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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. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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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. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Thomas Brouns

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Thomas Brouns is a documentary filmmaker and student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has served four overseas tours as an American diplomat and is a retired U.S. Army officer.

As encampment sweeps pick up, community continues to build

July 8, 2021
Features
Cob on Wood, a group of tiny homes and community resources, may be displaced in the wave of encampment sweeps that has picked up again.

What happened at Union Point Park? The long-awaited eviction of the harborside encampment community

April 7, 2021
Features   News
Union Point Park has been closed and encampment residents and city officials struck a deal: Move inside temporarily while the two parties worked together to create Oakland’s first sanctioned encampment. But talks about the sanctioned community have gone cold.

City of Oakland closes the encampment at Union Point Park

March 12, 2021
News
This is the story of the fight over Union Point Park.

Shelter-in-Place hotels are closing. Where will residents go?

February 11, 2021
News
Alameda County has set an ambitious goal: To permanently house all the people who participated in their emergency COVID-19 shelter program.

With help from the unhoused community, two tiny homes get a facelift

February 11, 2021
Features
Thanks to the work of advocacy groups and the hard work of a group of housed and unhoused volunteers, two families’ tiny homes became a bit less tiny.

Rain or shine, grassroots organizations distribute aid to unhoused

January 12, 2021
Features   News
A handful of dedicated volunteers from spent a cold, wet December day delivering supplies to East Bay homeless encampments. Volunteer events like this help fill the gaps that are left by local governments and official service providers.

Among the unhoused, mixed reactions to presidential election results

December 2, 2020
Features   News
Street Spirit spent some time asking encampment residents to share their thoughts on the outcome of the presidential election.

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