End the Experimental Shelter Evictions and Fund Real Solutions!
Let’s stand with homeless families!
Let’s continue the effort to tell Mayor Daniel Lurie that he needs to end the harmful policy of evicting children from City shelters after 90 days. There are 3,000 homeless kids in San Francisco, and the solution is not evictions— it’s providing enough resources for housing subsidies or basic income, so families can move into stable permanent housing. $66 million in the City Budget could end child homelessness in our city. It IS possible, and the question for our Mayor and Supervisors is: is it a priority?
Please call or send an email today!
Mayor Daniel Lurie Phone: (415) 554-6141 Email: daniel.lurie@sfgov.org
Sample message for Mayor Lurie: Please take action immediately to end the Department of Homelessness’ harmful policy of evicting families from City shelters after 90 days. This policy does nothing to solve homelessness and is creating anxiety and trauma for our students. Please end the policy and instead create a $66 million budget investment that will end child homelessness once and for all. No children should ever have to sleep in the streets!
Thank you!!
- Recently Arrived Families Committee of Faith in Action Bay Area & United Educators of San Francisco
Our solutions
Eliminate the city’s policy of evicting families from shelters, and instead have the Mayor hold t the Department of Homelessness accountable to a 90-day limit so the Department has 90 days to provide us with stable and affordable housing.
Ensure that all Access Point and shelter workers have empathy and competence, and that they know how to support us in getting more permanent housing within 90 days, based on the real circumstances of our lives.
Create more rent subsidies so there is no waiting list and so each family in the shelters can pay rent based on a realistic assessment of their income.
Create a work program for families who do not have jobs, where people in shelters who do not yet have their work permit can contribute to the needs of the city and receive payment, perhaps through a cooperative.
Provide a guaranteed basic income for those who cannot work, such as people with disabilities, single mothers with small children, or pregnant people, along with opportunities for them to learn English and develop their skills.
More background
We are the Families Committee of Faith in Action Bay Area; we are immigrant families experiencing homelessness. Our ongoing struggle and hope is to achieve a San Francisco where there are no more children living on the street.
Recently our families have received multiple eviction orders from different City shelters, with the people most affected being our children (with impacts on their academic performance, physical health and mental health). These evictions are part of an experimental policy of the Department of Homelessness where families are limited to 90 days in the shelters.
It is outrageous and inhumane that children are part of this experiment that only produces uncertainty and despair. We are asking the City to halt this experiment immediately.
We need your support as a community to continue moving toward our collective vision of no more children living on the streets.
With your community support, on March 10, 2025, we stopped the first two experimental evictions of our compañeras Vilma and Maria (see news here). But unfortunately this struggle is not over yet. Most of us still have eviction orders with dates in late March and early April.
That’s why we asked Supervisor Jackie Fielder to sponsor a resolution asking the Mayor to immediately stop the eviction policy. The Department of Homelessness does not want to end their eviction experiment because they say that we families are to blame for our own situation. However, it is simply not possible for us to comply with the “positive progress” that the Department of Homelessness demands from us due to lack of resources such as: limited work available, lack of rent subsidies, no credit history, etc.
We also need to mention that a major source of this problem is the lack of communication between the City’s Access Points and the shelters, as well as social workers, case managers, and directors in each shelter who do not show interest or concern for us.
As you know, we are stronger together. By uniting and working together, we can change the immediate future of our families and children.
Please join us by signing and sharing this petition.
You can donate here, 100% of donations go to basic needs of immigrant families in crisis (homelessness, immigration detention, etc).
We met with Mayor Daniel Lurie on Feb. 26 and he said we would not be evicted, but the Department of Homelessness is not following through on the mayor's commitment.
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