Street Spirit Queer Poetry Collection
By Street Spirit Poetry Series on Introducing Street Spirit's new poetry series
Bradley Penner
BOSS pulls out of Wood Street Community Cabins contract
By Alastair Boone on An estimated 37 residents have been living at the site unsupervised after a nonprofit shelter operator pulled out one month ahead of the end of their contract
What is the cost of encampment ‘resolution’?
By Bradley Penner on Oakland’s use of state funding shines a light on the unseen expense of encampment closure
Berkeley Homeless Union holds community gathering before eviction at Ohlone Park
By Margaux Bauerlein on On the heels of a sweep, community members discuss the possibility of sanctioned encampments
Sidewalk Stories
By Alastair Boone on How do unhoused trans folks find resources and build community?
Street Spirit horoscopes – June 2025
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on 'This is a good month to plan a dedicated path forward.'
Taken in by outsiders: My early life with the gutter punks
By Amber Whitson on 'At 16, I found community among the local gutter punks, who quickly adopted me as one of their own.'
‘You can’t say we didn’t clean up’
By Erin Sheridan and Franny Trinidad on A new documentary spotlights community organizing at Eighth and Harrison streets
May a thousand parks bloom
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on How four Berkeley green spaces made history in the month of May