A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
by Benjamin F. Henwood
Can giving homeless people US$750 a month to use any way they choose help them move into long-term housing?
I am the director of the University of Southern California Homelessness Policy Research Institute. My research team, in partnership with Miracle Messages, a San Francisco social services nonprofit, set out to answer that question in a study that will be published in an upcoming peer-reviewed issue of Social Work Research.
by Zach Bollinger
UPDATE , as of May 5: Good news! We were excited to learn, and to inform our readers, that the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) has added not one, not two, but FOUR RV permit renewal sessions through the first two weeks of May in areas most in need.
According to an email from the Department of Emergency Management, the added renewal sessions are scheduled for: April 30 at Bancroft Avenue and Ingalls Street,
Street Speak is a podcast of Street Sheet. The following excerpt is from Episode 22, a conversation between Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, the San Francisco-based homeless advocacy organization that produces the podcast, and Anya Worley-Ziegmann, coalition coordinator of the People’s Budget Coalition. To listen to the entire interview, go to streetsheet.org/street-speak-podcast or the platform where you listen to podcasts.
This interview is edited for brevity and clarity.
by Tiny
Police car outside 71st Avenue safe parking sites in Oakland, which has since closed down.
Closure of small house community forces several previously unhoused residents back to the streets
“They said we have to leave … today … I’ve been here for four years and I’ve never received help or resources or even a referral of someone to talk to about housing” said Dennis houseless resident of Third and Peralta tiny home community.
Nancy McCombs, born in Dallas, Texas, September 11, 1947, died on March 5, 2026 in San Rafael following a fall in December that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. She was 78, and survived by her partner, Kenton Lai.
Nancy served as an SSI attorney. She assisted the disenfranchised to access Supplemental Security Income, which the federal government is supposed to provide to citizens who are disabled and unable to support themselves with jobs.
