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COVID’s impact on people who live outside—a look back at the last 17 months

By Alastair Boone on September 6, 2021

Since March 2020, photographer Mark Leong has been documenting how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted people who live outside. These images bring us from the very early days of the pandemic into the present.

Remembering Robin Silver

By Alastair Boone on September 6, 2021

Arts and Culture Community Events Features News

In memory of Robin Silver.

Vernon Dailey: former ‘canvass king,’ currently in search of housing

By Sasha Weilbaker on September 6, 2021

Features Street Spirits

Street spirits is a monthly feature in which a Street Spirit vendor, or someone who lives on the street, tells us their story.

Who holds the key to housing? CA’s project Homekey enters next phase

By Paolo Bicchieri on September 6, 2021

Features In Dialogue

To learn more about Project Homekey, Street Spirit got on the phone with Ora Prochovnick and Tyler Rougeau of Eviction Defense Collaborative

A note on our August cover

By Alastair Boone on August 10, 2021

Arts and Culture Features YSA youth contributions

As the highly contagious Delta variant spreads and vaccination on the street remains low, houseless people are once again at the forefront of COVID’s impact.

To make change, we must listen to the voices of the streets

By Andy Pope on August 9, 2021

Features Homeless No More

All we really wanted down there, any of us, was to be treated with normal human respect and dignity, and treated as equals—not as inferiors. We wanted to be listened to, we wanted our voices heard.

Meet the Oakland artists building emergency tiny homes

By Alastair Boone on July 8, 2021

Features

During COVID, many outreach services for unhoused people ground to a halt. Artists Building Communities was born of this moment.

Shawn Moses: Recently housed and full of hope

By Sabrina Kharrazi on July 8, 2021

Features Street Spirits

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 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.

Facing eviction, tenant sues UC Regents to release public records

By Zack Haber on July 8, 2021

Features News

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.