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The STREET SHEET is a publication of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. The Coalition on Homelessness was formed in 1987 to foster the active participation of homeless and low-income San Francisco residents and front-line staff in the struggle for economic and social justice. Through an integrated approach that combines outreach, peer support, leadership development, public education, a

dvocacy, and community organizing, the COH works to defend homeless and low-income people from attacks on their rights and their persons, while advocating for permanent solutions to homelessness that take into account not only poverty’s devastating effects, but also its root causes. Twice a month, the STREET SHEET reaches 16,000 readers through 230 homeless or low-income vendors, who are not made to pay for the papers that they receive, and who keep all money they earn through STREET SHEET distribution.

"I’m writing this for anyone who has lost someone to the streets, to addiction, or to forgetting."I’m writing it for the...
12/18/2025

"I’m writing this for anyone who has lost someone to the streets, to addiction, or to forgetting.
"I’m writing it for the people who loved them anyway."
Tonight, San Francisco is holding a vigil for those those who've died homeless or close to it.

by Loretta Nicole Overton  Querida, te amo, they call us the Goonie generation—the ones who say “never say die.” The NeverEnding Story generation. I’m writing this for anyone who has lost some…

“This is another instance of the Trump administration prioritizing its political agenda above the needs of our most vuln...
12/17/2025

“This is another instance of the Trump administration prioritizing its political agenda above the needs of our most vulnerable community members.” - Santa Clara County counsel Tony LoPresti

by Marisa Kendall, CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom, Santa Clara County and San Francisco are suing the Trump administration over a huge shift in homelessness policy. California is fighting back after …

Often, homelessness is preceded by an eviction."This is obviously a blow for tenants, at a time when San Francisco is f...
12/16/2025

Often, homelessness is preceded by an eviction.

"This is obviously a blow for tenants, at a time when San Francisco is facing its highest rate of evictions in over a decade" - Fred Sherburn-Zimmer, director of Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco

by Christin Evans As tenant activists decry development plan, one supe looks to drafting ballot measure as an alternative In a heated session of the Board of Supervisors’ December 2 meeting, Mayor …

Friendly reminder: you still have time to submit if you haven't already!
12/11/2025

Friendly reminder: you still have time to submit if you haven't already!

UPDATE: The Trump Administration withdrew its plan to drastically reduce homelessness funding yesterday ahead of a court...
12/09/2025

UPDATE: The Trump Administration withdrew its plan to drastically reduce homelessness funding yesterday ahead of a court hearing for a lawsuit seeking to stop cuts to supportive housing.
https://www.abc15.com/politics/trump-officials-temporarily-withdraw-policy-cutting-long-term-housing-support

The Trump Administration just released their Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Homeless McKinney funds out of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD). It is as batsh*t as you can…

ONE MORE WEEK to submit for our annual poetry edition!
12/08/2025

ONE MORE WEEK to submit for our annual poetry edition!

This permanent supportive housing resident looks back on a decade of advocacy
12/05/2025

This permanent supportive housing resident looks back on a decade of advocacy

by Jordan Wasilewski As of mid-October this year, I have been stably housed in San Francisco for 10 years. For the first time in my adult life, I became a tenant with my name on the lease and am li…

Flo Kelly's advice to activists: Work on what endears your heart. Make sure your information comes from the community. S...
12/05/2025

Flo Kelly's advice to activists: Work on what endears your heart. Make sure your information comes from the community. Speak that truth loudly at City Hall's public comment.

interview by River Beck The Coalition on Homelessness relies on the dedication of many incredible volunteer organizers and activists. One organizer in particular, through her consistent and in-dept…

The beauty of true solutions is that they satisfy everyone – from the frustrated neighbor heartbroken by seeing their un...
12/04/2025

The beauty of true solutions is that they satisfy everyone – from the frustrated neighbor heartbroken by seeing their unhoused neighbor placed in shelter only to return to the streets, to the exhausted small business owner tired of watching people just being moved from block to block only to return, to the unhoused person who finally has a place of their own.

Homelessness affects all of us, whether we have housing or not, but of course it hurts those living without homes worst of all. Having thousands of people without housing, without sanitation, witho…

Really, you can't make these things up
12/04/2025

Really, you can't make these things up

The Trump Administration just released their Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Homeless McKinney funds out of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD). It is as batsh*t as you can…

Street Sheet remembers the life of Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and longtime homeless advocate, by reprinti...
11/19/2025

Street Sheet remembers the life of Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and longtime homeless advocate, by reprinting his story from 1997

by Jason Albertson EDITOR’S NOTE: Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and long-time homeless advocate, died on October 25, 2025. Jason was well known to go to bat for unhoused people, stand u…

The "poor farms" never went away; they just adopted a new form, Cathleen Williams writes
11/18/2025

The "poor farms" never went away; they just adopted a new form, Cathleen Williams writes

story and photo by Cathleen Williams “I cannot live without my freedom, and I will not live without freedom,” says Street Sheet vendor Jessica in Sacramento. Here, she sits with Felipe.…

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