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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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TJ Johnston

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TJ Johnston is the Assistant Editor of Street Sheet, San Francisco’s street newspaper.

Despite pushback, California CARE courts signed into law

November 10, 2022
News
The new law, which faces widespread community pushback, will create a specialized mental health court where judges can force people with mental health disabilities and substance use conditions into treatment.

Unhoused San Franciscans sue city over sweeps

October 6, 2022
News
Seven unhoused residents of San Francisco are suing the city over property lost during encampment sweeps.

After SIP hotels get an extension, will unhoused residents get a new lease on life?

September 6, 2021
News
As public health and homeless advocates urge San Francisco to keep the shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels open, the City announced that its plans to close two of the remaining 25 SIP hotels are put on hold through at least the end of the year, Street Sheet has learned.

Exit strategy for SF’s Moscone residents: Housing or back to shelter?

June 1, 2021
News
San Francisco is set to “reopen” in June, while the temporary shelter at Moscone Center West will close. Where will the otherwise unsheltered residents go?

San Francisco: Proposition C wins the day in court

October 1, 2020
News
In the November 2018 election, San Francisco voters approved Prop C, which authorizes the City to tex wealthy corporations to fund homelessness programs, mental health, and substance use treatment programs, and eviction defense efforts. The proposition has finally made it through several challenges in court.

Remembering Ronnie Goodman: an artist with a ‘visual voice’

September 1, 2020
Features   News
After a lifetime of creating art while homeless or incarcerated, Ronnie Lamont Goodman was found dead in his tent on August 7. He was 60 years old.

Everyone deserves to shelter in place, including homeless people

May 22, 2020
First-person   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
“Sheltering in place” is a privilege that over 9,000 unhoused San Franciscans do not enjoy. Yet, shelters are congregate environments where people sleep barely more than two feet away from one another, head to foot or top to bottom in bunks.

Caltrans settlement to homeless people: $2 million

March 1, 2020
News
Unhoused people in the East Bay will be compensated by Caltrans for property that the state agency damaged or destroyed in encampment sweeps, thanks to a newly reached legal settlement.

Lose your ID, lose your identity

December 1, 2019
Commentary   Opinion
A few months ago, I lost my ID. I retraced my steps to the stores where I took it out when fishing for store cards and cash in my pouch. No luck—it wasn’t at any of them.

California Compassionate Intervention Act: kind or cruel?

November 1, 2019
News
A new ballot initiative called the California Compassionate Intervention Act could put unsheltered people with mental challenges under further scrutiny

Belongings stolen in San Francisco sweeps

August 1, 2019
Features   YSA youth contributions
The project that is documenting the items—and identities—that are lost in encampment sweeps. The homeless property yard at the San Francisco Department of Public Works saw an unusually busy Saturday afternoon on June 22—more activity than the workers anticipated.

Cost’a rent not so high under Prop 10

October 1, 2018
Commentary   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
This November, Californians will vote on Prop 10, which will determine whether or not to repeal Costa-Hawkins—the 1995 law that placed limits on rent control in cities. If Prop 10 passes, it will be easier for California cities to lower their rents. An alliance of tenant organizations is demanding a “full repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, nothing less.”

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