Ariel Boone is a freelance journalist and reporter for KPFA Radio in Oakland, California. Ariel previously worked at Democracy Now! in New York.
Ariel Boone
Alameda County doesn’t track deaths of unhoused people—Here’s why that impacts the opioid crisis
Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren't showing up in official counts.
Opioid overdoses are at record highs. It doesn’t have to be this way
As COVID intensifies the overdose crisis in Alameda County and elsewhere, harm reduction advocates step in where government lags.
Oakland’s Driver Plaza, longtime hub for Black seniors, can keep its Porta Potty—for now
The people who use the space during the day needed a Porta Potty there, so the community paid for one. But since its arrival in May, the toilet has come under attack.
Berkeley and Oakland embrace new tenants’ right to buy
Berkeley and Oakland are poised to pass TOPA—landmark legislation that would give tenants the right to buy their homes.
Building the solution
How unhoused people are housing themselves in the East Bay A mural by artist Ellie Hwa Brumbaum adorns one The
Oakland opens safe parking RV site as vehicle evictions roll on
Jorge Peña walked his tiny dog, Chiquita, around the inside perimeter of 711 71st Avenue in Oakland, behind the RVs parked neatly facing each other, stopping to say hello to his neighbor sitting in the shade. He is one of the first residents of Oakland’s new, invite-only “safe RV lot” next to Coliseum BART, and he calls it a “godsend.”