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Protestors demand ‘housing not barricades’ after UC Hastings settlement

By Jiffy Phan on September 1, 2020

Community organizations such as House the Bay, Gay Shame, Coalition on Homelessness, Senior and Disability Action, Do No Harm Coalition, Every 28 Foundation, and more joined together for the march and rally to decry the settlement between UC Hastings and the City of San Francisco, which promises to remove all tents in the area with no offer of housing.

The state should house people living with mental illness

By Jack Bragen on August 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

When we see our fellow human beings wither away and die on the streets, when we see encampments in the news that appear not much better than living under a pile of trash, when we see human beings who have names...the cure is not worse than the disease. Something must be done.

Why would anyone want to live on the street?

By Timothy Busby on August 1, 2020

Commentary First-person Opinion

Only after I accepted the fact that the person I was before was never coming back…could I begin to accept another life.

Large-scale decarceration is the only way to halt COVID outbreaks in prison

By Stop San Quentin Outbreak Coalition on July 17, 2020

Commentary News Opinion

Releasing a mere 6 percent of the people inside California’s overcrowded prisons falls woefully short of the large-scale decarceration needed to protect the health and safety of the community.

Incarcerated insights into isolation

By Joe Garcia on August 1, 2020

Commentary Features Opinion

To those of you going stir crazy while struggling to shelter-in-place and self-isolate, please try and focus on the positive aspects of this new reality. It’s important to find your own beacon of light to pull yourself through the worst of the chaos. Decades of incarceration have taught me this and ingrained in me the coping skills to get through any seemingly depressing situation.

Right side of history

By Steve Brooks on July 17, 2020

Commentary First-person Opinion

When future generations look back on the devastation caused by this coronavirus pandemic, they are likely going to say that what happened to incarcerated populations in America’s prisons is tantamount to crimes against humanity.

The coming repression

By Hiding Place Press on July 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

A resource guide on what to do now that Antifa is "domestic terrorism."

A taste of homelessness

By Timothy Busby on April 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion YSA youth contributions

I can’t help but think to myself, “now the general population is getting a taste of what we, the homeless, face everyday.”

Street Sheet’s weekly COVID-19 policy recommendations

By The Coalition on Homelessness on April 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

The Coalition on Homelessness is closely following policy related to COVID-19 and homelessness. Here are their top shelf policy recommendations.

“The issue of homelessness and housing in America has been a tinderbox waiting to catch fire for generations.”

By Israel Bayer on April 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

For many people living and working on the front lines of homelessness, COVID-19 represents the deadly serious reality that people already live with every single day.

I’m not ready to give up: a victory for homeless rights

By Mike Zint on March 1, 2020

Commentary Opinion

This article originally appeared in the People’s Tribune in July of 2015. What we have here is an occupation, a

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