As a country, we must stop gambling with people’s homes. We must change our priorities and work for a fair housing policy that ensures everyone has a safe, decent place to live. There are better alternatives than selling off public housing, but we will have to organize en masse to win them.

Lydia Gans and Buford Buntin share reflections on living hungry in the San Francisco Bay Area. The economic crisis is spreading the problem of hunger beyond families that are totally destitute. An estimated 42 percent of the households served by the Food Bank have at least one person who is employed, yet they still do not have enough money to buy all the food they need.

  by Carol Harvey [dropcap]A[/dropcap]fter an iPhone video shot by a passerby appeared on You Tube, San Francisco Police Department

by Lynda Carson [dropcap]E[/dropcap]fforts to privatize public housing in Berkeley and across the nation may have gotten a little easier

Mayor Coonerty denounces those feeding the poor downtown as “bad for business.” And former Mayor Mathews presses church authorities to end their free dinners.

by Paul Boden, organizing director, Western Regional Advocacy Project [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) has been documenting the increases

Universal Health Care Life is simple — everybody needs food, shelter and, at some point, medicine. by Buford Buntin [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f

by Joan Clair [dropcap]A[/dropcap] great deal has been written about the tax bill signed into law by President Obama on

Lack of shelter threatens increases in hypothermia and death on the streets by the National Law Center on Homelessness &

“I was a client at a homeless shelter. I have been hungry. I have been afraid. I have worked hard