A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness
The paper is published by the Coalition on Homelessness, a policy and advocacy organization that fights for housing justice and human rights of San Franciscans.
The Street Sheet is an independent street newspaper dedicated to covering issues of homelessness and poverty in San Francisco from the voices of homeless people themselves.
Street Sheet vendors sell the paper and receive 100% of everything they sell, providing them with employment and a source of income.
The Street Sheet hosts creative writing, poetry, and journalism workshops, fostering community, creativity and expression.
By Renee Belinda Cooper
After months of begging, pleading, applications, phone calls and waiting, a possible room appeared: $788 a month.
My current Social Security and SSI income is approximately $1,260. The rent alone would take nearly 63 percent of it, leaving $472 for everything else.
Apparently, retirement planning now requires a calculator, a miracle and a landlord who accepts the miracle as verifiable income.
I am 65,
by Jordan Wasilewski
In one of his corny anti-graffiti videos, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood talked about how he is all about the data. However, data can have many shortcomings and might not be able to tell the whole story, as we have seen with low-income people being evicted from housing that is supposed to help them stabilize.
I went to the Homelessness Oversight Committee’s October 1 meeting.
By Eva Schwienbacher
What does protesting achieve? Who takes to the streets? And are people protesting more today than they used to? Social movement researcher Karin Fischer of Johannes Kepler University Linz responds.
20er: It feels as if you can take part in a demonstration almost every week. Are we living in a time of protest?
Karin Fischer: Protest is part of democracy and occurs in cycles.
by Marisa Kendall/CalMatters
New legislation forces the city and county of Sacramento to collaborate on homelessness. Stakeholders say it could have repercussions California-wide.
The Legislature is forcing the city and county of Sacramento to try something unusual in their fight against homelessness, and both critics and supporters of the controversial plan say it could have broad implications for the rest of the state.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 802 in September,
photos by David Elliot Lewis and Zoey Laird
left to right: Hannah Beazely, Lukas Illa, Couper Orona, Carolyn Goosen, Dean Preston, and Maurice Byrd at the Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore on October 6, 2026. They spoke at a panel on San Francisco’s response to street homelessness.
“Our city is brushing people under the rug like we don’t exist. We exist and we belong somewhere,
