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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995.

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Bradley Penner

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Bradley Penner is the Editor and Lead Reporter of Street Spirit.

What is the cost of encampment ‘resolution’?

June 4, 2025
News
Oakland’s use of state funding shines a light on the unseen expense of encampment closure

What’s buried beneath the Bulb?

April 3, 2025
Features
A cross section of Bay Area history.

The Bard of the Albany Bulb

April 3, 2025
Features
'We were the Landfillians. That word is not in the dictionary, but I started putting it in my poems.'

Discovery below the debris: The life of Amber Whitson

April 3, 2025
Features
'The Bulb will always be home for me.'

Oakland protest leads to invitation from city administrator’s office

January 6, 2025
News
"We need to get people off the street and into a safer environment while they’re waiting for permanent housing.”

Where do we go?: The question hits the pavement

November 7, 2024
News
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.

Illness and the state of the body

October 7, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
'...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.'

Street Spirit Editor Bradley Penner to take temporary medical leave

June 17, 2024
First-person   Opinion
We plan to welcome him back onto our team in September once he completes chemotherapy.

Residents decry conditions at Wood Street Community Cabins

April 2, 2024
News
“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.”

On Place in an Era of Erasure

March 1, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
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.

Clarence Galtney: The OG of Harrison Street

November 24, 2023
News
As mounting pressure from the city of Berkeley brings 8th and Harrison to its breaking point, one resident sheds light through the cracks.

Proposed Guidelines Would Dictate how Officials Prioritize Encampment Sweeps in Berkeley

October 12, 2023
News
Berkeley Homeless Services Panel of Experts postpones the referral of the city's proposed Good Neighbor Guidelines.

Landlords’ Party Celebrating the End of the COVID Eviction Moratorium Ends in Confrontation between Tenants and Landlords

September 13, 2023
News
Fights broke out at Freehouse Pub as tenants protested a party celebrating the end of tenant protections throughout the City of Berkeley.

Forging Our Path Together: Street Spirit at the Crossroads

August 4, 2023
Commentary   First-person
Street Spirit stands at a crossroads. But our community's joy and resilience carries us into the future.

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