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Berkeley launches legal analysis of encampment management strategy

By Yesica Prado on August 5, 2024
News
Notices instructed residents to “take this opportunity to pack or reduce your belongings to nine square feet” and notified them that failure to comply “may result in citations and/or arrest.”

Local leaders first impressions of SCOTUS ruling on homelessness

By Laura A. Zink on August 5, 2024
Features   In Dialogue   News
"Sweeps are a war of attrition. But it’s becoming even more of just a straight up battlefield." 

a numbers game 

By Jaz Colibri on August 5, 2024
Arts and Culture   News   Poetry
"Between shelters and sweeps that recycle us on, off, and back on these streets, in a fiscal year reap around: $35,000,000 that us poor people never see

SCOTUS rules: Cities can make it illegal to sleep outside

By Alastair Boone on July 11, 2024
Features   In Dialogue   News
"...it’s dangerous to have a government that doesn’t represent the values and preferences of the people."

How to achieve decarceration and violence prevention? Through housing as a human right

By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on June 13, 2024
News
If we do not address the systemic landlessness of Indigenous and Black folks...we are not going to see the paradigm shift needed to truly solve homelessness.

UC Berkeley students form ‘Gaza solidarity encampment’ 

By Wren Farrell on May 9, 2024
News
Pro-Palestinian demonstrations are exploding at universities across the country, including UC Berkeley. 

The fight for People’s Park: The struggle, the love, the sweat, the blood

May 8, 2024
News
In January, the university closed the park so they could start building a dorm. But a court case, and a very committed group of protectors, are preventing Cal from breaking ground. This begs the question: Is this the end of the park, or just another chapter in its story?

Residents decry conditions at Wood Street Community Cabins

By Bradley Penner on April 2, 2024
News
“The City of Oakland needs to step up. It starts bringing us to the table to have conversations about policies that are being made about us. Not for us.”

Street Spirit has a new office!

April 2, 2024
News   Uncategorized
Original screen print artwork by David Solnit. The print depicts the “Where Do We Go” tents, an installation by Suzi

‘The community is not going away’: A free store for the people

By Daniel Hennessy on March 1, 2024
News
Standing at the threshold of the Store, looking at the “welcome” stamped across the mat, it’s hard not to feel like that statement in itself is an act of resistance. Welcome, come in, you are wanted. 

Clarence Galtney: The OG of Harrison Street

By Bradley Penner on November 24, 2023
News
As mounting pressure from the city of Berkeley brings 8th and Harrison to its breaking point, one resident sheds light through the cracks.

Oakland attempts to curb the homeless health crisis with street medicine

By Chris Lee on November 22, 2023
News
Homeless deaths have surged in recent years. In Oakland, chronic illness and addictions make up most of homeless deaths by 47% and 31%, respectively.
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