Mayor Asks for Cuts to Community Development, More Money for Drunk Tank

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by Lukas Illa

San Francisco community based-organizations enter another city budget cycle with great uncertainty of whether their core programs will exist in four months time. With Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Austerity First budget (my words, not his), San Francisco is once again electing to siphon funding for working-class communities of color to pad law enforcement agencies’ already bloated budgets.

The People’s Budget Coalition has tracked a combination of $62 million expected cuts to the Department of Public Health (DPH),

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March Heat Wave Shows City Must Keep PSH Residents Cool in Face of Climate Change

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by Jordan Wasilewski 

In 2020, one of my earlier Street Sheet pieces focused on two material issues relating to permanent supportive housing (PSH) and SROs that were especially relevant at the moment: The lack of air conditioning or cooling systems for tenants during a heat wave and no WiFi during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic is over for a vast majority of people. Senior & Disability Action are still pushing for WiFi in SROs and permanent supportive housing,

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A New Homelessness Strategy is Sweeping California

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by Marisa Kendall, CalMatters

Homelessness prevention shows promising results in California, as advocates push to spread it statewide and nationally.

Maybe the way out of California’s homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the first place,  rather than focusing only on people who have already lost their housing. 

That’s the thinking behind a program in Santa Clara County — and others like it around the state — that has gained traction and will soon test its strategy beyond California. 

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How ICE Deportations are Impacting People Experiencing Homelessness in DC 

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By Katie Doran and Annemarie Cuccia

Photo by Madi Koesler

Last summer, a DC resident was looking for apartments to rent with his newly received housing voucher. The man, who Street Sense is not identifying to protect his family’s privacy and the outreach organization that he worked with, was born in El Salvador. His parents brought him to the US more than 20 years ago,

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Streamlining the City Government Could Hand More Power to the Mayor at the People’s Expense

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by Lupe Velez

Proposed changes to decision-making and advisory bodies might tilt the balance of power in favor of the Mayor’s Office. Creative Commons image by Blaine A. White.

In the latest development regarding the future of the city’s commissions and committees, Mayor Daniel Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman proposed three ballot propositions that boost executive power this month. If these measures pass,

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