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Homeless advocates criticize Sheehy bike bill
An ordinance prohibiting outdoor bicycle assembly is on track to pass at the Board of Supervisors, and it could lead to penalizing homeless people and seizure of their bicycles, according to homeless...
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SF ‘resolves’ homeless camps — but where do the people go?
After months of undertaking, all of the encampments in San Francisco’s Mission District have been “resolved” — in other words, moved off the sidewalks. Or at least that’s what Street Sheet learned from...
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The Street Sheet: 30 years of journalism by and for homeless people
Since 2001, I’ve been involved with Street Sheet in some capacity — at first as a freelancer, and now as a sort-of managing editor — but my relationship with the Coalition on Homelessness’s...
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The year in homeless policy
For a short while in 2020, it wasn’t always “all COVID, all the time.” That was for about two and a half months into the new year. The first year into a new decade almost seems like eons ago, but...
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City plans to close homeless hotels—so where will people go?
The clock is ticking for unhoused people staying in San Francisco’s shelter-in-place hotels. The 25 SIP hotels that have sheltered more than 2,000 homeless people during the COVID-19 pandemic are...
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SF to close four more SIP hotels, putting hundreds of unhoused at risk
As a state of emergency takes effect in the Tenderloin, the city has scheduled to close four more hotels sheltering unhoused people from the coronavirus pandemic in the next two months — even as the...
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There’s not much care in Newsom’s CARE court
Governor Gavin Newsom’s CARE Courts are now law. He signed the legislation on September 14. Senate Bill 1338, a Newsom proposal, will create a specialized court where judges can compel people who...
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Sweeps of homeless people are in fact deadly, new medical study shows
For years, the mantra for advocates of unhoused people has been “sweeps kill.” Now, their tagline has science and hard numbers to back it up. In a study focused on 23 US cities, including San...
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These researchers lived through homelessness. Now they’ve analyzed it
The latest study of unhoused Californians made headlines, even though its findings are already considered common knowledge among people engaged with the issue. However, what was unusual about the...
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Breed plans new sweeps that still violate federal law
Mayor London Breed has announced that the city plans to resume enforcing laws governing homelessness in San Francisco in the latest development in a lawsuit against San Francisco for how it conducts...
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