Stories about Coalition on Homelessness
The Street Sheet: 30 years of journalism by and for homeless people
For three decades, the publication has allowed the unhoused to write their stories -- and make some income.
Arts Forecast: El Rio saved, Litquake aquiver, Open Studios opens….
Dolly Parton Hoot, Riceboy Sleeps, Duet + Marrow, a percussion work about climate change, Othello, and more
Talking Yimby, acting Nimby in District 5
Unpacking the failed news media narrative of Nimbys in SF -- and how it applies to the D5 supervisor race.
Haney’s plan for Homeless Commission faces close vote
The Board of Supes will vote next Tuesday on a Charter Amendment that would create a Homelessness Commission, setting up a fall ballot campaign over a plan that Mayor Breed at this point opposes.
SF seizes homeless people’s property — and they rarely get it back
Stunning new videos document how the cops and DPW are failing to follow even their own rules as tents, medicine, and personal belongings wind up in the trash.
Tenant representation and spy technology
Supes committee to vote on Breed's Rent Board appointee -- and on a measure to control surveillance in San Francisco (which the cops are trying to derail). That's The Agenda for April 16-21
How to take housing out of the private market
The Agenda: Sup. Fewer has an idea that—with adequate funding—could radically change homelessness, gentrification, and the way the city handles housing.
Rival GoFundMe launched to counter anti-homeless Embarcadero group’s
Seawall navigation center opponents raise big bucks to hire lawyer—but homeless advocate fights back with a successful one of his own.
Homeless people — in cages
A poverty scholars national tour finds people locked up in St. Petersburg.
Cops continue homeless sweeps, even in the cold rain
Tents are still being confiscated despite dangerous weather, police official admits at public hearing.