San Francisco's controversial sit/lie ordinance has been mostly ineffective in preventing transients from loitering in the city's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, a police lieutenant said at a department meeting Wednesday. The ordinance, approved as Proposition L by 54 percent of voters in November, makes it illegal to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., with some exceptions. The ballot measure was pushed by local business owners — ......

Project Homeless Connect, a service fair that took place in San Francisco Wednesday for the 38th time, has now provided more than 31,000 homeless people with help ranging from eye exams to shelter and has become a model for about 220 other cities, the Bay City News Service reports. But that impressive track record has not translated into an abatement of the issue of homelessness in San Francisco. A poll ......

San Francisco's controversial sit/lie law, which went into effect in December, is still not being enforced, the Examiner reports. The law, passed by 54 percent of voters in November, bans sitting and lying down on city sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m., with some exceptions. Enforcement had been targeted for February. The delay is due in part to training efforts on the part of the San Francisco Police Department.  ......

Voters whose neighborhoods will be most directly impacted by a controversial sit/lie law rejected the ballot measure, the SF Appeal reported. San Francisco voters last week approved Measure L, banning people from sitting and lying on sidewalks between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. Police will be able to use the new law to chase young loafers, homeless people and guests of residential hotels off city sidewalks by ordering them to ......

After months of controversy, enough voters said yes to Measure L Tuesday to make it a crime to sit or lie down on sidewalks in San Francisco during daytime and evening hours. At 10 a.m. Wednesday, a group of 10 homeless or transient young people strolling down Haight Street toward Market Street to check out the Giants’ victory parade had not yet heard the news. “It passed?” said 26-year-old Troy, ......