Street Sheet

07/18/2025

Kenyota was an unhoused fugitive in San Francisco until he came upon a miracle.

by Kenyota Content warning: This piece contains a reference to su***de. I was homeless on the streets of San Francisco, and in several cities throughout the Bay Area, for over a decade. During thos…

07/17/2025

What's happening with the lawsuit against San Francisco over homeless sweeps? ACLU of Northern California updates us on the case.

What’s at Stake: Coalition on Homelessness is a challenge to the City and County of San Francisco’s efforts to criminalize homelessness through an array of unconstitutional practices, including con…

07/17/2025

San Francisco is just one of several cities in the state to ratchet homeless enforcement since Grants Pass. Arrests and citations increased by 500% within 12 months.
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by Marisa Kendall/ CalMatters In major cities and more rural areas, arrests and citations rose in the months following last summer’s Supreme Court decision. In some places, officials insist the eve…

07/17/2025

Shelters need to be evenly distributed among the City's districts, writes Jordan Wasilewski, but permanent supportive housing should be the cornerstone.

by Jordan Wasilewski I am no fan of my new supervisor, Bilal Mahmood, whom I think cares more for his wealthier constituents in his district than Tenderloin residents. He just proposed legislation …

07/17/2025

As a disabled person, writer Jack Bragen is taking the passage of Trump's bill very personally.

by Jack Bragen Donald Trump just signed his big bill. It isn’t a “beautiful bill.” It is a crime against the American middle class and poor. And we are in a war of misinformation—…

07/16/2025

A dark day for San Francisco as a majority of the Board of Supervisors voted to ban large vehicles from parking longer than 2 hours on city streets.

07/06/2025

Like most California cities, LA's Venice neighborhood is moving to disperse streetside and RV communities from public view.

by Cathleen Williams with Peggy Kennedy Venice, Los Angeles: A neighborhood for poor people, for renters who used to thrive in cheap apartments on the rundown back streets, a neighborhood famous fo…

07/04/2025

Writer Jack Bragen didn't expect to be where he is today at age 60, but he thinks me might be passing a "cosmic test."

by Jack Bragen Recently, I went to see a doctor in my new neighborhood, one where most of the population is high-income. When I got to the waiting room, I happened to spot a couple of people who ar…

07/03/2025

Ninety percent of the homeless families in SF live in vehicles such as RVs, and would be in grave danger of having them ticketed and towed, losing their only housing, resulting in more street homelessness and broken families.

story and photos by Sarah Menefee Below are some quotes from testimony given by families who live in their vehicles, and by their advocates, before the SFMTA [San Francisco Metropolitan Transit Aut…

07/03/2025

"This [RV] is the only way I can provide a roof over my daughter’s head … don’t want her to feel the fear of them taking the shelter we have right now."

by Charlie Fisch and Azucena Hernandez On Tuesday, June 17, the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) Board of Directors met to approve on a 6–1 vote a refuge permit program that would exempt overs…

07/03/2025

“San Francisco is not a kingdom, and it is not a corporation, it is a democracy.”

Despite important wins, People’s Budget Coalition stands in strong opposition to finalized budget that sacrifices key services and values in order to criminalize poverty Early on Thursday, June 26,…

06/20/2025

Navigating the medical bureaucracy is challenging enough. More so, if you're a mental health client, Jack Bragen writes.

by Jack Bragen The treatment system has always been a “frenemy” to me as a mental health treatment recipient. I need these services, partly because of how the socioeconomic part of our infrastructu…