Street Speak
Brought to you by the staff of the Street Sheet, the nation's oldest newspaper bringing you the word on the street about homelessness and poverty directly from those who live it. We answer your burning questions about homelessness in San Francisco because we know that homeless people themselves are the experts when it comes to ending poverty.
Episodes
16 episodes
Episode 16: San Francisco Immigrant Experience and Family Homelessness
On Today's episode we will be speaking to the Lucia Obregon, the director at the San Francisco Latino Party and Equity Coalition (SFLPEC) a citywide coalition of more than 22 Latinx-led and Latinx serving community based agencies, she is also t...
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Episode 15: The intersectionality of Homelessness and the Lived Black Experience
In this episode, we delve into the intersectionality of homelessness and the Black experience with two prominent leaders in the fight for social justice and housing equity: Shellena Eskridge, Executive Director of the Homeless Prenatal Program ...
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53:56
Episode 14: Poets Speak Up 2023
Today's episode features some incredible poets reading their pieces aloud. To read these poems and many others, check out our full 2023 poetry edition of the Street Sheet, available at streetsheet.org
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26:31
Episode 13: Why is the Coalition on Homelessness suing the City of San Francisco?
On September 27th, the ACLU, Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, and the Coalition on Homelessness—the organization that creates this podcast—filed a lawsuit against the City of San Francisco. They, and the seven homeless plaintiffs they repre...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Episode 12: How A.B.O. Comix is Challenging Prisons Through Art
This podcast is created by the same people who bring you the Street Sheet, San Francisco’s street newspaper. This year's April Fools Day issue hits the streets of San Francisco full of comics that were compiled and submitted by A.B.O. Com...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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27:45
Episode 11: Street Sheet Poets Speak
Today's episode features some incredible poets reading their pieces aloud. To read these poems and many others, check out our full poetry edition of the Street Sheet, available at streetsheet.orgFeat...
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21:20
Episode 10: What is the Overdose Crisis, and Why Should I Carry Narcan?
The overdose crisis claimed the lives of 700 San Franciscans in 2020—twice the number of COVID-19 deaths during the same period. Poverty, criminalization, and the demonization of people who use drugs has put our community members in greater dan...
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28:49
Episode 9 - Keep SIP Hotels Open
At the height of the Delta variant spike, the City of San Francisco announced plans to close down the Shelter in Place Hotels that had kept about 2,000 people safe and off the streets over the course of the past year. We spoke with Lina Khoeur,...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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46:32
Episode 8: How Business Improvement Districts are Privatizing the Block
This episode features an interview with Paul Boden of Western Regional Advocacy Project, a local organization coordinating a regional response to the criminalization of homeless people. We talk about Business Improvement Districts, the shadowy ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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27:59
Episode 7: Why Homeless Advocates Should Support Sex Workers
This episode features an interview with Celestina Pearl, the Outreach director at St. James Infirmary. She spoke with Street Speak about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sex workers in San Francisco, the history of SESTA/FOSTA, the connec...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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36:16
Episode 6: Connecting the Dots - Racism and Homelessness
This episode is a pre-recorded panel hosted by the Housing Justice Workgroup of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco exploring the panelists own experiences with racism and homelessness. The speakers draw connections between racism, str...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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51:27
Episode 5: Inside the Shelter in Place Hotels
This episode dives into the reality of life inside San Francisco's Shelter in Place (SIP) Hotel program. There are 2,400 formerly unhoused people currently staying in SIP hotel rooms in San Francisco, and while the City has committed to housing...
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59:55
Episode 4 - Why Do You Need Housing?
Episode 4 - Why Do You Need Housing?September 22, 2020HOUSING IN THE TIME OF COVID-19, AND WHY IT MATTERSA panel discussion hosted by House the Bay with unhoused San Franciscans speaking about the urgent need for housing....
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Episode 4
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Episode 3: What Are Shelters Like in the Time of COVID-19?
Episode 3: What Are Shelters Like in the Time of COVID-19?August 13, 2020In this episode we speak with Meghan "Roadkill" Johnson and Ben Baczkowski, both Shelter Client Advocates who work at the Eviction Defense Collab...
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