Streetsheet.org Website Review

FIGHTING HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY 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 Street Sheet vendors sell the paper and receive 100% of everything they sell, providing them with employment and a source of income. CREATIVITY & EXPRESSION The Street Sheet hosts creative writing, poetry, and journalism At a recent December community meeting hosted by District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen in San Francisco’s Portola neighborhood, the shouting from the audience began before Supervisor Ronen was able to begin her opening remarks. The angry outbursts continued to interrupt the 90 minute meeting, which included comments from the heads of SF’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Municipal ‘Let them go to Pacific Heights!,’ one angry neighborhood resident yelled. The opening line from Charles Di*kens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” has become a well-worn intro that journalists and pundits use for year-end retrospectives. Developments in how San Francisco approaches homelessness in 2018 make the Di*kensian reference an apt descriptor. Readers of Street Sheet and followers of homeless policy can point to two events supporting this binary: The sweeps of homeless encampments Shortened for print in the Street Sheet. Read the full version online here. This was to be a banner year for San Francisco Yimbys at the polls. The group is the social-media focused, bright young face of the pro-development lobby. At the start of 2018, they were poised to both define the political agenda of the coming campaign and field a slate of candidates for supervisor that would place them and their allies in complete command of City Hall in San Francisco. If nothing is more American than squeaky-tight concentrations of wealth and opportunity, then hip-hop is a uniquely American art form.