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Joyful serendipity! Went for a walk with Rio G in the neighborhood and ran into JP and Jessica working on this mural we’ve been watching the progress on over past few weeks. Check out Rio’s cheesy grin! 😁 JP partners with Creative San
So grateful to have participated alongside this amazing group of presenters for CREATIVE SANTA FE’s PechaKucha Night at the Lensic, exploring the theme of America. As Founder/Director of Saint Francis Challenge, my presentation connected the
Innovate for the greater good! Another halo hat—This time prepped by our formerly homeless facilitator Melinda, and she instructed a participant on how to finish the hat with a blanket stitch. Melinda had a breakthrough on how to attach the
Our first Halo Hat! 😇🧢 SFC volunteer steward Ms. Melinda “Pantalones” did the stitching, attaching, and signature bottom right corner halo for our first prototype—and here it is! This is one of SFC’s volunteer project to
“Love your neighbor—even if you don’t like them” SAINT FRANCIS CHALLENGE Working on slides for PechaKucha night on August 12th at the Lensic with @creativesantafe! Illustration from an SFC photo by volunteer Brenda Marcena
Happy Thanksgiving! Saint Francis Challenge and our Resident Steward training pilot made the news in the Santa Fe New Mexican this morning—showcasing our preparation of a Thanksgiving feast for residents of Santa Fe Suites. Thanks to everyone
The Resident Steward Training Program pilot is officially underway in Santa Fe. Our goal: build an actionable, scalable way to 1. protect residents’ housing and benefits, and 2. strengthen supportive and transitional housing with the services
Saint Francis Challenge began in late 2015 as a challenge to end street homelessness through collaborative, actionable, and community-integrated solutions in the City of Saint Francis, aka San Francisco. 10 years later, we are headquartered in Sant
Arnie Valdez of Rezolana Farm showcases the @gopowersolar kit that he installed for his Hemp Sleeper Cabin model for our innovation challenge for eco-insulated mobile cabins to address homelessness. Learn more at saintfrancischallenge.org/hempcabin.
Arnie Valdez, architect/farmer/builder of Rezolana farm points to eco-insulation material of the future—#hempwool, made of industrial hemp fiber and Hurd. Half of Arnie’s hemp sleeper cabin model utilizes Hempitecture’s hempwool, a
GOAT: Goatest Of All Trailers (soon to be a replicable hemp-insulated sleeper cabin foundation #localstewards #globalvillage #youbelong #goat
Do what is necessary, do what is possible, and soon you will be doing the impossible. #francisofassisi #saintfrancis #localstewards #globalvillage #homelessness
#hempsleepercabin #hempmedicine #hempfiber #heavenonearth
Sign of the times: YOU MATTER #valesmucho #youmatter #youbelong #yourneedsmatter #localsteward #globalvillage #heavenonearth #hoeusa
Sign of the times: VALES MUCHO #valesmucho #youmatter #youbelong #yourneedsmatter #localsteward #globalvillage #heavenonearth #hoeusa
A scene from the Hemp Sleeper Cabin prototype open house and celebration at SnowMansion Lodge/Gardens in northern New Mexico. It was a potent gathering of builders, stewards, and healers working for a thriving humanity and planet, and gave much hope
You’re invited to an open house and celebration for our hemp sleeper cabin prototype @snowmansion in beautiful Taos/Arroyo Seco New Mexico on Friday Oct 2nd, 2-6pm. Innovate for the greater good! . . . #hemp #naturalbuilding #ecofriendly #tinyh

  • SF Examiner: Advocate for ‘safe organized spaces’ pitches temporary homeless village on Tenderloin parking lot

  • SF Examiner: Addressing SF’s anticipated shelter service gaps with Safe Organized Spaces

  • SF Examiner: Humane Strategies to Resolve Unsanctioned Encampments

  • SF Chronicle: A better approach to homeless encampments [Opinion piece by AFW/SFC 2016]

  • Hoodline: Homeless Advocate: Build Transitional Villages, Not Parks, Under Freeways

  • Mission Local: SF Homeless Advocates Propose Legal Encampment

  • Potrero View: Box City Shredded

  • Mission Local: Tent Residents Booted without notice or shelter, in violation of City Ordinance

  • Mission Local: Experts Engage on SF’s Homelessness at Packed StoreFrontLab

  • SF Weekly: Box City Is a New Model for Transitional Housing

  • KTVU: Working with San Francisco's homeless to keep encampments clean & safe

  • KALW: San Francisco's Prop Q wants to ban homeless tent encampments. Opponents say there's an alternative

  • SF Chronicle: Deal for SF homeless camp: Keep the peace, get a gift certificate

  • Peninsula Press: San Francisco homeless advocates fight tent ban, call for shelter

  • Let's Get Political - Homelessness and the State of Emergency in San Francisco

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