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08 Jun 2017

Prankster Tricks Tech Incubator into Supporting Homeless People

By Matthew Gerring If you’re a regular reader of Street Sheet by Coalition on Homelessness, you might be surprised to hear that the paper’s recent upgrades — full color front pages and a new website — were sponsored by the same people who brought you AirBnB: Silicon Valley’s preeminent startup incubator,

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06 Apr 2017

SFPD Tickets Senior Citizen for Eating Pizza, Citizens Fight Back

You may have heard the story of the senior citizen who got a ticket from SF Police for eating pizza at a bus stop this March.   Kelley Cutler, a human rights organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness often helps vulnerable citizens deal with these ‘quality of life citations’.  She tweeted about

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

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10 Jan 2017

7 Tips For Staying Alive In The NYC Winter From a Former Street Kid

The best defense against the cold is a healthy diet, proper hydration and ideally, a furnace. But let’s face it: you can’t afford any of those things. Here are some tips from someone who truly knows the value of fresh socks and a thermostat; a former NYC Street Kid. 1.

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29 Jun 2016

Where are San Francisco’s Homeless People Supposed to Go?

Guest post by Kelley Cutler Human Rights Organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness I woke up that morning to a call from a woman who was living in a tent on the street. Through her tears I could hear the muffled voices of San Francisco police coming through the phone, telling

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31 Mar 2016

Innovative Ways People Are Helping The Homeless

There’s been a lot of uproar on the issue of homelessness recently. Matters like this always come out of the woodwork a little more during an election year, and incidents like the clearing of San Francisco’s tent city before Super Bowl weekend have a way of getting people fired up.

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10 Mar 2016

Hey Ed Lee, Don’t be a Jerk! Sign the State of Emergency on Homelessness!

Of all the bullshit that Ed Lee will remembered for, his handling of San Francisco’s homelessness crisis will have a place of honor in the annals of bullshittery. Homelessness has been steadily getting worse citywide and in some neighborhoods, like SOMA and The Mission, it has reached public health crisis

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07 Mar 2016

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

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

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04 Mar 2016

This Week’s Interesting News

Stats on US Single Ladies, Porn Data, Millennial Salaries & other interesting stories and commentary from the week

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