After years of having their belongings destroyed by city workers while homeless in San Francisco, Apple Cronk and her partner fought back through the courts.

Join Apple and her partner Josh with our Host, Street Sheet editor TJ Johnston as they explore how this settlement protects ALL unhoused San Franciscans from routine property destruction, as well as their journey fighting back against the city's attack on unhoused people's human rights, their dignity and their vital and precious belongings.

Check out Apple's op-ed in the Chronicle telling her story about why she joined the lawsuit.

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On this episode we are joined by Lukas Illa, Human Rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness and Armando Martinez, RV resident and End Poverty Tows activist.

As part of the RV ban, RV residents who were counted by the City in a May 2025 count may be exempt from the 2-hour enforcement for only 12 months unless they are offered a housing subsidy or shelter placement. But the plan only has 65 family housing subsidies allocated for an estimated 427 RV households.

The mayor’s RV ban comes at a time when immigrant communities are threatened by increased criminalization and deportations. End Poverty Tows fear the disproportionate impacts to immigrant communities and poor black and brown communities that have turned to RVs as their housing solution due to the lack of affordable housing in one of the world's richest cities.

Tune in to hear Lukas and Armando discuss vehicular homelessness, the common myths and misconceptions weaponized by the city officials to demonize the RV community and the future of organizing with and for the RV community in the aftermath of the RV ban. Thanks for tuning in!

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In this episode we host Laura Guzman- the Executive Director at the National Harm Reduction Coalition and Shakema Straker, human rights organizer and harm reduction advocate at the Coalition on Homelessness. Our guests discuss the basic tenets of harm reduction and the data and research that champions harm reduction as an evidence based practice. We explore the harmful misconceptions and stigma that surrounds the overdose crisis, drug use and substance use disorders and the harmful narratives and policies that we are seeing at a local, state and national level. Our guests end with discussing how we can continue to shape counter narratives and fight the stigma.

"Harm Reduction is Loving People Back to Health."

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