A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
My name is Ehb Teng, Co-Founder of Diginido Labs LLC. I am a proud Bay Area native. technologist, and social entrepreneur, and I have been beleaguered as of late by my own tech startup community.
I had the privilege of growing up during a time of great innovation as I witnessed the entire advent of the digital age and the growth of Silicon Valley. I remember living during a moment in time when I made play dates over a rotary phone,
A report by the nine organizations of the Western Regional Advocacy Project: Denver Homeless Out Loud, Los Angeles Community Action Network, St. Mary’s Center, Street Spirit, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness, Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, Street Roots, Sisters of the Road and Right2Survive.
It is easy to forget that homelessness was supposed to be temporary. As homeless states of emergency continue to pop up all over the U.S.,
Often times, when members of the public think about homeless people, they often picture an elderly white man. Sometimes they may think of a man of color, but rarely do they picture a woman. While women may very well experience homelessness at the same rate as men—meaning just as many have no place of their own to call home, they are often invisible. They often don’t appear homeless to passersby, and don’t even show up in our annual counts of homeless people (which is one of the reasons why estimates of the number of homeless people are inaccurate and undercounted).
This November’s election in San Francisco is the most crowded in memory, with 25 local ballot measures in addition to almost a dozen candidate races. Nearly half of those ballot measures affect the arts and low-income housing in one way or another, making Housing and Arts the dominant topics of this political season.
Proposition S—restoring specific allocations from the City’s Hotel Tax to the arts and to a new Ending Family Homelessness Fund—is the most well-known of the arts measures this fall,
San Francisco voters will vote on more than 20 citywide ballot measures. Some are already getting a lot of media play, such as Proposition V, the proposed “soda tax,” and two anti-homeless measures, Propositions Q and R.
Others have barely registered a blip on the electoral radar, yet nonetheless would determine who gets to remain housed in the City, specifically in affordable housing units—or not, if they are passed.
Those would be Propositions P and U.
