Celebrating the life of Mike Zint
Michael “Mike” Zint, an outspoken activist whose “Poor Tour” around Berkeley thrust the plight of homeless people in city officials’ faces, died on February 14. He was 53.
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Berkeley and Oakland embrace new tenants’ right to buy
By Ariel Boone on Berkeley and Oakland are poised to pass TOPA—landmark legislation that would give tenants the right to buy their homes.
Berkeley RV ban poised to begin
By Hannah Trumbull on On February 11, Berkeley City Council approved safe overnight parking for a total of 25 RVs in six scattered city-owned sites. While safe parking will provide a brief respite for a small number of unhoused Berkeley residents, these spots will be the catalyst of an otherwise total eviction of RV dwellers from the City of Berkeley.
I am one of the 400 homeless youth in Berkeley
Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with the Community Based Newsroom, and is part of “The Right to
Twisted Image
By Ace Backwords onOakland Public Works jobs performed by workers trading labor for incarceration, documents reveal
By Jamie Omar Yassin on The City of Oakland’s Public Works Department uses people sentenced to incarceration to do dumping remediation, vegetation management, and other
The Veil
By Charles Blackwell on Old school musicburnt orangepeople at the table across from meordered spaghetti.The waiter jerked, stumbled,and it fell to the floor. She
Life is all a pose
By Ace Backwords on Life is all a pose in a way. And I don’t mean that in a fake way. We all have
Use caution when telling people you were homeless
By Andy Pope on When I was first trying to get inside, I made sure my prospective landlord wouldn’t know I had ever been homeless. Why? Simply put, I didn’t want to jeopardize my chances. It was enough to tell him I was on a fixed income, which at the time was Social Security Disability
We must take matters into our own hands
By Tracy Lee on Oakland is a city of so many races and cultures. Different, diverse, and from so many kinds of backgrounds. But one thing that unites us is the caring and loving people we are. No matter how hard the struggle may be, we always take care of each other. We are all in the same boat—struggling to live. We take matters into our own hands to get through life.
Jojo: singer, writer, free spirit
By Emma Arnesty-Good on JoJo doesn’t always consider herself homeless. The twenty-nine-year-old prefers to live outside of that label. “I consider myself a part