A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
By Allen Armstrong
It doesn’t take long for one to figure out if the homeless shelters are truly here to help or harm homeless people. While it’s not important to most people in San Francisco, it’s certainly important to those who actually want to be off the streets for the most part and be a better, more productive member of society that also wants to be a positive influence on people. There is no reason to hold grudges against anyone really,
by Charles Davis
I was born in Vancouver, WA. We had relatives that lived over on Vashon Island so we’d spend a lot of time over there, weekends in Seattle. I had two sisters and one brother. My mom and dad got divorced when I was a kid. I like Seattle, I consider it my second home. Last time I was there, which wasn’t that long ago, it still felt the same even though it’s gotten a lot bigger.
GETTING PERSPECTIVE ON HOMELESSNESS
Bob Prentice
In reading media coverage of homelessness, it has been stunning to note the lack of historical perspective and what we are up against. It portrays homelessness as largely a local problem—what is each city doing?—or even a regional problem—how is homelessness connected to more general housing problems in the Bay Area?
Of course it is a local and regional problem, but it is much more than that.
Survival Guide
by Darnell Boyd
Advice from the San Francisco YPAC (Youth Policy and Advisory Committee). This report gives topical brief and straight to the point pieces of advice to service providers and policy makers. The advice comes straight from the minds and hearts of youth with lived experience and knowledge of homelessness.
November 2017: Top Ten pieces of advice for Outreach Workers!
April Anthony: I was houseless for the better part of twenty years. During the last six of those years while living at our beloved community at the Albany landfill (AKA the Bulb) I became an activist/advocate for the houseless.
I went to the city’s homeless task force meeting and introduced myself, including telling them where I lived, adding “without one of us representing the houseless community, this task force could be a waste of your time,
How do you find yourself on the streets as a vagabond? Let me share this with those who think this cannot happen; when you are weak socially, economically and ill, you really have no way to defend yourself against less-than-honorable landlords, bosses and strangers. It was the perfect storm, that came on the back of years of surviving the social wars of poverty. Let me be clear to you GOP types: if you are middle -aged,
Neither rain nor darkness of night keeps postal workers from delivering the mail. Rainfall and darkness also didn’t deter homeless people and their allies from staging an outdoor sleepout in downtown San Francisco.
While homelessness and hunger awareness events were happening nationwide that week, the Coalition on Homelessness, which publishes Street Sheet, staged its own event on November 16 near the entrance of the Powell Street BART station during the evening commute. Organizers said it was a protest against ongoing abuses against homeless people and the failure of the City to provide adequate housing.
So this comic is about fentanyl, and changing drug market in America, and specifically, the West side. Frisco. California. Where the entrepreneurial spirit knows no bounds.
This mini-comic is attempting to be a non-fear-mongering warning about what fentanyl is: why it’s now a factor in S.F, and causing over-doses. How the drug market here has many drugs that have had the supply of them contaminated with fentanyl, and had people take it unknowingly and O.D.,
One of the main arguments against San Francisco’s attempts to create solutions to homelessness like the coordinated entry system is that there is no “one size fits all” solution to homelessness. While the intention is to create more entryways into housing, these entryways look more like major hurdles for those who have different sets of needs being overlooked.
Women over the age of 50 experience the same discomforts that everyone living without a permanent home knows,
