A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
by Brian Edwards
“During the first heavy storm of February, a really sweet older gentleman who sells the Street Sheet rang the bell to our office. When I opened the door, I could barely recognize him. He was shaking, soaking wet, and couldn’t even walk up the stairs without my help. His hands, bone white and shriveled from the rain, shook so badly that it was nearly impossible for him to drink the hot tea we’d given him.
An Inside look at all of them
by Shy Brown
Since the first Navigation Center opened like five years ago, there have been multiple popping up all over San Francisco. Let’s take a look at all of them:
The first one was on 16th and Mission, it is currently closed down. That was the very first one to open, with multiple flaws that came along with that as well,
By Darnell Boyd
Feb. 15, 2019
I will never forget that day. It was July 17, the day I first arrived in San Francisco. It was a cold, wet and rainy day when the Greyhound bus pulled into the station. I couldn’t help but think to myself, “What happened to the summer?” because two days before, I was in Phoenix and it was 115 degrees. I knew right then that I needed to find a shelter,
by Nick Fish
In January 2018, far reaching assembly bill 1506 progressed as the latest attempt by assembly member Richard Bloom of Santa Monica. Along with his peers, Bloom has vehemently committed himself to repealing the Costa-Hawkins Act of 1995, which he believes has strangled California’s housing stock for over two decades.
In a less than dramatic outcome, it lacked support to push through the first hearing. Republican Caucus members Steven Choi and Marc Steinorth opposed the measure,
by Coalition on Homelessness
In yet another magical moment in a string of magical moments since we began our journey to pass Our City Our Home (OCOH), the revenue measure that doubles the city’s homeless efforts, the city received $415 million in unanticipated revenue. This was two years’ worth of Educational Revenue Augmentation fund or ERAF, which is basically excess property tax that goes to the state and back to us.
The Our City Our Home Coalition is recommending that $171.4 million of that go to properly begin implementing November 2018’s Prop C “Our City Our Home,” which passed with over 60% approval,
by Alex V Barnard
When it was passed in 1967, California’s Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act—which sets the legal requirements for involuntary commitments to psychiatric hospitals—was hailed as the “Magna Carta of the mentally ill.” The new rights and legal protections it created helped make California a leader in the de-institutionalization of people living with mental illnesses. Now, the state is considering swinging the pendulum back towards custodial care. It should not turn back the clock lightly.
Many of us have experienced that sinking feeling- the library book you checked out several weeks ago might be overdue, racking up late fines every day. But for those who can’t afford to pay the fines, the sinking feeling becomes worse: they can become blocked from accessing the library.
On January 17th, the San Francisco Public Library Commission voted to eliminate fines on overdue materials. The vote followed testimony from San Francisco residents and librarians in response to a report released by The Financial Justice Project and the Library titled “Long Overdue: Eliminating Fines on Overdue Materials to Improve Access to San Francisco Public Library.”
Through interviews with librarians across the country,
by Georgia
Ducts of pain that laid so far beneath the surface of my skin as I’d make up my face and embrace what dwelled within..
I fear no more, I am healed,
without no pain, no gain,
Yes I acted up. Turn Down for What?
But I’m no longer ashamed, No more self infliction…
Unanswered questions
I found peace,
By Matt Levin, CALmatters
No wonder Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped those hints earlier this week about an upcoming “Marshall Plan” for affordable housing.
Sure, he’d made ambitious campaign promises to combat California’s housing crisis: leading the effort to build 3.5 million units over the next seven years (an unprecedented rate), jacking up state subsidies for housing reserved for lower-income Californians, and easing regulations so it would be easier to build all types of new housing.
