We are your Pittsburgh friends and neighbors. We are community members, some of whom have experienced homelessness and addiction, and we believe in mutual aid. We are a collective of leftist, anti-capitalist outreach volunteers and activists trying to regain and maintain community self-reliance.

Our hot meal distros and other resource operations are modeled after the Black Panther Party’s projects of survival, pending revolution. We believe that electoralism is a dead end to creating the changes we need for collective liberation, and that collectivism and solidarity are the paths toward class consciousness. We are a democratic (NOT liberal) organization built of, for, and by the unhoused, formerly incarcerated and substance addicted. We are not a non-profit, NOT a charity and DO NOT operate on a charity model, but rather a model of solidarity with the poor and dispossessed.

Our Streets Collective works to build a collaborative network of care and support for the unhoused in the greater Pittsburgh area, employing mutual aid organizing models to empower the unsheltered and their neighbors, ultimately advancing our collective liberation from poverty and incarceration imposed upon us all by capitalism.