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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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Martha Cast

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Martha Cast is a writer who has a BA in English from the University of Arizona. She has been intermittently homeless for the last six years. She wants to see the American people take collective action to stabilize the housing market, create a universal healthcare system and see that everyone has access to higher education and/or attaining jobs skills without incurring outrageous debt.

Poor in public: Socia, my RV neighbor

December 6, 2022
Features   First-person   Opinion
An excerpt from Martha Cast’s book, Poor in Public: a collection of essays about the people she met and experiences she had while homeless in Berkeley between the years of 2014 and 2015.

Poor in public

August 2, 2022
Features   First-person   Opinion
In the introduction to her book, Poor in Public, Marta Cast explains her relationship to homelessness.

Star: on the loneliness of living unsheltered

May 5, 2022
Features   Street Spirits
Star reflects on the reason why it is so difficult to become housed. Plus, an update about Street Spirit vendor Vernon Dailey.

Josh: Sailor, diver, ‘decent human being’

April 1, 2022
Features   First-person   Street Spirits
Josh, who is 47, maintains simple, attainable goals: to be happy, and to be a decent human being.

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