"It's just such a treasure for San Francisco," said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness. "The fact that we've been able to stay advertising free, that we've kept it focused on the voices of and around homelessness and poverty - that we're incorporating poetry, artwork, journalism, opinion, all of that together in this vehicle, and that it's still around after all these years... [it's] really amazing and something to celebrate."
In a speech to the crowd, Lydia Ely, the paper's first editor-in-chief and now deputy director for the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, told stories of the paper's early beginnings and spoke of how it was and remains a "vessel for truth."
Paul Boden, co-founder of COH and executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, spoke of the importance of the Street Sheet for allowing unhoused and poor folks to actualize the "power of having your own voice."
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