A note on our August 2024 cover
By Laura A. Zink on Which Bay Area cities will use a Fairyland excuse? Will yours? We’ll have to keep watching to find out.
Month: August 2024
Berkeley launches legal analysis of encampment management strategy
By Yesica Prado on Notices instructed residents to “take this opportunity to pack or reduce your belongings to nine square feet” and notified them that failure to comply “may result in citations and/or arrest.”
Local leaders first impressions of SCOTUS ruling on homelessness
By Laura A. Zink on "Sweeps are a war of attrition. But it’s becoming even more of just a straight up battlefield."
Grants Pass is NOT for sale: Houseless, Indigenous Peoples respond and refuse the ban on our bodies and lives
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on "We have created our own justice."
a numbers game
By Jaz Colibri on "Between shelters and sweeps
that recycle us on, off,
and back on these streets,
in a fiscal year reap
around:
$35,000,000
that us poor people never see
Rooms
By Olivia Rudd on "The history the structure elicits of some multidimensional space
Am I remembering some capsule?"
What is a home?
By Inti Gonzalez on "The beautiful people of Oakland are what keep the city alive. But they are leaving too, the great majority of them not by choice."
Life with cognitive differences
By Jack Bragen on "...we need more people to understand that even though we may be suffering from an illness, we are not 'less than,' but people just like them."
Street Spirit horoscopes: August 2024
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Horoscopes for the month of August, divined just for us.
~*~Happy Leo Season~*~