Personal Information
- First Name
- T.J.
- Last Name
- Johnston
- Public Press role
- Reporter
- Where I live
- San Francisco
- Bio
T.J. Johnston is a San Francisco-based journalist. He has been published in Newsdesk.org; Street Sheet; Street Spirit; Poor Magazine; Race, Poverty & the Environment; and Now Public, among other publications and Web sites.
History
- Member for
- 3 years 10 weeks
- Blog
- View recent blog entries
More by T.J. Johnston
- VA launches initiative to assist homeless vets
- Census methods could provide lift to hidden homeless
- Reforms aim at saving shelter beds
- State Sen. Yee announces possible run for mayor next November
- Supervisors announce open house for mayor’s office
- Effort to choose new mayor includes social network
- Board delays picking new mayor until January
- Homeless advocates say federal government has key to ending problem
- Board struggles to choose an interim mayor
- Supervisors choose City Administrator Edwin Lee for interim mayor
- Proposal to ban shark fins in California heats up
- Computer system shutdown hurts homeless at city shelters
- City tries lottery system for homeless shelter beds
- 2010 ‘sit-lie’ law could cost city thousands to jail repeat offenders
- New survey reveals age and number of new homeless rising in SF
- War of words over Fair Shelter Initiative
- Facing cuts, nonprofits forced to lobby City Hall to save immigration program
- Legislature bans sale of shark fins
- Dissecting the news media's claim of anti-panhandling 'clamor'
- San Francisco works to prevent ex-convicts from re-offending in city
- Empty S.F. hotels occupied in World Homeless Day protest
- Election day threat to ranked-choice voting in San Francisco
- Lee and Gascón continue as mayor and D.A.; Mirkarimi new sheriff in town
- Legal advocates give San Francisco low marks for penalizing homeless people
- Across San Francisco region, expulsion rates and attitudes toward punishment vary widely
- Ordinance would put restrictions on Castro District plazas
- Agency gets state funding to build homeless shelter in Bayview
- Supervisors tangle over whether to kill or change ranked-choice elections this year
- Thousands of tickets handed out to homeless
- S.F. to tackle shelter waiting game for disabled and older homeless
- Most Haight merchants say nothing changed on street after ‘sit-lie’ prohibition
- Ranked-choice voting survives in San Francisco after supervisors’ decision
- Poll: Air pollution takes heaviest toll on black, Latino communities
- San Francisco to Pilot Participatory Budgeting
- 'Homeless Bill of Rights' Seeks Legal Protections for Those on the Streets
- News Notes
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Geography
- San Francisco
- Bayview-Hunters Point
- Castro District
- Civic Center
- Financial District
- Haight Ashbury
- Marina District
- Mission District
- Nob Hill
- North Beach
- Park Merced-Lakeshore
- Potrero Hill
- The Presidio
- Presidio Heights
- The Richmond
- South of Market (SoMa)
- The Sunset
- Tenderloin
- Treasure Island
- Twin Peaks
- Visitacion Valley
- West of Twin Peaks
- Western Addition
- Bay Area
- California





