Bad News for San Francisco’s HUD Housing

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The Trump Administration just released their Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Homeless McKinney funds out of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD). It is as batshit as you can imagine. Really you can’t make these things up.

First of all, for years 90% of the dollars had to go to permanent supportive housing, because there are around 50 evidence-based studies supporting this practice. But these folks don’t believe in science. So now no more than 30% of the funds can go to supportive housing.

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Lessons I’ve Learned in My 10 Years of PSH Advocacy

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by Jordan Wasilewski

As of mid-October this year, I have been stably housed in San Francisco for 10 years. For the first time in my adult life, I became a tenant with my name on the lease and am living alone, instead of subletting with others. 

That was also my 10th anniversary in permanent supportive housing, my 10th anniversary in a single-resident occupancy hotel, and also my 10th anniversary of permanent supportive housing and SRO activism.

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Theft of Our Last Crumb

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by Tiny

The Federal Government’s Attempt to Starve us and the Emergency Need for our Own Self-determined Solutions

SNAP or no SNAP 

These weren’t life sustaining  plans 

Only bits and pieces of a weallthhoarding trap 

To make us feel like we had a life raft 

An option to dying of hunger even tho we all pay their pinche tax

What’s happening republiCRAPS –

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SNAP Crisis: A Timeline

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by Lupe Velez

The last three weeks has been a large-scale humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of low-income Bay Area residents and millions of Americans being locked out from accessing food.

In mid-October, federal officials announced that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits funds would be halted starting November 1 due to the government shutdown, potentially leaving 48 million Americans without access to governmental assistance for groceries.

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The Lure of the Hitchhiking Monkey

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by Jason Albertson

EDITOR’S NOTE: Jason Albertson, a clinical social worker and long-time homeless advocate, died on October 25, 2025. Jason was well known to go to bat for unhoused people, stand up to injustice and engage in nonjudgmental care. His work led countless humans off the streets to have an opportunity to recover and thrive. He was so important to San Francisco and will be dearly missed. Below is a story of Jason’s that Street Sheet originally published in the April 1997 edition.

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Freedom is Fundamental: Resisting the New Poor Farms

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story and photo by Cathleen Williams

“I cannot live without my freedom, and I will not live without freedom,” says Street Sheet vendor Jessica in Sacramento. Here, she sits with Felipe.

Freedom of movement is a fundamental right of residents on American soil. The right extends to all, including people who live outside on our streets and open public spaces. 

It’s a bedrock principle, embedded in our consciousness and our culture,

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Handle with Care: The Risks Involved with Lived Experience

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by David Pentland

The following article is part of INSP’s Changing the Narrative series. It has been written as the result of the new journalism training academy, established in 2025 by INSP to provide people with direct experience of homelessness and poverty the opportunity to learn about journalism and the media, and to enhance their storytelling and written abilities. The training academy has two ambitions: to challenge media and public misconceptions about homelessness;

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Why Supervisor’s Scheme for Sober Supportive Housing Sucks

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by Jordan Wasilewski

I am a millenial, and one of the defining moments of my generation was 9/11. There are many takes on this issue, but one thing I gleaned from the aftermath is that, despite the supposed “unity” that crises bring, there are people out there who will weaponize collective pain to push policies that are wrongheaded and cruel. I find the same holds true for San Francisco’s overdose crisis.

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A Commission to Get Rid of Commissions: How the Mayor’s Office Plans to Consolidate More Power and Erode Participatory Democracy

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by Lupe Velez

On October 15, a new City-created delegation called the Commission Streamlining Task Force held its first meeting to make recommendations on several advisory and policy groups that are focused on children and youth, homelessness  and human rights, among other bodies. The Task Force reflected that the homelessness crisis is one of the biggest issues that San Francisco faces, one that Mayor Daniel Lurie has centered during his time in office.

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