Street Sheet

12/11/2025

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

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…

12/08/2025

ONE MORE WEEK to submit for our annual poetry edition!

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

11/17/2025

"Bottom line is the scarcity model crumbs have never been enough to feed , clothe, house and truly support poor people."

by Tiny The Federal Government’s Attempt to Starve us and the Emergency Need for our Own Self-determined Solutions SNAP or no SNAP  These weren’t life sustaining  plans  …

11/10/2025

Verse. Rhyme. Beat.
Whatever format it's in, we're looking for ORIGINAL poetry and artwork for our special edition in January.
Details in photo.

11/07/2025

Forced sobriety in housing is never a solution, writes Jordan Wasilewski

by Jordan Wasilewski I am a millenial, and one of the defining moments of my generation was 9/11. There are many takes on this issue, but one thing I gleaned from the aftermath is that, despite the…