About

The Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee (SHOC) mission is to amplify the voice of the homeless and low income community to accomplish economic and social justice.

Homeward Street Journal educates the public on issues of poverty and homelessness, social justice, and features the work of SHOC and our community partners. Currently we are partnering with Street Sheet from San Francisco and vendors have been selling those. The paper provides an income source to homeless and nearly homeless distributors, helping them to meet their immediate survival needs. In 2016, 21,890 papers were sold by distributors who received $1 or more for each paper from the public. 

Homeless Leadership – Homeless people should have a significant voice and leadership role in shaping their future and have a voice in changing local, statewide and national policies on homelessness. Leadership development occurs within all our projects, but is specifically based on our meetings, workshops, an annual summit, speaking engagements, civic and public meetings, and organized events. 

Civil Rights Project helps ensure civil rights for homeless people. Locally, we seek to change laws that make it a crime to live outdoors (there are no alternatives for over 9,000 people). We focus on other laws and unfair treatment, including property rights. We organize letter writing campaigns, community education, rallies, marches, visiting civic meetings and leaders. We partner with other groups to assure civil and human rights are afforded people who are unhoused and living in poverty.

Homelessness and Housing. We speak out for housing, shelter, food access, and other survival services as a human right. We join and support other groups, such as Sacramento Housing Alliance and Safe Ground Sacramento, on advocating for affordable housing. We also instigate our own work when the SHOC members decide to address a specific housing or program issue. Housing is the answer to ending homelessness, and that is our ultimate goal—to end homelessness.

Coalitions and Partnerships: We work closely with Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign, The Black Hair and Black Hygiene Project; San Francisco’s Street Sheet; and other groups. Many SHOC board members sit on various other boards and community groups, such as Safe Ground Sacramento, Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign, Women’s Economic Agenda Project, and more.

Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee
P.O. Box 952, Sacramento, CA 95812
www.sacshoc.org –  sacshoc1@gmail.com

Federal Tax ID # 81-4523361

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SHOC Archives:

2013-shoc
2010-2012-shoc
2008-2009-shoc
2006-2007-shoc
2004-2005-shoc
2002-2003-shoc
2001-logs
2000-2001-shoc
1996-99-shoc
1993-shoc
1992-shoc
1991-shoc
1990-shoc
1989-shoc
1987-88-shoc

Tent City Summit Photos 2002 – Santa Cruz

Some Miscellaneous SHOC files (May be some duplicates) 1989-1992 and Early 2000’s miscellaneous

Homeward Street Journal, Hard Times, and Hobo Times archives are on the Homeward Page