Street Sheet

12/06/2024

Come to our party on Wednesday! 👇

Street Sheet latest issue is now on the streets! Buy a copy from a local vendor, or check out Street Sheet online and please don't forget to join us to CELEBRATE 35 years of Street Sheet December 11th at El Rio from 6pm-8pm with very special guests Kochina Rude and DJ maDRE.

The power of community is alive and we need each other now more than ever! JOIN US in 35 years of solidarity, 35 years of struggle, 35 years of covering the streets and 35 years of art, poetry and radical imaginations from unhoused writers, poets and organizers.

All donations go toward a year long fundraising goal to ensure the future of Street Sheet, a future of solidarity, art and the fight for housing justice!

Enjoy food, drink and dance, see you there !

12/02/2024

Deadline to submit to our annual poetry edition EXTENDED TO DEC. 15!

11/25/2024

COMING SOON!
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11/25/2024

"Our society works as it does because there are people in power who want it to be this way," a frequent contributor writes

by Jack Bragen There is a trapdoor at the bottom of society’s mechanisms, that throws out people onto the street who can’t perform well enough to mind the details or keep pace with the rat ra…

11/20/2024

“We urge the incoming administration to treat unhoused people with dignity and to prioritize housing, not punitive measures.”

San Francisco elected Daniel Lurie mayor. On January 3, 2025, he will assume office and inherit a homelessness crisis that has long bedeviled previous administrations.  The City’s approach to …

11/19/2024

The billionaire class spent big on the election, but they didn't get everything they wanted.

The 2024 election is likely to be recorded in history as the year of the billionaires. Their money has influenced this year’s ballot from presidential contests to state and local races.  But e…

11/18/2024

"Our voices must grow louder, our resolve stronger, and our unity unbreakable."

by Pete White Today we gather, not in shock, but in a profound sense of sorrow. Many of us are standing here with a calm face, but beneath it runs a river of despair. Our deepest fears have been la…

11/11/2024

"It is comforting to think that many disabled people can be taken care of and might not need to fend for themselves. Survival, if we have to do it alone, is not easy, and it is not getting easier."

by Jack Bragen Years ago, while I sat in a waiting room at a mental health clinic, I observed an old man who might have had dementia being brought in to get his shot of medication. He was grumpy an…

11/07/2024

"The drug use habits of the rich and powerful should become fair game when they start carping on us poor people."

Jordan Davis on the double standards of drug use.

by Jordan Davis At the September 24 Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Matt Dorsey pulled yet another policy out of his rear end that sounds reasonable on the surface, but in reality further …

11/06/2024

The proposed ordinance would extend rental subsidies to five years, addressing the number of families at risk of returning to homelessness.

In response to the alarming rise in family homelessness, Supervisor Hilary Ronen, with support from the Coalition on Homelessness, introduced new legislation at the San Francisco Board of Superviso…