Homeward Street Journal

Picked up lastest issue of Homeward Street Journal at Herbergers in Galt just know. This is their warehouse cat.

Join us as we call the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to action for families experiencing homelessness this winter. As temperatures begin to settle in ...the low 30s at night, unsheltered families are at increased risk to their personal health and safety. The time for the Board of Supervisors to act immediately is long overdue, we are here to remind them but we need your help. Watch our video for more information and your call to action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jUtdZC2FI&feature=youtu.be Stay tuned as we share various ways you can help us keep this important call to action at the front of the Board of Supervisors minds as they make important decisions in the coming weeks.

We've changed schedule for writing/journalism workshops: Every first and third Thursdays at 5PM. Email [email protected] for invite.

SHOC/Homeward Writing Workshop postponed until Thursday this week due to important City Council Meeting conflicting.

Saving this for research. Elections coming up so Homeward will need to step up on educating the public inn important issues

Jackie Botts, a professional journalist hosts this journalism/writing workshop every 1st and 3rd Tuesday, 5pm on zoom. Please join us if you are interested in writing about homelessness and poverty and get published in Homeward Street Journal, or just to learn. Email [email protected] for zoom invite.

Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition stands in solidarity with the current local, nationwide, and global protests and political unrest. The murders of Georg...e Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Stephon Clark, and countless others lies in the hands of the white supremacist policies, systems, organizations, and individuals that actively work to suppress Black and Brown people. Throughout the history of the United States, Black Americans have continued to be disenfranchised by the systems of oppression built for and by oppressors. Mr. Floyd’s death is no different. It is by design that homelessness in the Sacramento Region disproportionately impacts our Black and Brown communities. As millions of Americans continue to exercise their first amendment right to protest amidst the looming pandemic, we will continue to advocate for the liberty of our unhoused community and work to dismantle the systems that allow homelessness to occur.

Contact information for Justice Day Sacramento City Council and Mayor Mayor Steinberg 916-808-5300 [email protected] Vice Mayor Jeff Harris ...(916) 808-7003 [email protected] Angelique Ashby (916) 808-7001 [email protected] Allen Warren 916-808-7002 [email protected] Steve Hansen 916-808-7004 [email protected] Jay Schenirer 916-808-7004 [email protected] Eric Guerra 916-808-7006 [email protected] Rick Jennings, II 916-808-7007 [email protected] Larry Carr 916-808-7008 [email protected] Sacramento Board of Supervisors Phil Serna (916) 874-5485 [email protected] Patrick Kennedy (916) 874-5481 [email protected] Susan Peters (916) 874-5471 [email protected] Sue Frost (916) 874-5491 [email protected] Don Nottoli (916) 874-5465 [email protected]

The next couple of weeks for COVID-19 will be critical for everyone, but especially people experiencing homelessness: most are still unhoused, lack sanitation, and are still being forced to move around by local law enforcement - against CDC guidelines. We need your help to ensure our homeless neighbors are housed during this pandemic. Would you consider taking a moment to submit a public comment? The Sacramento County - Government Board of Supervisors will meet at 10 am, and ...City of Sacramento, Government City Council will meet at 5 pm. BOS: http://www.agendanet.saccounty.net/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx City Council: https://sacramento.granicusideas.com//3660-5p/agenda_items Something as simple as: Our neighbors experiencing homelessness need you to act today to: Expand shelter and housing options for people experiencing homelessness; Immediately open bathrooms in City and County parks on a 24/7 basis and staff them with attendants, creating a Homeless Sanitation Employment Program; Immediate Moratorium on Sweeps of Encampments by County Park Rangers, SPD and other Law Enforcement Agencies [for example CalTrans] Immediately Implement the CDC Encampment Guidelines I urge you to take immediate and compassionate action. Thank you, [Your Name]

Our office has closed due to the stay at home and social distancing order. We have suspended the vendor program and hope 2020 vendors will get in touch with us so we can make a bit of amends. But there are over 4,000 people in our community that can't stay in their homes, but maybe in their tents. As the streets have been deserted by housed, the unhoused have been left out in more ways than just physically. Water and food is scarcer (Housed people, quit buying up the water! You got water! Public water has been turned off and closed up). We just came out with a Special Issue for the unsheltered readership, mostly, to help assure they have basic information on this pandemic we are under. https://sacshoc.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/hw24-3se-3.pdf