A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
As we see there is a total of four Navigation Centers here in San Francisco. There is one in the Mission, another on Market, the third at the Dogpatch, and the last one on Army Street.
So I asked a few people about their opinions about the new Navigation Centers and this is what they say. (Mind you, some of these individuals asked to keep their names anonymous during this interview,
TO THE FINISH LINE
WORDS BY EASY COOL
I’M GONNA LOVE YOU,
TO THE FINISH LINE,
AND THAT WAY,
I’LL KNOW THAT YOU’RE REALLY MINE,
ALL THE TIME,
THAT I MAKE LOVE TO YOU,
TO THE FINISH LINE.
I’LL BE ON MY MARK,
READY TO GO,
I’LL BE ON MY MARK,
READY TO GO
I’LL BE ALL SET,
Homeless People Demand Bathrooms — Berkeley, CA
A community meeting called by Council member Ben Bartlett was attended by nearly 100 members of the immediate area including the Lorin Business Association, Friends of Adeline and Le Conte Neighborhood Association. In visible attendance were about 15 members of First They Came For The Homeless (FTCFTH) including Co-Founder Mike Zint and former Berkeley Mayoral Candidate Mike Lee. This meeting was motivated by a few concerns articulated on Nextdoor.com about the intentional community created in South Berkeley by FTCFTH as part of a mobile protest tour,
I just love the language used to describe homeless people: Drunk, crazy, helpless, ad nauseum. It’s also shrouded in industry-specific terms like “experiencing substance abuse issues.”
Alphabet soup of acronyms that only a handful of insiders know. My all-time favorite though is “service resistant.” Google the term. There is no definition for it except when applied to the homeless. Common sense leads one to conclude that there is a whole army who resist services.
Raise your hands if you’re in favor of housing homeless people and programs that make it possible.
Now, raise your hands if you support laws imposing bans on sleeping outside or panhandling.
Chances are, in this scenario, you’d see the same set of hands raised favoring both approaches to homelessness. According to a pair of political scientists, that’s not unusual.
Scott Clifford of the University of Houston and Spencer Piston of Boston University studied this phenomenon of dueling impulses by commissioning a public opinion poll.
On any sunny Saturday, hundreds of people fill the Mission’s Dolores Park with their friends, pets, music—and their trash. Current anti-littering laws do little to combat this latter phenomenon, as on most days, police officers in Dolores Park can be seen standing at the top of the hill, surveying the park for violent or egregious misconduct but doing nothing about the wrappers, cigarettes, bags, and other refuse being left by the park’s attendees. While the officers watch along the perimeters,
Over 100 people gathered in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest the $6.2 billion in federal cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Trump’s proposed figurative and literal walls. Accompanied by a five-person band, the Brass Liberation Orchestra, the group marched down Market Street with colorful signs that depicted Trump’s wall and business improvement districts, and to the federal building on seventh and mission streets. Once at the federal building,
In San Francisco, thousands of homeless people find shelter on street corners wrapped in sleeping bags or shielded by the thin canvas of tents. Tent cities have popped up around the Bay Area and around the country, a response to an economy that has abandoned poor and homeless people. Rather than offer people housing and respite from the inhospitable and unlivable conditions of the streets, the city has responded with brutal encampment sweeps,
West Oakland Punks with Lunch.
Misfits fight Homelessness
Oakland, CA
A group of self-described misfits are spending their own money to help combat the crisis of homelessness. As politicians debate and talk about solutions, every Sunday, Punks With Lunch assemble 80 to 180 healthy meals of sandwiches, fresh fruit, water and snacks, then head out to encampments at 35th and Peralta streets at 3:30 p.m.
When is a housing subsidy not a housing subsidy?
When it subsidizes homeownership.
When is a housing subsidy economic stimulus and not charity?
When the money supports bankers, real estate agents and developers.
In 2017, the federal government subsidized homeownership to the tune of $140.7 billion dollars; it is estimated 75 percent of this allocation went to households earning over $100,000.00.
