Building the solution
By Ariel Boone on How unhoused people are housing themselves in the East Bay A mural by artist Ellie Hwa Brumbaum adorns one The
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Occupy Oakland shuts down the banks and the port
By Terry Messman on • FROM THE ARCHIVE • This article originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Street Spirit. Demonstrators climbed on
East Bay advocates march
By Alastair Boone on On a sunny Saturday in November, some 250 people gathered in Moss- wood Park to demand an end to un- just housing practices and housing for their homeless neighbors
California Compassionate Intervention Act: kind or cruel?
By TJ Johnston on A new ballot initiative called the California Compassionate Intervention Act could put unsheltered people with mental challenges under further scrutiny
On Nextdoor, the unhoused are the enemy
By Rick Paulas on On August 14, a man broke into a home in the Shafter neighborhood in Oakland, California. According to the resident
Encampment residents displaced after Oakland ‘clean and clear’
By Zack Haber on While establishing a fire lane and cleaning a portion of a Home Depot parking lot where around 50 unhoused residents live, on Oct. 22 and 23 Oakland’s Department of Public Works (DPW) destroyed over a dozen self-made wooden homes and left those displaced with no alternative housing options.
It takes a village: tiny homes built with community support
By Kate Wolffe on Volunteers from all over the Bay Area have convened in this empty lot as part of the Youth Spirit Artwork (YSA) Tiny Homes Project, which aims to build 100 tiny homes for housing-insecure young people in the East Bay over the next 10 years.
‘Where Do We Go?’
By Alastair Boone on A movement is growing in Berkeley, where unhoused people are demanding answers.
Oakland opens safe parking RV site as vehicle evictions roll on
By Ariel Boone on Jorge Peña walked his tiny dog, Chiquita, around the inside perimeter of 711 71st Avenue in Oakland, behind the RVs parked neatly facing each other, stopping to say hello to his neighbor sitting in the shade. He is one of the first residents of Oakland’s new, invite-only “safe RV lot” next to Coliseum BART, and he calls it a “godsend.”
Why does homelessness follow trans teens?
By Sarah Holder on A new study sheds light on a well-known problem. The decision to leave home wasn’t easy for Greyson. After his
East Bay Homelessness grows dramatically
By Benjamin Schneider on The number of people experiencing homelessness in Oakland jumped a staggering 47 percent between 2017 and 2019, according to the latest Point-In-Time (PIT) homeless count.
Landmark report seeks to redefine poverty
“We define poverty as a dollar amount, but if you make a dollar above that dollar amount are you still poor?” This was just one of the questions raised at St. Mary’s Center on April 18, when academics, activists, and advocates gathered to hear the findings of a new report called “Pushed to the Bottom.”