Alastair Boone
Society in 2120 (part I)
By Jack Bragen on In a car, on my way to work, I saw the ever-present, giant, illuminated billboards along my flight path, displaying
Youth Spirit Artworks makes progress on Tiny House Village for homeless youth in the East Bay
By Sally Hindman on This spring, Youth Spirit Artworks is going to build a Tiny House Village for homeless youth in the East Bay. The village—which will be ready for move-in by fall 2019—could be the first youth-focused Tiny House Village in America.
True love on the street: treating thy neighbor as thyself
By Timothy Busby on It was January 2016 when I found myself in Berkeley, California, by way of New Orleans. Little did I know
What the UC doesn’t want you to know about People’s Park
By Carol Denney on People’s Park is a landmark. The university doesn’t like to mention it, but it became a city landmark in 1984 “for its historic and cultural importance to the City of Berkeley.” The landmark designation is not necessarily protective, but it’s worth noting in a community being trained to ignore its own significant moments in history.
Homeless for the holidays
By Timothy Busby on It was December 2015 and I had been homeless for approximately two years. I had been living in New Orleans
The homeless Christmas day
By Andy Pope on It looks as though we’re closing in on Christmas again, folks. That’s bad news in my book, and (I daresay) in the corporal book of homeless people everywhere. Take my holiday experience several years ago, for example. I spent Christmas Day stuck out in the rain, with services closed for those of my ilk, not to mention the usual five-in-the-morning “indoor resources” being closed (Starbucks, McDonald’s, etc.).
Will Caltrans change it’s encampment-sweeping strategy after Martin v. Boise?
By Kheven LaGrone on Caltrans is perhaps the largest and most high-profile evictor of homeless encampments in California. According to The Mile Marker: A
Street Spirits Rosalind Smith
By Lulu Orozco on She walks to Sweet Adeline Bakery four times a week on an injured leg and waits. With a stack of
Election update: Here’s what happened with the housing and homelessness-related items that were voted on last month
By Jack Persons on Last month, voters overwhelmingly agreed to create new funds for affordable housing and homeless services, and to defend tenants’ rights.
To house the unhoused, hear the unhoused
By Julia Irwin on A new report confirms what many of Oakland’s unhoused residents already knew: The scale of Oakland’s homeless crisis stretches far beyond the 2,761 unhoused people that the city officially acknowledges.
Federal judge rules that the City of Oakland can evict the residents of Housing and Dignity Village without violating their rights
By Grover Wehman-Brown on Monday, November 26 U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam heard arguments to decide if the City of Oakland has the right to evict the residents of Housing and Dignity Village—a group of unhoused women of color and their families who have been living on a city-owned lot in East Oakland since late October.