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Casper Cendre’s small apartment has stacks of letters, envelopes, and artwork in every corner. On their monitor is a spreadsheet with hundreds of names, a chronological record of every letter received and the order in which to respond. A decorated frame holds a brightly colored depiction of David Bowie, who looks on with twinkling eyes. This is the home of ABO Comix, a prisoner solidarity collective and small press based in Oakland working to amplify the voices of LGBTQ prisoners throughout the US and to assist them with financial,
SFPD Responds with “Compassion”
From time to time, the Street Sheet offers local officials a guest column. As the San Francisco Controller’s Office has just released a review of the city’s response to homelessness, and we decided to invite the man who oversees those efforts:
My name is “Commander David Lazar”, and I’m from the San Francisco Police Department. I run the Healthy Streets Operations Center – or ‘HSOC’ – which coordinates the city’s efforts to criminalize homelessness and hide it from public view.
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The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’
by Tiny
No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home.
In 1984, when I was 11 and me and my disabled mama were living on and off the street, in doorways, bus benches, staying in hoopties we scavenged, shelter beds we case mangled, motel rooms, and apartments we would temporarily wrangle, the City of San Francisco had just began to “see” homelessness as a “problem.”
Coincidentally,
A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL
By TJ Johnston
Who would have thought talking about the weather could be so intense?
San Francisco officials and community members weren’t just interested in small talk, though. The Board of Supervisors Public Safety Committee held a three hour-plus hearing on March 7 about the cold and wet weather policy for homeless people.
But while the hearing was about the bad weather protocols, it didn’t take long for it to become a forum on the City’s heavy-handed practice of sweeping homeless encampments — especially during the recent heavy rainstorms.
Hundreds of Homeless Families Excluded from Housing, Services by Homelessness Department
by Sam Lew
The rollout of San Francisco’s homeless coordinated entry system has been one fraught with controversy and conflict.
The opposing teams? The City vs. front line service providers: social workers, outreach workers, and case managers who see that the system is not working.
The coordinated entry system is a federally mandated system. Every county in the United States has implemented one of their own over the past couple of years and each is unique,
SEVERE WEATHER PROTOCOL RECOMMENDATIONS
Coalition on Homelessness, March 2019
Severe weather in San Francisco, which will occur more frequently due to climate change, be that poor air quality from fires, wind and rain storms or severe heat, has a disparate impact on homeless people forced to live outdoors. So far this year, San Francisco has faced six consecutive rain and wind storms, with high winds in three and flooding in all six, that left homeless people cold and wet,
