The Coalition on Homelessness is a proud member of the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO). As part of National Housing Month, STREET SHEET is reprinting portions of CCHO’s recent publication: Making Housing Affordable for All San Franciscans. CCHO’s document was created as an educational tool to garner support for both affordable housing and community and faith based non-profit development corporations.

Housing is one of our common necessities.

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After a fierce battle over mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom’s Prop N (AKA “Care Not Cash”) initiative on last year’s ballot, we lost to big lies and big money. We were only able to fight what was kicked to the Board of Supervisors by the lawsuit — the GA portion of CAAP. We had a huge victory in defeating Prop N at the Board and saving the GA portion.

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Arnett Watson, a passionate and articulate advocate for homeless people and tireless worker for social justice, died unexpectedly September 28th in San Francisco of a cerebral aneurysm. She was 49 years old.

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This may not seem like it, but this is a genuine attempt to communicate with those of you who have no desire to vote. You know who you are. You know that a large percentage of you are regular readers of this publication. Chances are you don’t talk about it much to others. Truth is you don’t care. Why should you? (more…)

The Coalition on Homelessness has been conducting research to support the Privacy Initiative that will be introduced soon to the Board of Supervisors. The information contained in this investigation was collected through requests for public records from the Mayor’s Office On Homelessness (MOOH), Department of Human Services (DHS), and the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services (DTIS).

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La Coalición de los Desamparados de San Francisco llevó a cabo una encuesta con 201 personas que usan los refugios para pasar la noche. El propoósito de la encuesta era determinar que efectos tenía el nuevo sistema que obliga a todas las personas que quieren usar los refugios a dejar sus huellas digitales y fotografía en un sistema informático del DHS.

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Everyday women are beaten, raped, and killed in this country. For every one reported battered women, there are a unknown number that are unreported. That also goes for rapes and murders, and we’re just talking about homeless women. In San Francisco, just over 1,000 of the 8,000 homeless people the Mayor’s Office of Homelessness managed to “officially” count this year were women. Of that thousand, over 300 call the streets home. Unlike homeless men, women have a harder time on the streets because of the risk of being robbed, rape or both by a stranger, or by another homeless person.

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Todo empieza y todo termina alguna vez, así es el destino de nosotros los seres humanos en esta tierra, se van los buenos y se quedan los malos.

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After decades of slashing voluntary mental health treatment, the state has passed a bill (AB 1421) that would allow the government to lock up people with psychiatric symptoms for not complying with their treatment plans. Counties now have an option to implement this law if they choose. As health professionals and people living with mental illnesses we oppose this law in S.F.

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To be a borderline poverty-level working mother is becoming a reality for more and more single, hard-working mothers. The edge of financial disaster is becoming familiar territory for millions of women and the families they struggle to support. A desperate scramble for survival is the way a growing sector of the America that is the real backbone of our workforce has to deal with.

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