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SF City Worker Refuses to Destroy a Homeless Person’s ‘Tiny Home’

07 Mar 2016

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This video just made it my way. In it you see an SF city worker sitting in her car watching as her coworkers tear down someone’s ‘tiny home’ and she refuses to participate. You hear her say “I don’t want no parts of that shit…ain’t none of my shit being used to tear that man’s house up”.

It’s sickening and heartbreaking that this is happening but especially during these cold, wet El Niño years. Much respect is due to this woman who is defying her work orders because she refuses to be part of this injustice.

**Please note: The woman on this video reached out to the Coalition on Homelessness and asked them to post it. They warned her of the risks, but she was insistent. The Coaliton sent it to me.

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Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a travel writer, poet, TV host, activist, and general shit-stirrer. His website BrokeAssStuart.com is one of the most influential arts & culture sites in the San Francisco Bay Area and his freelance writing has been featured in Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveler, The Bold Italic, Geek.com and too many other outlets to remember. His weekly column, Broke-Ass City, appears every other Thursday in the San Francisco Examiner. Stuart’s writing has been translated into four languages. In 2011 Stuart created and hosted the travel show Young, Broke, and Beautiful on IFC and in 2015 he ran for Mayor of San Francisco and got nearly 20k votes.

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