Ask the Appeal: How Does "Street Sheet" Work?

Everyday, people come into the Coalition on Homelessness (468 Turk St) and pick up papers. Every penny the vendors make, they keep. Street Sheet is one of the few street papers where venders get to keep 100% net profit

CoH is funded with YOUR SF tax dollars. Therefore, if you are a SF resident you are being involuntarily taxed to support CoH and voluntarily taxing yourself further when you "purchase" a Street Sheet.

And since you are probably throwing it in the nearest garbage can, you are also taxing our environment.

The Street Sheet legitimizes panhandling (which is actually illegal in SF) and should be stopped. The CoH is exacerbating the homeless problem, not solving it.

I could have sworn that back in the day people had to have been clean for some time (maybe 30 days?) before they could sell the Street Sheet. Is that not a requirement anymore?

I see the Street Sheet vendors as small business people. They are not begging. They are willing to work. They provide a view into the issues affecting the most marginalized members of our society. They provide this service as part of an organization that is trying to help out all our lives by reducing homelessness and protecting the rights of the poor.

Please support you local Street Sheet vendor!

Agree with Da Truff.

How much does DPW spend each year to pick up Street Sheets and dispose of them? Shouldn't the CoH (funded unwillingly by MY tax dollars) be billed for their mess?

Da Truff's assertions are false, as usual. The Coalition on Homelessness is entirely privately funded, as explained in the article.

Panhandling is not illegal in San Francisco: aggressive panhandling is. There's a significant difference.