A landmark report published in April paints a new picture of life—and death—on the street.

A new report by the county paints a bleak picture of death on our city streets. Service providers and community members honored those lives lost in memorial events during the month of December.

Unhoused people are reversing overdoses and saving lives on the street, but these efforts aren't showing up in official counts.

As COVID intensifies the overdose crisis in Alameda County and elsewhere, harm reduction advocates step in where government lags.

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 are poised to pass TOPA—landmark legislation that would give tenants the right to buy their homes.

How unhoused people are housing themselves in the East Bay A mural by artist Ellie Hwa Brumbaum adorns one The

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.”