Oakland’s use of state funding shines a light on the unseen expense of encampment closure

A cross section of Bay Area history.

'We were the Landfillians. That word is not in the dictionary, but I started putting it in my poems.'

'The Bulb will always be home for me.'

"We need to get people off the street and into a safer environment while they’re waiting for permanent housing.”

A local nonprofit goes on the offensive as the City of Berkeley prepares to sweep a number of long-standing encampments without guaranteed offers of shelter.

'...new policies, these treatments, will target the easiest scapegoat—individuals. People misdiagnosed as malignancy, the “mysterious disease of individuals,” who are somehow, for some reason, spreading down the sidewalks and spilling out into the gutters.'

We plan to welcome him back onto our team in September once he completes chemotherapy.

“The City of Oakland needs to step up. It starts bringing us to the table to have conversations about policies that are being made about us. Not for us.”

Here in the East Bay, we find ourselves in a unique position to both honor and expand upon the legacy of place within our communities, or moreover, what those places could become when the community works together.

As mounting pressure from the city of Berkeley brings 8th and Harrison to its breaking point, one resident sheds light through the cracks.

Berkeley Homeless Services Panel of Experts postpones the referral of the city's proposed Good Neighbor Guidelines.

Fights broke out at Freehouse Pub as tenants protested a party celebrating the end of tenant protections throughout the City of Berkeley.

Street Spirit stands at a crossroads. But our community's joy and resilience carries us into the future.