◈ Homepage — http://www.cohsf.org/Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness WHO WE ARE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OUR TEAM WHAT WE DO RESEARCH & REPORTS STOLEN BELONGING LEARN MORE! GET INVOLVED ACTION ALERTS JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS GIVE CREATIVELY HOMELESSNESS SERVICES GUIDE BE A HOUSED ALLY RVBAN2025 WORKGROUPS HOUSING JUSTICE HUMAN RIGHTS DONATE! BUY COH MERCH! STREET SHEET We shine a light on poverty and injustice in San Francisco. MISSION The Coalition on Homelessness organizes homeless people and front-line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while working to protect the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets. IMPACT Keeping thousands of San Franciscans housed and housing thousands of San Franciscans Halting the citing, arresting, and confiscation of property of people whose only crime was being too poor to afford a place to live Cultivating leadership and building community within the city’s homeless population GET INVOLVED BECOME A DONOR SIGN UP FOR COH NEWS COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS 280 TURK ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 WHO WE ARE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OUR TEAM WHAT WE DO RESEARCH & REPORTS STOLEN BELONGING LEARN MORE! GET INVOLVED ACTION ALERTS JOBS AND INTERNSHIPS GIVE CREATIVELY HOMELESSNESS SERVICES GUIDE BE A HOUSED ALLY RVBAN2025 WORKGROUPS HOUSING JUSTICE HUMAN RIGHTS DONATE! BUY COH MERCH! STREET SHEET © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross ◈ Interior Pages — 15 pages crawledWho We Are – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Who We Are Who We Are For decades, the Coalition on Homelessness has developed the leadership skills of homeless San Franciscans to forge true solutions to the housing crisis and beat back mean-spirited attacks against them. You can read more about our team and our accomplishments below: Accomplishments Staff Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Housing Justice – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    What We Do    /    Workgroups    /    Housing Justice Housing Justice Our Vision The Housing Justice Workgroup is working toward a San Francisco in which every human being can have and maintain decent, habitable, safe, and secure housing. Poor San Franciscans face unimaginable hardships today: the severity of the housing crisis and the city’s combining skyrocketing rents; an 170% increase in Ellis Act Evictions; an almost 40% hike in all evictions; the almost complete cessation of new affordable housing opportunities. The powerful, active Housing Justice workgroup, made up entirely of homeless and formerly homeless parents, is: Pushing the Housing Authority to turn its vacant units over to homeless folks, Struggling to increase subsidies available to homeless families to get them out of homelessness, Working to halt mean-spirited proposals coming from policy makers, and Trying to ensure that not one more preventable displacement of an impoverished San Franciscan takes place. This past year, in work led by disenfranchised San Franciscans, we expanded housing justice for hundreds of households. All those down for the cause are welcome to join! Housing Justice meets every Tuesday at 12 noon at 280 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. You can reach us at (415)346-3740. Organizing Team: Miguel Carrera – Extension: 319 – Email: [email protected] Mercedes Bullock – Extension: 315 – Email: [email protected] Yessica Hernandez – Extension: 318 – Email: [email protected] Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Research Papers – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Research Papers Research Papers Annual Report (2024) Voices of the Unseen (2023) A Real Count of Homeless Families Latino Task Force 2022 Street Needs Assessment and Proyecto Dignidad A New Coordinated Entry: Shifting From a System of Scarcity to Assessing Real Needs (2022) Behind the Healthy Street Operation Curtain (2021) The True Story of San Francisco’s Abusive Encampment Response Water Report (2021) Water for All Compassionate Alternative Response Team: A Community Plan for San Francisco (2021) St op the Revolving Door (2020) A Street Level Framework For A New System (which includes the following PDFs) – Summary – The Crisis Of Transgender Homelessness Punishing the Poorest (2017) How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco The Roadmap (2015) A Five-Year Plan to End the Crisis of Family Homelessness in San Francisco Harassment and Displacement in The Mission (2014) Community Experiences Survey The Runaround (2009) An Examination of San Francisco’s Byzantine Shelter Reservation System Shelter Shock (2007) Abuse, Cruelty, and Neglect in San Francisco’s Shelter System Housing First! for Homeless Families (2005) Guidelines and Findings for San Francisco The Forgotten (2005) A Critical Analysis of Homeless Policy in San Francisco A Ten Point Program (2003) to Immediately Address Homeless Programs Scoring Treatment (2003) The San Francisco Substance Abuse Treatment Study Sheltered Lives (2001) Homeless People Speak Out on San Francisco’s Shelters Locked Out (1999) The Voices of Homeless People with Mental Illnesses Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Ways to Give – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Get Involved    /    Ways to Give Ways to Give We are an independent, grassroots non-profit organization that does not accept government funding. We are a 501c3 and your donation is tax deductible. All donations sustain our tireless work eliminating poverty and homelessness in San Francisco. Below are some more fun ways to donate. We appreciate you! Become a one-time or monthly sustainer through Fundraise Up! * We rely on a dedicated group of individual donors to make up the vast majority of our budget. Last year there were 520 individual donors (thanks!) and 60 of you gave us money every month (double thanks!) *** Purchase Merchandise! We have Coalition hoodies & beanies and STREET SHEET masks & totes! Click here for our store! Need to Get Rid of an Old Car, RV, or Boat? Donate to Auction City and Support Homeless People! You can donate your old car, boat, or RV to Auction City and the proceeds can help the Coalition on Homelessness. Visit Auction City on-line or call 1-800-574-0888 to make your donation or find out more information. You can also visit Vehicles for Charity or call 1-866-628-2277 *** Donate Items to Community Thrift: Donate to Community Thrift Store (623 Valencia St., San Francisco) to support the homeless community. All donations must be boxed or bagged. Make sure to designate your beneficiary as “Coalition on Homelessness” or “Account #205” You can donate clothing; leatherwear; shoes; furniture; electronics; lamps; toys; bicycles; collectibles; books; magazines; artwork; housewares; music and movies; luggage; mirrors; jewelry and accessories; crutches; wheelchairs; walkers; and more! *** House Party or Birthday Party Fundraiser: Gather your friends, family, and community for the Coalition on Homelessness by throwing a house party or birthday party and invite one of our staff members to talk about our campaigns. Call 415-346-3740 x 303 to learn more. *** Donate your spare change automatically to the Coalition on Homelessness! Link your debit card with RoundUp *** We are now accepting bitcoin donations: *** If you have other ways that you want to help and support the organization, please let us know. Contact Development Director at [email protected] or at (415) 346-3740 x 303. Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross RVBan2025 – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    RVBan2025 RVBan2025 In July of 2025 the city of San Francisco passed a 2 hour city wide parking restriction, establishing an RV ban that will affect o ve r 1,400 people living in their vehicles in San Francisco.  The 2024 Point-In-Time Count found that 90% of families experiencing unsheltered homelessness live in their vehicles . There is not enough affordable housing to begin with, which is why many individuals and families end up living in RVs. The RV Ban is being stipulated alongside a Permit Program for people living in RVs that allows temporary exemption from the 2-hour parking restrictions . However, the permit is only accessible to people who were identified in a city database as of May 2025.   Below you can find resources to apply for the permit program or how to appeal if you have been denied as well as information on community meetings to learn more.  If you have more questions or need assistance please contact the Coalition on Homelessness at:  (415) 346-3740   Now more than ever, the city of San Francisco must offer crucial protections and support vulnerable communities and not compound to the dangers they face, by stripping them of their only housing.  Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! 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Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    What We Do    /    Learn More Learn More ABOUT US History & Accomplishments Awards and Recognition Annual Reports PUBLIC EDUCATION Reports + Research Stop the Sweeps Know Your Rights Pamphlet (2019) 10 Things to Do When You See Homeless People in Crisis Fact Sheet on SF Homelessness (Updated September 2022) How to Be a Housed Ally (2020) Homelessness Services Guide (2023) MEDIA Street Sheet FUNDRAISING Ways to Give PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. 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Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Jobs and Internships – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Get Involved    /    Jobs and Internships Jobs and Internships Check this space for upcoming available staff positions as organizers, directors, and internship opportunities. Want to volunteer? Contact our Development Director, Arron, at [email protected] with your availability, skills, or services you’d like to offer to help the team! Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Workgroups – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    What We Do    /    Workgroups Workgroups The Coalition’s organizing work is accomplished through two focused workgroups: Housing Justice and Human Rights . Our workgroups both have open meetings on a weekly basis, in which homeless people and their allies determine the policies we’ll pursue, and the strategies we’ll take to meet important goals aimed at ending homelessness, and protecting poor people while homelessness exists. Housing Justice Human Rights Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Accomplishments – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Who We Are    /    Accomplishments Accomplishments 37 Years of Resistance, Resilience and Re-Building For decades, the Coalition on Homelessness has developed the leadership skills of homeless San Franciscans to forge true solutions to the housing crisis and beat back mean-spirited attacks against them. This represents highlights of our collective accomplishments. 1987-1990 A ragtag group of community activists and homeless folks, fed up with the lack of a response to homelessness that addressed the root causes, formed the Coalition on Homelessness. The Coalition established the most progressive welfare income disregard programs in the country, whereby cash aid recipients could retain funds to move into permanent housing. Founded the Street Sheet, now holding the double distiction of being both the oldest continuously published street newspaper in North America, and the paper with the largest circulation. 1991-1995 The Coalition created the first supportive housing for homeless people in San Francisco in the form of Community Housing Partnership, which now provides over 1,000 units of permanent affordable supportive housing, and employs homeless people in the construction, maintenance, and support services at those housing locations. The Coalition designed and advocated for the McMillan Center, an innovative 24-hour drop-in facility for substance users, as an innovative strategy to reduce the number of street deaths. We developed the Uniform Grievance Procedure with other organizations to ensure shelter residents have due process rights and are not unfairly evicted from shelters. The Coalition advocated for and designed A Woman’s Place, a drop-in center, shelter, and transitional housing program now assisting mentally disabled women, through the convening of the Homeless Women’s Task Force. Fought back another electoral attempt to deduct rent from welfare recipients checks. Succeeded in passing a resolution at the Board of Supervisors to demand an end to the Matrix program, which broadly persecuted homeless people who were forced to live on the streets through ticketing, property confiscation and police sweeps. 1996-2000 Thanks to Coalition pressure, the District Attorney dismissed 39,000 tickets issued by the anti-homeless Matrix program. The Coalition’s General Assistance Rights Union became an independent organization: People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER). This eventually led to single adult welfare recipients earning a living wage and winning free Muni for youth in SF. We spearheaded the campaign for substance abuse treatment on demand, which resulted in over $12 million dollars in new treatment funds. Low-income mothers organized by the Coalition designed the concept and garnered funding for a community-based 24- hour drop-in treatment center for families with children living in the Tenderloin, called Oshun, after the Yoruba Orisha of healing. The Coalition wrote and successfully campaigned for adoption of a “No Turn Away” policy for families seeking emergency shelter in San Francisco. We organized for and wrote legislation to create a single standard of care, whereby uninsured mentally ill people are afforded equal access to mental health treatment as those who are insured, saving 1,700 from losing treatment. 2001-2005 Together with community partner organizations, we formed, and later staffed, the People’s Budget Collaborative, which identified alternative City budget savings and revenues and over the years has staved off tens of millions in cuts to poverty abatement programs. The Coalition led the work that created the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center (MNRC)—the first resource center in the Mission District. Everyday, the MNRC provides critical services to over 100 clients, most of them Latino. the Mission District. Everyday, the MNRC provides critical services to over 100 clients, most of them Latino. The Coalition identified hundreds of San Francisco Housing Authority vacant units and successfully pushed the Housing Authority to place 300 homeless families in those units. 2006-2010 Our work led to the creation of the Shelter Monitoring Committee, which tracks conditions in shelters and resulted in exposure and correction of countless problems in the shelter system. The Coalition passed legislation that ensures vacant publicly owned surplus City property be turned over for the use of housing for homeless people. This has led to two large affordable housing projects targeting homeless veterans and families. Together with organizations in the East Bay, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle, we collectively founded the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). Homeless families organized by the Coalition on Homelessness campaigned for a local rental housing subsidy and increased eviction prevention funding, protecting hundreds of families from homelessness and enabling hundreds more to exit homelessness. We released Shelter Shock—a report on human rights violations in the shelter system, revealing that 55% of all shelter clients reported experiencing some form of abuse, and bringing media light and legislative action to these problems. The Coalition pushed through legislation to mandate minimum standards in the shelters. For the first time, our shelters have enforceable minimum standards around health, hygiene, and the human rights of shelter residents. Halted the practice by the City of spraying homeless people with high powered hoses in the middle of the night. The Coalition handled more than 3,000 civil rights cases per year, connecting homeless folks who have received “quality of life” citations to pro bono legal representation through the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. 2010-2019 We passed legislation to still the runaround associated with accessing shelter, by lengthening shelter stays and reducing wait times. Settled a lawsuit that led to greatly improved access and conditions for people with disabilities. We initiated a working group to move away from a system that requires individuals to stand in line for up to 17 hours. This led to a new very successful call-in system. We beat back the implementation of Tasers three times, which are known to increase fatalities at the hands of the police, and instead worked to get the police to implement a crisis intervention model to address people in psychiatric crisis. We won a local stimulus package of $3,000,000 for new jobs in shelters and resource centers. Ensured all homeless people in San Francisco would receive preferences for HUD housing. Led a powerful coalition to garner over $6,000,000 in city funding for a right to counsel for tenants facing displacement, which will result in over 2,500 additional low-income households having a fighting chance of staying in their homes. The Coalition won 1,306 housing subsidies for homeless families with children, elderly, youth, single adults and disabled adults over five years. Secured $2.7 million to fix up vacant public housing and turn them over to nearly 200 homeless households, and got both public housing and section 8 wait lists opened back up We released The Roadmap: A Five Year Plan to End the Crisis of Family Homelessness in San Francisco : a practical plan that the Mayor publicly endorsed and garnered $1.5 million match of private funding for new housing subsidies. We collaborated with UC Berkeley Center for Human Rights to release Punishing the Poorest: How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco Sign up for action alerts! – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Sign up for action alerts! Sign up for action alerts! Email Address: First Name: Last Name: We promise we won’t spam you with excessive emails! You can unsubscribe from our list at any time 🙂 Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross What We Do – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! 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Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    What We Do    /    Workgroups    /    Human Rights Human Rights Our Vision The Human Rights Workgroup envisions a San Francisco that recognizes that universal human rights must extend to poor and homeless people, and where dignity, respect, compassion, and equality are the standard of the community and the policy of the city. In the midst of the housing crisis, poor people are getting hit from both sides: Many are becoming homeless, and those who are homeless are facing unprecedented criminalization efforts. Thousands are on the streets in San Francisco, shelters are overflowing, and prosecution of homeless people is getting fiercer. Currently, the SFPD is displacing homeless people at 4:30 a.m. five out of seven mornings, the Department of Public Works is regularly spraying down their sleeping areas with high powered hoses, and police are giving massive numbers of citations to homeless people. It is common for homeless people to receive as many as three $100 citations in a day for sitting, smoking, or sleeping. Anti-homeless measures—such as the recent nighttime park and plaza closure during the night or the large vehicle parking ban—are raising the discourse of hatred, and causing increased acts of disrespect and violence. Several recycling centers have been closed due to complaints of the very presence of poor people in now upscale neighborhoods; still more are slated for closure. The Human Rights Workgroup has been doing some serious heavy lifting on these issues: conducting direct research, outreach to people on the streets, running multiple campaigns, developing policy, staging direct actions, capturing media attention, and so much more. All those down for the cause are welcome to join! Human Rights meets every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m at 280 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102. You can Reach us at (415)346-3740. Organizing Team: Lukas Illa – Extension: 316 – Email: [email protected] River Beck – Extension: 314 – Email: [email protected] Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross Our Team – Coalition on Homelessness Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet Coalition on Homelessness    /    Our Team Our Team Meet the folks at the CoH Jennifer Friedenbach (She/ Her) Executive Director jfridenbach*cohsf.org Mercedes Bullock (she/ her) Development Director mbullock*cohsf.org River Beck (He /them) Finance HR Director rbeck*cohsf.org Lupez Velez (she/her) Communications Director lvelez*cohsf.org Solange Cuba (she /her) Organizer, Director scuba*cohsf.org Lukas Illa Human Rights Organizer lilla*cohsf.org TJ S treet Sheet Editor tjjohnston*cohsf.org Quiver (They/them) Street Sheet Designer qwatts*cohsf.org K ema (She/ her) Human Rights Organizer sstraker*cohsf.org Christian Jimenez (He / his) House and Justice Organizer cjimenez*cohsf.org Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet © Copyright 2019 Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. All rights reserved. Website Designed & Developed by Crystal Cross   Loading Comments...   Write a Comment... Email Name Website Coalition on Homelessness – Ending Poverty and Homelessness in San Francisco Skip to content Go to the home page Coalition on Homelessness Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! Street Sheet We shine a light on poverty and injustice in San Francisco. Mission The Coalition on Homelessness organizes homeless people and front-line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness while working to protect the human rights of those forced to remain on the streets. Impact Keeping thousands of San Franciscans housed and housing thousands of San Franciscans Halting the citing, arresting, and confiscation of property of people whose only crime was being too poor to afford a place to live Cultivating leadership and building community within the city’s homeless population Get Involved Become a donor Sign up for COH news Coalition on Homelessness 280 Turk St. San Francisco, CA 94102 T: (415) 346-3740 Who We Are Accomplishments Our Team What We Do Research & Reports Stolen Belonging Learn More! Get Involved Action Alerts Jobs and Internships Give Creatively Homelessness Services Guide Be A Housed Ally RVBan2025 Workgroups Housing Justice Human Rights Donate! Buy CoH Merch! 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