Meet the Oakland artists building emergency tiny homes
By Alastair Boone on During COVID, many outreach services for unhoused people ground to a halt. Artists Building Communities was born of this moment.
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Shawn Moses: Recently housed and full of hope
By Sabrina Kharrazi on Street Spirit vendor Shawn Moses just moved into housing after spending more than ten years on the street.
As encampment sweeps pick up, community continues to build
By Thomas Brouns on 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.
Facing eviction, tenant sues UC Regents to release public records
By Zack Haber on Natalie Logusch is suing the UC Board of Regents to pressure them to release public records related to UC Berkeley’s demolition and development plans.
Help us build the Street Spirit archive!
By Street Spirit staff on Do you have any old copies of Street Spirit that you’ve been holding onto?
Emeryville encampment fights for adequate shelter
By Alastair Boone on Residents of the former Shellmound Street encampment plan to continue using the courts to fight for their right to adequate housing.
Street Spirit vendors speak about why they sell the paper
By Mia Sweeney and Street Spirit staff on After a hard year for street newspaper sales, vendors speak about their experience selling Street Spirit.
Oakland blight laws put RV inhabitants at risk of eviction
By Chris Lee on Behind a corrugated metal fence painted powder purple in West Oakland, a small group of people house themselves cheaply in RVs. But the community may soon be evicted under Oakland's blight laws.
The power of art to stop evictions: how you used our anti-eviction poster issue
By Alastair Boone on A few months ago, we published a whole issue full of anti-eviction artwork. Here are some of the ways it was used.
Emeryville encampment fights eviction in court
By Alastair Boone on A federal judge blocked the City of Emeryville from closing an encampment on Shellmound Street. The lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal actions to protect the rights of houseless people in California.
Tenants protest UC Berkeley’s plans to demolish rent-controlled building
By Simone Rotman on UC Berkeley plans to build a student housing complex for transfer students in North Berkeley. To do this, they would need to demolish the rent-controlled building at 1921 Walnut Street.
An unlikely tenant at threat of displacement by UC Berkeley’s development plans—the monarch butterfly
By Alastair Boone on The Gill Tract Farm in West Berkeley has long been a refuge for native plant life and the lively community of students and volunteers that work the land there. Now it is also home to a new and unexpected inhabitant: the monarch butterfly.