Coalition on Homelessness
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Coalition on Homelessness
@TheCoalitionSF
Since 1987 the COH has centered the voices of poor and homeless San Franciscans in the struggle for social and economic rights | We produce the @StreetSheetSF
- WE MUST LISTEN TO THOSE INSIDE. Thanh Tran, currently incarcerated at San Quentin Prison: “I write this after 3 days of being curled into a fetal position, fighting off COVID19. For a week now shrieks of man down followed by alarms have become my alarm clock. /1
- We are suing the city on constitutional grounds for their persistent horrific practice of stealing unhoused people’s property and criminalizing them for having no home. Our hope for this lawsuit is a transformation of the city's street response.
- INCREDIBLE. every single person calling into the police commission meeting right now is calling to defund & disband SFPD. decades doing this work + we have NEVER seen this before. this is happening cause of the work of Black abolitionists. grateful. #DefundSFPD
- YES!!!!! ❤️✊🏽 Homeless families in LA are taking over homes owned by state agency Caltrans that has been evicting homeless encampments from their property for years. LETS GETTTTT ITTTT and thank you to the mamas at @moms4housing for leading the way ❤️BREAKING: Group of homeless families in LA are taking over multiple homes — inspired by @moms4housing protest in Oakland latimes.com/homeless-housi…
- Don’t know who needs to hear this (just kidding, we do, it’s all the people in our mentions), but YOUR DISCOMFORT FROM SEEING HOMELESSNESS IS NOT THE SAME AS THE TRAUMA OF BEING HOMELESS.
- Black people represent less than 5% of SF residents but 37% of the homeless population. San Francisco liberals: You can’t say BLM and be anti homeless.
- Tip for reporters: If you're writing about homelessness, you have to actually talk to homeless people.
- BREAKING NEWS: We're suing @LondonBreed, @SFPD & the City of SF for their efforts to criminalize homelessness through an array of brutal policing practices that violate the constitutional rights of unhoused San Franciscans. 🧵below 1/
- PSA: COPS 👏 SHOULD 👏 NEVER 👏 ADDRESS 👏 HOMELESSNESS #DefundSFPD
- We are scared for the thousands of unhoused black people tonight who don't have ANYWHERE to be safe from a militarized police force. PLEASE check in & look out for unhoused folks while you protest, look out for them when you're at home. Send reports to us if you see anything.
- Sooooo this happened last night sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…
- isn't it horrifying knowing that the state can literally identify + commandeer hotel rooms in a few days when there has been homeless people suffering on our streets for decadesUPDATE 3/16 Gov @GavinNewsom on #COVID19 & homelessness: *Leased 393 units at 2 hotels in Oakland + will turn over to local gov to house homeless ppl *901 hotels identified + beginning negotiations w/ owners of hotels *1st unhoused man passed away in Santa Clara region today
