless patients reveal faults in health care system Boston doctor says homeless patients reveal faults in health care system Dr. James O'Connell, who has provided care for 30 years to homeless people in Boston, said the obstacles his patients face often reveal kinks in the medical system that need to be improved for everyone. Homeless people, who lac...

MNRC Director Laura Guzman will be a featured Speaker (along with our colleague Joseph Wilson from Hospitality House) on the impact of racist housing and immigration policies on Latinos and LGBTQ POCs. Join us on this important conversation this Monday, October 18th, at the Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, 5:30 pm to 8 pm.

Addressing Racism & Homelessness in San Francisco You're invited! Join us for a Town Hall to address racism and homelessness, hosted by San Francisco homeless services providers. We will take a deeper look at questions including: What is the connection between racism and economic inequality? Why are African Americans disproportionately represented…

Congratulations Russel and Xavier! Your participation and completion of our Capp Street Internship makes our community stronger and happier! Kudos to our Interns!!!!

Finland is the only European country where homelessness has decreased recently

Lessons from Finland: helping homeless people starts with giving them homes Sounds simple but Finland’s housing first model shows it’s always more cost-effective to try to end homelessness rather than manage it

The Mission Neighborhood Health Center (parent of the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center) is on the list and will be celebrating 50 years in the Mission district in 2017

More Mission Establishments Head for Legacy Business Registry With one venerable arts nonprofit already on the city’s official list of legacy businesses, three more are poised to get official recognition of their status at a commission meeting today, and some are hoping for some relief from market pressures threatening their longevity. Precita Eyes Mural Arts…

For many immigrants impacted by homelessness in San Francisco, recycling is the only work readily available

The Vanishing Of Recycling Centers Affects the Homeless in San Francisco The state of California has a 30 year old container deposit program.

In April, 11 homeless people sued the city of Eureka to stop the planned eviction of a local homeless encampment where they are living. The federal court agreed with them, stopping the city from enforcing its anticamping law, saying such action would be unconstitutional. The court reasoned that because homeless people outnumber available shelter beds in Eureka (as they do in San Francisco), there is literally nowhere for them to live or sleep except outdoor public space.

Because humans must sleep, and because these individuals have nowhere else to go, the court ruled that punishing them for camping is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, i.e, cruel and unusual punishment.

11 homeless individuals sued Eureka to stop eviction — and won Because humans must sleep, and because these individuals have nowhere else to go, the court ruled that punishing them for camping is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. [...] the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness stated in its recent guidance on encampments: “The forced dispersal of…

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Obamacare Appears to Be Making People Healthier A new survey of low-income people isn’t perfect, but it suggests that new health insurance options have improved people’s health.

A dire lack of affordable housing is the biggest hole in the boat. The California Housing Partnership Corporation estimates that Los Angeles needs to add 549,197 affordable housing units just to meet our current need. How many is that? If every seat in the Rose Bowl, Coliseum, Dodger Stadium and Staples Center were an apartment, that would be only half the housing we need

L.A. has 46,874 people who are homeless. If we're not smart, we'll have 250,000 more Tents in the Arroyo, sleeping bags on the beach, RVs parked on our boulevards. Heartbreaking visual manifestations of Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis are everywhere. The recent homeless count found that 46,874 people in Los Angeles County experience homelessness every night.

Happy Birthday Resource Center! We celebrate today 14 years of Capp Street love! ♥♥♥ We thank our community for blessing us with their daily presence and everyone who has collaborated and supported us for over a decade to become a place of safety, services, and community building ang organizing in the Mission district ♥ Much gratitude! ♥

When I agreed to participate in this endeavor, I knew I had to amplify the voices of homeless people. That’s been my standard procedure of my coverage when I started more than 15 years ago. The other major newspaper that’s leading the project is seeking “solutions” to homelessness. For answers, I went to the people most knowledgeable about the homeless experience: people who are living it themselves.

Amplifying the voices of homeless people - The San Francisco Examiner Recently, I was at City Hall to cover a media briefing for the Street Sheet, the homeless paper published twice monthly by the Coalition on Homelessness and sold by mostly homeless vendors.